Dixter

Trips to Inner Temple, Sissinghurst and Dixter last week. The first two had suffered understandably from the horrid conditions; lack of colour, slow growth.

However, Dixter never fails to amaze me. Full of colour, height and drama. This is such an impressive garden.

Baby stuff

Baby boy Keem looking like tin tin at 20 weeks.

Me at 26 weeks

Me at ? weeks (its all a blur) thinking I was massive, paaaah!

Gardening stuff

My garden early June. All nicely under control here, Alchemilla starting to flower, lush feel but also some colour

My garden July: My lack of gardening early on means the border full of weeds and taken over by the teasels I sowed. Verbena bonariensis is in there somewhere. Next year I will deal with this and add another colour for July perhaps..

A friend's garden: I planted this up last year, the conifers were already there. Top middle is Echinacea 'White Swan' completely devasted by slugs

Same garden. I wanted the planting to be lush and fit with the greens of the conifers but I hadn't accounted for the Ceanothus being bright blue - garrr!

The aftermath: South of France

Phil's beautifully cut hedges

A veggie patch in the South of France

My weeding on the terrace

Terraces in France

2 months have passed since the end of the course and I'm just starting to feel normal again. The first few weeks I had nightmares that I had failed and that I had missed pin up etc.

Here's a few posts with the fun things I've been up to as part of my post traumatic stress therapy program:

A week in France: gardening in the morning, long lunch, pool or beach in the avo. No vino for me this year tho..