M A D D I E
The Mistress was very pleased as to another fairly successful gardening year. Considering I still don't have much nous when it comes to gardening and when and where to plant things.
It was another good year for the show stoppers of the Datura Ballerina and the Popcorn Cassia, both of which got huge.
My one lone Fuschia did well, at least till the end of June when it got murdered by the heat of the summer.
The roses and pansies were also welcome happy moments of the garden from spring till end of summer.
The new addition to the gardens at the Casa du Borghese was a wildflower garden, which was very pleasing with the selection of flowers we got from the seed packets.
Overall, another good year. Next year we may require more houseboys.
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The moon platters were, alas, moved indoors...
Would you believe we had complaints from the neighbors?
The nerve.
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I do have to wonder if the neighbours complained because they could only look but not touch?
Anyway, thank you Mistress Maddie for those beautiful garden photos.
Our next gander at greenery will be Ms Nations' in a couple of days time, so stay tuned!
Everything in full bloom, I see.
ReplyDeleteYou've done superbly well in the garden this year, Mads - well done!
Clink, clink, sweetie... Jx
Coming from you that is high praise dear! Now, the garden upon getting in today is all barren, except for salvia.
DeleteAll the pots in the main part of our garden are frozen solid this morning! We made an effort to move some of the tender specimens to the back passage between the houses for shelter, but if this keeps up, there will be losses. Again. Jx
DeleteOh dear. We are finally getting so much needed rains here currently. The lawn guy was here while I was away...and most leaves are now off the trees...but the few yet to fall, I will blow into the gardens to help "blanket" the beds and to help insulate some of the tenders.
DeleteWhat gorgeous buns, I mean flowers, Maddie!! xoxo
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DeleteOh, Maddie! I'm green with envy. Not jealous, but wishing I could grow some of those. I guess the trade-off is that I don't need a snow shovel!
ReplyDeleteLuckily, I haven't needed a snow shovel the last few years, a broom did the trick for the fluffy 2" we got. And I'm always envious of you and your plants...which is why this garden event is cool to see and what we all grow.
DeleteI can recall from the Mistress's blog the popcorn cassia. I am enthralled by those. I wonder if they really do smell of popcorn or is he just drunk? But always a lovely sight. I wouldn't know where to begin.
ReplyDeleteMaybe with the moon platters?
By all means start with the moon platters!!! And yes they do indeed smell of buttered popcorn. The cassia that is, not the moonplatters.
DeleteMarvellous!! I love the seed packet flowers - so bright and cheerful.
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Those wildflower seed packets must pay off. I have seen them and often wondered myself.
DeleteI was very pleased with the wildflowers girls. Upon getting in today, they are all dead and dried out now...I assume we had a frost or two while gone.
DeleteBeautiful. It reminds me of Miss Honey's cottage from Matilda.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to goggle that. It's been years since I saw that Mitzi...but I thank you for not putting pressure on for a nice garden next year.
DeleteHmm... move next to me... no complaints at all. Sigh. There is a throuple - three A gays in this beautiful house about two blocks from me... they have Datura Ballerina for days... And I am so very jell. Also... that orange daisy looking one... I love those. What are they... (too lazy to look it up.) Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteGrow the Datura Ballerina Upton!!!! They take very easily, and supply endless blooms all summer right into fall. That orange thing is in the daisy family, but can't recall the exact name. I will have to look in the potting shed to see the plant marker for exact name. I adore you, but at this hour am not going out to the shed to look. But if you want to tend to my moonplatters.........
DeleteIt's a Gazania, I believe. Jx
DeleteYour correct again! I checked in the plant markers. Thank heavens I save them from year to year.
DeleteThe cheeky minx! What another glorious garden. The Mistress knows I'm smitten with the Datura Ballerina. A friend of mine has a few and says the scent is downright intoxicating. They certainly are beautiful. Adore the roses and pansies too, that yellow rose is especially bighting. *Claps hands*
ReplyDeleteAnd never saw a more perfect dahlia! Is that a dahlia?
Yes, Agnes...it is indeed a dahlia!
Deletei noticed on this garden event...moonplatters seem to be the thing this year. meanwhile the Mistress seems to have a good hand at hoeing.
ReplyDeleteHoeing has always been a favorite past time as your well aware.
DeleteI hope you gave your lone Fuschia a proper burial. It's a beauty.
ReplyDeleteOpps, now you tell me.
DeleteThe damn Maddie!!! He is good with plants and men!!! And he makes both grow! Very beautiful selection in the garden. I love the wildflowers and the cassia.
ReplyDeleteThank you Magpie! Nothing like the growing season.
DeleteThank you Mr.DeVice for hosting another nice and cheeky event!!!! I feel as though I missed a few while gone. Just got in a couple hours ago and doing laundry before heading back to work for three days. So this helps soften the blow...so to speak. But you...you can be as hard as you want...come sit by me...
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