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Post by Moonlight on Jul 18, 2014 21:48:15 GMT
jasmin33, we have a wonderful stone wall at the back of the garden - 40' long and 8' high! We call it 'The Great Wall of Somerset'.  It replaced a diseased Leylandii hedge and let's just say we don't miss the hedge.  The rock is blue lias, as that's what our house was made from.
photo? hint hint....... |
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 18, 2014 23:10:23 GMT
jasmin33, we have a wonderful stone wall at the back of the garden - 40' long and 8' high! We call it 'The Great Wall of Somerset'. It replaced a diseased Leylandii hedge and let's just say we don't miss the hedge. The rock is blue lias, as that's what our house was made from.
photo? hint hint....... Wow! I had to look that one up. It would appear my education is not as complete as I thought despite my science foundation course at the OU  Apparently it can be rich in fossils from the Jurassic and earlier periods so might be worth taking a close look at your stones geranium. You may have a little dinosaur hidden in your wall  |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 19, 2014 4:43:31 GMT
No dinosaurs as far as we know, sweetpea, but there are a few fossils in it! I thought I'd posted photos of 'The Wall'. Moonlight, but it might have been before you joined us. This is it when it had just been finished.  And part of it this year in June.  |
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Post by Moonlight on Jul 19, 2014 6:17:30 GMT
So other than it looking beautiful, it blocks out all of the Neighbouring houses. So your garden becomes a secret garden.
Your garden really is beautiful. HH wanted a seat in our garden but it would have been facing away from my dahlias... he won't be able to do that yet because that has become my dahlia corner. Other than the dahlias our garden is a garden of weeds and bushes that have been hacked back, revealing more weeds. You must put so much effort and time, together with a lot of love to Nurture it to as it is now.
Do you have a photo of the same spot before you built your wall?
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Post by Geranium on Jul 20, 2014 4:49:24 GMT
There aren't any houses, Moonlight - behind the wall is a field with sheep in it. We're very rural here - our closest neighbours are several hundred yards away (apart from the people in the attached part of the house!) This is the hedge we had to replace because it started developing brown patches - some sort of fungal problem, which spreads and kills the hedge.  That's the only photo I have of the area 'before'. That Juniper tree in my top border to the right isn't there any more - I hated it. It was prickly and horrible.  |
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Post by jasmin33 on Jul 20, 2014 10:27:45 GMT
That problem with your hedge has been rampant this year according to Monty Don on Gardener's World Geranium.. he had to take out a whole border because of it.
Your garden is absolutely wonderful... (I'm so jealous!)
p.s. What is the name of the blue flower in the very first picture of your diary please?
I have had quite a lot of that but pulled it up as I thought it was a weed!
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Post by Geranium on Jul 21, 2014 5:02:48 GMT
Thank you, jasmin33. I looked back, and the blue flowered plant is Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign'. It flowers in the spring, so you'd only see leaves at the moment. I do hope you haven't pulled any up! |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 26, 2014 4:54:51 GMT
My latest purchases - both now planted in the huge space left when we removed the Spiraea bumaldii. Penstemon 'Blackberry Ice'  and Scabiosa columbaria.  I found three little Morning Glory plants left from my plant stall, so I added those in the hope that they'll climb amongst the other plants and add some extra colour. |
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Post by Geranium on Aug 3, 2014 5:13:18 GMT
Here are two of my purchases from the Taunton Show - the Achillea photo was too blurry, so I'll take it again today. This is Echinacea 'Pink Poodle'.   And Linaria 'Peachy'  |
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Post by Cherry on Aug 3, 2014 5:51:35 GMT
Love the Echinacea. I have some trouble liking flesh coloured flowers.
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Post by Lou78W on Aug 3, 2014 6:22:13 GMT
Pink Poodle is very pretty, and the Linaria is a dainty one...
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Post by jasmin33 on Aug 3, 2014 9:08:26 GMT
Thank you, jasmin33. I looked back, and the blue flowered plant is Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign'. It flowers in the spring, so you'd only see leaves at the moment. I do hope you haven't pulled any up! Just got back to this and am sorry to say that I pulled every last one up! Having said that it does grow in my neighbours garden so it continues to come through anyway. It's such a shame that "we" tend to do that with whatever is thought of as weeds as some of them are really beautiful. Unfortunately I can't do any gardening now... it's come to the time where my back is far too bad and am now in the throes of advertising the sale of my green house. I have also given all my garden tools to a gardening charity project being run on an allotment. I still love watching things like Gardener's World on TV. Seeing all those beautiful plants and gardens is such a joy. |
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Post by Geranium on Aug 4, 2014 4:42:16 GMT
Ah well, Cherry - we all have different tastes, which is good. You won't like the Achillea 'Roughmoor Salmon' either, so look away now.  jasmin33 - I'm so sorry that you can't do the gardening yourself any more - but please stay with us anyway. I hope your Pulmonaria returns. What a shame you pulled them up!  |
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Post by Cherry on Aug 4, 2014 4:51:57 GMT
Lovely flower though Geranium. It is not as flat as most Achillea and more open. |
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Post by Geranium on Aug 4, 2014 4:57:09 GMT
Yes, Cherry, you're right - and strangely, it 'goes' well with the Echinacea! I still haven't planted them, partly because of the family visit and partly because I want to get a replacement Abelia grandiflora first and get the positions right. |
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It replaced a diseased Leylandii hedge and let's just say we don't miss the hedge. 
The rock is blue lias, as that's what our house was made from. 
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