Welcome to my blog!

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.

Sunday, 4 July 2010

Midsummer Dream

Whilst the English rose "Gertrude Jekyll" is still flowering its pretty socks off, the first bloom has appeared on "Zephirine Drouhin". In this picture, with dew drops from the hosepipe, you can see the Bay laurel and lobelia cardinalis in the background:



The flowering racemes of the butterfly bush have started to open too; they have an intoxicating scent of honey:


Here is the Phygelius we recently bought, already in flower - the plant info says it should continue to do so throughout the summer:


Finally, here's the veggie border with the mounds of courgette and squash plants, and the Jerusalem artichokes taller than my 6'4" SO!
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