wendyswonderlandgarden

Greetings from my very hot (30 degrees today) dry garden in South Manchester, where the skies are blue, the ground cracking with how dry it is and the water butts completely empty! We are watering with a hose pipe every other day but I’m so looking forward to rain soon. It’s been dry about 4 weeks now. I remember hot summers like this as a child where my normally brunette hair would go blonde! I know everyone says summer was hotter when they were younger but they really were at least til I was about 14!

I haven’t done much in the garden lately except weed – I’m not sure how they are still growing and tidy up! I have plans to dig over and improve some areas when the soil can be dug again!

I do, however, have lots in flower at the moment. It’s a good year for roses and even the new one I planted last year that looked so unhappy last autumn has a flower (see below). The sweetpeas are scrambling up the wigwams and smelling lovely.

So here’s a selection to of what’s flowering currently including the new delphinium I bought at Chatsworth flower show which is white as I’d hoped and patiently waiting to be planted. Maybe tonight!

Greetings from a warm and dry garden in south Manchester. Contrary to popular believe it doesn’t always rain here, in fact we need the rain now as it’s been dry for nearly 10 days and despite all the water we collect in water butts we have nearly run out.

June is a month where there is something different to see every time you go outside. My sweet peas have just started flowering although they aren’t as tall as I expected nor even the colours I expected. My first lily is flowering today as well. I notice that some things are still a bit slow to grow and I’ve dug up a few things thinking they are dead only to see the green shoots are underground and had to replant them again. Some roses are flowering brilliantly, while others have no buds. The same for my poppies too.

Here are some pictures of what is currently flowering, including sweet William and white foxgloves that i grew from seed.

Just a quick picture of the first rose to flower this season. It’s been in the garden since my parents moved here approximately 45 years ago and we think it has its roots in the drain as it continues to do so well year after year! I wish you could smell it too, it’s beautiful