The snow-in-summer has exploded and looks really nice with the blue-eyed grass.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
April Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - Tax edition
So I've moved, my taxes are done, I now have internet at the new place (and faster too!) and can blog once again. So since I don't really have anything to show from my new place (yet) I rode my bike over to my old place to take pictures. It was bittersweet. Lots of stuff is blooming, much of it new in just the last two weeks, so the yards look beautiful. But sadly, I don't live there anymore. So here is perhaps the final bloom day from the Essex gardens. Enjoy.
The snow-in-summer has exploded and looks really nice with the blue-eyed grass.
Some salvias in bloom. And the sacred flower of the inca.
Columbine in front.
I'm not sure if you can see them all, but there are foxgloves, nasturtiums, columbine, blue-eyed grass, poppies and some flowering ground cover all in full bloom under this lemon tree.
This foxglove is, surprisingly, almost as tall as I am.
And this one (sorry about overexposure) is actually taller than I am.
And a honeybee visiting the brussel sprouts.
Several of the phacelia had just one of their buds per group open.
And this hardenbergia is still going strong.
Thank you for bearing with me through all these photos. It's a bit of a farewell to the garden. And thanks as always to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for hosting Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.
The snow-in-summer has exploded and looks really nice with the blue-eyed grass.
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The blue eyed grass looks wonderful, the columbine, the foxgloves! How wonderful that your Essex garden put on such a profuse display of bloom as a farewell gift for you. But so sad that you have to leave it behind. I do so hope the new tenants appreciate all of your hard work. I know your next garden will be all the more spectacular.
ReplyDeleteHiya Bradzio,
ReplyDeleteThat was a bitter-sweet visit, wasn't it?
So hard, leaving a garden behind.
I hope you have enough space to start again and enjoy it.
Pretty blooms throughout, but your foxglove is gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Bloom day!
I've never been able to return to my first garden, how brave of you to go! And such a hard time of year to be without soil! But you done good and now it's off to bigger and bloomier things!
ReplyDeleteWow, my hardenbergia stopped a month ago. You must have the magic touch. Hope you'll have some place to plant and sow again soon.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea Foxglove could reach such grand heights. This was a sweet good-bye to the garden. Your snow in summer is so compact - and well behaved! Mine gets very unruly and seems to be happiest blooming in the cracks of my broken down cement driveway.
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty photos! Sorry it's not your garden anymore!
ReplyDeleteNice blooms. We will be a while catching up here. Thanks for sharing yours today. Valerie
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I could visit my garden if I ever left. It must be hard to leave all your "babies". I hope you can start a new and improved garden soon:)
ReplyDeleteSeems like a nice visit, the plants were happy to see you. The snow in summer looks great and I like that shot of the phacelia.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping the Essex gardens stay looking like that a good long time. I'm still living with plants left by the previous resident of this house almost 22 years ago. Some plants hang on, some plants fade. But hopefully the next residents will thank you at some level!
ReplyDeleteLe jardain de rue d'essex looks amazing! I truly hope that the next people who live there enjoy the hard work that you have done. Your new place is going to be amazing.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Must have been bittersweet. I drive past my old house occasionally - can't see the back or side gardens, but the front looks exactly as it was when I left it. It's nice to see the new owners taking care of it so well the past five years. The house before that one, the new owners ripped everything out and put down sod, the sods! I hope they at least found someone to donate the plants to, and I wish I'd dug more of them to take with me!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pics! Sorry you have to leave them behind :(
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to leave a garden behind, almost like you've abandoned your plants. I try never to look at previous gardens, can't stand to see anything totally neglected. One day, when we move, I'm probably going to take a lot of my garden with me. I've already started to save pots.
ReplyDeleteI hope in your new place that you will have a garden better than the one you left behind. You get to start over and incorporate all the things you loved about the old and add some new ones. Keep us posted of your progress. Valerie
ReplyDeleteEverything they say about silver foliage shows itself to be true in your photos... beautiful! Larry
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