It’s one of those weeks when the balance between getting stuff done and writing about it tilts in favour of the former. After a busy Bank Holiday weekend there are new plants to find temporary homes for, a burgeoning population of seedlings to pot on and tomato plants requiring hardening off. I have booked my Hampton Court Palace Flower Show tickets and started researching Chelsea, now only 13 days away. And still there is more to be done. Heavy showers over the last few days have resulted in an explosion of foliage in our London garden, so much so that each morning I peer out of the bedroom window and wonder if I am still looking at the same garden I tended yesterday.
Damp weather and emerging hostas are a recipe for disaster, so I am keeping my eyes peeled for slugs and snails, whilst the ones in the back of my head watch out for destructive wood pigeons. Life is literally surging up through the ground around me, so vital and envigorating I wish there were some way to bottle it. Not a hope. Nature will have her way, which for us gardeners means only one thing: not a moment to rest if we’re to stay in the game.
What a wonderful time of year it is; your descriptions of early summer growth spurts have captured the sentiment perfectly. Best of luck with the emerging hostas!
Thank you! They need all the help they can get 🙂
Are the ferns and gunnera in your London garden?
Oh, I wish! No, I took the photograph at The American Garden this weekend. The deeply elegant fern is Matteuccia struthiopteris, the ostrich fern. I love it 🙂
I know I use my blog as a bit of a ‘Critical Parent’…maybe you do too! I love your words about Spring…and maybe we can bump into one another at Chelsea, I’m there on the Wed with my elegant friend, Jane. enjoy it all the same. Me? I’m beating myself up about weeds! Too many everywhere, but too dry to get them out. ..got to wait…that does make me Mrs Frustrated!