The power of procrastination! This post written and scheduled on Friday evening in favour of the next assignment that requires less description and more critical analysis. So here I am, practising description 🙂

It’s time for six from the garden. Ideally three from the back and three from the back but it’s May and everything is blooming…

  1. Iris siberica is three and totally fabulous

2. Gertrude Jekyll rose is at her full 8 feet and has agreed to stretch along the canes designed for (not) Pitmaston Pineapple apple who is determined to be assymetrical. Happy problems.

3. The pergola bed is performing well. The nepeta and the veronicastrum are intermingling and I’m hopeful the veronicastrum will remember it’s supposed to be a metre tall. In the bottom right is a martagon lily, none came up last year so I’m very excited to see this in bloom.

4. The front garden view is pleasing. The front of the house is having a glow-up with cork render in lilac at the end of the month and the scaffolders have strict instructions to look where they are stepping – the work should have been completed in March. The Woolworth agapanthus in the terracotta pot seem to have run out of steam but otherwise, everything is mound perfect. Just behind the pot is geranium Rozanne who really suffered in the dry heat last year and I thought was done, but there is one green shoot. The antirrhinum suffered last year but enjoyed the mild winter and have put on strong growth. Top left is potomac dark orange and in front of the lilac is apple blossom.

5. Bearded iris. The benefit of stony soil in a west facing patch is these will grow. These three plants are divisions from one pot. The Sambucus nigra provides the backdrop and Charles Austin shrub rose the support.

6. A pop of lime green from euphoria oblongata. It provides cover for the salvia and this year some sparky contrast with the antirrhinum and irises.

There’s my six and only snuck in one extra, well two counting the header. Enjoy your weekend, I’ll be weeding the asparagus bed tomorrow then critically thinking and analysing for the rest.

Do join the rest of the sixer’s and their fabulous gardens over at Jim’s