Hurry up Broadbeans!

I want to eat you, then dig you up, and start extending the jungle bed. Removing the gravel, which will go on our drive. Re using the wooden boards to edge the bed. Darcy is worn out, he has been chasing flies in this hot weather! Daft dog.

This trough of bamboo is then going to move...........

to here. Thats our garden waste bin.

 I have some plants ready to go in, my beautiful Phormium, which has been growing along nicely.

My Butia, which really needs to come out of the pot, although it is growing, I think it will romp away once in the ground.

I have 'won' plants on Ebay! Its amazing just what you can pick up from there. I still have some other plants down by the greenhouse that I can put in here too.
As for the rest of the garden , well it is flourishing and loving the hot weather.

 a different view  up the patio this time. Yes the water pipes are still there. We have had glorious weather and have had a number of barbques which we all enjoy.

Our eldest daughter could have moved into her own home with her boyfriend in the next couple of weeks. Very exciting, but also sad. I have been so lucky to have her home as long as I have, so I'm not complaining. She has asked for help with her garden and requested quite a few 'tropical' plants!!!
Thats my girl!!!

Until next time, take care!

Sun, sun, sun................................

For a change we are having lots of sun, hence the Pimms. Do you like my new jug, it has matching glasses, I am thrilled with it.

The garden is coming along, although the difference in growth between similar plants is rather odd. Not something I have dealt with before.

The green large leaved plant is a Paulownia tomentosa (Foxglove Tree) if left to grow as a tree it will flower beautifully. I grow it for the large leaves, so each year it gets the chop. The following year I only allow one bud to grow, you can practically see this grow on a daily basis.

Now this one, as you can see from the trunk is actually the first one I ever had. It does have 2 buds, but up until last week it only had the top one. I will snap that off in a mo. But you can see its well behind the other one.
The blue pipe is still in situ for our water. This all happened the beginning of April and hubby is now phoning on a daily basis to push the insurers along. I think he's on first name terms with all the staff now!!!!

My beautiful Brugmansia Sanguinea, since it has been planted out it has not stopped flowering. I definately want to try and get them all in the ground next year. This would have looked so much better as a standard, with all those flowers hanging down.

Here we have Dracunculus vulgaris, Dragon Arum, this is huge, bigger than my hand. I think it liked all the rain it got over winter. Currently well shaded by the bamboo trough which I am planning to move next year. I must plant something that offers it a similar amount of shade. The MASSIVE disadvantage to this is the 'stench' it gives off to attract flies for pollination, I may just have to chop the flower off. The leaves and the stem are so beautiful though!!!

meanwhile the flowers on the trachy are nearly over so will give them the chop shortly so the goodness goes back into the palm.

Back later!

Lots in Flower at the Moment.

Lots and lots in flower in my garden at the moment, I often wonder why I bother with the 'jungle' as it is such alot of hard work, whereas the rest of the garden just needs weeding, feeding, dead heading,pruning and maybe adding a few new plants here and there.
We have had good growing weather recently, very warm and sunny the last few weeks and this week we have had alot of rain, but temps have stayed up so plants are growing quickly.

Honeywort or Cerinthe major 'Purpuracens' the bees adore this plant and when in full bloom the flowers are a beautiful iridescent purple. It usually self seeds everywhere but hasn't done for me this year so I had to grow my own.

Sanguini Brugmansia, I decided to plant a couple of these in this year as 'Wile Giles from Exotic Garden' does this. Since hubby planted it, it has gone mental, you can see all the flowers and buds coming, I just hope the slugs and snails don't decimate the leaves.

Aren't the Sanguini flowers beautiful.

The climbing Hydrangea at the bottom of the garden, is covered in flowers. I have a sort of love hate relationship with this plant. At the moment it love as it so pretty, but when the flowers die back it is not the nicest looking plant. I may lose it, if ever the neighbours decide to replace the fence, as it is self clinging/

Purple leaved Elder, Sambucus Nigra, this is so pretty when its in flower, another favourite.

Here's one from the lilac family, (I lost the label)not a true lilac but a very pretty one.

Gorgeous honeysuckle.

One of my Geums, flowers from quite early in the season.

I'm so hopeless with plant names, this is another bee loving plant which I have lost the label of. I have alot of bee loving plants, I have always fancied having a go with bee keeping, I really should look into it more.

The beautiful foxglove. People say you can't move these but I do reguarly, especially when young as they grow in some peculiar places and I like them where I and the bees can see them.

Globe Allium and dragonfly.

Nectaroscordum siculum, I am so going to get more of these.

My other Brugmansia we planted out just beginning to flower.

 An Echium Russicum, from the local Botanic Nursery at Melksham. They have some fabulous plants there.

Finally my flowering Trachycarpus.