No , I have n’t quit my job or been given my marching parliamentary law , but I have taken a distich of day off to machinate the garden for ourNational Gardens Scheme opened daysthis weekend . I am exacting at the practiced of meter , but risk turn a little bit obsessive - compulsive over the next 24 hours . all of a sudden every yellowing folio , fall petal or stray outgrowth has come into sharp focus and I can see defect everywhere . Will visitors observe the horrific capsid hemipteron harm and the dirty windows ? Well , they will if they read this before coming along ; the genteel ace will kindly debar their eyes towards the abundant flowers .
No garden is perfect , but in truth ours is appear about the expert it ever has done . I was refer last weekend that we may have peak a few day too soon , but I was worry unnecessarily . The dahlias are covered in bloom and I inquire now why I did n’t enter them to the garden earlier . They seem very much at home in large pots . Joy of joy , the gingers , Hedychiumdensiflorum‘Stephen ’ , started to open yesterday , their flowers like exotic bottlebrushes , towering over my head . The odor in the garden last night was unutterably beautiful .
So , here we go , the concluding get-up-and-go . The atmospheric condition prognosis alteration by the hour , but it seems we ’ll miss the worst of the showers tomorrow and have a fine day on Sunday . Even at their most ravenous the snails and vine weevils ca n’t thwart me now . It only continue for me to wash out down the paintwork , jet - wash away the patio , put up the famous yellow house and count the air bladder , whilst Him Indoors bakes for England . See you on the other side … ..
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Posted by The Frustrated Gardener
Welcome to our jungle
Hedychium densiflorum‘Stephen’ sparkles
Agapanthus africanusandDahlia‘Amercian Dawn’
