I was out this morning and very happy to see that despite being quite breezy it was sunny and warm. Just the sort of day to do some stuff in the garden I thought. Having come home and had a bite to eat I discovered the moment had gone. Higgins and I have been left looking at the rain hammering down. All thoughts of gardening discarded.
But I took photos the other day and they are just what we need to cheer us up on a soggy day.
I have to confess that the beautiful bits of our garden are entirely down to my son. He works as a landscape gardener and plants are his passion. The more exotic the better! As he is currently without his own garden we have reaped the benefit.
The bits you don’t see are the ones I’m responsible for. These are the bits that desperately need attention, on a dry day!
This year I did quite well in the vegetable garden for the first time. Lots of tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and courgettes. It was jolly hard work keeping up with the watering! I really have to stop trying to grow any sort of brassica. I think the entire cabbage white butterfly population in Norfolk gorged itself on the fancy kale I grew.
But the biggest success I had this year was finally growing sweet peas and keeping them going nearly all summer. These are one of my favourite flowers but until this year I’ve failed hopelessly. This year I bought a fabulous selection from Higgledy Garden and they bloomed and bloomed. I was able to have bunches in the house continuously, filling the house with scent. It’s time to sow them again for next year, another reason why I must get outside. But not today!
See you tomorrow…x
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Beautiful plants.
What a beautiful garden and I think Higgins needs a bigger bed! LOL!
Haha! We bought it for the grandchildren. When it arrived Higgins leapt into the middle of it as it was being unwrapped and claimed it immediately. He will occasionally allow a grandchild to join him ?
Thank you ?
Oh, that’s too funny! Speaking of grandchildren…do we get to see how big they are now? 🙂
What a gorgeous garden Penny and handy son too. Mr Higgins sure looks great in that bed lol
Lovely garden, Penny !
Thank you!
Your garden is looking beautiful, and you can tell that you live further south than us as we have to think of some of those plants as house plants! 🙂 xx
Quite a few of them do come indoors before the frost comes. We can hardly see the TV for leaves then!