End of Month View. April.

Like most gardeners , I am always reluctant to go away my garden during those three magical months , April , May and June . But still , there are other people to be considered ; non - nurseryman who do n’t understand this peculiarity . And so this last calendar week , I was in Italy with my husband and our lovely Quaker .

It is so endearing to be home and today , just a bit late forHelen ’s End of the Month View , I am prove a quick tour of some of the garden . The best part of coming back from a week away is the excitement of the garden tour , to see what has come out in your absence . In his book , Down the Garden Path , Beverley Nichols said he had very strict rules for ‘ Making The Tour ’ . However excited you are to see one particular plant , you have to do it in the proper monastic order and scrutinize everything as you go . He pace out of the house and turn right , but I do it the other way round , but still no cheating is allow , even if I am desperate to try the buds of thePeony rockiiand the wisteria . Every foot of ground , every bush and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree has to be looked at in the right ordering . I am not going to take you on such a elaborate tour , I will just show you a few views as we go round .

TheExochorda x macrantha‘The Bride ’ was show a few prime in February , but now it is properly out and the white variegated Honesty is brighten the seam behind it .

If you take the air down to the terrace in front of the summertime family , this is the view looking back to the sign . Oh good , I should have bring the wash line down before taking a photo .

Camassias only bloom for a brief moment , but they are such a beautiful shadiness of wild blue yonder . They search good withEuphorbia robbiaewhich is invasive , but it does n’t weigh here . The Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on the right is a weeping birch tree . And now we come to the pool .

It sit down in such a deep pickle that I have planted bamboos all round . On the other side is a pretty little weepingCerdiciphyllum japonicum‘Pendula ’ with warmness shape leafage .

And now here is the route to the wintertime garden .

The wintertime garden is still looking upright in spring . I have several pear tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , but this one this looking mythical right now . That is as far down the garden we are going at the instant . The orphic garden project will take a while to be finish and there is not much to see in the veggie beds apart from broad beans . Besides , my scarecrow , Chloris is not set to be seen , she bad postulate a makeover . If we go back past the pool and start on the other side of the garden there is one of the green house and the start of a nice old brick wall . This seam is mostly for spring and there are Erythronium , wood lily and epimediums here . The tree on the leftfield is a mulberry tree .

The rampart is very old and we have had to have buttresses built on to keep it just . Here is the other side . There are Spanish bluebells all over this garden and I have given up test to get disembarrass of them . The tree diagram are very old orchard apple tree tree .

The next slam is looking back from the fiddling pool near the planetary house . I have dug up the lawn between the pool and the flower bed so that the Man with the Mower does not break off any more branches of the preciousCercis canadensis‘Forest Pansy ’ . I think I will plant a duet of hydrangea here . I rather likeHydrangea‘Pinky Winky ’ , but I do n’t jazz whether I can bring myself to buy a plant life with such a silly , twee name . How embarrassing if anyone inquire what it is called . Another 24-hour interval I will take you round to the front garden , and maybe down into the orchard , but that is enough for today . Thanks to Helen atthe Patient Gardenerblog for hosting . And now I am going to catch up with some of the station I miss whilst I was away .

52 Responses toEnd of Month View. April.

Your garden looks beautiful . The Hydrangea you wish look lovely too – I would just go for it and push aside the name!Happy gardeningBest wishesEllie

H. ‘ Pinky Winky ’ is brilliant – one of the upright I ’ve see in late years . A booster has a whole molding of them which is fab . I just purchase H. ‘ bed me Kiss ’ , dark reddish foliage with crimson flowers edged in white , go like an attractive cultivar but competes on a cockamamy name I think . serious to be able to see the plate of most of the garden at one go !

I ’m late getting here but really savor the tour . trust that you had a mythic holiday . That pear look as if it will be oppressed with fruit this year .

End of Month View. April.