County Gardening

There comes a time most summers (i.e. those years with enough rain) when things in the garden are so lush and large that walking along several of the pathways just isn’t fun anymore. And with my local garden club adding my garden as a stop on their annual member’s tour last Saturday it was high time I took my secateurs and weed wacker out and ruthlessly reclaimed a few lovely...

Keeled garlic, witch’s garlic, Allium carinatum, is the last of the alliums to bloom in my garden. Native to much of Europe, it’s quite unobtrusive when the flower atop it’s nearly two foot (60 cm) stem is seen in isolation. But when allowed to self seed, it can form a quite fabulous drift of mauve and sometimes white in the summer garden. With the lone nodding onion...

It’s early on a Monday morning, it’s crisp outside but the day will be sunny and warm, and I’m joining Cathy, from Rambling in the Garden with photos I took over the weekend of a vase of cut flowers from my garden. I was actually inspired by another North American gardener,