Garden by the Water

The gentle slope from the grass down to the water's edge was too difficult to mow, so I dug a garden here, filling it with rejects from other borders.

Here you can see the plantings by the water's edge, in their second full summer. No doubt this garden will change as things grow fatter and taller and plants get shifted around.

Waterside Roses

The Willow Tree is there looking green and beautiful in the background. Actually it's only a stump, from which huge branches have regrown.

Upstream

Footnote - Changes in the Garden

The Iris Japonica patch was flattened in a winter snow storm, and I've ripped most of it out. The rose Robusta wasn't quite as 'robusta' as its name suggested, and used to get covered in rust. So eventually it was consigned to the rubbish fire in another winter clean-up.