My daughter and I finally came back home this weekend, after 45 days travelling through 10 countries, more of that another day, but safe to say we had a wonderful time! In my absence the garden has been growing very enthusiastically, especially the weeds! My OH has been doing his best but it’s a big garden to do on your own.

I spent the weekend doing a superficial tidy up of the beds, by that I mean pulling out the worst weeds like bindweed, thistles, nettles and that sticky weed with mini burrs on! There hasn’t been any rain apparently for a good week, so the ground is too hard to do any digging for roots but at least they’re not smothering my plants now.

This is the view at the top of the garden as we’re going out to walk Bella along the back lane, I think it’s my favourite view at the moment.

The foxgloves have self-seeded themselves all over the place this year, which I love, though I have had to pull a couple up when they were right in the middle of a particular plant.

The apricot rose at the back is a beautiful David Austin rose called Lark Ascending, the yellow rose at the front is one of my standard roses, Roald Dahl. The clematis was planted several years ago, I can’t remember what it’s called but the flowers are huge this year.

The hostas round the pond are looking bigger than ever…

This is my view when I sit in the garden for my morning coffee. The patio gets the morning sun, I like to sit in my arbour in the shade. When the birds are feeding on the fat balls and the sunflower seeds they will be less than a metre away.

Hopefully over the net couple of months I’ll get a bit more on top of the garden, in the meantime it’s still a lovely place to sit with my coffee of a glass of wine 🙂