Charingworth Court Cotswolds Garden

As it is almost June, Richard planted out the dahlias in the walled garden. The report on this spring says it has been one of the coldest on record and the plants certainly seem to have noticed!

A great day in the garden with loads of visitors on the art trail to see sculpture and textiles. Selling well!

The sun has shone and everyone has enjoyed the garden much more even though it was cold! I had my boots and winter coat on….

Just a taste of what you will see in the garden.

I’ve been trying to garden today but it has rained and hailed so much that several times I have had to run for cover! The tulips aren’t quite sure what is happening but these rather elegant dark Paul Scherer seem to be standing tall despite everything the weather can throw at them. The honeysuckle has enjoyed the drink and the good news is that I don’t need to do any watering !

The Adirondack chairs look good – if only we had time to sit down in them! Still it’s been a beautiful weekend so far with the sun really encoraging the trees to open as you can see with the copper beeches. And the clouds look great reflected in the pond as the water lilies start to spread their leaves across the centre. I hadn’t seen any frogspawn but today there are lots of tiny tadpoles swimming around so there must have been some somewhere!