Whats Looking Good In December

Fatsia

 

I was cleaning up some of the borders and came across this fellow who is still going strong underneath a Lilac "Madame Lemoine"

Phygelius "African Queen"



Saponaria



So there's still the odd splash of colour around even in December.

 

My Christmas Cactus in flower every December

 

I'm not sure that this should be 'what's looking good...'. It's more like 'what's not looking too bad...'.

Having just got back from being away for a month I've been out in the garden doing some tidying up. I've now got a lot of the early winter work in the front garden done and have started on the back garden.

I've lightly trimmed the edges of the lawn as they're too soggy to cut a proper edge.







The hellebores are trying to flower


And one of the hebes is trying hard to hang on


Nerine Bowdenii is still in flower


I haven't checked the rest of the garden yet!

 

Thanks Jenny and GA

We have to keep on top of it as there's so much to do. That's just a part of the front garden.

 

In October I cut about 4ft off this laurel on the front of our garden and it's sprouting fairly well.


So, yesterday we started on these. They should all have filled out fairly well by Open Day (fingers crossed) and we're thinking of reducing the height by a few feet. We reduced the height by about 3ft four years ago.


The laurel to the left of the first picture is only about five years old and replaced the old plants that were demolished by a drunken driver in a white van. He took down a telephone pole, ruined a load of shrubs and hedging and ended up 15ft into our garden. We had to drag him from the van even though he had a punctured lung because the fuel tank was leaking.
He lost his licence.

 

No, they just show off with being pretty.

Merry Christmas.