Today I copied all the posts I had made about my garden, since Eamonn died, into a new. Blog. This is the first post I have written, live, into it.
I've been very pleased with the bits of the garden that have been left wild for the pollinators. There are patches where wildflowers have been sown, that haven't been mown at all this year
There are some wildflowers that have seeded themselves in different parts of the garden. Comfrey in the Physic Garden,
Poppies in an old pot in the border
Pink flowered Sorrel in the border where the shrubs had starved it of light,
and Valerian in the border
Since my new gardener started work, the oxeye daisies now put on a superb show next to the rose and lavender.
Newly planted perennials are beginning to flower - Scabious in the border,
and the Jasmin, which was barely in flower when planted last year.
The tomatoes had just begun to flower before I went to Hertford. When I returned, they had been damaged by the rainstorms. They had grown a lot and the basil plants at the bottom are doing their job of keeping whitefly at bay.
I manage to salvage the stems that were flowering. Most of the broken stems were side shoots.
The lettuce has been doing extremely well this year. After my trip to Hertford, I harvested a large bowlful of outer leaves.
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