Saturday 16 May 2020

Border control

First thing in the morning I stick my head out of the window to see what the day promises. Is it going to be a shorts and boots day, happily grubbing about in the garden, a keep warm day, baking in the kitchen, or even, extreme measures, one where I get out the vac? The kitchen porch roof is laden with honeysuckle, the sun is shining. Hurrah, it's a boots day!
I had good intentions for the border at the far side of the lawn. In theory it is planted in a colour scheme moving from dark to light.
The left-hand side, dark reds and blues are behaving quite well.
Last autumn I planted a bag of mixed alliums, taking the precaution of laying a square of wire mesh just beneath the soil and above the planting so that the squirrels wouldn't dig  up the bulbs and eat them. (I also did this with the tulips and for the first time ever had a decent display.)
The alliums are putting on a good show.




I was looking with pleasure at them when my eye caught this loud explosion of colour, slap bang in the middle of the border WHERE IT SHOULD NOT BE. Once you have finished flowering, matey, you are outa there!

From my large mixed pack of alliums only one white flower has emerged. It looks very elegant - I am going to buy more!

17 comments:

  1. It is beautiful, regardless of whether all plants stick to your colour scheme or not :-)
    I love alliums! But then I actually love all flowers and plants, and trees and animals...
    Finally warmer again here, too, after a cold week with even some frosty nights/mornings.

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    1. The weather is erratic here, one day sunny and warm, the next with a sharp wind and low temperatures that has frosted the emerging potato leaves and set back my courgettes and squash. But the garden has burst into full colour now and is giving me much pleasure and there is the promise of warmer days later in the week.

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  2. To test whether the squirrels have eaten the alliums all you have to do is smell their breath.

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    1. I'm delighted with this year's display and shall buy more bulbs for next season. Yes, I'm going to add them to my favourites list!

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  4. Our plants are blooming but are hunkering down for a too hot summer.
    Love the Alliums. Do the Tulips and Alliums grow through the mesh ?
    parsnip

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    1. The flowers grew through the wire mesh without any problems. I wish I'd known to do this before, the squirrels have been eating my bulbs for years! They also like to plant nuts into the pots and the wire has stopped that activity as well. (I've given away a number of nice little walnut tree saplings this spring that had been carefully potted up in containers without a mesh covering.)
      Too hot sounds uncomfortable, Parsnip, not something I know about. I send you cool breezes from Blighty.

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