tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78357776452351163302024-03-05T15:03:37.125+01:00Giardino in UmbriaHow (not) to garden in Central ItalyYvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-44453327817802433232014-03-15T15:01:00.003+01:002014-03-15T15:01:57.265+01:00GBBD March 2014 - mellow yellow<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spring has arrived with a rush - and a couple of weeks early. The countryside is a mass of Yellow wild flowers and the garden too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Little species daffodils are a delight both in colour and fragrance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In the shade are little Periwinkle and Anenome Blanda in cool blue</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but the taller Anenome Coronaria are bright and bold in the sunshine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The Lonicera fragrantissima is still flowering and full of scent</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy springtime to all Garden Bloggers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-12062030724788555372014-02-16T18:28:00.003+01:002014-02-16T18:28:36.001+01:00GBBD February 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Continual rain and wind but warm ... this has brought out the little species Crocus and a great many other flowers besides.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Hellebores ares a welcome sight and the Lonicera fragrantissima is as fragrant as its name suggests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Coronilla glauca is extremely early but the old stalwart Vibernum tinus we have come to expect its faithful blooming right through winter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best wishes to all gardeners participating in Garden Bloggers Bloom Day this month, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mild wet, foggy weather has kept the garden green and lush. Bright sparks of colour are most welcome on gloomy days: winter flowering Jasmine and Iris Unguicularis are a joy but difficult to photograh in the dull low light. Bright red berries on the wild Dog Rose too. But then the sun breaks through and lights up the olive grove and there is a sense that spring might not be far away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best wishes to all Garden Bloggers on this mid winter day.</span></div>
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-9354178172187384892013-12-15T10:06:00.001+01:002014-01-16T11:17:12.659+01:00GBBD December 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> December has been chilly with thick frost and fog in the mornings. But somehow the China roses have taken this as their signal to bloom as never before. <em>Mutabilis</em> is famous for year-long flowering but <em>Sanguinea</em> and <em>Hermosa</em> have also been exceptionally generous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Event he <em>Teucrium Fruticans</em> has gone on blooming right into winter this year, the deep blue of 'Azureum' being especially welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And the oak trees are gradually turning to golden and dropping their leaves into the pond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Garden Bloggers Bloom Day to all gardeners especially to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting the meme.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-30315026478944955492013-12-06T11:55:00.002+01:002014-01-16T11:17:27.864+01:00Winter sun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">December and a few days of chilly but bright sunny weather gets me out into the garden busy planting those shrubs and bulbs that really ought to have gone in ages ago. And a new ornament for the garden - a rather large but sophisticated terracotta pot, seen here with the China roses in full bloom and berries of Pyracantha. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-41815009912711997222013-09-15T18:12:00.000+02:002014-01-16T11:17:42.231+01:00GBBD September 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There is an autumn feel to the air and the Sedums are out in splendour. I have decided that these tough plants deserve more representation and so bought a dozen new varieties at the Murabilia flower show in Lucca last weekend. I have selected ones which are not too tall and have interesting dark colours and/or variagation - so let's see how they get on.<br />
Otherwise the theme here is blue at the moment: Nepeta having a second blooming; Perowskia still with us despite having bloomed all summer; Caryopteris and Ceratostigma.<br />
Happy Bloom Day! and thank you to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting.<br />
Y<br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-90992683147782812042013-07-15T12:31:00.002+02:002013-07-15T12:37:22.509+02:00GBBD July 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last month has flown by - here unusually wet and cool with many thunderstorms. Whilst some plants have enjoyed the extra water the weeds have gone into overdrive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But at least those blooms that would normally have been burned off by now are still in evidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Agapanthus is particularly good this year. I find it best in pots where the constrained roots are more likely to send out flowers. The gravel garden is also continuing to produce new blooms with bright red Epilobium particularly striking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lush growth of Stipa, Perowskia and Buddleja glows in the evening light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Bloom Day to all,</span><br />
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Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-80759940241143165662013-06-21T14:28:00.002+02:002013-06-27T08:58:52.208+02:00GBBD June 2013 (late again ....)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <em>China roses</em> continue to bloom - some now, others earlier, some already on a second flush. <em>Cecil Brunner</em> really comes into its own now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dry garden is a blaze of hot colour, partly thanks to wild poppies I have allowed to set seed but largely a mixture of <em>Achillea: Paprika, Terracotta</em> and a yellow one on short stems with nice silver foliage (? <em>Flowers of Suphur</em>?). Also a red form of <em>Gaura</em>. The addition of <em>Nepeta, Verbena venosa </em>and <em>Salvia barrelieri</em> calms the fervid intensity. I am trying <em>Salvia 'Alan Chickering'</em> for the first time and very much admire the spires of spikey flowers but worry that it will been seen off in the winter cold. But I have finally managed to get an Eryngium to grow and flower - must do more next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Belated greetings for Bloom Day.</span><br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-22297272146173222682013-06-06T16:16:00.000+02:002013-06-06T16:17:47.881+02:00Cistus - why do we see so few in Italian gardens?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cistus is a wild flower that grows on the scrubby rocks or 'garigue' along the roadside here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the garden cistus is invaluable: it will tolertate extremely poor conditions and drought. Most cistus also seem to be resistent to the cold. I could not have managed without this plant to cover unsightly piles of rubble and to underplant shrubs not to mention the colourful planting on the teraces. But many Italians do not even know that it exists as a garden plant.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Colours and patterns of flowers are very varied and some grow tall whereas others as low growing. There is even a later flowering Yellow 'tardiflorens'. What's not to like?</span><br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-69130352564118073462013-05-22T15:04:00.003+02:002013-05-22T15:04:34.055+02:00GBFD - leaves on a wet day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went with the Giardino Romano yesterday to visit the garden of the late and well respected gardener Joan Tesei. The weather was pretty grim and either raining or about to rain. Whilst the flowers & roses were pleasant and just about holding up under the wieght of water, the foliage really carried the day. Here is a Vitex agnus castus silhouetted against the cloudy sky, perhaps all the more dramatic under the dismal conditions. It had been placed here on a corner very carefully so that its foliage could be appreciated in profile. Happy Gardeners' Foliage Day. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-78044070879414060462013-05-20T09:34:00.001+02:002013-05-26T12:39:29.288+02:00Reflections on Paul's Himalayan Musk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This rampant rambler blooms for a short time but what other plant can give a display like this? The rose has climbed up over the roof to the chimney and down the other side! Y</span><br />
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Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-48077974413475382912013-05-20T08:50:00.001+02:002013-05-20T09:36:54.417+02:00Late season Iris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had not appreciated how varied Irises can be, not just in terms of colour and petal form, but also growth habit and flowering time. This group of late flowering irises are rather pleasing, arriving at a time when the first rush of May blooms is starting to relent: Iris 'Riverboat Blues' with darker Iris 'Indigo Princess' behind. I bought a selection of irises produced by specialist grower Giardini Toscani in Cosentino, near Arezzo. Sadly the labels have been lost so I have had to search the on-line catalogue to remind myself of their names:</span> <a href="http://www.giardinitoscani.it/it/catalogo.asp?pag=6&link=2&idcerca=0">Giardini Toscani</a> YYvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-33032386712493430392013-05-16T16:10:00.003+02:002013-05-16T16:12:26.384+02:00GBBD May 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today has been lashing rain and the blooms of roses and cistus dashed to the ground. But there was a moment of respite so I nipped out and took some photos for a very late GBBD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stripes of White cistus alternate with helichrysum and teuchrium</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4YWoMLcCfoeO4s5DAK9DHS-7emkd39tSEqEjMn5FFCxAau4m0yTmTJJG3wKZtfp9wZXlxRQgKtFBp-SdRP42VqQhIPLv3ySgouW51k3uSA0YlPulA59EyV6szhQfCg0yaUku9rJA7no/s1600/2013-05-16+14.58.53.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4YWoMLcCfoeO4s5DAK9DHS-7emkd39tSEqEjMn5FFCxAau4m0yTmTJJG3wKZtfp9wZXlxRQgKtFBp-SdRP42VqQhIPLv3ySgouW51k3uSA0YlPulA59EyV6szhQfCg0yaUku9rJA7no/s320/2013-05-16+14.58.53.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Terraces with cistus and teuchrium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Centranthus ruber in various shades of pink and white has seeded all around the garden but is not less enjoyable for that</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy (belated) Bloom Day. Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-64257572339936222852013-05-16T12:03:00.002+02:002013-05-16T12:03:36.698+02:00Irises in Florence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry to have missed GBBD Yesterday but I went to Florence to visit the garden of Irises and see the annual iris competition. <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The site is
managed by a voluntary group Societa' Italiana dell'Iris (donations box at the gate) and is in its 57<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>
year. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The garden is e</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">asy to get
to – we took a train to Firenze SMN then taxi to Piazzale Michelangelo and
afterwards walked back to Ponte Vecchio via the rose gardens. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Iris
garden is below the ancient city walls in an olive grove and slopes down quite
a long way. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There is a
large area at the top where the winners of every competition since 1957 are on
show. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
grouping of so many different irises in the olive grove was very nice indeed. Strange how they are so different in form and colour but blend together beautifully. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: IT; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The competitors for next year as well as the current year are in large
beds: they seem to plant them and get the plants established a year in
advance. Highly recommended - the garden is open until 20th May.</span></span> Y</div>
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-30982060713317213832013-05-12T15:08:00.002+02:002013-05-12T15:16:37.385+02:00Rosa Banksiae<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, I know that <em>Rosa Banksiae Lutea</em> is terribly common here and that it has little fragrance, but what a display and so early in the season. Just as abundant is <em>R Banksiae Normalis</em> which has single white flowers and the scent is almost overpowering. Another form which I find very useful for covering large areas is <em>R Banksiae Purezza</em>, which has large double flowers but not much scent. I am also trying to grow <em>R Banksiae Lutescens</em> which has single Yellow flowers and strong perfume but is rather sensitive to the cold, or at least it seems to be here whilst still a small plant. All of them deserve garden space. Y</span></div>
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-91179156678852845812013-04-15T11:06:00.001+02:002013-04-15T11:08:24.996+02:00GBBD April 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Bloom Day this month has seen a terrific rise in temperatures and a drop in the horrible winds. Everything is starting to burst out from winter dormancy and it is hard to keep up with all the tasks that the garden now demands - including the weeds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The pink <em>Rosemary</em> is a lovely sight and a change from the ubiquitous blue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There is of course lots of Yellow, both intentional such a <em>Coronilla Glauca</em> and <em>Medicago</em>, as well as wild such as dandelions that carpet the vineyard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I wonder whether we will actually get to eat any of the cherries this year?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New little species tulips appear every day - this is <em>Tulipa 'Little Beauty'</em>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Bloom Day and thanks to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today the wind is blowing a gale - more than 40 km/hr - and the dessicating effects are devastating, undoing all the good of the winter rains. So a chance to reflect on what is undoubtedly the most cheerful aspect of the garden: spring bulbs. In fact '<em>Cheerfulness</em>' is one of my favourite daffodils, both for the complex flower form and scent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> But here in central Italy we see very few bulbs, at least as compared with England, and rarely in major planting schemes and drifts. I prefer more natural plantings and oten use species bulbs such a <em>Tulipa Clusium</em>. Not only are they more subtle coloured and delicate but more likely to come back in subsequent years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Strange really, because a lot of familiar bulbs originate from the Mediterranean and in spring you can see fields of wild daffodils (<em>Jonquils</em> etc) in Sicily. Also many bulbs come from climates where the summer is hot and dry but winter very cold; <em>Tulipa Turkestania</em> is another of my favourites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not forgetting corms either: <em>Anenome Coronaria</em> is also a native flower in central Italy and deserves to be more widely appreciated.</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-57359808799264965422013-03-22T12:03:00.001+01:002013-03-22T12:05:05.197+01:00Spring?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For me spring starts when the almond tree outside the window start to blossom. The first buds opened two days ago and now we have showers of snowy petals drifting in the strong winds. When I was a child we took our spring timetable from the damson tree at the end of the garden; always the first to bloom. </span><br />
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<br />Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-37691370125981928232013-03-15T15:34:00.003+01:002013-03-22T11:16:36.868+01:00GBBD March 2013<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Spring is not exactly here yet - still cold, wet and very windy. But the plants seem to feel that a change is in the air and they are putting on growth and coming into bloom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Little species daffoldils seem to have survived from last year but not perhaps as many as before. These are in the shade under a bush and that may have helped.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Crocus bulbs have been cheerful but short-lived. I like the jewel colours alongside silver foliage like this tanacetum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anenome coronari are nice and colourful but a bit patchy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tiny Iris Reticulata are also short lived but the Iris Unguicularis has been in bloom since January.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Wild plants like the common Gorse, Cornus Mas and violets all find a place in the garden.</span><br />
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Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-78739200546317409272013-02-15T14:08:00.001+01:002013-03-22T11:16:50.725+01:00GBBD February 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WE are still in mid winter and have been subjected to endless wet, cold windy weather, even snow. The water is a Godsend and I must not complain. Very cold at night - down to minus 6 degress C sometimes, which sadly destroyed my otherwise impressive cauliflowers. Meanwhile someone has broken into the veg patch and eaten to tops off the broad beans, leeks and even spring onins. J'accuse Hare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some flowers still appear and brighten our days. Even the humble winter jasmine is welcome. The first flowers on Coronilla Glauca just out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I would show you more pictures of dwarf iris but they have all been dug up and eaten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Anenome seems less palatable though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Little species crocus are a delight but rather sparse - I don't think the bulbs I planted the previous year have reflowered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting this Bloom Day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-89047988668388965302012-10-22T19:12:00.004+02:002012-10-22T19:12:41.904+02:00GB Foliage Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The terraces after their autumn trim: cistus, teucrium, helianthus, lavender, rosemary (the last one I will trim in spring).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-21628513290896907442012-10-15T15:47:00.002+02:002012-10-15T15:48:16.031+02:00GBBD October 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well October is here already and the weather is still warm, mostly mid 20s, but the occasional day of rain has transformed the garden. Not only has green foliage recovered but now the roses are blooming again. The Chinas are especially free flowering but I think almost every rose bush is showing some blooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Perovskia is still in bloom - such a faithful plant, bringing us flowers right since June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile I have been trimming back the cistus, phlomis and teuchriums before winter and generally tidy up; I am waiting for the temperature to drop a bit more before I start to plant new plants and bulbs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting this Bloom Day.</span></div>
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Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-57331706229231715902012-09-30T10:49:00.002+02:002012-09-30T10:49:24.161+02:00La Mortella, Ischia<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The island of Ischia just off the coast of Naples has been a popular resort with its famous hot springs since the bronze age, when the Greeks founded their first colony here in 770 BC. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We came here with the Mediterranean Garden Society to visit a very special garden: La Mortella created by Sir William and Lady Walton as a sanctuary for the composer's musical creations. They arrived in 1956 on what was then a barren rocky outcrop with no fresh water supply. Susana, Lady Walton, then went on to create a lush tropical paradise with plants raised herself mostly from seeds she had brought from her native Argentina and had found in other places on her travels. The lower 'valley' part of the garden was designed by Russell Page but the inspiration for the planting was entirely Susana's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The lush vegetation and the interplay of light and shade, water splashing and quiet depths give this part of the garden a magical feel. It is also quite difficult to photograph as the vistas often run from dark to light. The Walton's house was built into the rockface and is completed obscured by creepers so as not to impact on the garden - a revolutionary idea in those days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were very lucky to have as our guide MGS member Alessandra Vinciguerra, who has been curator of the garden for 15 years and head of the Foundation La Mortella since the death of Susana in 2010. Not only does she know every plant individually but she was the close companion of Susana and is able to share many entertaining and inspiring stories about this most remarkable gardener.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The garden now reaches up to the top of the cliffs with increasingly native 'maquis' style planting where there are memorials to Sir William and Susana with views across the Bay of Naples. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The gardens are not 'static' but continue to evolve. I recommend that anyone who is in the Naples area takes the ferry across to Ischia and spend some time in this eartlhy paradise - lunch in the tropical surroundings of the tea room was excellent. I also recommend a visit to the nearby thermal springs of La Negombo, where the hot pools have been designed to appear as an ancient part of the natural scenery and gardens.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One word of advice however: do not take any unnecessary valuables or wear jewellery - a mugger tried to wrench the watch off my wrist as we were in the car and despite a furious struggle he only let go when I bit his hand! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-20203392929458671252012-09-19T08:30:00.001+02:002013-03-22T12:06:35.964+01:00Badger attack<img alt="Matt Cartoon 19th September 2012" border="0" height="396" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02343/190912-MATT-web_2343889a.jpg" width="620" /><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Badgers have broken into my garden again and are causing terrible damage, digging up entire plants and throwing them aside; huge holes everywhere, many plants dead. I know I blame them for everything but can't help agreeing with Matt on this occasion ....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y</span>Yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00480649254768078373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7835777645235116330.post-42991556556992716332012-09-16T11:29:00.006+02:002013-03-22T11:17:07.832+01:00GBBD September 2012<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The garden is experiencing a second spring. Growth has resumed with a great rush following the torrential rain and north winds of two days ago. The new foliage is in itself a pleasing sight - the morning light on the <i>Agnus castus</i> or the <i>Rosa sanguinea</i>, for example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many blue and purple flowers are in evidence - <i>Caryopteris</i> is especially fine and the new variegated version <i>'Summer sorbet'</i> is very decorative. <i>Perovskia </i>has been in bloom relentlessly since June and whilst is is looking a bit dusty now, it is still welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Tulbaghia </i>is a faithful friend and the <i>Leucophyllum frutescens</i> is flowering for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Less colourful but very much appreciated nonetheless are the <i>sedums</i> and new (to me) ornamental grass <i>Stipa capillata</i></span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warm colours ae provided by <i>Epilobium 'Western Hills' </i>and <i>Salvia microphylla </i>which have been in bloom for ages and should keep going for a while yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Choisya ternata</i> is obliging with a second blooming </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But already my order of new little plants from Olivier Filppi has arrived and they are waiting to be assigned their new homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting this meme and happy end of summer to everyone.</span><br />
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