Yesterday I spent a few hours collecting and downloading the photos I had taken of my garden, arranging and rearranging them with text to my satisfaction and saving my work every few minutes. Today I opened up my blog only to find that it had all disappeared. Now clearly there is something I am not doing right. I felt like abandoning the whole thing but I dont like to be beaten so I am having another go.
No doubt when I have finished this the previous one will turn up. Anyway, summer is here at last and everything is coming up roses, literally. My theme for this year is foxgloves and aquilegias which I have grown from seed and am fairly pleased with the result. Gardeners are never 100% satisfied with what they have grown because next year is going to be better and however poorly you feel (which we all feel some time or other) you cannot possibly die this year because you have to see your garden next year.
The above photo is one of my apricot coloured foxgloves. I had seen them growing at Kingston Maurward in Dorchester our local horticulture and agriculture college and thought they were lovely. I have also grown some excelsior mixed foxgloves (above right) which grow the flowers all round the stem instead of just one side like the native foxglove.
I have grown some aquilegies from seed and particularly like the Origima strain which I shall endeavour to find some pics and place them in the appropriate place
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My other passion at the moment is Delphiniums and I desperately want to grow some like I have seen at Chelsea. During the winter I liberally threw handfuls of chicken pellets around the garden hoping to achieve the same result. I think I am getting there gradually, give me a few more years.
I am going to publish this now in case I lose it all again. Will be back later.
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