wendyswonderlandgarden

My passion in life is gardening and specifically growing flowers from seed

Category: Planting

November 2025

No posts for a while and 2 in 2 days! Sorry for the radio silence. Life was too busy to even do much gardening in the summer and now that I have a lot more time the weather just isn’t suitable. I’m a fair weather gardener although if I’m already out there and it starts to rain then depending on how heavy the rain is I might just finish the job I started.

Anyway, having said all that it has been mild when not raining and I’ve got a lot of my tidying up jobs done.

I had to laugh last week. Daddy is awaiting a hernia operation and we thought it was due towards the end of October. To that end I asked him to put up the bubble wrap inside the greenhouse ready for my plants to overwinter in there. Then a couple of weeks later I realised I normally clean inside and outside first but it’s too late for inside now as the plants are all ensconced in there til spring.

Here are some pictures of autumn colour and flowers currently in the garden

Dahlia Cafe Au Lait

Rose Margaret Meryll

I love white flowers and am always looking to plant more of them. This is one of my favourite roses but don’t tell the others. It’s not the biggest rose and these are probably the only flowers it’ll have this year but they are beautiful

June 2025 in my garden

After a good few months of very dry weather and our many water butts emptying rapidly the rain seems to have started and forgotten to stop. The garden is grateful though and has been growing away although I have to say my foxgloves seem to have stunted growth this year and aren’t as tall as expected which is a shame as I plant them at the back of the border. I have lots of things flowering and here are some pictures – a lot of white and also pink.

Canterbury Bells

Wordless Wednesday – lily of the valley

Peaches & Cream tulips

Tulip Alison Bradley

The first tulips to flower in my garden this year, they are doubled and apparently scented!

Spring 2025

This is definitely my favourite season of the year although I would like it a bit warmer. I hate the cold but also miss being outside in the winter so once the garden starts to come alive again I’m always so pleased. There’s lots in flower at the moment and I’ve just discovered the geraniums I thought I’d lost over winter do seem to be alive.

Spring is coming…

Slowly I think but the bulbs are starting to come up and I’m noticing already what’s missing. That’ll be most of my snowdrops, probably washed away in extreme rain we’ve had lately. Anyway just a couple of pictures of what is flowering at the moment – lots of crocus and one lonely clump of snowdrops

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