My garden right now: Autumn 2017 #mygardenrightnow

This weekend is the Autumn edition of My Garden Right Now. I took part in the early Spring (March) and Chelsea Fringe (June) editions, focusing upon my garden in pots. This time the focus is on resting in the garden.

Due to a variety of reasons, my chronic illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), has not improved, and in fact I'm doing less in the garden than in May. This is very frustrating, but this is as things are, so I'm adapting as best I can.

What I am doing regularly in the garden right now, is resting in my comfy chair with a cup of tea and a Tunnock's Teacake, listening to my favourite podcast, The British History Podcast, which is what the picture above represents.

My garden right now is mainly a place of rest. It is a place of quiet enjoyment of two of my favourite things, being in the garden, and learning more about British History. It's a good place to be.


I'd love to see your garden right now. Leave a comment with a link below and I'll come and visit!

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Thanks to Michelle for continuing this project. Visit Michelle's blog for links to other gardens right now, and for information on how you can take part too. And check out the hashtag on Twitter: #mygardenrightnow

My garden right now: Chelsea Fringe edition 2017 #mymardenrightnow

When I took part in My Garden Right Now back in March, my garden was all in pots as we were about to move house. Well, we have moved house, but as we are renting for a year, most of garden remains potty!

Because I have the chronic illness ME, which hasn't been good in recent months, I don't have much energy to garden. I needed to set up my temporary garden in a way that made it easiest to manage. I've done this by laying down some permeable membrane, topped with woodchips/bark, in one section of the garden. This keeps most of the watering, an energy-consuming job, confined to one area. When we leave, we will lay down some turf to restore that area to the way in which we found it.

I also have a small display area for my alpines.

My gardener and I restored the one border that did exist (it was filled with weeds), but again, I've kept most things in pots, except for some herbs and strawberries, which I will gift to the future renters.

So that's my temporary garden right now.

And finally, this is me in my slippers. Coz sometimes it's just nice to wander around and enjoy the plants in the garden, before heading back to bed to rest again. 

I'd love to see your garden right now. Leave a comment with a link below and I'll come and visit!

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Thanks to Michelle for continuing this project, this time as part of the Chelsea Fringe. Visit Michelle's blog for links to other gardens right now. And check out the hashtag on Twitter: #mygardenrightnow

#mymardenrightnow

"I don't really have a garden right now". This was my first thought when I read Michelle, over at Veg Plotting's, post #MyGardenRightNow. I'm in the middle of moving house. Furthermore, my garden for the next year is temporary (we are renting), so everything is in pots. But then I realised, my garden right now is, well, potty.

So, ok, I've gone a little over the brief. Alright, a lot over the brief. It's supposed to be 'a' photo of the garden, possibly with me in it. My excuse is that after my initial disappointment of thinking I didn't really have a garden right now, I then got excited about the idea of showing my garden in transit. So here it is. My garden right now.

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Garlic, Sorrel, an Acer and other plantings in pots.

Helenium, Rudbeckia, and Crocosmia in pots.

Galanthus and Hepatica in pots.

Grass-Merlyn in a pot. This rather chopped back grass in the foreground containers the ashes of our beloved cat Merlyn. He would always ignore the everyday grass and go straight to my ornamental grasses to chew on. This one, Deschampsia cespitosa 'Goldtau', was his favourite.

Rosa 'seagull' cuttings in a pot. Lots of them, as I'm not sure of what I'm doing. Hopefully one of the c. 10 cuttings will take.

Just potted up Cranberry in a pot.

An alien-like young leaves of Thalcitrum in a pot.

Fargesia 'Red Panda' in a pot. And the pot that looks like nothing is in it, has new growth of Geranium nodosum 'Clos du Coudray' in a pot.

Pots and pots and pots of Strawberries.

A collection of alpines in pots.

Gwenfar's Garden, in a pot. #mygardenrightnow

I'd love to see your garden right now. Leave a comment with a link below and I'll come and visit!

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Thanks to Michelle for coming up with such an interesting project, the idea of showing how our gardens are, even at the end of Winter/beginning of Spring, when 'not much' is happening. Clearly, lots is happening. Visit Michelle's blog for links to other gardens right now. And check out the hashtag on Twitter: #mygardenrightnow