august in the garden

The weather has been very un-summer like but at least we have some colour in the garden. We must just stop and enjoy the fruits of our labour! The Plants enjoy the rain even if we are sick of it!
Nothing gives me more pleasure than getting stuck into the garden-shaping a border or having a good weed.







The back garden

The back garden in the early morning

Echinops and Stipa gigantia

Verbena in the everning light

hot summer colours

Hanging globe for summer ball

vibrant hot summer colours used for a display for summer ball

The design company having the event wanted Orange and purple, and wanted the flowers to look like a summer garden.

poppies

Poppy in the shop

Poppies in the garden

Saddly missed Dieter the doggie

Sadly missed, Dieter the doggie. We got Dieter from the animal shelter . He was 11 and full of life but he kept nipping people and was too protective ,when someone came to the door. He bit a friend who he had been ok with , so with having the shop and children with heartache , we returned him . We feel very sad and miss him,
We are still wanting a dog we loved having one and feel a puppy or young dog would be better with children. We quite like the idea of a Lurcher- so if any one has one and can give me some tips or has pups email me .

I can see a rainbow

At the bottom of my garden. We had a double one the other night.One advantage to rain in summer!!

Foxtail Lilly

Natural planting with gravel. Lots of baby plants easily self seed in the gravel. Stipas, lavenders, Cerinthe all good for picking for my flower hand ties .

Foxtail Lilly

Hi, and welcome to Foxtail Lilly. This is a picture of my newly opened shop. The shop is where i live and now work! Full of lovely goodies , Fresh flower bouquets that i hand tie .Plants , crafts by local artists and vintage country style gifts. The shop recently officially opened , by Graham Rice the garden writer www.grahamrice.com, who has written many fantastic books . The sun shone all day, what good luck after all the rain!

This is my first posting and i should let you know a few bits of tittle tattle about me and my lot-

My name is Tracey and i am mad about gardening, colour, vintage finds , animals and travel

I have a wonderful if not crazy husband called Rick who is mad on climbing.

Two equally wonderful children Poppy aged 11 and Flynn aged 8

A cat called Tilly . Two hens Dotty and Humbug.

I have been gardening madly for over fifteen years and started to sell plants and flowers from my garden a few years ago, selling on the local farmers market. We had a disused barn and started to transform it in to a shop . Iv wanted to do it for many years, so went for it last year. This took so much longer than i thought but hey , here it finally is and I'm loving it. I have a fab arty and crafty friends that supply stuff for the shop.Come along and see it for yourself or visit www.foxtail-lilly.co.uk