ORDER IN THE BORDERS

The countdown to coving has begun, with the bedroom pencilled in for Sunday so to pass the time, its trowels out for a spot of garden therapy.

Looking slightly wild these days

Climbing roses branching out with the vitality of spring

No more pieces of pontificating puff, political pot-shots or rambling piffle as the other half has threatened to pull the plug on the PC if he so much as gets a whiff of another one of my so called ‘cyber rants’.  ‘It’s not the purpose of the internet’ he says.  What is? 

Meanwhile back in our chaotic, overgrown garden, it’s all a question of getting some order back into the borders.  There’s one particular section in the bottom right hand corner in front of the rhododendron area that’s crying out for a good seeing to.

Back of garden needs a bit of a primp

Over the years, a type of wild white bell has been rapidly smothering every patch of bare earth.  These pretty bells with their faint smell of onions/garlic are prolific growers and whilst they look lovely in the spring, they are now becoming a bit of a gardening pain in the butt.

I’ve dug up a large area of the flower bed sifting carefully through the dirt to pick out all the small white bulbs in a bid to get rid of this menace but I suspect that these crafty blighters will have found a way of regrouping to blitz the borders next springtime.  

I’ve stuck in a few more ‘yellow ticket’ specials including a hydrangea, some dianthus, a couple of Bleeding Heart plants and a lovely dark coloured Sambucus Nigra called ‘Black Beauty’ which I hope will add both height and colour to the flower bed.

Adding a bit of colour to the weed infested border

Sambucus Nigra 'Black Beauty'

Already starting to flower