Following on to the plantation of Chionodoxa last October, a number of varied Spring bulbs have been added to Papi Joe’s garden recently. Firstly we made 3 moss balls à la Kokedama and planted them with a selection of the following: Crocus chrysanthus ‘Blue Pearl’, Puschkinia scilloides var. libanotica and…
Just bought this assortment of bird food to hang from my Malus ‘Evereste’ tree. Found out that it has a BEST BEFORE date… for birds who can read. Anyway, judging by those sparrows’ appetite, those balls will be finished long before the limit date.
Open day at the nursery ‘Sous un arbre perché‘. Lovely weather, lovely place, lovely gardeners. Could not resist buying 3 different varieties of Fortune saxifrage for shady parts of the garden.
Extended the pergola’s horizontal treillis to better protect the Downy Japanese maple ‘Aconitifolium’ from the scorching summer sun. Last year we planted a fairly large number of tulips and narcissus. For a change this year I am experimenting with Chionodoxa forbesii – glory of the snow. I ordered 150 bulbs…
This Sunday, between showers of rain we went to visit a garden open to the public only on a few days in the year, not too far from home, the Jardin ‘La Maison’. We were somewhat disappointed with the scarcity of plants in flower, but this was probably due to…
Still no rain to speak of since July this year. However, these herbaceous perennials provide a colourful show in the garden…
This morning we went to visit the plants fair at Cesson-Sévigné, west of Rennes. The weather was nice and cool, and the fair was nicely sited in a park in the town center. We bought a few specimens of a very dark Heuchera ‘Purple Petticoats’, some ivy-leaved cyclamens and a…
There isn’t much to do in the garden at the moment, except for watering the borders, still waiting for the rains to come. The West border is going to be slightly enlarged (50 cm) in the Spring, so I have started to cover the lawn with cardboard, lawn clippings, compost,…
The end of August is not the best time of the year for visiting gardens, especially with the heat wave that we have known in France this month. Which may explain why the three of us were the only visitors at the end of that afternoon. However, the grassy paths…
No rain for more than a month! Fortunately the only plant that suffered from the heat is the Downy Japanese maple ‘Aconitifolium’.