Not long now and we’ll be opening the gates and welcoming visitors to our NGS Open Weekend. This will be the fifth time we have opened the garden in conjunction with others in the locality and we are hard at work. I can’t guarantee we will be weed free, in fact I can guarantee that there will be some weeds but hopefully we will have pulled out all the obvious ones and the garden plants will be looking lovely . Amazing though how you can pull out nettles and sticky weed and think you’ve cleared an area only to look out of the window and see a three foot nettle waving at you!
The other task keeping me busy at the moment is potting on plants for the Plant Stall. There should be a good selection available, the majority propagated from plants growing in the garden or from seed.
The roses are starting to flower mostly of the “old fashioned shrub” variety which are our favourites. This is a moss rose whose name is unknown to us – any ideas? Hopefully there will still be some blooms on Open Weekend!
Tales from a Country Garden 
They hide whilst you’re weeding. It ALWAYS happens!
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They’ll be growing quicker now – we’ve had RAIN!! All afternoon and the garden looks so much fresher.
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Have you tried the app called Picture this .
It is free and when you photograph a plant it often identifies the variety .
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Thanks. Will investigate the app – it would be lovely to know what the rose is called
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