I lost the edge!

Have you thought of buying a boat?
From the speed of that river in your garden you'll be needing one,

pics of the flowers are nice though.

It was before you joined Dungy but Spritz's beautiful garden and house were really badly flooded and she really did need a boat, it was awful
The progress she has made through her talent and determination is incredible.

This area looks lovely spritz, the primula adds that zing it needed.
You have such an artistic eye and the knack of knowing where plants look 'right' xxx

Looking lovely now Spritz...I love P. 'Millers Crimson' & wouldnt be without it...:>)

This all looks great, well done on all you've achieved to recover from that dreadful flood!

Love the border. I have tried to grow Gunnera manicata from seed twice now, but they never grew. Looks great in your garden.

That area looks great, and I agree, the primula gives it that bit of zing it needed to finish it off. I love Candelabra primula a, especially the peachy coloured one!

It does look very good - you certainly have an 'eye' when it comes to choosing plants that look really good together. The different colours of pinks really set the area off.

Its looking great now - what a contrast to last Autumn! Its great the way you've kept your nerve and started over. Lets hope it never happens again.

It all looks so beautiful. My garden is weeks behind yours. Hope the rain doesn't become a problem for you.

Thank you all for your lovely comments. You know I've had to work doubly hard on the garden this year, and the first open day is coming up fast! Eeek!! I worked out there all morning and until it started raining this afternoon. It's only light rain, though.

I hope the visitors will like what they see. They won't see the 'usual' plants in flower, as everything's about three weeks later than usual. Nothing I can do about it, though.

this looks wonderful and well done for keeping the natives in there too. My Miller's crimson is in tight bud only, so we are even further behind than you. They will fill out and hide all that bare soil [what bare soil :o))))]

glad the garden's recovering. how's things generally?

gunnera looks fab Barbara and now the border has been improved by OH it all looks great, love the pink primular to :o))

Fran, everything is so far behind, so visitors will get to see different plants in flower. Not too muh of a problem, I hope.

I keep remembering other plants I've lost or that look poorly. :-(

Thanks, Sandra! :-))

Sbg, how well you know me! lol.

It's looking lovely Barbara, well done! I should keep an eye on the persicaria though if I was you. It took me years to finally rid my garden of it, it rampaged here:-)

has the local authority or whoever taken any measures to ensure that this doesn't happen again? I mean, your *home* suffered as well as your garden.

No - we've had the Environment Agency and the Somerset CC flood team out to talk at recent Parish Council Meetings, but the bottom line is that we'll have to get on with building our own flood defences. The funds there are will all go to areas where there are more people.

OH is very capable, and he's drawn up plans - we're waiting for Mark to be free to build the new wall.

that sounds a bit slapdash! I mean, each household doing its own thing, hardly likely to be joined up thinking, let alone joined up defences?

any chance the locals could get together and agree some common work, for all, done by all, paid for by all?

A lonely blog SprtzH. Great choices of planting to ,make the most of such a damp spot!!!

Thanks, Paul. :-))

Fran, I'm on the Parish Flood Plan group, and we are trying to get a common approach, but we're all so rural that nobody official will help. Each house has its own particular problem, really, apart from one group of houses up in the village. We need co-operation from our next-door neighbours with our plans.

good luck with those plans then Spritz.

understood, Spritz - and often, everyone has their own ideas about what should be done and how it should be done!

Good luck anyway

Thank you. I can't handle going through that again, so we're taking action...if next door will agree! If they don't, we have a 'plan B'.

a cunning plan, no doubt! fingers (and everything else) crossed for you - first that you won't need it, but if you do, that you have a defence

Thanks! :-))