gardening – GWENNIESGARDENWORLD

The weather is completely bonkers, we went from freezing temperatures with snow, hail, sleet, storms and pouring raining to Spring overnight !!! Yesterday it was such a lovely Spring day with temperatures up to 18 C°, it was the “hottest” 24th of November ever ! It was good enough to sit outside on the patio for lunch or for afternoon tea, alas I do not have a patio yet, the bedding was laid a week ago but ever since it was too wet to lay the tiles. But I did a bit of work in the garden. Cos of the frost and the wind all the leafs came down.

As you can see my fig tree is still full of figs, unripe and not edible.

Here’s another part of the same fig tree.

When the patio is finished we’ll ask the gardener to do a lot of pruning everywhere in the garden, and a few tree’s must go as I want working in the garden to be easier for me, it is just getting too much, as you all know I am not a Spring chicken anymore. Ha !!

I’ll sent pictures of the finished patio and the pruned garden as soon as I can take pictures, when that will be will totally depend on the weather. We used to have 4 seasons, now we still have 4 seasons but they come unpredicted, a Summers day or two, Autumn for a day, then Winter for a few days and then all of a sudden Spring !!!

Have a great week all !!

A while ago I went to the arboretum hoping I could make a few nice photo’s. My garden is still a bit of a mess, a huge “bit” really. We are still waiting for the new patio we ordered in January but cos of the rainy days it wasn’t possible, my husband removed part of the old tiles, hoping we’ll soon get the workers in. So now the garden looks even messier !!

Here are a few of the pictures I took in the Arboretum.

The hydrangea panniculata did really well this year, that’s probably because they love wet soil.

I loved this pine with the silver needles on the outside.

This is a close-up of the pine above.

They had a beautiful banana tree, I always wanted one but it doesn’t really goes with the rest of my garden.

This is one of the two rosebushes who had a few nice flowers on display, and they do have many rosebushes.

This is the 2nd rosebush, also with pink flowers.

This white annual is called cleome hassleriana, over here people call it cat’s whiskers.

And this evergreen bush is absolutely lovely in the garden, with it’s bright yellow patches it always looks like the sun is shining. It also gives bright red shiny berries. It is called Aucuba Japonica. I have 2 of them in my garden.

We already had very cold nights for the time of the year, close to freezing, soft sunny days and warmer days with rain. We have had 12 month’s in a row with more rain than normal for us with only a few warm days here and there, one or 2, never a week . I found it quite frustrating as it was difficult to work in the garden. I hope you all had a lovely Summer.

Take care !!