Garden ...grow...grow...

...grow...

Lupins and poppies doing well

June is bustin' out all over!

All over the meadow and the hill!

Buds're bustin' outa bushes

And the rompin' river pushes

Ev'ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill!

There is something voluptuous about June.   It is the month in which midsummer falls and even if the temperatures have been rather low - and the winds rather high - for the time of year June still seems to 'bust out all over!' 

June is Rose Month 

Rosa Rugosa

Margaret Merrill

Bridge of Sighs

And the wild Dog Rose

The 'Geraldine Rose' , the 'Yew Tree House Rose' and the Generous Gardener are not yet in flower but they are budding.

All this was bare space 4 years ago.

The trees have come into their own this year.   This year the garden looks much more mature.  It is four years since I moved here and three since I started work on the garden in earnest.  Remember there was nothing in the garden when I started so trees are such a wonderful addition to the space.  

The pond is beginning to look settled.   I must take that netting off. 

The children love this pond.   In fact this end of the garden is every bit as charming as the house-end.  Also it doesn't get quite so much wind so it is quite a favourite place of ours to sit.

The greenhouse is really bursting at the seams.   That Melon is going to be a monster...IS a monster.   I hope it fruits.   I have to get in here to sort our hanging baskets but the weather has just been too cool at night...later this week  - that's a promise to myself...

A variety of plants needing planting in baskets.

Monster Melon

Courgettes

 This week I have arranged for someone to come around and give me a quote for looking after the garden while I am away later this year.  It is really just the watering if it is necessary.   It will be for the pots.   Even if it rains they don't get enough water under the leaves.

Hostas - you can see how it is
impossible for rain to really soak into the pots under
these umbrella leaves.

The garden is a joy for the children.   They love it...for different reasons.   Jonah loves it because there are exciting holes to be dug and stones to drop in the pond.   Leah, on the other hand, absolutely sees the beauty and appreciates the growing of plants and usefulness of them.   And all of them, dog included, love it as a playground.

I am still cutting and enjoying rhubarb.

The lavender is in bloom  and the sage so the garden path is abuzz and smells diving when you walk down it.

Path flanked by lavender and sage mainly.

Cistus

Sage

The recent wind meant I have had to prune the Mallow in order to prevent disease getting into the vicious breaks.

Wind damage

But mostly...June is busting out...all over.

Scabious

Strawberries

Foxglove

Tomatoes

From here it is difficult to even see the house

So there you are  - not a lot of gardening achieved last week but in spite of that the garden has rewarded me by being ...well, A GARDEN.

I even have flowers for the house.

Marguerites

But now...well now I had better go and do one or two little things out there to keep it on track to bust out in the way I want it to, and not in some wilful way of its own.

Happy gardening everyone.