The two garden borders, at the back of my home, are looking lovely right now and hopefully will continue to be so during summer and autumn. Right now, on the shadier side, the aquilegias (
purples and
whites),
Dicentra formosa, and even the
chive flowers are putting on a pretty display. On the sunnier side, lilacs and clematis are in fierce competition for colour although lilacs are the favourites because they also are giving off a wonderfully heady fragrance. Quietly, together with them in that sunny border are the various glorious
ferns and the Japanese maples (acers). Given a couple of months, the
James Grieve apple, which no longer has flowers, should be, hopefully, creating a crop of crisp, green, apples. Can't wait!
My garden isn't very big (about 25 x 25ft) but a lot is happening. To the right of the above plants:
Clematis 'Dr Ruppel' is embracing a raspberry cane which you cannot see just off the right of the photograph, but doesn't seem to be causing any problems; the cane still has raspberry flowers on it. I actually lost one of those types of summer fruiting raspberry canes and they didn't do very well. The remaining one is either the
raspberry Glen Ample or Glen Doll; nice flavour but nothing beats the profusion of berries created by the ever reliable, double-cropping
Polka, the wonder raspberry.
