New Bamboo!
We went to Coolings Garden Centre at Knockholt in Kent last Friday. They are truly worth a visit for the quality and diversity of the plants (and the scrummy cake in the tea shop!).
We were thrilled to find a small leaved bamboo with unusually coloured canes, changing from yellow to green to red as they age. It's perfect for the empty spot in the middle of the newly painted black fence and proves that sometimes it's worth hunting around and waiting for the right thing. Also found was some Japanese blood grass, three of which have been planted around the new bamboo, finally completing that spot in the garden which has been 'on hold' since last year.
The acidanthera bulbs planted in March and May are coming through now and we're hoping for a good show of fragrant flowers later this summer. The brodiaea bulbs planted in March are all up but no sign of flower spikes - hope I didn't plant them too deep.
The saxifrage has been worth every penny, still flowering from April!! The thyme has also started flowering this month, along with the spirea, vinca minor, ophiopogon nigrescens (black grass), and even the tiny corsican mint. The phygelius has been flowering since last month and looks very healthy - even the one we moved.
Despite all this flowering, we can already see that the raised bed at the back needs some flower action during April and May, so I'm already planning for next year. We have some new ideas for the design, but they're going to have to wait until later in the year.......it's all hush hush until then.
Who would've believed we'd become so hooked!!
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