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Colourburst on a grey, drizzly day in this corner of a border:
Blue flowering lavender and the last blue delphiniums, golden grasses, white Cenolophium denudatum, red and yellow Gaillardia aristata, yellow Rudbeckia hirta, yellow self sown evening primrose, purple seedheads on a self sown Lunaria annua (honesty), purple stems on the Selinum wallichianum, a few of the last Marguerites, green foliage.

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Densely planted end of a border: Blue flowering lavender and the last blue delphiniums, golden grasses, white Cenolophium denudatum, red and yellow Gaillardia aristata, yellow Rudbeckia hirta, yellow self sown evening primrose, purple seedheads on a self sown Lunaria annua (honesty), purple stems on the Selinum wallichianum, a few of the last Marguerites, green foliage.
In the background on the left the light blue painted corner of the garden shed.

I love Hollyhocks! They are beautiful, tall, robust, unruly, bawdy and keep going all summer. Bees and other insects love them and behave as if they were shopping for recreational drugs.
This plant lives in an area in the garden called the Garden of Delights.
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The photograph shows the flowers on a Hollyhock: White petals with pink edges and a lemon-yellow centre.

This border is what I see when I look out of the living room patio doors.
Essentially, this is a grasses border interplanted with perennials - plus self sown annuals and biennials.
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Closely cropped photograph of a border densely planted with ornamental grasses, flowering perennials and self sown annuals and biennials.

A Phlomis in a border in the garden. Most likely a Phlomis russeliana or Turkish sage.
The many seedheads are from just one plant. Widespread now but native to the area that is now Turkey and Northern Greece. Bees and other insects love it.
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The photograph shows the many globular seedheads (still green, just after flowering) on a Phlomis plant.

First potato harvest of the year. I only lift what I need, the rest is best 'stored' in the ground.
As in previous years I have grown Kestrel, a second earlies variety. My vegetable garden is no dig.
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The photograph shows freshly harvested potatoes on the ground in a bed with wooden sides.

As I said before, happiness is an overflowing garden. Here, the paved path from the patio to the pond is becoming almost impassable. As I walk, the plants grab me and touch my skin. Beautiful!
Again - Good: Walk barefoot.
Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs.
Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private.
Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts.
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A paved path snakes into the distance. On either side, plants - perennials, wildflowers and shrubs - are growing over the edges. In the distance, a large spruce tree creates a dark backdrop.

I am a man, I am of a mature age and this is the first time in my life that I painted my toenails.
I am a lot more part of the garden now, colour-wise, don’t you think?
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The photograph shows my feet with toenails painted in different shades of blue before a perennials border in my garden.

Happiness is an overflowing garden. At this time of the year, I cannot walk through the garden without the plants grabbing me and touching my skin. The garden is overflowing, difficult to navigate, easy to lose yourself in and hide from everyone else. Beautiful!
Good: Walk barefoot.
Better: Barefoot + bare arms and legs.
Best: Shed your clothes altogether if your garden is sufficiently private.
Heightens your senses, brightens the dullest day and banishes gloomy thoughts.
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In the middle distance, two tall ornamental grasses separated by a narrow strip of ‘lawn’, i.e. grass. The tall grasses are touching at the top.
In the foreground, dark red flowering hollyhocks, blue flowering Salvia nemorosa and self sown marguerites, which are going over,
In the distance a mass of green from a bamboo and various shrubs.

Exciting: Discovered a new wildflower in the garden, which I think we never had before. It appears to be a Pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis.
Another individual, who arrived on the wind and decided to stay.
Apparently native and widespread in England and Wales. A favourite with butterflies and moths.
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The photograph shows the purple-pink flowerhead of a Pyramidal orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis. The flowerhead is composed of many tiny individual flowers.

Summer in paradise!

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In the foreground of this photograph borders densely planted with flowering perennials. Predominant colour is blue. In the background shrubs and trees. In the middle distance, the top of the backrest of a deckchair is visible. It is a sunny day in the garden.

Harvested garlic today. Almost all bulbs a really good size, better than in previous years.
90 bulbs in total, which will see us through to the next harvest and provide seed bulbs for planting in December.
I started growing garlic several years ago. It makes me happy to realise that this is my 8th harvest!
I have a garlic growing guide on my website: https://www.wolfkettler.com/blog/grow-your-own-garlic
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The photograph shows a trug filled with freshly harvested garlic bulbs. The trug is on the ground before more garlic waiting to be pulled.

Happy Solstice!
Photograph shows pink-flowering Salvia microphylla and blue-flowering Salvia nemorosa Ostfriesland mingling in the sunshine.

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Photograph shows pink-flowering Salvia microphylla and blue-flowering Salvia nemorosa Ostfriesland mingling in the sunshine.

Sitting on the patio late afternoon, we are surrounded by plants, we are part of the garden and part of nature.

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The photograph shows a densely planted border with perennials, many flowering, biennials and ornamental grasses before the dark green of a tall evergreen hedge.

Miles Davis or George Gershwin?
Oh, I do hope somebody gets this! Let me know if you do.
A clue is in the alt text.
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The photograph shows blue flowering geranium before also blue flowering lavender.

This morning in the garden: 12 beautiful, healthy and strong ducklings, born in a nest in our hedge, fledged this morning. Here, mother duck leads them to our pond.
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The photograph shows a female mallard duck followed by 12 ducklings walking away from the camera. They are on their way to our pond.

Following on from yesterday’s post on the subject of the romantic garden, here is another one. Mysterious, too - what happened to the wearer of the dress and why did she discard it at all?
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A white dress with a lace border is draped across a “field” of flowering marguerites.

The romantic garden? I think so.

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Shrubs to the left, a border with blue and pink flowering mostly Salvia to the right. Straight ahead a stone bench. Tall hedge at the back.

I love a quiet morning in the garden - #SilentSunday
See more on my website: https://www.wolfkettler.com/the-garden-1

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The photograph shows a view across part of the garden. Close are plants, mostly flowering in blues and pinks. Mid distance kniphofia, which are about to go over. To the left and at the back trees, shrubs and a tall hedge.

Clematis and honeysuckle growing together, seemingly as one plant, over an arch, which I built a couple of years ago in the garden.
In gardens, as much as with people, we want different species and races to join, mingle and thrive together.
You can look at this photo as a protest against the right-wing nationalist populism of today, which promotes human monoculture.

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The photograph shows flowering honeysuckle and clematis seemingly growing as one plant.

First broad bean harvest of the year … they are delicious!
An organic variety called Ratio from one of my favourite suppliers, realseeds.co.uk
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