It’s another garden update! Six on Saturday
- Water buttercups in the pond, and the return of the solar powered pump
The pond plants are a welcome splash of colour, especially the water buttercups. It’s good to have the solar powered pond pump working again. Over the winter the pump is kept in the shed, and the pond is still. Now that the clocks have gone back and the sunshine returns to the garden, it’s a delight to have the pond bubbling and bright.
2. Bleeding hearts
This is a dicentra, which has lovely heart shaped flowers. It lives at the side of the house, and likes the shady spot by the neighbours shed. It’s getting larger each year, but got a bit battered by the stormy weather. It’s a wonderful plant, and I want more of these!
3. There’s plenty of rosemary in the garden now, and the spring bulbs are coming into flower. April has been pretty breezy and wet so far. We had a very soggy winter in Somerset and across the UK. But at last the garden’s starting to wake up, and my marvelous husband has been busy, planting dozens of daffodils potatoes, beans and loads of new perennials.
4. Cherry blossom on the tiny little cherry tree is a joyous thing. And it’s good to use the washing line again – outdoor dried bed sheets are the best.
5. The ‘Horsey’ border. This statue was in the garden when we arrived, and this bed was totally overgrown. It’s got a lot of new plants in place now, including campanula, saxifrage, roses – as well as a few perennials from previous years – heuchera, astilbe, hydrangea and sedums – and it’s got a few self seeded sedums and some sweet little forget me nots. We’re hoping for lots of colour here this summer.
6. Blue skies (occasionally)
Just a few weeks ago we had a flurry of snow, and it’s been grey and wet for months. So I’m appreciating the blue skies when we have them.
This is my first ‘six on sat’ since last year. In between I’ve changed jobs and I’m now working full time in a local government IT job. If you’re in Bath & North East Somerset and need to know when it’s bin day, check the website. I’m quite happy to have moved from marketing timber to making websites, but I have less time to garden than I did last year, and fell out of the habit of blogging for six on saturday.
My lovely husband is doing all of the planting, and I haven’t tidied the greenhouse in a while but still, I hope to get a few tomatoes and more herbs on the go soon. I’m hoping for a bit more pleasant weather so we can actually sit out in the garden one day!
I hope you have plenty of sunshine and blue skies this spring,
Jen x
What bright buttercups, I featured Marsh Marigolds in my pond this week too.
the horse statue is lovely, and I think the plants around it are quite nice. I also am wishing for more blue skies and less snow. We didn’t have much this year, but I hate getting a foot of snow in April!
You prompted me to go and check on a self sown Dicentra that appeared last year and that I’d forgotten about. It’s up and flowering and I hadn’t even noticed it. It’s surrounded by weeds which I’m off to pull out. I hadn’t noticed them either, but that was wilful blindness.
A lovely photo of the cherry blossom, your photo has captured all the detail in the white petals. The pink dicentra makes quite a statement with its pretty heart shaped flowers.
Ah, forget-me-nots, the State Flower of Alaska!
Love that Cherry Blossom! 💞🌸 Pretty pussycat and blue sky. It’s great to have a useful husband in the garden!
Your pond is lovely. We have a similar one that my husband constructed, and we’ve kept fish in it until recently (long story). We’ve had waterlilies in it in the past, too. Your garden is beautiful, and it looks like spring is in full swing.