So What Is In The Borders?

houmakeup June 25, 2022

There are all sorts of plants around the border of the back garden, mainly one of each of the larger things, there's also lots of empty spaces which will let weeds in unless I fill them with something. In places there are things that spread like weeds that I'd like to take out - the "foreign" bluebells. And worst of all there is some ground-elder creeping in - horrible stuff.

It's rained at sometime almost everyday since I moved in with no chance of getting out there to do some much needed weeding.

Here's a photo tour

Stepping out of the patio doors from the living room and first on the left is a purple Acer - love this.(Edited in to say this is actually an Elder)

Next under the living room window some Hebes - Hate these! and no, I have no idea why. Looking at them just makes me feel odd (and yes that is weird!)

Mrs F who owned Clay Cottage before we bought it in 2017 had several Hebes too and left behind several seedlings in pots which I didn't keep

To the right of the arch above (which leads down the side of the bungalow to out the front) is the start of the border around the grass.Several things in the garden seem to have caught the late frost including this Hydrangea. Odd really as in theory the garden is quite sheltered.

There's a young Silver Birch with a climbing rose behind it and some Helebores in front.

In the corner are 3 small trees squashed in. A Hornbeam (or a Beech) not sure yet. Then something I thought at first was a young Apple but the flowers are not quite right so it might be a Pear but whatever it is it won't do well squeezed in between. Right in the corner is a small Flowering Cherry.

Also in the corner a Spirea and a Camellia and more Helebores and another Hebe and a Rose

A Large Ceanothus is just starting to come into flower

The biggest thing in the garden is a Flowering Cherry, which must be the only thing more than 7 years old, that's how long the previous owners had been here.

To the right of the tree are two things I'm not sure of - the yellow thing isn't a Laburnham and the other is possibly a Weigela.

There's a Lupin and some smaller perennials

A Lavatera at the back and a Poppy and Foxglove with some other perennials and the blinkin' ground elder creeping in!

This is a different sort of Magnolia. The removal man plonked my old bird bath here (we found it half buried at the smallholding in 1992), it's all on the huh! but too heavy for me to move. Just noticed another Acer at the back there

The bigger Magnolia is just finishing

All sorts of different perennials and the foreign bluebells spreading too much

A Peony and a few Aquilegia

A large spring flowering Viburnham

Another Buddleia and climbing rose on the trellises around the shed

Honeysuckle and Jasmine

Below is another Buddleia. I've popped 2 courgette plants in here in the hope they will grow.

On the left below is a small clump of Autumn raspberries - Very Very prickly and in a strange place. I have plans for a narrow Raspberry bed beside the greenhouse. There's another climbing rose and the Rhubarb I brought with me, which is funny as the only other edible thing here is a...... Rhubarb - I had no idea

What's this below? Purple flowers with yellow middles like a potato flower - making it look poisonous -it probably isn't. It's not something I've had before another thing that was caught by late frosts.

The rhubarb that was here hasn't got much room to spread

And finally by the other side gate is a Flamingo Willow Tree

To the other side of the patio the trellises have more climbing roses.

The things I brought with me including 2 tubs of strawberries, Monkey Puzzle, Yew tree ,my Bay tree and very young Fig with the tomato and pepper plants under the cloche thing.