Flowers from the garden: September 2008
Posted by Fiona Nevile in Flowers | 11 comments
I keep on extending the borders in the first part of the garden. This means digging out masses of bricks and rubble, generally a large barrow load to a square metre of soil. I now have two things. A large pile of hardcore and a very pretty border.
Over the last two years I’ve filled the new border with perennials from the stand outside the secret garden. We visited this wonderful garden again early this summer when I discovered that the church fete was going to be held in the grounds.
The fete was the quintessential English church fete. A small sleepy affair with old fashioned games and homemade cakes and tea served from the open kitchen window. There was also an excellent bookstall, where I was able to complete my Moomintroll collection.
Best of all was the plant stall filled with tempting specimens at rock bottom prices. I bought lavender and cosmos. Later I noticed that the cosmos had self seeded across a circular path in a quiet sunny spot in the garden and I’m hoping that this might happen here. The plants are strong and stand three feet high. They have flowered all summer and have been amazing value – attracting bees and hoverflies and providing endless posies for the cottage.
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Hi Celia
Hope that Danny’s instructions helped you! We are still ironing out problems with the site.
Hello Kate
Thanks for the tip. I’ll save the seed and scatter to see if they self seed. Didn’t know about this propensity.
Hi Sharon J
They come from such a pretty border!
Hello Kay
Another thing that we have in common.
Hi Diane
I’m sorry to hear that you’re having problems. Hopefully these will be resolved over the next few days. I think that you also need to clear your cache.
Hi Sam
There’s nothing like a Moomintroll book when things get rocky!
Hello Casalba
I love all of Tove Jansson’s writing.
Another Moomin fan. We had some folk down from Finland earlier in the year and they were really surprised I’d heard of them. (Apparently there’s a Moomintroll theme park there.)
Hi Fi
Moomintrolls..I haven’t hard of those for years…..
Lovely flowers too.
Rgds
Sam
Thanks, Celia and Diane.
I created a new page called Problems?
It explains how to clear your DNS cache.
You can find that page on the menu bar at the top of blog under the header.
I too have been having trouble logging on to the site and have only just found the individual page.
I’m a big moomintroll fan too!
Those flowers look beautiful.
My mother ( a big fan of cosmos) tells me that if you have cosmos that flower, save the seed, apparently seed from plants grown and happily flowering in your garden in the UK will self sow and flower whereas fancy varieties that are grown in South Africa and bought from seed companies aren’t too happy and often don’t do anything- so, save those seeds!
Hi Celia
Were still working on access problems with the site!
But you need to clear your cache as it is taking you to the old server address.
A posy as sunny as the weather today!!!! Hurrah!
BTW I still can’t connect to your home page, only the individual pages! I get a ‘site disabled’ window 🙁
Maybe be it’s my cache? anyone else having probs?
Celia