enjoying the garden at last for Dec2012 horrid out there but have a plan forming in my head now for projects to do next year oh bliss to see the gallery and look forward to next year's display
Busy Lizzie just looked again at your shady planting and I think hellebores would add a nice touch to it. Just noticed that we have flowers pushing up on ours in back garden even after wettest year for a century!
Hello budlia 63 - the bed in the photos isn't that shady except at midday when plants need protection from the sun in Dordogne. The tree (pseudoacacia) has had it's bottom branches cut off and the garden is terraced as it's on a slope. But in the 2nd photo there is a tree behind which has a round bed around it and that is much shadier. The clump of green at the base of the tree are hellebore leaves. One has white flowers on it at the moment. The other 2 are a bit later one dark pink, one speckled. It's a bit confusing because there is lawn rising gently uphill between the two beds which hardly shows.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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dahlias are gorgeous I just have bishop of landalf but these are inspirational will look for more next year
What brilliant colours - it reminds me that there is such a thing as summer!
ditto artjak
enjoying the garden at last for Dec2012 horrid out there but have a plan forming in my head now for projects to do next year oh bliss to see the gallery and look forward to next year's display
Busy Lizzie just looked again at your shady planting and I think hellebores would add a nice touch to it. Just noticed that we have flowers pushing up on ours in back garden even after wettest year for a century!
Hello budlia 63 - the bed in the photos isn't that shady except at midday when plants need protection from the sun in Dordogne. The tree (pseudoacacia) has had it's bottom branches cut off and the garden is terraced as it's on a slope. But in the 2nd photo there is a tree behind which has a round bed around it and that is much shadier. The clump of green at the base of the tree are hellebore leaves. One has white flowers on it at the moment. The other 2 are a bit later one dark pink, one speckled. It's a bit confusing because there is lawn rising gently uphill between the two beds which hardly shows.
2D can't show the real thing still looks amazing and you seem to know what you like great pics
Thank you.