Turns out all that was needed for our garden to look good was the wettest spring since 1976! In hindsight, when we moved into the house 15 odd years ago we should have put in rainwater tanks and a watering system ... but we were so determined not to after the water-guzzling horror of our previous (gorgeous) gardens. If it lived it lived, and if it died it died - which is all well and good but perhaps a medium path of gentle watering might have worked better.
Even the pretty white climbing rose my husband planted 13 years ago which has never really done much is clambering up the elderly prunus and flowering.
It is mostly valerian, geraniums, lavender, alyssum and other things that are VERY hard to kill. Pigface of course, and various grasses.
There's rosemary in there too, and lots and lots of euphorbia. Actually I think they are taking over a bit, so will be harshly dealt with in winter.
That looks beautiful and we have most of these plants but - pigface???
ReplyDeleteOh, it's a stone plant. What a rude name for it!
ReplyDeleteWow. I've never seen it like that. How is the front looking?
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