How does your garden grow? May 29th

It’s been an exciting week for me as Ant and I have been making plans for the garden. We’ve agreed to leave the lawn as it is for the kids to play on, apart from the addition of some decking in one corner which will also be for the kids; we want them to be able to have the paddling pool out all summer without worrying about killing the grass so we thought decking would be perfect.

I’m planning a post with full details soon which will include pictures of the waterfall, stream and pond we’re planning 🙂

Back to the garden now though and it’s been a dull, rainy week with no opportunity to really get out there to do anything significant.

To say I’m excited to see the amount of apples we have on our tree would be a total understatement!

This is my Deutzia strawberry fields. I bought it a few years ago and I love seeing the colour coming back every spring. The flowers are lovely when they’re fully out.

I’m not sure what these are. I have purple ones as well 🙂

The rose bush looks a bit tired and bedraggled on the whole but the flowers are still gorgeous.

After my lupins were devoured by greenfly, I said I’d give up on trying to grow them but a friend offered Ant some young plants so I’m going to try again. We did buy some bug spray last week so hopefully I’ll be able to keep the greenfly at bay.

The other week I fell in love with a flower I saw on The Purple Pumpkin Blog and with the help of some lovely people in a gardening group I belong to on Facebook, I found out that they’re called Candytuft. I planned on buying some seeds and added them to my basket on Ebay; I decided to wait before buying them however because I’m trying to get some Beavers clothes for Ella and thought I’d do the order all at once.
Anyway, I keep getting outbid on the Beaver uniforms so I haven’t bought the seeds yet. I’m really happy now because I already have Candytuft in my garden, just coming into flower 🙂

I have no idea what this plant is called but we have one each side of the steps that go to the lawn and I absolutely love them 🙂

Another Candytuft photo because they’re so adorable. Like Michelle on the Purple Pumpkin blog, I love how the little petals look like butterflies.

More apples….just because!

Not sure what these are but love the different pinks 🙂

Another unknown (yep, I have loads of plants in my garden that I have no idea of what they are!) but gorgeous, don’t you think?

I really can’t wait to see what colour this hydrangea is going to be. I have 3 of them, this one is in a pot I bought from our old house last and it’s the first year for it to flower so as I have no idea what kind of soil we had at the old house, I don’t know what colour this is going to be. I’m not sure what soil we have in this garden either so the 2 that are planted in the borders here are also unknown to me. I love surprises!

Finally a little update about Kaycee and Ella’s new business. We’ve decided to call it Flourish and Blossom and they made their first sale this week when their Nanny bought a tray of sweetpeas for £2.50 🙂

Kaycee’s planning on selling the plants for £1 each so judging by how many we already have, they’re going to make lots of money if they can find buyers for them all! Kaycee can’t wait to set up shop on the front and try to entice passers by!