Why Wait for Summer?

Why wait for Summer when we can enjoy the memories now. This was part of my Summer garden in 2004. I decided soon after this to simplify my garden by digging out all the perennial flowers. The reason for this was because my husband Alan had suffered some health problems. It began when he suffered a trapped nerve in his spine and then developed a hernia. Having had surgery for his hernia and appearing to make a good recovery, he then had a return of the hernia and had to have a further repair. It's not that Alan was the gardener but I found that I was having to do so many other tasks while he was incapacitated that I knew I could not keep up this level of gardening. So the answer seemed to be to replace the flowers with shrubs which I have been doing over the last couple of years. Obviously I kept my rose beds and we will be seeing a lot of them this coming Summer.

The quality of these photographs is not perfect as I have scanned them from a photo album and they were originally printed on my old printer.

These lillies were grown from seed that I brought back from the States originally. Collected from the plants in a friends garden. I did have a whole bed of them in many different colours but eventually dug them out to plant another rose bed. It takes about 4 years for the lillies to flower from seed. Obviously the bulbs have to develop first.

I hope you enjoyed your visit to my English garden.