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| Rape, dock, pansies and grass. I planted the pansies last autumn. They are flowering (and spreading)still. I planted the lavender too. The rest just 'arrived'. |
I couldn't have been reading gardening blogs for the last few years without realising few people have a garden like mine. Worse than that, I suspect having even a square inch in their gardens which resembles it in any way would generally be considered grounds for apology. Of the people who walk past, I doubt many realise it's a garden at all.
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| I like dock, I like sorrel, I like the little - can't remember what it is down on the left, even if it is a bit formal (came from my mother in law's garden) but I don't like these Canterbury Bells. I grew them from seed and I think they must have been bred specially. They are gross! The flowers are far too fat and large. There are pink ones too. Never mind. |
The difference, I think, between my garden and most is that random plants are welcome. Random plants often do better than planned ones. I weed prudently to bring out what's best. I was at the front, doing just that, when a friend arrived unexpectedly on a bicycle. (He was the unexpected bit. It's not unusual to see him on a bike.)
(I have no idea why the paragraphs have decided to highlight themselves. If I get rid of it in one place, it pops up elsewhere! And the justifying won't work.)
"Just doing a bit of weeding," I explain. (This being an unaccustomed activity.)
"Ho, ho, ho!" he says. "Like that dock!"
A question mark would be inappropriate there.
"I've just pruned that!" I said - and invited him in to tea.
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| Jerusalem Artichokes. Descendants of the ones we grew to eat when we had an allotment. I was hoping they'd flower but, since they have been rained and rained on and hardly ever sunned on, I think I'll have to content myself with admiring their height and leaves. The grass is nice too, don't you think? Ever so, ever so tall! |
I am proud of my garden. It's looking specially lush at present. Plants like dock and sorrel could well be described as 'architectural'. (Though I know 'architectural' is anathema for some.) (Oh, look! More uninvited highlighting! Give up! It's spreading!)
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| Barley-like Grass, Dandelions and Clover. The clover in the picture arrived of its own accord. Somewhere under there is a clover I bought. It has red marks on - very pretty but not currently visible! |
And as for the rest . . . I expect you not to say these are weeds because I didn't pay for them. I expect you to be jealous.
Bet your garden isn't like mine!
6 comments:
Esther I bet mine resembles yours in many places out back...far more wild weeds covering plants and aggressively taking over in my garden...no time to get to them all...but I do love the more natural look as do the critters who visit me.
Wonderfully weedy! I love it too, especially those dandelions.
"And the justifying won't work."
I too have these problems Esther. I have solved the 'justify' one by highlighting the WHOLE blog.
I then 'left justify', and if I want it centred, I follow that with centre justify!
You are the master. Blogger is your slave!
Cheers....Bernard.
ps Why don't you replace the Dock with Horseradish?
Very similar leaf - and makes excellent sauce. :)
I dont have a problem with 'weeds' after all as many people say they are just plants in the wrong place. I have lots of plants in my garden that I have no idea where they came from and its kinda nice. I like the feeling that they find my garden welcoming.
when I had a garden it was like that - passed some yellow flowers today - posted photo on Geograph and asked on the forum what they were - within an hour I had the answer - not ragwort but a flowering aster native to New Zealand. Give me weeds anyday.
You betctha our gardens don't look like this and I pine for it with what we're dealing with right now. But couldn't do the dock with what damage I saw as a kid m when unbridled in my Pop's farm in the Outback but I'm Isure it's beautiful in your garden.
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