If I look a bit more closely, however, it is at least no longer completely flower-less. Tucked in among the weeds there is a small clump of Galanthus in one place ...
... and some lilac Crocus in another ...
... while underneath the overpowering shrubs a hellebore is hiding.
There are also a few tiny white flowers I don't recognise - they may be weeds but at least they are brightening things up a bit.
And there's a solitary purple Crocus in the middle of that sea of gravel!
But overall it is still pretty grim. I can't think why the previous owners didn't put in more winter colour. It will take me a while to get the front garden sorted - this year I think I will just be digging up any plants I like and want to keep, and hoping that we will be able to afford to get the wall removed and path replaced next year - but adding winter colour is high on my list of the things I want to change about it.
Meanwhile, in the back garden, I have dug the clump of Galanthus out from the corner bed and put them into pots. I already had several pots of them, and have dug some out from elsewhere in the new garden too, so I now have a sea of pots of Galanthus on one side of the patio, waiting until I've redesigned the garden and know where I want to put them.
The next job is to dig out and pot up the Crocus which have come up in the corner bed since I last posted about that!
I will wait until they have finished flowering though, as some of them are growing through the side of one of the baskets of Narcissus and it would damage them to move them now.
Though I think they will be over soon as they were rained on immediately after I took the above photos (the day before I took the one below) so are now looking rather sad. I also need to weed the corner bed again, and hopefully we will be able to make a decision soon about whether to put the trench at the back of it or remove it altogether.
And I really must do something about that fence soon too, even if it's only to remove the broken bits of it for now!
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4 comments:
Ooo a new garden how exciting. I suspect the previous owners only noticed the front garden in the summer. Still you have lots of scope and just think of all that plant buying you can do! Thanks for joining in with the meme
Dear Juliet, I found your blog over Helen's End of Month View meme, which I am also taking part in, and I am so glad that I did. I flipped a bit through your blog and found out that you are starting a new garden in the Cotswolds. I love England and have heard that this is a particularly beautiful county in your lovely country.
I think you are brave having chosen your front yard for the End of Month View meme, as it seems to me that this is not an easy area to garden in and achieve great results quickly. But it is very rewarding to take on a challenge, isn't it?
How nice that you have snowdrops and crocuses coming up between the already existing plantings. I am curious to follow the re-design of your front yard and looking already forward to your next EoMV post.
Warm regards from Southern California,
Christina
My garden looks pretty much the same as last month too, a feature of newer gardens I think. I love all those crocuses, what beautiful photos.
That white flower is pretty. Not sure what it is, possibly a type of scilla.
I know you aren't happy with the front garden now, but it has lots of potential, and such fun to think of possibilities.
Thank you all for your comments, and I'm really sorry it's taken me so long to reply - we had a rather fraught February trying to buy a new car (very difficult with multiple allergies) and I'm still catching up!
PG - yes, I'm looking forward to getting it all ripped out so we can do the fun bit of replanting!
Christina - welcome, and thank you for commenting - and for following. Yes, the Cotswolds is a lovely area, and though we are just on the edge of it there are a lot of beautiful gardens to visit within a short drive.
I'm not sure about brave, I think perhaps I'm rather foolhardy to be posting about the least attractive and hardest to change bit of my new garden! - but as you say it is a challenge and the idea is to help me see what's there that I want to keep and perhaps give me some ideas for how best to change it.
Julieanne - thank you, they are lovely Crocuses, and it's so nice to discover some things I actually like growing in this garden!
I don't think the white flower's a Scilla - it's much smaller than the photo makes it look, and it doesn't have the right sort of leaves (the ones in the photo are of a Vinca so they're a red herring) - but thanks for the thought.
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