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The Gables

Positioned across from the ducks in the village centre, The Gables is an old terraced estate cottage whose garden is accessed through a door shared with its neighbour.  This leads to a long slim garden presented in four ‘room’s.  The first is a boardwalk with pergola festooned with David Austin Constance Spry roses, then a lawn with classic cottage garden flowers including phlox, delphiniums and calla lilies, then a vegetable plot and finally a duck pen.copy rolex day date mens rolex calibre 2836 2813 118205
 
A rose arch frames the vibrant delphiniums at The Gables
Beautiful Constance Spry roses scramble over an arch at The Gables
Delphinium Magic Fountain Lilac Pink compliments the yellow blush roses

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Eborum

My garden is now 3 yrs old having been a completely empty, blank canvas. I didn’t have a tree, shrub, hedge or plant anywhere in the garden.
I had the old cobbles that can be seen in my courtyard photo lifted, repositioned and relaid when the garden was redesigned. These cobbles used to be in and around the stables attached to the house and I liked the idea of being able to incorporate them into the design.
As this part of the garden is near the kitchen I also combine a small amount of vegetable planting in amongst the flowers.
 
The photo with the arch is a way of adding interest to this area of the front garden whilst at the same time defining the entrance. The roses will (hopefully)eventually frame the arch.
 
The last photo shows the rolex high replica sea dweller deepsea remainder of the front garden with another metal structure framing the seating area -again to be covered in climbing roses in time.
The curved paths provide flow -the planting is supposed to be low maintenance (not convinced!) but is vape coil definitely bee friendly. All summer long I am surrounded by their humming.

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Hillcrest

Our garden is still a baby, really. It was all grass when we moved here 6 years ago, so the herbaceous border still has some growing to do.
The garden’s been done on a very low budget – most of the plants are grown from seed, received as presents, found cheap on eBay or rescued from the orphans section of garden centres. I splashed out for this beautiful Salvia x sylvestris ‘Viola Klose’, though. Its blue is so intense it sometimes hurts your eyes.
Exotic-looking Martagon lilies, which rolex submariner replica can actually be found growing natively throughout Europe, as well as Northern Asia.
Perennial wallflowers, great for insects…and colour-addict gardeners.
This Pink is not pink: Dianthus ‘Sooty’, the darkest of the pinks.
I just love the vibrant colour gradients in the red hot pokers of Kniphofia uvaria.
Even the spent flowers are interesting…
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This is a cheat because I took this pic last year, in early July, but I wanted to share the beauty of the South African thistle, Burkheya purpurea, which grows really well from seed in our Shere garden.
The green primrose, Primula ‘Francisca’ – a Marmite plant – with Ajuga in the background.
I’ve never planted any poppies at Hillcrest but six different species pop up every year from the soil’s seed bank. This one is a mainly unspotted strain of the common poppy, Papaver rhoeas.
Succulent garden – good for gardeners with no garden.
It’s great to have a shady corner in your garden where you can plant things with totally different likes and dislikes to the familiar faces of the sunny herbaceous bed. I’d love to have a Gunnera here, but then we would have no garden left, so I’ve settled for large leaf hostas.
One of the early flowering spider daylilies, Hemerocallis ‘Desert Icicle’. Its architectural petals remind me of the shapes you get when zesting a lemon.
One of our native campanulas, C.persicifolia. A lot of us end up taking them out as weeds around here, but sometimes I leave a few.

And, finally, our Head Gardener, who gets paid crumbs. But don’t we all do it for the love of the thing?
Finally finally, another cheat: St James’ church in April. Just appreciating nature’s very successful attempt at an artistic splash of plant design

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Summerfold

The garden was a builders yard until Spring 2015 after we moved into a brand new house.   It is, I hope, cheering to see how a garden can mature in 5 years.   All the garden urns, obelisks etc came from our much larger old garden, but look even better in a small one – a lesson there!
We inherited the white dahlia in the urn when we moved into Abinger Mill about 40 years ago, brought some  tubers here when we moved and it is still flourishing and wonderful.  BUT, can anybody identify it please?  Many have tried and failed!

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