🌶️🫛🫑🍅 Hooray ! More vegetable happiness ! 🍅🫑🫛🌶️
Another hot day and I will have to wait until the sun goes behind the trees to get started on this ....
So from far left to far right things have got to change ! ( a bit like politics at the moment , but I'm not going into all that .....sigh )
As I was saying - Plans for when the birds have stopped nesting - Fir tree on the left is going to be cut down to the height of the fence .
Branch of next doors Crab Appletree which we allowed to grow through the fence , which used to flower and have the most beautiful red crab apples is dying . So I am going to saw it off and repair the fence .
Pittosporum - I will be lopping down by two thirds . It can then spread out and really set off the Photinia "Red Robin" that is at the end of the Cornish hedge on the far left .
Photinia "Red Robin " needs another prune to keep it's gorgeous red leaves coming .
After the Pittosporum is a pretty variegated Holly and my favourite Camelia "Water Lily", with it's pale pink flowers with pointy petals just like a water lily ! 🪷
Rowan Trees -two of them - one of my favourite trees - Remind me of when I used to play in the woods . We lived on the edge of the wonderful Abbey Woods .🌳🌳 I used to know every track and tree .🍃🌳 Ancient Tumuli , where to find the best fossils , grass snakes and gather the fattest Sweet Chestnuts 🍂, the shortcut home from St Josephs Convent School , the Abbey ruins at the bottom ( I have an ancestral link to that place - there's more to this world than we will ever understand , but that's a story for another day ! ...maybe Halloween 👻😮 ) The immaculate gardens , the smart park keepers and the little cafe . I expect it is all changed now ...I hope not too much .
I wonder if the Rowan Trees are still there ? At the top of the woods 🌿🌿🌿
Their sprays of bright orange red berries ..so lovely !
Echiums - the Giant Eeks ! - Lots of seedlings coming for next year .
Cotinus coggygria - Also known as the Smoke Bush - I am taking off the two tallest branches , which I kept to allow it to show off it's "smoking" flowers .So then we can see the lovely variegated Holly and Camelia "Water Lily " I will keep the lowest branches, which will really set off the Chamaerops humilis .
Chamaerops humilis - I am (eventually trust me 🤣) going to drastically tidy up .
..and weed the bit in the foreground ....Agave , Irises , Pink Rose , Dahlias , Cowslips .
The row of yellow fir trees - I keep to the height of the fence and I planted them to buffet the wind from the fence . Also home to little birds nesting .
Monkey Puzzle - Which I grew from seed/nut is now about four feet high .Is looking fabulous already .
It gets better with every year ! Is looking fabulous already .
The other side of the Monkey Puzzle is the bed of "dinner plate" type Dahlias that my lovely daughter gave me . They should be starting to bloom soon .
The Sweet Pea Tub - so when the Sweet peas finished , I had planned to plant this up with Pelargoniums ....but then noticed that the Black -Eye Suzies that I grew last year , where all coming up again !
So I am leaving them to do their thing !
It's one of my mum's favourite plants .
Oh ! 😮 I see Ricardo has brought Rosie the wheelbarrow down ......🤣
O.K. I get the hint !
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Love and hugs Debbie 💐x
