July Flowers

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    Holly-Bee in July

    It’s been a while since I posted about our garden, it’s looking wonderful; all the hard work is paying off, and rewarding us with armfuls of beautiful flowers… Here are just a few pictures of the latest goings on, both in the flower garden and studio- enjoy!

    1Wild Summer urn, overflowing with scented roses, layered poppies and honeysuckle.

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    3Meadow inspired bouquet, delicate flowers including larkspur, chamomile and achillea.

    4Clematis

    5Borage

    6Astrantia

    7Chamomile

    8Bridal bouquet, all flowers grown in Dartington, with the first of our dahlias.

    9Achillea

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    The Garden House

    One of my all time favourite places to go to rejuvenate the soul, get inspiration, and generally feel good, is The Garden House in Buckland Monachorum. I’ve been meaning to go for about a month but had been rather waylaid… Finally we managed  to get there though, with beautiful sunshine to boot!

    One of the wonderful things about the Garden House is the diversity in the garden and planting. It’s described as a ‘gently flowing series of garden rooms and spaces… that link diverse planting styles and landscaping surprises.’  Lots of different styles and landscapes are woven together to create pockets of natural beauty. There’s a romantic walled garden with 16th century ruins, a new arboretum, cottage gardens and more modern Piet Oudolf inspired prairie style planting.

    Lots of benches are nestled away, creating hideaways to sit and enjoy the landscapes, and the cafe is also great., with an enviable  wisteria covered terrace. Below are some photos taken in-between drinking tea and marvelling over the staggering Dogwoods…

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    Roses

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    The Rose Garden

    Roses… wonderful, wonderful Roses. My favourite flower(probably). The scent is just  intoxicating, the colours and variants in tones and textures are beautiful. The luxury they add to arrangements is second to none, and have I mentioned the scent already?!

    This year, in a very soggy February, we moved and planted lots of bare- root roses in our flower garden at Holly-Bee. I think we can now say we have a Rose ‘area’, with over 120 bushes, and after that initial hard work of planting and pruning, the payoff is here.  It’s my ‘happy place’ to go to,  with the roses all flowering away, and the scent heady in the air.

    In a moment of deadheading I made up a bouquet and tried to capture the beauty of these blooms, with a little help from Buzz (our lovely spaniel puppy/dog).

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    April Flowers

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    April Flowers

    On the first of May, I’m looking back to April… It’s been a busy month for the flower garden at Holly-Bee. Lots and lots of gardening; weeding, mulching, sowing seeds, pricking out, potting on… All getting ready for the season ahead. But there’s  also a fair bit of picking and using our flowers too, which has been wonderful. The tulips are now coming thick and fast and are so beautiful, especially the parrot types- such amazing textures and colours!

    The anemones and ranunculus are still going strong and are now joined by Icelandic poppies, lots of delicate blossom and branches of hornbeam and hazel. These combined together create a perfect vision of spring!

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