Garden notes

Garden notes over the first two weeks of July, during which time the rose Gentle Hermione and the Regale lilies both came into their own.  Months of preparation on their part, culminating in glorious displays of fragrant blooms and then along comes heavy rain and winds, which have left all these beauties looking rather fragile and battered, but still beautiful.

This is a new rose in the garden.  My Little Pet, a David Austen rose which I have planted to replace the large very dark Munstead Wood, which I have relocated to the area outside the garden.  It was too big for the flowerbed, and also the colour, although sumptuous, was just a bit too dark.  This little thing is beautiful, especially the tiny pink buds.  

The pale yellow daisy had become so large it was muscling other plants out of the way!  So it has had the chop and the plant has also been relocated outside the garden!  I feel very bad about digging it up, and all those lovely flowers, so they have been sitting in lots of water in the wheelbarrow until the blooms have gone over.  I am hoping the plant will settle into its new home and enjoy all the space it now has all around it.