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.

Ta-da list (thanks to FlyLady)

Here are the things I have already accomplished in the garden:

1. Removed 2/3 of the hated bramble. This is what is left of it:


2. Bought 2 rosemary shrubs and planted them in terracotta pots

3. Bought a copper-flowered witch hazel, Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena'

4. Ordered three roses from the David Austin website: Gertrude Jekyll (pink), Zephirine Drouhin (pink, thornless), and Ferdinand Pichard (pink striped). All scented. And all pink. I'm not a great fan of pink, actually, but I want the garden to be restful, so only calm colours. Pink, purple, white. Some blue. Hmm, I may need a white rose too, but a scented one, not Iceberg which is otherwise beautiful. More research is needed...

Here are a few pictures of GJ roses from my previous garden: