how my garden grows

things are slowly evolving in this lovely space we have come to. In the back garden, the moon bed has gone from
this

to this

ready for compost and other goodies to enrich the soil. You can see how dry it is, made more pronounced for the fact that it sits directly below a yew tree, but I love the tree, so will have to try and plant things that like dry shade. This well turned soil is not my work I have to say. My good soul stripped off the grass and dug it through. The darker soil to the right is the spot I cleared a while back, which has had soil enricher. You can see the difference.

In the blue pots we have iris nestled in front of the rhododendron

Meanwhile, down in the dell I was creating a rough mown path with the strimmer

through all this lovely greenness and motion, grasses and plantain flowers which swish and swoosh

while above me the fresh walnut leaves sang in the blue, blue sky

The front garden too is developing from

this

through these

to this, shimmering in the breeze and catching all the south facing sunlight

grasses to swing and sway

veronica and penstemon

geum

euphorbia

And this greets me every day when I come home from work, lifting my spirits with its exuberance.