Today we are going through the...............blue door...

Glad that Floppity brought back some memories for you

Perhaps not so much 'through' but more: 'in front of..'!

Thank you for asking a while back for more garden photographs. I tend not to stray from the main 'blog brief' so do not usually include stuff beyond sewing and old bits.  I do however take more photographs of the garden than anything else so...

You DID ask!!!

 Back door in dire need of  a repaint...

Our garden is teeny, tiny but it earns its keep.  

It is like the house in that there is a fair bit of stuff packed into that space. Ahem!!!

These photographs are not in sequential order

The 'secret' is to wait for a storm and then haul loads of seaweed up from the beach in the Autumn.  Let the seaweed rot down nicely  (smells a bit but there is no such thing as a free launch) and it seems to double the vitality of the soil (which is heavy clay).

 So whilst these flowers are nothing extraordinaire  I do get good crop rotation and from early Spring to late Autumn there is always something in flower in this spot.

Plus the colours look quite nice against the blue door

I have to keep a tight grip on some plants so I do  extraction when needed.  Other than that I am a great dead header and keep green fly to a minimum by tapping the little rose buds over the little pond and the fishes get free food as the aphids fall off.  

Everyone's a winner baby...

The Bumble has landed!

Many of the plants are from my mum's old garden - so true 'vintahj darling'

Be they ever so humble.....

We don't use any chemicals or nasties and we have lots of slugs - I dream of lupins...

Life is about give and take - slugs do a fair bit of taking sadly but the flowers a lot of giving!

I am keen on Latin names and very fond indeed of binomial nomenclature (Annie will bear testament to its wonderment and usefulness) - crack that you gain a great understanding of each plant.  Very neat!!

I will do a separate post on my peonies - all of which came from my mum's old garden - some have sulked for over ten years but I did not give up.  This year they have all flowered!

Please note the resident snail - all are welcome chez La Cootard....!

Happenstance photograph

Nice clematis put on a good show this year

Flowery bowery

 Underneath the arches....

We dream our dreams away...

Underneath the arches... on cobblestones we lay..

You might remember the bird cage 'makeover' that I did back around Easter time - it is still here and lives under the floral bower (grand!!) ... in reality that nice clematis.

 Here it is prior to flowers blooming:

and in bloom....

Looks quite purdy I think

I had half hoped that a pair of canaries would move in

  Tweet tweet

By the by I am enjoying the 'Tweet of the Day' on Radio 4 at the moment - what a joy birdsong is.

After all that gardening sit down and take the weight off your feet (Dom has repaired these chairs many times over the years but they should hold your weight just fine)

You may be distracted by the box of  reduced scabious bottom right (the ones that Dom bought back from B &Q a little while ago) - they are still in full flower

Sadly there is no tea or cake in these photographs - that would have been the perfecto mix I think

That may be a vintahj (dahling)  tablecloth wafting to the right of the picture below.....

A reminder that when we moved in there was not a single plant, bush, tree, blade of grass in this plot - just two layers of concrete slabs.  I was gutted as our garden in London was pretty and we had left that behind. It took me a long time to grow to like this garden.....and a lot of hard work.

Do you remember my umbrella purchased from my favourite junk shop for a £1 (just double checked the memory banks and found that it only cost me 50p) ?  It is very handy on those rare sunny days.

More flowery bowery

It's not where you start it's where you finish!

So -  be your garden small or grande -  make it lovely if you can. 

It is good for the soul

Closing the door for now

Pretty as a picture.....

PS: Garden open to the public between dusk and dawn from May until June.
Public liability insurance not taken out.
We will not be held responsible for any injuries but action will be taken if you are found pilfering cuttings...just as my mother used to do....
Terms and conditions sadly have to apply.