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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.

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Monet's Giverny Part 2

I needed to split this into several posts, as I can only upload 5 photos in each. And I have so many pictures from Giverny...

Still in the courtyard garden next to the house. There were also white areas, like this tall fox lily with pansies in the background:

And hot, purple and bronze smouldering schemes like these irises and pansies:

This sunny border has made me reconsider my "no yellow, no orange" rule for our garden:

There was a huge tree peony shrub, the flowers are the size of soup bowls:

And this is a bit how our garden is supposed to look like - if only it were three times the size... There are tall globes of ornamental onions, purple tulips and blue pansies, swathes of tiny forget-me-nots, pink and white stocks and verbena... Oh, and loads of sunshine! :)

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