The Front Garden.

When we moved in here , right next to the kitchen door was aViburnum tinus . This is a utilitarian bush for wintertime because it blooms all through the forged month . But unless you have it by your door you may not have discover that it smack like wet hotdog . Or worse . It is not very welcoming and anyway I look out on this corner every day , I want something special . It was a huge bush though . Not a job for me when I still had n’t recuperate from digging up the lawn , and the Pianist has his hands to consider . Luckily I recognise the Man With the Mattock . It nearly shoot down him too .

Clematis alpina‘Jacqueline du Pre ’ is the lovely shade of garden pink and appear gorgeous in spring on the fence here now that the ill-smelling Viburnum is no longer . But we ’ll leave this corner for now , I ’ll tell you about it another time . It is devoted mainly to winter and spring interest and I want to show you all the summer treasures in the front garden .

It is a bungalow garden so it is twice parked with as many plants as possible . After I had stab up the lawn I had to have a path position from the movement to the front door . After that I could delight the planting . I had bring pile of my favourites with me and I had been growing a lot from germ in preparation . I planted acquilegias , lily , paeony , poppy , campanulas , astrantias to name but a few . Even though I got disembarrass of the knobbly - kneed ‘ Iceberg ’ roses I leave alone the other I that produce round the lawn . Of course as this is an old bungalow there are roses round the door too .

Thepalette is restricted to shade of pinkish , blues , regal and white and to hold on it face insipid I use lots of dark flowers . In Spring I have masse of Tulip ‘ Queen of the Night ’ in shine black .

And the bivalent reading of ‘ Queen of the Night ’ which is the sumptuous ‘ Black Hero ’ .

I ca n’t resist fringed tulips so I raise them in different shade of garden pink .

after on the opium poppy;Papaver somniferum”Black Beauty ’ is gorgeous . I sowed a whole packet of seeds and this is the only one that came up double and really dark .

I screw dark leaf embed likeHeuchara‘Purple Palace ’ . With it in this photo isDianthus barbatus‘Sooty ’ . It is easy to uprise from seed and once you have it it seeds around happily . The littleCampanulato the right is ‘ Pink Octopus ’ which is rummy rather than beautiful .

Also well-off from seed is this lovelySymphyandra zanzegurwith its masses of fiddling Alexander Graham Bell . It seeds around too . I suppose it looks good with the silver leave , furry Stachys , Alliumchristophiiand the rare white corncockle .

I love bell work flowers and I grow lots of Campanulas . This one isCampanula‘Sarasto ’ .

Here isCampanula takesimana . ‘Elizabeth ’ . It spreads quite a bit but I like it so much I do n’t mind .

Other plants edging the path are gnome irises , which flower to begin with than the tall bearded ace do . Here is the deep purple ‘ Cherry fields ’ and a blue and snowy one that I do n’t have a name for .

I ’m particularly fond of this dwarfIris ; ‘ Green Spot ’ .

The garden face to the south so I can grow Cistus , lavenders and pinks . This isCistus purpureuswhich is pinkish with a maroon blotch on each bloom .

I love pinko and as they do well here I have several lining the paths . Dianthus‘Dedham Beauty ’ was breed by Alex Pankhurst who lives nearby . It is very extremely sweet-scented .

I have to produce ‘ Gran ’s Favourite ’ as it was my Gran ’s favourite pink .

Two more very fragrant pinks that spread into nice bunch . ’

I love blue flowers so I have Geranium ‘ Orion ’ .

I raise some blue and whiteGeranium pratense‘Splish Splash ’ but the results were a morsel unsatisfying So many of the seedling turned out like this . All ‘ Splish ’ and no Splash ’ .

Other blue flowers are the startling metallic blue ofErynguim alpinumand this blue flax : Linum narbonensewhich has sky - downhearted silk flowers that open up in the sun . It seeds around and flowers for weeks

In a sheltered spot thisCarpenteria californicaseems to be thrive .

I screw a few white highlights to relieve things up . And in a bungalow garden you have to raise madonna lilies : Lilium candidum . They are knavish though and prone to computer virus . They seem to thrive on benign disregard . If you start cosset them they pout .

And what could be more persil white than the silky efflorescence of the rare clean corncockle : Agrostemma‘Ocean Pearl ’ ? I love it although it is an one-year and it is not always easy to get hold of the seeds .

Love it or loathe it this rose ‘ Rhapsody in Blue ’ is an unusual colour . It is certainly not blue but I rather like its washed out purple shade . It is raise withLinariawhichput itself there and it is rather a beneficial mate .

I love this damson coloured oriental poppy;Papaver‘Patty ’s Plum ’ . It was discovered in Somerset on Patricia Marrow ’s compost heap by Sandra Pope . Imagine find something like that on your compost hatful ! The other oriental poppy in the front garden isPapaver‘Cedric Morris ’ . Sir Cedric was quite belittle about this poppy , he said it resembled ‘ dirty knickers ’ . it is a slightly greyish pinkish but rather charming .

I do n’t particularly like Cotoneaster but this make a good climb frame for c!ematis .

And here is the view looking along the new track . It calculate rather like the icteric brick route when it first put down but now it has ripen so it does n’t depend too bad .

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I take out a Viburnum tinus when we first run in here too . I be intimate all your pretty bungalow garden flowers .

It is wonderful and is the flavor I am striving for in my garden . perhaps I do n’t set enough in the space , what is your secret

Your post made me smile Chloris . Himself had a unmanageable job a duet of years ago absent a mature viburnum from our garden – in the end a R-2 and a camping bus van were involved in the proceedings ! Ca n’t say I ever remark the sloshed andiron sense of smell but I do drop its winter flowers . You have some beautiful prime grow in your garden .

I do n’t find fault you for removing the smelly Viburnum in favor of that beautiful Clematis . Your cottage garden is salient ! I grow a few of the same plant ( like the geraniums ) but others , like the tulips ( even when pre - chilled ) ca n’t outlive the combining of our warmer temperatures , low rain and our wrong Santa Ana winds .

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