Going Wild

I think I have said before how my little garden becomes a jungle during the summer.  It is normal down to how much I grow. From tomato's, to beans, yams and cucamelons, the list goes on...

But this year I have failed, to spend time in the garden. I have grown sweet peas, wild flowers and garlic. My garlic is a bit behind, maybe about six weeks or more. I'm still waiting and praying for the scapes to appear!

I got my garlic bulbs 30 for £9.99 (please keep in mind price may change) from South West Garlic Farm base here in Dorset. Mark and his family is well known for their Black Garlic!

Which by the way I have tried and wow the garlic its self doesn't taste like the white blub garlic that you get in the supermarkets. How can I described it, hmmm, to me the black garlic as a kind of sweet taste to it!

You need to try it to see what I mean! So back to the garden.... 

Remember the Christmas tree I bought from Groves at Bridport about two years ago or more.. Well I finally found a nice pot to pot it up in back in April.  I also bought a couple more of the same pot. To pot up two other plants I just wished I got more now. I used one of the pots to pot up the rose I bought for my mum on mother's day a few years back ' Rhapsody In Blue' also from Groves at Bridport.

Plus two years ago my mum bought me a tea plant, I'm ashamed to say its took till April this year to find the right pot! 

The tea plant is the one closes to us with the bee in and the rose Rhapsody in Blue is in the pot behind.

Has you can see it is wild were the tree is!

So Ive named this post as 'Going Wild' well... I have a buddleia that appeared, I think I have wrote about it before now. Anyway I thought I was on top of it, keeping the buddleia under control. Then last month I was not to good with my health.  So I think the plant had decided to go completely wild. I know people call it a weed, an unloved plant.  But I have always like  the buddleia since I was little. I have fond memories of walking to school in the summer and looking forward to seeing the buddleia to see what bees or butterflies was on it. Has I walked past on my way to and from my little primary school..

This is how my one looks it towers over me!

Picture

This one is from my kitchen window.

Life

I wrote this down on the 6/6/15, but before I could upload and post this I caught a virus that knock the stuffing out of me.. Today is the first day I have felt well enough to post this!

Wow, I can not believe how fast the #treefollows come round. . .  I am not complaining honestly.

Yesterday (5/6/15)  while walking home in the evening I popped into the gardens to see my tree.

I can not quite believe it was 7:45pm in the evening and how it was still daylight.. 

So while I was there checking to see what had changed or not. I got asked by a lady who was walking her dog what was I upto? I explained the tree was for my grandmother and that I write about the tree in a monthly #treefollow. The lady said that the #treefollow sounded interesting, she smiled and carried on walking around the park with her dog.  I then carried on what I was doing taking notes and photos. 

So I checked the leaves to see if someone had been nubbling them, from what I can see no one as been.

Some think I had noticed when walking into the park the blossom had gone. So next I checked to see if there was any berries forming? And look berries!

Then before I left the park I noticed someone else was coming to see me... 

I was so happy to see the little ladybird.. They are one of my favourite garden friends.

Just look she (could be a he) is a two spotted!

Blossom!

So nearly every day I walk past the gardens either too or from work, friends and family. You would think I would notice when somethink as changed. Right?

Well its not always the case, some time the gardens are really busy with students or people walking their dog's. So I wait patiently for a quite moment. I suppose really I don't really want people questioning what I'm up to.  Bad I know..

Anyway!

About two weeks after my last post about the gardens and my tree. The Prunus Grandiflora (grandmother's tree) started to bloom. Yay!!!

Sorry about the windswept looking picture.

Look how beautiful this one above turn out. After me taking picture after picture to get the right one..

The rest of the garden since the new fencing went up is slowly getting there. I first thought WHAT!!! No shrubs, but I'm not sure if you can tell by the picture below.  There is wild flowers and grass growing. Maybe the local gardeners will class the wild flowers as weeds.. But for me I like love the let nature take its course kind of thing!

One last thing the other trees in the gardens are just about still flowering!

The Sort Out

The past couple of week I have been busy on my days off sorting out the garden. I finally decided to get rid of the unused barque that was falling to bits.. Due to weather and the little family of woodlice. Which I'm not entitle sure how they have moved in. Maybe its due to the plant swapes/shares and buying! I really do not mind how they have moved in, I think they are cute..

Has you can see from the picture above (1) the barque has gone... Also remember the New Zealand Flax? That my aunt was going to have, well she never came to get the flax. Then last winter hit and I believe the flax died, so I sorted the pot out and bagged up the plant. The picture is above (2) is how the planter is looking at the moment..

Blooming good!

Remember last month I wrote about how the local council gardening team had nearly destroyed the park garden or aka Saint Johns Gardens! 

Last month!

I wrote how I was worried about how and what they were doing or going to be doing to the gardens...  

Putting my worry's and fears to one side now.  Has I have some very happy news. . . The local gardeners have put a basic wooden fence up. Not very completed in places. But better than nothink - right? 

Has you can see the other trees in the park are all in bloom! Only down side is the boarders were the fence goes into are now empty, I just hope that they the gardening team puts some shrub's in at a later date!

I do like how the gardening team have used railway sleepers in one of the corners. 

Back to my grandmother's tree.  At a glance the tree looks like it's doing no think. 

It is only when I got up close and personal I saw in fact that the tree is in bud!

Before I finish this post I have been looking back on my #treefollow journey. I can not quite believe its been a year since I joined!!  I know for sure I will keep this #treefollowing going..

What is going on?

Round about the 25th of last month I noticed the local council gardening team was up to some think...

Then a few days later while I was walking home.  I had a nasty shock, the gardening team had removed all the wire fencing.  The place looks a complete mess..

The Saint John's Gardens do not look that bad  from the picture above. Right?

It is only when you get up close and have a good look you see how bad the gardens look.

The three pictures below you will see what I mean.  They have ripped up the all the shrubs and bush's, some roses too! 

Very sad to see

I am trying my best to find out what is going on!

Will find out and update you all!!

Selfie with tree!

Not a lot is happening to my Grandmother's tree.  Every time I go I look to see what's new or if any new plants at the base or any scary spiders moved in... But nothink!!

The Chop

Sometimes I do wonder why I do this blog and the #treefollow.

Then somethink happens and then I remember why I started Busy Bees Garden or should say it was originally called My Little Garden Heaven. For me it is my way to show and express my love for all things plant/gardening related....

Kind of my way of taking some of the load off driving my family up the wall..

Talk about family before joining looseandleafy #treefollow ... I use to repeat the same info to each family member that asked about our tree... But now I just send them all a link to this blog..

 So back to the tree in question. . .

I wander past the Saint John's Gardens nearly every day.  So I notice when some think as happened within the gardens and especially

 with Grand's tree.

Please don't judge nor laugh when I say not a lot is happening to grandmothers tree, even the little flowers that was at the base of the tree as gone...

Makes me wonder were the flowers have gone too.. They were there yesterday , but have gone today. Makes me think have they died over night or have they been picked. . . We will never know! 

One thing I have noticed is the local council gardening team are working in the gardens.  I was entirely sure what they were up to. Until I walked past just now..... 

They are giving the Roses the chop...

Not the best picture in the world, but you can see some of the rose bushes..

Spring is coming

I think I can definitely say winter as hint my

 'Prunus Padus Grandiflora' and the little Victorian Gardens that it is in..

I have noticed the past couple of times I have walked past the gardens how the place looks a bit run down and well used too... Sad thing I've noticed is some one as pulled down the wired fence...  I am not entitle sure what or how the Victorians would feel to see the place now... I guess heart broken! 

I decided to do some digging to find out more about the gardens...  So I dig out my Dorset books to do some research.... 

This is what I have discovered about the land that the gardens are situated on was owned by Sir Frederic Johnston (a Conservative party member).

Sir Frederic Johnston was also the same man that own Greenhill Gardens ( which I am working on a post about).. I believe Frederic also owned the Alexandra Gardens too... 

Back to the little gardens I learnt Sir Frederic Johnston gave the land to the local council for the gardens. He wanted local people who did not have a garden have a place to go...

The gardens was opened on Wednesday 20th July 1904 and was named Saint Johns Gardens.

The picture below is how the gardens looked once opened..

Which to me makes kind of sense... Has up and around the corner is Saint Johns Church. Across the road from the church was the school, also called Saint Johns... Now stands an block of flats where the school was...

Back to Saint Johns Gardens, the Prunus Padus Grandiflora has lost its leaves. But there is signs of Spring is on its way... 

There are buds!