After your admiration for the clematis I showed on Six on Saturday, I wouldn’t want you to think that every clematis I had, and I have already told you there are many, was as floriferous. Clematis viticella ‘Venosa Violacea’ (above) on one of the rose arbour posts is doing OK though, albeit not in the same way as some others. However, as a very rough approximation perhaps at least 25 or 30% of the summer flowering varieties are not blooming or are looking unlikely to bloom this year – it could easily be more than that, but I am trying to be optimistic!
Nigella, lupins and a very special clematis: my blooming June garden makes the toil worth it
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For those of us who garden, June is in many ways the month of reckoning, nature’s totting-up of all those cold, dark days in the horticultural trenches when we dug and divided, planted and sowed, hoed, weeded, raked and pruned in the hopes of a better garden.
If it had to be expressed as a mathematical equation, then it’s a complex sum of pluses (those lofty dreams and flowery ambitions, the opportunity, skill and physical effort required to bring them to life, plus no small amount of good luck). This must then be tallied against the minuses of harsh weather, plant pests and diseases, and a multitude of other constraints regarding time, budget, space and physicality (we’re only human) as well as a certain inevitable amount of bad luck.
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Sometimes I look at our new-old garden and wonder if it’s an unwinnable contest. I think about the weeds, the slugs, the seedlings begging to be potted on and the plants begging to be watered. And the imponderable: will aphids get the lupins? Will a late frost blast the emerging dahlias? Will mice scavenge the freshly sown peas, or cutworms get the lettuce seedlings? Will the neighbour’s visiting tom cat ever, ever stop peeing on the bearded irises (probably not)?
On the other hand, I’ve learned to count my blessings. Surrounded by so many plants that have started to magically flower and fruit in recent weeks, you can’t help but be constantly reminded of nature’s remarkable resilience and the special joy a garden gives. With this in mind, today’s column is all about nurturing what a friend once recommended to me as “an attitude of gratitude”, a hymn of thanks.
So in no particular order, here’s a heartfelt thank you to the
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