May time

wow what a display of colour.............................

Love the tall plants at the back are they Foxtail Lilys ?

Omg What a Lovely Display 4 May!!!!

What a wonderful, vibrant looking garden you have, very nice.!

I bet you're really pleased with this picture no matter how it was taken it's brilliant! Hel.xxx.

Fireworks, wonderful display of colour...The Eremurus look like rockets!

I love this picture and I love the wall behind your garden! What is behind it? More garden? Bad neighbors?
Beautiful picture, digital or not, stunning.

This is beautiful.

stunning

Lovely and different! What kind of flowers are these?

Gosh! There are so many here, but I think you're most likely referring to the tall white and orange flowers which are eremurus cultivars which I planted in direct response to being told they won't grow in heavy soil. Which of course is precisely what they are doing!

The foreground plants are alstroemerias or Peruvian lillies and geraniums, the mid-border flowers are lupins.

BTW The border depth is about 30ft at this point and there is a LOT more planted behind which is 'invisible' from this side. - All part of the experience of visiting my gardens. Like I said it's quite an old photo..........

It took me a while before I could bring myself to use digital, but once I did there was no looking back.

I love 'sticky uppy things' and your garden has plenty of them.I bought myself a foxglove today and have been eyeing up my neighbours lupins. I could get carried away, I really could.

What's the same plot like these days~ do you have a recent pic?

Quite different. Simply because the plants around got too big, I had heleniums and rudbeckia there (unseen) which reach 4-6ft and didn't allow the light to reach the low foliage of the eremurus.

Today I have alstroemerias, dahlias, rudbeckia, helenium and geraniums in the foreground. While out of sight in the picture above I had planted a very fine leaved, variegated tree which grows in layers (not the wedding cake tree but similar) which is looking stunning just now. Too early just yet for the foreground flowers. Most of the lupin varieties are elsewhere with my gingers which flower much later.

Have your tried Kniphofia uvaria nobilis? 'It makes a statement' as they say - all 7ft of it! I moved mine in the winter - it was getting too cramped - so it might not reach 7ft this summer, then again....... I'll just have to wait and see. It's just to the right, and out of picture today.

These are all very common problems and joys with gardening in the real world - unlike the shows where they must cram in everything tight and pay no heed to the practicalities of growing room.

fantastic why can't mine be like that

Just beautiful, a rainbow of colour , you could gaze at it for hours ,
I have some fox tail lilies about to flower ,if they look anything like yours I shall be very happy
Amy

Wow! What a beautiful display!

Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! What more can I say but Beutifull. Sigh! x

Absolutely gorgeous. I love walled gardens.

It's a lovely picture

Lovely picture. Looks professional muddywellies! Nice job.

Beautiful:)

what a beautiful display........wonderful picture

I know I've already commented on this picture, but every time I see it I'm mesmerized, it almost looks surreal! So many beautiful plant pictures on this site...this is one of my favorites.

Warm thanks to everyone for your kind remarks which are MOST appreciated.

I've an 'even better' photo taken just a few yards down the path on the other side of the same border. The new picture is destined to promote a new ebook I've written entitled "Muddywellie's Garden Design and Build" which contains over 160 step-by-step photographs to designing and building your own garden borders and features together with practical cultivation advice based upon my experiences of growing 3,000 different plant varieties. 'Publication' due very, very soon.

Seems like a good read, can't wait

Something to strive for!! Wow!

Your garden is amazing. It looks like a Monet painting.

We had an NGS open day today - we were besieged! Run ragged, but thoroughly enjoyed answering queries and talking with everyone!

Wow Monet, what a great comparrison :)

Muddywellies,

Your garden is truly beautiful. It reminds me of Sissinghurst.

I love any "cone shaped" blooms, but have not had much luck growing them..
Lupine and Larkspur were grown from seed and planted into the native soil, but have never thrived like I wanted...
Nice looking space that you have! :-)