Thursday 29 August 2013

Oh how I love you Hydrangeas

Oh how I love my hydrangeas, they are the pefect colour, very pale lilac/blue turning to 
a  stunning sagey green the longer they are in bloom.

Unfortunately the rain battered them so much that my gorgeous heady blooms were touching the floor and becoming  tea for two (million) slugs ... eurgh!

I always try to resist cutting them as this impairs the blossoms the following year, but I just had to take the bull by the horns, or the bloom by them stem and snip them off.

Means I'm not going to get as beautiful display next year, but they had become too top heavy and were just getting destroyed.

On the plus side it means I have hydrangeas in every single room of the house.






Friday 2 August 2013

The Lavender Patch

The Lavender patch is one my favourite parts of  the garden, not only does is look beautiful, smell divine  more importantly the bees love it ...