Katy's Garden

A real massacre of a day, digging a huge hole under the sun to plant my tall Hydrangea villosa subsp. sargentiana. She is in full bloom, not the best moment for planting perhaps, but she was even worse off in her pot, she has grown so tall all of a sudden. She toppled over with every wind storm, it´s a miracle she still looks so good, albeit a bit tattered. I think she will like the spot I picked for her, morning sun and the best wind shelter I could give her.

This will become the blue border over time. It is the area around the new steps, that will be flanked by lavender hedges, when I have the plants. I will move here the delphiniums, and I will sow blue columbines. There is a splendid Echinops pungens in another place of the garden, it would make a lovely feature. I will either transplant it or collect seeds. I need to plant things that will keep the colour theme consistent through the summer though.

I find, looking at other gardens, that I tend to neglect the planting of those small, fuzzy, unspectacular but faithful flowers that carry the garden through the successive blooming of various stunners. It is a flaw I need to correct.
I am consuming eyes and brain through flower catalogues jotting down seed lists for the future. It would have been nice to start this summer already, but it was impossible without knowing where and what I wanted. I have clearer ideas now. All of the rose ridden front garden will be pink-white-warm purple. The lower part of the bank will be blue and indigo, and violets, and whites of course. The west side all hot yellows, orange, lusty maroon-crimsons.

I will also move the oakleaf hydrangea. Sun and wint turned it to tatters, while the "Domotoi" by her side is thriving. The mysteries of gardening.