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Here, I journal the transformation of our tiny London backyard into a dream garden. I hope you will like it!

A dream garden, for me, is an outdoor space filled with rich colours and seductive scents, offering beautiful flowers, interesting textures and tasty morsels for our delectation. Also a source of nourishment for the local wildlife - birds, butterflies and bees. A space to enjoy with my SO, friends, family, and, of course, our cats. Somewhere to sit and have coffee, or even a meal, and a tiny patch of grass to lie on in the fleeting sunshine of the English summer. And, we're almost there...

Unless stated otherwise, all photos are by me (or my SO) and are clickable.

Friday, 7 May 2010

Old garden pics

In the absence of fantastic pictures from our little garden, here are a few from the old house.

The profusion of tea-scented yellow blooms of rose Graham Thomas:


Pink, sweet smelling rose Gertrude Jekyll, with an oddity in the foreground - New Zealand Flax (phormium) in flower. I'd had it for about 8 years and it never produced those exotic looking flower stalks before!


Globes of Allium Christophii visited by a bumblebee:


Finally, red rose Lily Marlene in the foreground with white Iceberg Climbing on the obelisk behind. They look beautiful, but have unfortunately no scent, so will not be a feature of our new garden.
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