My garden needs to be overgrown, yet tidy. It needs hidden corners, and half-hidden objects. It needs to be comfortable, but not in a lazy/holiday way. At this time of year it needs to offer shade.
It also needs to contain plants that invoke memories. This purple thing is one such.
Some things in the garden have long since failed to operate; my fountain being a good example. The spout has now been home to wasps for several years.
And some pots grow stones, instead of flowers!
I love the fountain with the lion face! Would it be difficult to repair? It seems a shame to have it going unused.
ReplyDeleteIt could, and would, work again, but I've now filled-in the pond bit with earth and flowers. It wouldn't take much to revive it.
DeleteLooking good- Is the "purple thing" a red leafed oxalis. Oxalis is a real problem here but I have never seen that one.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what it's called but I have its green cousin growing all over Haddock's (thanks to my neighbour). The plant was given to us by Lady M's mother, and is called Mor Mor (Swedish for grandmother).
DeleteThis is lovely, Cro. Written from the perspective of the garden, which, of course, needs you or it wouldn't exist! But the notion of the garden having its own persona, its own needs/desires independent of you is quite marvelous.
ReplyDeleteIt shows its independence in many ways; mostly by creating work for me (which I don't mind). Trying to control nature is a constant battle.
DeleteLove the look of the purple plant. I would not be happy with those wasps but from our experience fountains are very troublesome things and require constant work to keep them operating. You quickly get tired of trying to make them work. Also the water reservoir required dries up very quickly here and from what I see you've had a hot Summer. Love gardens with cool, shady sitting areas. Do you have nasties like Mosquitos there ?
ReplyDeleteNo mozzies so far this year, but I expect they'll arrive before too long. Hardly any wasps either, and no hornets. We're picking and chucking mountains of grapes at the moment, in the hope that the stinging creatures that they usually attract will go elsewhere.
DeleteMillions of flying and crawling beasties here. We've had many different fountains and the filters all stop up and wasps build nests etc. Finally gave up.
DeleteHe has lots of noisy bloody crickets.
DeleteYou're right; we do!
DeleteI like hidden corners and finding the unexpected in gardens. Takes a long time for a garden to evolve into something special like yours.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that ours is 'special', but I did create it out of pure empty cow pasture.
DeleteWhat a beautiful garden Cro, very restful. Apparently our garden requires a koi pond, or so the Great Scot informs me...
ReplyDeleteWe did have some goldfish under the fountain (when it still worked), but I obviously don't have fish fingers; they all died.
DeleteOur garden is going over a bit now …. it's not my favourite time of the year for the garden ….. things are scorched and most of the flowers have finished { but not all }. I love an overgrown garden ….. ours is but controlled. You have made a beautiful garden there Cro.
ReplyDeleteHope the wasps and mozzies don't get you Cro.
I managed to write all of that without one exclamation mark …. oooooo, nearly. XXXX
We were very parched here until last weekend. Now, only a couple of days later, it's already greening-up again. Back to swimming again too... I'm just off for a quick dip.
DeleteAs yours is to jungle mine is to meadow.
ReplyDelete'Jungle' has always been my aim, as well as the taming later-on.
DeleteVery calming and pretty. I think your purple flower is called a shamrock. They are either green or purple leaves and will have a yiny bloom on them once a year usually.
ReplyDeleteI think Susan Heather (above) was right. It looks like Oxalis Triangulatis (?). But I must say, I like your suggestion much more.
DeleteOh I do like a garden snippet - a word not often used. For all that you say you are not a gardener, you don't do too bad.
ReplyDeleteI muddle by.
DeleteI have an idea for your planter with rocks....
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cactus%20rocks&rs=rs&term_meta%5B%5D=cactus%7Crecentsearch%7C4&term_meta%5B%5D=rocks%7Crecentsearch%7C4
I like it. Actually I recently saw a pic of someone's garden with a type of 'succulent' (that I have in a plastic pot) planted in a similar urn to mine. I'm thinking of copying her.
DeleteWas it mine Cro ? I have a distressed urn with a succulent tumbling over …. I love that look. Give it a go. XXXX
DeleteI think it was yours Jacqueline! Hope you don't mind if I copy you.
DeleteAbsolutely lovely, mysterious corners.
ReplyDeleteMy sentiments exactly, half a world away down here. I like to think you would feel immediately at home here if you and Mrs Cro ever visit.
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