Miranda and Janet sort out the centre bed

Great news as the centre bed really starts to look like a garden. Miranda and Janet chose some perennials that are still giving a bit of a show at this time of year and started to plant it up. We have had to water the plants in, but Mick has a tap in the front garden and Margaret suggested we use that.
Mick managed to go one better and get the hose across the road on Sunday morning, so that should help a lot.
Lots of people commenting on the garden and so far nobody has touched the plants.
Things are certainly looking up.

Campsis Grandiflora

Well done Carol, what a good call ! She suggested the Trumpet Vine or Campsis Grandiflora as a spectacular climber to fill our middle trellis. We managed to track one down and have done a slash and crystal job on the holly, so let's hope it works. It was too hard to dig it out and now the rugby season has started Nathan hasn't much time at weekends. Luckily our sample was in bud, so we could see straight way how stunning it's going to look against the wall.
We've now got all the perennials in the back bed so there's just some alliums to go in and we can just leave that for a bit. More and more people are stopping to notice now it's starting to look like a garden.

Taking Shape

At last we are starting to look like a proper garden. The back border is clear except for the holly, that can stay until there's been a decision on what to plant in the centre to climb up the big trellis. Both of the white climbing roses are in, they were half price in Homebase so Michael snapped them up. We were given a euphorbia by Ita from the St Mary's Garden, and we've put in some perennials that were chosen for being drought resistant.
I've made some attempt to mark out the central bed, I think it looks OK, and that means that the path is starting to emerge where the bed meets the back border. I've got some edging for this, not very beautiful but we can grow plants right up to it to disguise it. I spoke to the lady in No35 when she was mowing her lawn and she has promised to try to grow a mallow from cuttings.