The meadow beds.

   

27th May 2020.
 This post is a collection of photos all taken with roughly the same view, looking towards the south west where the beds curve down alongside the meadow to meet the Food Forest.

17th June 2020.

24th June 2021. 

7th July 2020.
The succession of perennials provide nectar, pollen and habitat for wildlife throughout the year and especially in the autumn after the meadow is cut. 

21st July 2020. 

28th July 2018.
The area doesn’t bear close inspection and it receives a minimum of attention during the growing season. 

1st August 2021.

19th August 2020.

19th September 2020.
The meadow (centre right) has had its annual cut while the meadow beds on the left continue to provide cover and forage for the months ahead. 

19th December 2020.

7th January 2021.

Stay safe and be well,
 Kim

Autumn garden 2017.

Sedum Autumn Joy and Scabiosa 'Scarlet Wedding.

Dahlia Le Baron, Verbena bonariensis  and Eutrochium purpureum (Joe Pye weed) in the evening.

Fuchsia arborescens  and Cosmos.


This Thalictrum flowered all summer long.

Misty morning.

Heleniums after rain.

Looking from the field, over the hedge, at Escallonia bifida, September 22nd. A wonderful, albeit tender, late season shrub for bees and butterflies.

Asters, clematis and helenium singing their late season song.

Anemone 'dreaming swan' with Agastache in the background.

Tithonia rotundifolia, Mexican sunflower, after rain.

Tithonia rotundifolia with Sanguisorba Blackthorn.

Tithonia rotundifolia, Sanguisorba Blackthorn.

Salvia Amistad.

 

Bidens aurea 'Hannay's Lemon Drop'.

Edit, this is a rampant runner, be warned!

 

Summer Garden 2017.

Helenium with self-seeded Phacelia.

Veronicastrum.

More Veronicastrum!

Ox-eye daisies growing in the gravel in June.

A rogue ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare.

June Sunset.

Papaver somniferum.

The Thyme bath.

Allium Sphaerocephalon and Monarda.

 

Allium Sphaerocephalon, heleniums...

Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii' with marjoram!

Ensete with fushia arborescens.

Ensete with Pears.

 

Hemerocallis (daylilies), Roses and Stachys (lambs ear).

Echinops, Globe Thistle.

Agastache and Echinops.

Sidalcea malviflora.

I must be far enough from the grass that it appears so green! It is actually full of clover and many 

 native wild plants, including dandelions and buttercups!

Romneya coulteri, Californian tree poppy.

Corydalis, this has flowered on and on and on!

This bed is pretty enough in the flesh but in photos it shows how it could benefit from some love. It is several years since it has more than a cursory weeding and the odd plant added.

Romneya coulteri, Californian tree poppy.

Allium Sphaerocephalon and Veronicastrum.

More Veronicastrum!

Thalictrum.

Lilly.

Thalictrum and an overwintered rampant Chilean glory flower, Eccremocarpus scaber.

 

Galega officinalis, goat's-rue in the centre.

Eutrochium, Joe-Pye weed.

(Until recently known as Eupatorium).