Sunday 9 June 2013

Garden ramble 9 June 2013

Aquilegias that planted themselves

New Zealand Willowherb on the holding wall. The flowers are tiny.

Lantern tree (Crinodendron hookerianum). Someone down at sea level has a hedge of these.
I picked up some of his clippings from the pavement one day two years ago and stuck them in the ground.
Then I forgot about them until today when I found this up at the top of the garden.
It looks as if something, probably a deer, has nibbled the bark.

Part of the horizontal apple tree and the pignut meadow.
Orange hawkweed and heath bedstraw also beginning to flower.

The successful part of the flowerbed.
See if you can spot the quaking grass heads between the tallest campions and the African daisies.

Part of the buttercup meadow, with plantain, on the south slope.
The red thing is an arrow fletching and the arrow marks the 60m mark from the target up the garden.

A different aquilegia. Also self-sown.

"Jemimas" (as my brother used to call them) behind the shed.

Sage

A baby Turkey oak (self-seeded) among the Solomon's Seal up near the lantern tree.
The top bit has been deer-nibbled.

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