It is always interesting when other people go around the garden to see what they like. When S and K came K loved the tall osiers in the top garden, the patch of yellow mimulus in the lawn and the selective mowing with different heights for grass and paths.
We went for a walk in Eggerslack Woods the other day and the weathered limestone in there is fascinating. We have very little exposed rock in the garden and anyway R does not much like rockeries - a bit too fiddly and artificial? 
Then when we were down on the shore the wallpepper, sedum acre, was bringing a golden glow to the shingle. Wild plants can be as dramatic and stunning as cultivated ones. Someone on Flickr suggested I paint a face on the stone under the plant.
The house martins have occupied a third nest, there are fledglings everywhere, the spinach has bolted and the horse flies are rampant so I mow with long trousers and long sleeves.
One of R's favourite plants is this white campanula or bellflower. It seeds itself around and produces a blast of white when the garden is in the June hiatus - after the May flowers and before the summer ones really get going.
Another self seeder is the Sweet William (Stunkin' Wullie, or Stinking Billy in Scotland)(After Butcher Cumberland (William Duke of Cumberland) and the Battle of Culloden). Each year I sow a little of the seed and as it is a biennial get flowers the next year. For some reason we are now down to only two varieties and it may be time to increase the choice.
You have not mentioned squirrels I hear the cry - well the trap is out again, and one for the rat.
This is a view of a squirrel on the hanging feeder outside the kitchen - cheek!
All the rat trap has caught is a blackbird and a jay - both released, ruffled but not harmed. I just wish the greedy pigeons would stop setting the trap off by landing on it.
Cannot catch the rat though - it has bolted like the spinach. I have sown some more parsnips and hope the odd one will germinate. K brought me some exotic seeds so we will see what I can do with them - Alliums and Cardiocrinum cordatum.
Weather set dry again so watering with new hose attachment as I broke the old one.
R has a cold and I have been to the dentist for an hour in the chair on my birthday - what a present!!
One of R's favourite plants is this white campanula or bellflower. It seeds itself around and produces a blast of white when the garden is in the June hiatus - after the May flowers and before the summer ones really get going. 
Another self seeder is the Sweet William (Stunkin' Wullie, or Stinking Billy in Scotland)(After Butcher Cumberland (William Duke of Cumberland) and the Battle of Culloden). Each year I sow a little of the seed and as it is a biennial get flowers the next year. For some reason we are now down to only two varieties and it may be time to increase the choice.You have not mentioned squirrels I hear the cry - well the trap is out again, and one for the rat.
This is a view of a squirrel on the hanging feeder outside the kitchen - cheek!
All the rat trap has caught is a blackbird and a jay - both released, ruffled but not harmed. I just wish the greedy pigeons would stop setting the trap off by landing on it.
Cannot catch the rat though - it has bolted like the spinach. I have sown some more parsnips and hope the odd one will germinate. K brought me some exotic seeds so we will see what I can do with them - Alliums and Cardiocrinum cordatum.Weather set dry again so watering with new hose attachment as I broke the old one.
R has a cold and I have been to the dentist for an hour in the chair on my birthday - what a present!!
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