Before lunch Jackie and I swung gently into our matutinal garden
tasks – planting in her case; weeding and dead-heading in mine.
The yellow Welsh poppies are in regular need of decapitation.
When I ventured out with my camera this afternoon I made sure to neglect neither the
clematis Montana cascading over the front wall nor the established pink climbing rose festooning the trellis.
One of the owls I righted a couple of days ago was returned to its perch alongside the Shady Path while another peeps round a clump of campanula alongside the daisy-like Erigeron.
Some peonies remain at their best while others bear sculptural seed heads.
Other clematises include the close-up Doctor Ruppel and the one I cannot name sharing its arch with a blue solanum. Magenta valerian is a focus of the Cryptomeria Bed; Leather leaf viburnum stands in shade beneath the copper beech; irises thrive in the West Bed; and these aquilegias are found in the Rose Garden, of which
these are further views, the last of which contains
both Gloriana and For Your Eyes Only.
Meanwhile Arthur Bell has reached new heights this year.
This evening we all dined on tender roast lamb; crisp Yorkshire pudding; boiled new potatoes; carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli al dente, and meaty gravy, with which Jackie drank Hoegaarden and I finished the Moerbei.