....... as enchanting as the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year - those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled." - Francis King
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| Waterlilies in the nursery ponds |
The nursery continues to be busy with customers and with so much work to do, we certainly don't run out of jobs, lol. Its great to see people enjoying the gardens and nursery. Meanwhile work continues in the stock beds tidying and propagating. Not a lot of chat as i'm exhausted and very behind with everything so will leave you with all the pretty pictures.
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| Damsel flies |
Damn you light nights, after a tiring day at work and a garden consultation on the way home I found myself creating a new border at home now the new fence is finished 
Fragrant Friday - I've grown sweet williams in the nursery gardens for a few years now and I always save the seeds to sow and replant and sell in the nursery. The variety of colours is always varied and the scent delicious. Last years seeds have produced some quite amazing colours and combinations, some of which I have planted to hopefully get more seed again this year. As well as the normal bi-colours there has been some beautiful dark dark maroon ones, a double white! and a pink and white on the same flower. Love them, old school, old fashioned but love our clay soil and exposed conditons 
Sweet Williams
(Dianthus barbatus) these are grown as a biennial or short-lived perennial, my plants in the scented garden are now 3 years old, which I think is quite a good innings, given our conditions here in the nursery. Depending on which variety you grow will dictate what colour combinations you get. I grow ‘Kensingtone Mix’ which is also wonderfully scented. Long lasting as a cut flower too. H 30cm, S 20cm.
We installed a new water feature in the herb garden today. it has 2 functions, no actually, it has 3. It is to look decorative, it is to collect the water from the land drains on the terrace above and finally to be a dipping pool to enable us to water the pots in the herb garden. The last few weeks of intense heat and dryness has made us focus on water collection, conservation and how we water the nursery in the stressful dry periods. This will be a work in progress but this is a great start recycling the run off from the top terrace to water the herb garden pots 
A lovely, much needed day off off, away somewhere for a wee road trip, some lunch and a walk. We visited The Pot Place Garden Centre near Penrith, which we've been meaning to go to for ages, and I found the perfect pots for another project in our house garden. A lovely lunch and then off for a walk around Brougham castle, which Maisie did a very good job of exploring 
wandered home via the devil's beef tub and the A701 through Tweedsmuir. Then I spent an hour at home removing the last shrub to come out the border I'm working on ready for top soil and planting now, yes I know a day off involving garden pots and gardening
wandered home via the devil's beef tub and the A701 through Tweedsmuir. Then I spent an hour at home removing the last shrub to come out the border I'm working on ready for top soil and planting now, yes I know a day off involving garden pots and gardening 
Into the nursery on Tuesday waiting on a deliverey arriving, started to tturn the compost heaps
Some colour in the back garden this week. Rain has stopped play but we have achieved so much in the past month out there we really have made the most of the dry hot weather. It looks like a completely different garden! So perhaps its a good thing to have a night or two off and re-assess where we are at. Oh and I am so pleased its raining, watering all day at the nursery then coming home and doing it all again here was exhausting. The 3 trees I planted a couple of days ago certainly look happier.
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| Lewisia 'Little Peach' |
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| Phyteuma and Erodium in one of my alpine troughs |
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| Rosa 'Cardinal de Richeleux' |
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| Rosa 'Constance Spry' |
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| Rosa 'Lady hillingdon' |
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| Rosa 'Veilchenblau' |
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| Scleranthus biflorus |
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We are also having an especially dry summer. It makes one think of the plant choices. It is obvious, after a few extremely dry summers, that there are plants that just do not like the conditions. Luckily roses are thriving and no sign of heat stress whatsoever! I love that Constance Spry, that's the original Austin-rose but I don't have it yet.
ReplyDeleteLove those ruins too.
The weather over the past 8 months have been crazy and so many extremes and not just here in Soctland! Its a miracle the plants are doing as well as they are in the gardens. Constance has been lovely and I cant wait until she covers the fence, that will be a scented heaven to come home to every day in summer. The great thing about most of the Historica Scotland or England properties are they are not oo expensive to get into and dogs are usually allowed. Bracken visited lots of castles over his lifetime. I suspect Maisie will be the same :)
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