Fiona Gardens

Fiona Gardens This blog is the story of me and my Cotswolds garden. The garden is small, alkaline, on top of a hill so a bit exposed.

My gardening team includes my husband who mows and sometimes cuts the topiary. Also a large toad who helps with the snails & slugs.

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27/05/2022

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I went to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in London on Wednesday. There’s no point in sharing my photos of the the show gardens, as the internet is full of brilliant shots by...

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24/05/2022

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Just like the English lilac, this Korean lilac did not flower last year. Same trouble, young and settling in. It’s about four times the size now of the plant I bought and planted two years ago, so it...

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22/05/2022

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I am very excited about the performance of this plant! It’s a Spirea, a deciduous shrub that has pink flowers in August. Last year it barely flowered, it generally looked a bit depressed and as was...

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20/05/2022

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More purple flowers in May: this time alliums. The first three pictures show variety Purple Sensation, and the last Christophii.

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19/05/2022

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Suddenly a lot of very late Spring flowers are out. I came home after a couple of days away to find several clematis flowering. There is quite a consistent theme of purple to my garden at this time of...

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15/05/2022

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Chelsea chop time. Cutting back late flowering perennials in May (around the time of the Chelsea Flower Show in London, hence the name), so that the plants bush out rather than flop over when they...

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12/05/2022

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More purple Spring flowers - Aubretia this time growing over a rocky wall. Every single year I get paranoid about other people’s Aubretia being out earlier than mine. But mine comes when it’s ready -...

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12/05/2022

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My young Katherine Hevemayer Lilac. It did not flower last year, which I found a bit worrying, but apparently that’s normal in a young lilac first planted out of its pot into the flowerbed. All energy...

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11/05/2022

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Seven or eight years ago (I remember my son being in a pushchair when I bought it) I planted this ceanothus on the large wall of my house by the road. I put it in the garden because it’s a very true...

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