As you might know already, we have two gardens. We grow vegetables in one of them, and the second one, which is around our house, is used for flowers, various bushes and herbs, so that I have them close to my kitchen when I need them. Originally, we said that we won't plant vegetables there as we don't want more work and want to use this garden for relaxation. Well, little did I know how much work there is with flowers. I must also admit that I love growing them, but I wish that didn't cost me so much time. I only grow perennial flowers, so I still have hope that one the garden will thrive without a lot of effort from my side. It simply needs time.
Let me show you around!
We have two large hazelnut trees (I know they are not really trees, but they did grow that much) that we inherited from previous owners. We were still renovating last year, so I didn't pay much attention and didn't collect hazelnuts from the ground. This was a big mistake as I was finding little hazelnut bushes all over the place all spring this year. I promised myself not to forget about it and collected all of them today. I will do it once more as I'm sure I missed some, and I might also ask my husband to double check. We will prune them a lot next year as they are really getting out of hand.
Asters are one of my favourite late season flowers. They bring so much colour in the garden and they keep coming back until end of October. I have two varieties. You can't see the difference well from the pictures, but the second one is darker and more dense. I love them both!
It's been so warm this year that my Linarias managed to give me flowers 3 times. It's been crazy seeing it. They looked so poor during the hottest days, and now in October they thrive again. The bushes keep growing and growing and I believe that they will reseed a lot as I let a few of them dry completely on the plant. I have varieties that are about 30 cm tall, so if they reseed it might even look like ground cover. Oh, that would be nice.
This colour is something else. It is so full and vibrant, and it reminds me of the most beautiful roses.
The white one doesn't have many flowers at the moment, but there are plenty of new shoots, so I think that another round of flowers is incoming if the weather will stay like it is now. You can imagine how big it is as you can see my slipper on the right 馃槉 It wasn't intentional of course!
Centaury is probably the easiest flower to grow. It keeps flowering as long as I keep cutting off the stalks that finished flowering. I have no idea for how long they will keep blooming, but I will enjoy it as long as I can.
These little purple bells are indestructible. I haven't watered them once this year and they dried off completely. There was a little bit of rain lately, and they are back, and they are even more beautiful than they were in spring.
I must say that I lost hope that they would come back as they are in a very strange place, but they keep surprising me. Yay!
This plant looks pretty, but I just can't get rid of it. It spreads quickly with rhizomes as well as seeds, so it's difficult to remove completely and I keep finding new shoots at the most random places.
This is a volunteer that appeared this year for the first time. I have searched some information and found out that it's a perennial, so it's going to stay. This is why I never remove a new plant before I know what it is as not everything is some sort of weed and could be a beautiful flower fitting our garden perfectly.
This year has been strange and plants are confused, so my Veronicas are pushing new shoots even though they should be preparing for winter.
This is how they should look right now...
I've been waiting for the second daisy flowers for months and they are finally here! They are not true perennials, so I should overwinter them inside, but I'm thinking of covering them for winter and see what will happen as they grew enormously and I don't have that much space for them inside.
I have 5 bushes that are big like this...
Achilleas don't stop coming back...
New shoots are orange and as they grow older they lose some colour, become yellow and then they lose their colour completely and become brown.
The second stage...
And the third stage...
Hydrangeas are beautiful at every single stage of their cycle.
These blooms started green, then they changed to white and now they are pinkish.
Some of them dried off and are perfect for some autumnal decorations. This reminds me that I haven't made any seasonal decoration yet, so it's about the time.
This is another hydrangea variety which changes colour to deep red before they dry off completely.
Or they might be pinkish too...
Some hydrangeas are confused too and are pushing new shoots. It's such a strange year and if it goes like this we will have to change our way of gardening going forward.
I was so happy when I saw that my sage appeared in a new spot too. It's in the perfect location now and it's growing so well. I can't wait for it to become big and strong!
This creeper is the most annoying plant that keeps coming to our property from our neighbours. It spreads like crazy and I hate removing them as it's a never-ending job, but today it made me smile. The leaves became red and I love the colour! However, it doesn't mean that I want to have it in my garden, so I will still keep removing it 馃槉
I'm grateful for every single gardening post that I can still submit as eventually there will be a long winter break, so I enjoy it for as long as I can.
Thank you for reading and until next time!