I'm still playing a waiting game in the garden. The lawn has supposedly been killed off but it sure looks green and luxuriant to me. Still, nothing daunted I went on a plant-buying spree after Val had left today. She told me of a very well-developed freemontedendron that she had spotted in her local garden centre, and I duly went and claimed it. It will go against the black corrugated iron wall, well set back from the garden and sheltered by the outhouses and the jutting out part of the house, aka the downstairs loo. Coming from California it will love the shelter from the winds and the frosts, and the full blast of sun it will get for much of the year. I'm looking forward to seeing the profusion of yellow flowers against the black background.
I also bought a Hypericum 'Hidcote', more yellow flowers, for somewhere towards the summerhouse. And 15 wallflowers, assorted yellows and reds - yes, I LOVE yellow in the garden. Winter-flowering pansies too, and some dark blue miniature irises. These will go on the layered planting I intend to do in one of my big pots, starting with tulips, then daffs, followed by the irises and topped with pansies. This will give colour from now until May. Thanks for the tip Monty.
Val and I moved a chaenomeles from a pot where it was a bit miserable to a nice open, sunny spot against the oil tank trellis. There it can do its own thing or suffer being espaliered depending on how I feel when it starts to spread. Spending money in garden centres is just not spending money as far as I'm concerned, and it has no limits imposed on it. Keep your shopping centres, your clothes and your trendy things. I'm a plants woman.
And so to my final stop this afternoon, the wonderful antique centre at Marlesford. There I bought no fewer that four mirrors, three to hang in the 'room with no name', and one for the hall. I'm not much of a one for looking in mirrors, which would explain why I walked through the whole place, thousands of square feet of Aladdin's Cave goodies, and saw not a single mirror. When I went back for another look I spotted literally hundreds. I just didn't see them the first time. Not a narcissist then.
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