WHATS LOOKING GOOD IN JUNE 2019

3 Royal Williams

 

@alana
At the moment it's not. She hasn't had time to get started on it as we've spent all our time preparing for our open garden. We had about 400 people turn up. Just the plants we have at the moment have been sufficient for cutting plants. We've supplied foliage, and some flowers, for three church flower festivals, four evenings of flower clubs, three flower arranging demonstrators and I know she has someone coming round tomorrow who has 'pruning rights' in our garden. She's also demonstrating Tuesday afternoon and entering a competition Tuesday night. I know she has been growing some plants from seed that will now need to be planted out (we've just this afternoon got back from holiday).

I had a quick wander round with my camera and am downloading them to the computer at the moment

 

@alana pruning rights only go to some special people. They are also the ones who know which plants, mainly foliage, they're allowed to prune. Euonymous (we have loads of different colours) and conifer are the most wanted but we must have about thirty other types of foliage plants that are used.

 

We've just returned from a good holiday in the Lake District and I've been wandering around the garden.

Front path (don't think you could have worked that out ) with plants flopping all over the place.


Just a few shots of some of the beds.
The Veronicastrum is about to come into flower


The golden variegated Euonymous is very popular with the 'pruning rights' contingency so I'm not allowed to run the hedge cutter over them.








Part of our middle tree line




12ft high and highly scented


These next three shots are of the border around the veggie plot




The peonies have been knocked over by the heavy rain we apparently had

 

I don't know what this is and Mrs Shiney isn't around for me to ask


Maggie is still flowering and usually flowers from April through to July




Dahlias that are left to fend for themselves over winter in the garden are just budding


Bee orchids in the wild area are surviving the rabbits


This has just appeared in the wild area and I'm guessing it's a Pyramid orchid


the heavy rain whilst we were away seems to have revived the rhubarb


Blackberries coming on well


V. Chaixii are just starting to flower - we have a hundred or more




Golden leafed pretty fucshia


These popped up in the greenhouse whilst we were away - giant snowdrops