White lilac
Dear Readers, the garden is having both a good time and a not-so-good time. You might remember that I was replacing my shed: well, the good news is that the shed is no more, and the concrete plinth has been laid….
Shed-in-waiting….
The bad news is that the garden is piled high with the remains of the old shed, which is due to be going into a skip as soon as the guys who are doing the shed/the skip people/me can get our ducks in a row. Hopefully not too much longer, as it’s hardly relaxing to be sitting in the garden amongst all this carnage.
But the lilac is really lovely this year, as is the rowan, which is covered in blossom…
The bog bean is in flower….
The red campion and the garlic mustard are doing well…
…and the green alkanet is not at all bothered by anything going on in the garden. It’s even growing through the slats in the bench, cheeky plant…
But it is extremely popular with bees, so I forgive it for being a bit of a thug. If you look in the photo below you can see a blurred hairy-footed flower bee (female!) zipping away.
The balm-leaved deadnettle (Lamium orvala) is doing very well – the native deadnettles have never done well under the whitebeam, but this plant seems to be able to tolerate the dry conditions a bit more. Another bumblebee favourite.
And finally, some pendulous sedge has popped up again next to the pond, and the flower heads look as if they’re smoking when the wind blows them, they have so much pollen. I guess I’ll be pulling the seedlings off for some time to come…
So, what’s going on in your garden, lovely Readers? I feel as if everything has taken off at a gallop here in East Finchley. I just can’t wait to get my garden back….
I hope the debris is removed soon and you can get back to enjoying a more peaceful garden 🙂
My garden in Ealing has lots of bluebells at the front and Welsh poppies at the back. The viburnum tinus has finished flowering and the weigela has just started. Robins have fledged and a wren has been seen quite often. My husband has very successfully replaced a small trellis over a gate which involved cutting back a forsythia and dealing with a climbing rose. We have just seen the first squirrel in the garden for a long time and a green parakeet is a regular visitor and fairly welcome as long as it doesn’t bring too many noisy friends.
It sounds really lovely, Ann. Spring is such a lovely season, isn’t it?
Welcome to my world, my husband had dementia and before he died would not spend any money on anything, so was best to just ignore things, now I’m alone and rather elderly, I’m afraid I do the same, but I have a lovely young man who helps me a few hours a week in my wild garden, he’s always happy to patch things up, “. I’ll put a longer screw in it, that should help “ and it usually does. But I’m so lucky to live where I do, close to the river, can watch all that visits the garden , the usual blue tits ,gold finches, sparrows,robins, plus jackdaws, magpies, crows , stock doves, pheasants, badgers , foxes , ducks ,woodpeckers.
I have native bluebells, the camellias have been lovely, my Judas tree just budding up, so many self seeders popping up everywhere, my neighbours eco friendly daughter says it’s a rustic garden, who wants tidy? enjoy
Your garden sounds lovely, Evadne – and we all need a lovely young man to help out 😉