There's colour everywhere!: August 2010

Phlox

Ref: 071 Phlox
Month: July
Location: Potted
Notes: This plant has grown from a small off shoot taken from the original plant at the previous house.

Daylily

Ref: 070 Daylily
Month: July
Location: Front and back gardens
Notes: These are growing throughout the front and back gardens, there are off shoots everywhere so they will need to be divided.

Ox-eye Daisy

Ref: 069 Ox-eye Daisy
Month: July
Location: Back garden
Notes: These are growing throughout the back garden and can grow up to a metre tall.

Berry Bush

Ref: 068
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: I have no idea what this is, but it has lovely green leaves an vibrant red berries. Some investigation is needed i think!

Ref: 067 Rose
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: Finding this rose was a surprise, i appeared one day inbetween some St. John's Wort. It didn't flower for very long, and there was only the single bloom, but hopefully with some TLC it will produce more blooms next year.

Honeysuckle

Ref: 066 Honeysuckle
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This was cut back significantly earlier in the year as it was top heavy, and tangled up with a number of other plants. It has grown back and is producing lots of flowers.

Raspberries

Ref: 065 Raspberries
Month: June
Location: Backgarden
Notes: The raspberry bush is tangled up with a number of there plants including a, honeysuckle, forsythia, hedgehog rose, so it was quite difficult to get to. The bush only produced a few raspberries, but the few that i managed to salvage were lovely. I will have to plan my next move when rescuing this plant very carefully.

Berberis

Ref: 064 Berberis
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This may or may not be a berberis, but for now that is what i am referring to it as. It isn't as thorny as the other berberis in the garden but the leaves are still quite sharp.

Hawthorn

Ref: 063 Hawthorn
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This has been cut back earlier this year, but will need to be cut back again to make it fill out.

Escallonia

Ref: 062 Escallonia
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This hardy little plant still managed to grow even though it was buried under wooden pallets.

Lysimachia Punctata

Ref: 061 Lysimachia Punctata
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: There are clusters of this plant throughout the back garden.

Bottlebrush

Ref: 060 Bottlebrush
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: These flowers really liven a very green hedge. The plants grow throughout the hedge in the back garden.

Rose

Ref: 059 Rose
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This rose is managing to hold it's own surrounded by brambles, long grass and weeds.

Rose

Ref: 058 Rose
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This rose was cut back last year as it was very tall and spindley. It has grown tall aging, but not as tall as last year.

Hebe

Ref: 057 Hebe
Month: June
Location: Potted
Notes: Another sister gave this plant to me. It was in a pot looking sorry for it self and as she had no where to put it she gave it to me. I have since repotted it and am currently trying to make it fill out.

Oak

Ref: 056 Oak
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: There are two oaks (i haven't called them trees as they are far to little at the moment to be called trees) growing in the garden and as much as i love oak trees they will have to be relocated or removed completely.

Ash Tree

Ref: 055 Ash
Month: June
Location: Front and back gardens
Notes: These are growing throughout the front and back gardens, the young leaves are black and as they uncurl they begin to turn green.

St. John's Wort

Ref: 054 St. John's Wort
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This is growing throughout the back garden. The flowers are replaced with red then black berries.

Snapdragon

Ref: 053 Snapdragon
Month: June
Location: Potted
Notes: This was originally in the front garden, so i have now potted as it was over shadowed by other plants. There are two more snapdragons, another magenta and a pale pink, both are now in pots.

Rose

Ref: 052 Rose
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This rose (or maybe rosa) bush grows just outside the patio doors and when in flower it is fully of pale yellow roses which have the most amazing fragrance. In the winter the smaller birds love it and fly in and out of it continuously.

Rose

Ref: 051 Rose
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This rose is quite high up in the hedge, so it is difficult to say whether it is rooted in my garden or the neighbours. Either way it is really pretty and adds some colour to a predominantly greed hedge.

Persicaria

Ref: 050 Persicaria
Month: June
Location: Potted
Notes: This is a tiny plant that i found in the back garden hidden by bigger plants. It is a self rooting plant, which i put into a pot. I think it is a persicaria, but this could be wrong. The flower eventually turned pink.

Delphinium

Ref: 49 Delphinium
Month: June
Location: Potted
Notes: My sister gave me a few different varieties of delphiniums all different colours. They have flowered at slightly different times, but this was the first one.

Blackberry Bush

Ref: 048 Blackberry
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: There are blackberry bushes throughout the garden, they began to flower in June, some had white flowers, others pink. The first ripe berry appeared in July.

Mock Orange

Ref: 047 Mock Orange
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: I had seen this bush in a reference book and decided i would get one when we make a start on the garden, but then it turned out i already had one, bonus! The flowers are very fragrant and attract the butterflies.

Geranium

Ref: 046 Geranium
Month: June
Location: Potted
Notes: This was in the front garden but mainly hidden by the hedge. I have now dug this out and potted it so that it can be repositioned when the garden is tidier.

Rose

Ref: 045 Rose
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This rose was cut back last year and has grown back healthier this year.

Rose

Ref: 044 Rose
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: I had originally decided to remove all yellow and orange plants from the garden, then this appeared and i changed my mind!

Cotoneaster

Ref: 043 Cotoneaster
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This has tiny pink bud like flowers, and was hidden under some long grass and brambles.

Tree

Ref: 076
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This tree has pretty clusters of flowers on it and although i don't know what it is yet, i know that they also have them at Coombe Abbey in Coventry.

Clematis

Ref: 042 Clematis
Month: June
Location: Back garden
Notes: This is growing in the ally way that runs down the side ofthe house, so last year i cut it right back, and this year it has grown back even bigger. Really i need to move it, but it is growing up through a tiny gap in some slabs, and it is so pretty i am worried i will kill it!

Viburnum

Ref: 041 Viburnum
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: This flowering plant will have bright red berries later in the year, and the leaves will turn red too, an amazing contrast to all the green around it.

Rosa

Ref: 040 Rosa
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: These roses are growing throughout the back garden, unfortunately in places it has become really over grown.

Azalea

Ref: 039 Azalea
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: This one was looking really sorry for itself and i surprised when it flowered. But is raises the same question, is it an azalea or a rhododendron??

Strawberry

Ref: 038 Strawberry
Month: May
Location: Front and back gardens
Notes: The strawberries are growing throughout the front and back gardens. The (alpine) strawberries started to appear in June.

Verbascum

Ref: 037 Verbascum
Month: May
Location: Potted
Notes: My sister gave three of these to me, they are still in pots as i haven't decided where abouts in the garden they will be planted.

Aquilegia

Ref: 036 Aquilegia
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: These are throughout the back garden in various different colours. I have now collected the seeds (July) ready to sow next year.

Hedgehog Rose

Ref: 035 Hedgehog Rose
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: The stems of this rose are incredibly thorny, i was going to remove it, but the roses attracted the bees, and the smell from them was fantastic.

Spiraea

Ref: 034 Spiraea
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: This plant has vibrant gold and red leaves, with tiny pink flowers.

Leyland Cypress

Ref: 033 Leyland Cypress
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: This makes up part of the mature hedge at the bottom of the garden.

Carex

Ref: 032 Carex
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: Also known as Sedge, this plant is one of the many i will be removing. It is very over grown and spreads over the path.

Knapweed

Ref: 031 Knapweed
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: These have grown throughout the back garden.

Holly

Ref: 030 Holly
Month: May
Location: Back garden
Notes: This holly produces yellow berries rather than red.

Laurel

Ref: 029 Laurel
Month: May
Location: Front and back gardens
Notes: There is laurel throughout the back garden and acts as a hedge in the front garden. The laurel in the front garden will eventually be removed, but there is so much of it, it will have to be removed in stages.