June, feeling like March, bring back that blue sky and sunshine.......

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Looking good in the nursery gardens a couple of weeks ago, every day something else comes into flower, looks good, produces great foliage and adds to the tapestry of colour and interest in the gardens. Despite the rain and cold the plants are thriving...... we are not.


Many of our customers have shady gardens or parts of their garden that are shady so the woodland garden is a great way to show everyone just how many wonderful plants there are that love shade. Some parts of the woodland garden are damp shade and some dry shade, some are dappled shade some dense shade, so a great variety of shady growing conditions.
The woodland garden is now in its second year and the plants are filling out nicely. We are still adding in plants to thicken the planting (less weeds and more interest).
It's one of my favourite areas of the gardens, especially on a sunny day when the light filters through the leaves of the trees, creating that dappled effect, shadows and light and helping to highlight not just the flowers but some of the fabulous foliage that plants have. Remember it's not just about the flowers, foliage is beautiful and very useful too to proved interest, colour, texture and to cover the ground.


In the front garden at home at the beginning of June


As you may know if you've visited the nursery, read previous posts, our website, etc we work really hard to make Quercus a lovely home for all our fellow creatures, be they feathered, 8 legged, have fins, live under pots, in the pond ........ so it only seems right to offer a selection of items to help our bugs n beasties, birds and amphibians in our wee shop. We have at least 5 different bird baths / feeders, ladybird logs, bug hotels, toad abodes and bird nesters. They also make really lovely gifts for the wildlife enthusiast in your live 🙂



Camassia

The back garden at home in early June 😍😍😍



Geranium 'Ballerina'

Lewisia 'Little Plum'


Rosa 'Constance Spry'

Rosa 'Veilchenblau'


Saxifraga 'Spotted Dog'

Veronica prostrata 'Spode Blue'

Fish n chips with a view. Plant delivery to Biggar after work and a chippy tea on the way home. Living the rock and roll Saturday night life


Some of the highlights in the nursery gardens over the past week. Everywhere you look there is colour and interest. The empty looking borders at the beginning of the year are now filled up as all those perennials have grown and filled in their spaces. The more ground covered the less weeds to weed :) Win win. This coming week will see a drive to get the stock bed tidy up pushed on, I'd like to see it finished before the end of June.... then we can concentrate on this years main propagation, although we are always propagating through the year as material is available.

Rheum palmatum v. Tanguticum

Clematis 'Nellie Moser'

Geranium macrorrhizum 'Album'

Triosteum pinnatifidum

The green roof on the bug hotel


Aquilegias in the Wildlife garden



Trollius yunnanensis

Valeriana alliariifolia

Thymus herba barona

Chives in the herb garden

Viola cornuta 'Alba'

Verbascum phoeniceum 'Violetta'

Amsonia tabernaemontana





Not content with making plants at the nursery I've also started making plants at home...... For the dolls house. I'm really pleased with this fern.




Enjoying a relaxing day at home with lunch in the garden before the rain, lunch from Coltmans, Maisie always hopeful 😂



Today I made an acer for the dolls houses!






Big showy vases of flowers are fabulous, but I sometimes think these beautiful simple flowers from the garden need something more understated 🙂 ❤ Its lovely to have a garden where I can wander out and pick a few flowers for the house, these are in the porch, showing off my bottle collection, 10 green bottles and all that 😃








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