Friday, April 15, 2016

Five on Friday

It's Friday so I'm joining in with  Amy at Love Made my Home for this week's Five on Friday.  Click on the link at the bottom of this post to find others who are joining in too.

This week the weather has been warmer and we have been able to get into the garden for longer periods of time and really start to tidy things up.  Some of the grass has been cut, in other areas it has been left because it is still squelching underfoot.  As I was weeding and digging under weeds I was uncovering puddles under the soil.  One of our plants has been transferred to a pot to dry out as it was waterlogged.

Above is a view across the width of the garden from one side to the other.  We have actually been working on the front garden as well as a tree had to come down as it was catching on the canopy over our front windows. 

You can see the remains of the tree trunk in front of the side gate.  The is a lot more light coming into the sitting room now.  It was a leylandii tree we inherited when we moved here and was just getting too big and blocking our way to the gate so it had to go.

The old bench, which used to sit the other side of the fence, has been moved to the top of the garden as it is too fragile to sit on and broken in places.  I'm going to use it to put pots of flowers on in the summer.

Lots of work has been done in the green house and many seeds planted and some tomato seedlings moved from the conservatory into the greenhouse.
 

 Above is another view of the garden, you can just see the pond in this one.
As you can also see there is still a lot of weeding to be done.

Below are five things I've spotted in the garden this week.


 1. Muscari

2.  Wallflowers 
3.  Buds on the Amelanchier tree


4. Valerian coming into flower

5.  Wild Garlic under the trees by the shed spreading into the grass 

Below are two collages each with five more things spotted in the garden this week


Striped snail, pieris, peony buds, euphorbia and lupin leaves.


Honesty, one bluebell self seeded in the middle of the heather, forget-me-not, vinca or periwinkle and the first flower on the geum lemondrops.

All for now.  Have a lovely weekend.

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  1. Coastal Ripples15 April 2016 at 08:30

    Love the look of your garden. It's great to be able to spend more time outside. You have so much colour already. Have a good weekend. B x

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:28

      Thanks, Barbara, it has been good to get out into the garden:)

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  2. Crimson Kettle15 April 2016 at 08:53

    What a smashing garden Rosie, so much scope for experimenting. Looks like Spring is in full swing with all your pretty flowers, it's so good to see them. I like your idea about the bench, that will make such a good feature. x

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:29

      Thanks, Karen - I'm looking forward to choosing plants for the bench:)

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  3. riitta k15 April 2016 at 08:54

    Your garden is so pretty. And it's so wonderful to see your lovely flowers flowers! I have to wait a bit...

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:30

      Thank you ritta, flowers are always cheering aren't they?:)

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  4. The History Anorak15 April 2016 at 09:24

    I have one self seeded honesty plant (well, that I've found so far. There are probably more!) but it isn't flowering yet. I'm very jealous of your own supply of wild garlic. :)

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:31

      The wild garlic has spread so much in the last couple of years. I thinbk both the honesty and the bluebell are self seeded:)

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  5. Louise15 April 2016 at 09:28

    Your garden is looking great!

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:32

      Thanks, Louise just waiting for it to get a bit warmer so we can sit outside:)

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  6. mamasmercantile15 April 2016 at 10:15

    You certainly have a beautiful garden, mine is still wet through too. Isn't it nice to get out see Mother Natures work.

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:33

      Thank you, yes it is great to get outside now it's a bit warmer:)

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  7. Sara - Villa Emilia15 April 2016 at 11:18

    Hello Rosie, your garden looks so tidy and beautiful... and the flower photos are really gorgeous. Especially the numbers 2 and 3 make my heart beat faster. :)
    Have a lovely weekend!

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:34

      Thanks, Sara it looks tidy from a distance, glad you like the photos:)

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  8. eclectichomelife15 April 2016 at 12:54

    Your garden looks wonderful especially for being at the beginning of the growing season, very jealous, mine looks nothing like this. It was good to get out there this week but 5 hours of weeding has made me ache!

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:35

      Oh yes, the bending and lifting does make you ache doesn't it? It is nice to get outside though:)

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  9. Mac n' Janet15 April 2016 at 15:38

    What a beautiful garden you have! Looks like it's all coming into bloom, that's why spring is my favorite season.

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:40

      Thanks, Janet. Spring flowers are lovely aren't they?:)

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  10. Simone15 April 2016 at 17:51

    You have a lovely spacious outside space Rosie. I think pots of flowers on the bench will be lovely and you will be able to change the display around. I wish my garden was a little more waterlogged as I would love to grow a Gunnera with its leaves reaching a metre across! I love your bird feeding station! x

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    1. Rosie15 April 2016 at 18:39

      Thanks, Simone. What a love idea. I bet a gunnera would grow here in all our puddles. I'm looking forward to messing with the bench:)

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  11. Lilly's Mom15 April 2016 at 18:56

    Your garden is so lovely and so big, too! I am fascinated by the greenhouse; what fun you must have growing your plants from seeds. I am trying to plant all perennials in my garden and yesterday I bought a delphinium. I'm hoping it will grow. Have a fantastic weekend, Pat xx

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    1. Rosie16 April 2016 at 15:43

      Thanks, Pat, I love delphiniums so I hope you enjoy yours, I'd love to grow them here but they don't like our very wet soil>

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  12. Ragged Robin15 April 2016 at 19:26

    You have a very beautiful garden and lovely to see all the Spring flowers. I do like your idea for the old bench - it will make a wonderful feature.

    Thanks for your reply to my comment in the last post and the extra information concerning Ashbourne - will just have to visit one day :)

    Have a lovely weekend.

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    1. Rosie16 April 2016 at 15:46

      Thank you, I love the flowers at this time of year. I can't wait to get started on the bench, just deciding what to put into pots and stand on there, I guess I can keep changing things around. Hope you visit Ashbourne one day:)

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  13. Christina15 April 2016 at 19:51

    What a beautiful large garden you have! I'd love to have a green house to grow tomatoes, they never ripen here in the North. Have a lovely weekend. x

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    1. Rosie16 April 2016 at 15:48

      Thank you. It is nice to have the greenhouse for the tomatoes although they do take time to ripen and we usually have a glut at the end of the summer:)

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  14. Wendy15 April 2016 at 20:20

    A lovely look at your garden spring flowers. I have lots of muscari growing in my garden at the moment but the rabbits have eaten all the wallflowers! The bench sounds like a perfect 'stand' for all your pots.

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    1. Rosie16 April 2016 at 15:50

      I love the colour of the muscari, what a shame about your wallflowers, thankfully there are no rabbits around here just urban foxes and badgers:)

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  15. ellen b.16 April 2016 at 01:45

    What a wonderful garden. I'm impressed with your gardening skills and the fact that you know the names of everything. Hope you have a lovely weekend.

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    1. Rosie16 April 2016 at 15:52

      Thanks, Ellen. We were lucky in that the garden had been well laid out when we bought the house so it really just has to be maintained and altered occasionally. I usually just cut the grass and do some weeding, my husband does most of the heavy work like hedge trimming and planting in the raised beds and greenhouse:)

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  16. Patsy16 April 2016 at 05:41

    What a lot of work, but the results are astounding. I'm sorry you had to send your tree to Forest Heaven. Sometimes necessary, but always sad to lose one.

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    1. Rosie16 April 2016 at 15:54

      Yes, it is sad and I don't like taking trees down but it wasn't a native species and had just got too big for its boots. We should have moved it away from the house years ago when it was small enough to cope with it:)

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  17. driftwood16 April 2016 at 09:44

    so many lovely things going on in your garden x

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    1. Rosie16 April 2016 at 15:55

      Thank you. It is a lovely time of year for lots happening in the garden:)

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  18. Unknown16 April 2016 at 19:04

    Your garden is looking wonderful, you have so many lovely Springtime plants growing. xx

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    1. Rosie17 April 2016 at 09:03

      Thank you, Jan. It is a lovely time of year:)

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  19. September Violets16 April 2016 at 19:36

    What a beautiful garden you have! I thought we were looking at a park in the first photo. You have lots coming up and flowering now. Our gardens still look like everything is hibernating. We used to have lots of periwinkle in our woods at my parents' home ... periwinkle and yellow dogtooth violets :)
    Enjoy your weekend Rosie,
    Wendy

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    1. Rosie17 April 2016 at 09:06

      Thanks, Wendy, the garden was well designed and set out before we came here so it always keeps a basic shape even though it gets untidy in one or two areas but I don't mind that as I like rough and hidden patches for wildlife:)

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  20. rusty duck16 April 2016 at 20:59

    The garden is looking good. Leylandii do get very big, it must make a huge difference to have it down.

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    1. Rosie17 April 2016 at 09:08

      Yes, it has given both us and our neighbours lots of light. It was in the wrong place and too close to the house:)

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  21. Amanda Peters16 April 2016 at 22:18

    It's been nice looking round your garden..
    Amanda xx

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  22. A Colorful World18 April 2016 at 16:56

    Love the wallflowers, valerian and bluebells! Lovely garden. I would adore having a greenhouse like yours!

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    1. Rosie19 April 2016 at 15:27

      Thanks, Marie. Once the Valerian flowers it lasts all summer:)

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