Here’s the highlights of the week:
The ‘Blythe spirit’ rose is my favourite at the moment, although that might change by teatime.
The spot by the washing line pole has some self sown mallow, along with foxtail grass and foamflower muscling into the space by the lady’s mantle. It’s an emergent planting scheme (that some might call weeds) which looks rather lovely I think.
The sweetpeas have reached the top of their tower and I’m trying to balance picking stems for bouquets with keeping colour in the garden. Both are smashing. Atop the the sweetpea tower is a feather, wired to the stick so it can turn in the breeze and follow the wind like a weathervane. Lovely husband called it a ‘feathervane’ which seems very apt.
At the bottom of the garden the veg bed has produced some lovely broad beans, and a small harvest of fruit that’s mostly blackberry. (Correction – it’s actually blackcurrant. I always get my blackcurrants and blackberries confused- thanks to keen eyed readers for pointing that error out! 🙂 )
Being fond of data visualisation, I made a pie chart to illustrate the distribution of the berry harvest.
My final choice for this week is hyrdrangea, which is coming into flower in the bench border. Three hyrdrangea were repositioned into this position in the early spring, and this section is looking marvellous.
Later on we’re off to the local garden centre for flowering pond plants and possibly a few more veggies to fill the space where the broadbeans were.
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Whatever you’re up to have a lovely week
J x
‘Blythe Spirit’ seemed like an odd name for a rose; so I had to look up ‘Blythe’. Now I can see that it is suitable. Otherwise, I think of Blythe as a ghastly desert town just this side of the Colorado River from Arizona. Are the black berries currants? They seem to be almost 90% of the total.
Thanks Tony 🙂
Blythe is an old English word, it means joyous, kind, cheerful, and pleasant, reflecting gentleness and friendliness. The name is not uncommon – there’s a power station, railway engine, and folk punk band named Blythe.
And yes they are currants! I’ve added a correction to the blog about it. I always confuse the names for blackberries and blackcurrants. 🙂
Well, that is a nice name for such a mundane and uninviting desert town, the name of which is sometimes pronounced as “Blight”. I happen to be fond of Blythe, because I enjoy obscure and simple desert towns. I do not get out to the desert much.
The mallow and foxtail grass combination is lovely! I’m jealous of your currants and berries. I have a small black currant a neighbor gave me that is producing berries this year. I’ve had two. 🙂 But there’s always future year.
Happy Saturday!
Ooooo, lovely, lovely six! That first Rose is stunning with its yellow-peach-pink coloring. I will look into ‘Blythe Spirit’: Love it! Your other flowers are beautiful, too, and I’m drooling over the berries. LOL.
All lovely! ‘Blythe Spirit’ is very fine. Our best rose this year is the unthrillingly named ‘Prince’s Trust’, which is ridiculously heavy with deep red flowers. Love feathervane and the fruit pie chart — but aren’t those blackcurrants? xxx
Thanks Mandy. Yes, I’ve confused my fruits and mixed up blackcurrants with blackberries. Oops!
The Princes Trust rose is a lovely colour, I bet your garden looks amazing right now.
See you soon xx