Angelina's Garden: shots, thoughts and insights

Wow, Jenny, it's a real giant! Mine is three times smaller and a profuse bloomer, but your picture makes me wonder if I shouldn't plant it behind the rose or else it might block it from sight.

Also, I have a white gaura variety from seed. It's still in its infancy, so it is spending its first winter indoors.

 

I think it's more the "Parks and Gardens " formal deep bed variety which the French go for in a bug way. Most of their larger towns have them. I have bought Gaura Lindheimeri Sparkle White. Just had a look at the packet=sowing time Feb to April. I must start them up soon,
Jenny

 

Here I am...
After all the plans, due to some urgent family matters, we actually had to move away from the house for two months (mid-February to mid-April). I was able to cope with the sowing period anyway. I gave the seeds a good start, but some of the annuals are not performing particularly well this season (I mean some new nasturtium varieties).
The dahlias are also growing very slowly. I attribute it to the low temperatures we had here until the end of June.
However, the overall result (garden-wise) makes me quite happy!

Let me show some of it. Here are selected shots from the Rhododendron period (end of May):







Album: Rhododendrons

 

And here is a track of the garden's development so far:

mid-June






Geranium 'Patricia' in a new location..., wildly outperforming the rest of the community.



end-June - July



The daylilies and the first lisianthus:





Some lilies, astilbe and hydrangeas:



And last night's appearances:






Finally, some nasturtiums. This is what they looked like about 2 weeks ago. There isn't a single one now. I hope they are having a break before re-blooming. I'll try to assist them in doing so.



The Garden Album

N-JOY!

 

How absolutely beautiful @Angelina. Gorgeous photos - thanks for sharing

 

Hello Angelina. Your beautifu garden coped well during your absence. It s so lush and colourful ... and inviting, like your glass of wine!

 

It all looks so lovely...well done!

 

Hello @Angelina your garden is spectacular , I partucularly like the glass of wine! White, my favourite

 

I'm glad you appreciated both the garden and the treat.
Thank you!

 

Lovely, just lovely

 

Thank you for all the kind words and comments!
Oh, @wiseowl, at first I thought that 'the glass flower' was the vernacular name of some of my plants and I googled it to find the Latin equivalent!


Here are some roses for you, although this year's yield was heavily damaged by the winter frosts. Actually, I lost some roses.


'Jubilee Celebration' and 'Westerland'



'Ghislaine de Feligonde' and 'Variegata di Bologna' (Sorry, the second shot is slightly out of focus.)
The last one bloomed for the first time this year and is my absolute favourite for the season!


P.S. All family emergencies were favourably resolved, yes! I think I could have written a book, but I should have taken to work while the experience was still fresh. Thank you for your caring attitude!

 

Well, this is the garden so far.
I happen to travel on jobs abroad more frequently this year, and this keeps me gasping behind season in one-off campaigns of cleaning, pruning, transplanting, whatever...
I can't spend much time on any forums (although I have much more stuff to write about, actually).
I'd like to thank @Lorea for the perfect batch of Verbena bonariensis seeds! I had also harvested some from the only verbena which germinated with me last year (after some crazy sowing procedure invloving cold treatment of the entire tray, darkening and, you-name-it, types of pampering). This spring, I gave them no special treatment at all. All pots germinated 100%, in two-three weeks. Now, I have wonderful groups of healthy verbenas all around the border and I hope to see them in blossom soon.

I hope you're all fine!
I love it here, I'll try to be around (at least during the summer).

The first part of the shots (up to the *** sign) were taken a couple of days ago. The rest come from the beginning of June. Click on the thumbs to enlarge.

 

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