Glorious garden, perfect plants and a trip to Arran

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I love an accidental colour combination - Aquilegia 'Volcano' and Astrantias in the railway garden this week. I'm hoping to save seeds from the Aquilegia and have plants for sale next year. Watch this space.



 Looking good in the nursery gardens this week, lots of pinks, blues and whites at this time of year. The nursery gardens are such a joy this year, I am so happy with them, seeing all our hard work come to fruition and seeing visitors and customers enjoying them and expressing how muc they have enjoyed their visit is just amazing, it surprises me every time, I just to do what I do and love, spreading my love of gardening, creating and plants. It truly is amazing to hear so many compliments about what we have created - THANKYOU.

Achillea filipendulina 'Cloth of Gold'

Cosmos 'Chocamocha'

Digitalis purpurea 'Sutton's Apricot'

Dog roses and Ox eye daisies

Salvia sclarea


Scabiosa caucasica 'Perfection Blue'

Sedums on the bug hotel roof

Sempervivium flowers on the bug hotel roof

Scenes from the nursery gardens this week, why not come and enjoy them yourself and be inspired. The sales area and stock beds are bursting with plants for sale and lots of goodies in our wee shop.
Junkshopantiques is open Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm
AND the loos in the main building are open again!

Herb garden

Entrance Border

Sanguisorbas

The scented garden



The wildflower meadow

Time to do the chive chop. These plants have flowered beautifully for weeks and the bees have enjoyed them too. Now it's time to cut them back and in a couple of weeks there will be a whole new bunch of leaves for cooking with and maybe a few extra flowers to enjoy 😚🐝



Grasses add so much to a border - movement, texture, height, different shapes and colours and they soften gaps between other plants.
This is Stipa tennuissima and Calamagrostis 'Avalanche' in the back ground.
You can read more about all the grasses we have in stock on the Grasses page on our website



Uh huh........
Don't look now Dad, we've been spotted
Just look the other way Maisie, just act cool
I can't Dad, my ears give us away
Just stay still, she might not spot us through the plants
Dad she's a gardener, of course she's going to spot us through the plants, she can spot a weed at a hundred yards 🙄🙄🙄
🤣🤣🤣




Having run out of space in the herb garden borders and with more Thyme varieties to plant out, Sam potted these five new varieties into the bowls that we have in stock for sale. Most of the thymes are also available to buy in 9cm pots.

We have 13 varieties of Thyme in stock including:

🌱 Thymus 'Bressingham'
🌱 Thymus capitata
🌱 Thymus citriodorus
🌱 Thymus 'Fragrantissimus' Fragrant Orange
🌱 Thymus herba barona
🌱 Thymus mastichina
🌱 Thymus pulegoides
🌱 Thymus pulegoides 'Goldentime'
🌱 Thymus serpyllum
🌱 Thymus serpyllum var. albus
🌱 Thymus vulgaris
🌱Thymus vulgaris 'English Winter'
🌱Thymus vulgaris 'Thyme de Provence'


A day trip to Arran on Monday. David had a site survey to do for work so we made a day of it. An early start at 6am to get over to the ferry and a lovely sailing to Arran. I took Maisie for a walk while David did his survey and then we had the rest of the day to explore. A lazy lunch at Blackwaterfoot overlooking the sea and a paddle in the sea teaching Maisie to swim. Then off around the rest of the island with a stop at Sannox to paddle in a river and more swimming for Maisie. Fish and chips by the sea for dinner before heading back to the ferry which ended up being delayed for over an hour. But we got on it once sorted and home just after 10pm. A long but fab day out.

Leaving Ardrossan



Lunch on the ferry

Arran from the ferry

Lunch by the sea


Love a paddle in the sea 




Sea thrift

Paddling in the river at Sannox



Lochranza Castle

Waiting to get on the ferry home


Goatfell, Arran




Tuesday - the heat! But another car load away to the tip, charity shop and auctioneer. Acing this clear out downsizing lark. If the nursery fails through lack of water I know what my next career will be 😳
Another roll of bubble wrap opened, more boxes packed. Not long now!







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Find out what's been happening in our garden at home like our Facebook page 



 If you to see what's new and looking good at the nursery like our Facebook



Find out more about the nursery here - our web site: www.quercusgardenplants.co.uk


Follow us on Instagram @quirkybirdgardener


 #rural #countrylife #countryliving #cottagelife #antiquecottagescenes #interiors #scottishborders #independantretailer #smallbusiness #localbusiness #independantplantnursery #uniqueplantnursery #hardyscottishplants #scottishgarden #gardeningontheedge #scottishborders



Find out what's been happening in our garden at home like our Facebook page 



 If you to see what's new and looking good at the nursery like our Facebook



Find out more about the nursery here - our web site: www.quercusgardenplants.co.uk


Follow us on Instagram @quirkybirdgardener


Comments

  1. Saila29 July 2022 at 08:53

    I'm sure all the compliments you get are for a very good reason, you have so much interesting stuff going on, the plants, the different garden areas. Looks great! You have many of my favourite plants too, so good to see how you combine them.
    Ahhh, Arran, that's a place I've wanted to visit for a long time! Already the island's silhuette is breathtaking, and then being there and seeing all that varied and lovely scenery must be beyond words. Hopefully one day soon I'll get there.

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