Show us your flower borders - the good bits!

[Scarlet]

Well I always think the garden is running away with me, but I took a few photos today. Conveniently avoiding the unkempt bits And I think things are shaping up...never mind the bean bed that I can't dig, or the courgettes that may not make it...or the 50 dahlia plants that may never get planted out. There's always some good spots.



(Don't look at my dying hedge on the left!!)

[veggiechicken]

Looks lovely, Scarlet.

Don't worry about a mere 50 dahlias - I still have 800 gladioli to plant out - but I'm not going to. I've decided - I don't like gladioli - stiff, rigid, unnatural things that people plant in rows. Not my style at all.

I don't really have borders - just beds - but some of the accidental flower combinations really cheer me up. I've started taking photos of one best bit in each bed, each month, to remind me what's in there in the dark days of winter.

[Scarlet]

I have some of those gladioli to plant too!!

[roitelet]

Here’s the one that is looking good at the moment.

[Scarlet]

Looks lovely Roitelet. What is the pink and white stuff that looks like dwarf chives?

[roitelet]

Looks lovely Roitelet. What is the pink and white stuff that looks like dwarf chives?

It’s a cultivated Thrift, really good ground cover.

[1Bee]

I really need to do more to get early flowers on the plot... mine are mostly zinnias and dahlias and sunflowers, so not showing till much later.

[nickdub]

I really need to do more to get early flowers on the plot... mine are mostly zinnias and dahlias and sunflowers, so not showing till much later.

I'd say have a look at shrubs, trees and climbers - there's a wide range, very little maintenance work and many of them flower in the Spring or early Summer.

[Scarlet]

I really need to do more to get early flowers on the plot... mine are mostly zinnias and dahlias and sunflowers, so not showing till much later.

Yes, I'm the same, I plant aliums and tulips but I've not much else....that's why I want to start growing peonies

[mcdood]

Some heucheras and heucherella

[Scarlet]

Lovely Mcdood! I have a friend who is mad on heucheras! The colours are pretty amazing.!

[Guest]

Here is my proud little snippet. It is having a large mass of colour just as I step out the back that does it for me. Shame the bearded irises have gone over.

[Scarlet]

LOVE the boots in the back ground!!

[Guest]

To think my girls were once dinky enough to wear them. There is another pair lurking round there somewhere

[farendwoman]

A patch of self sown foxgloves.
With my Mum’s old clothes horse keeping them in order.