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Garth End Cottage - July evening 2014

With the garden still in good flower, and the topiary just about clipped into shape, I walked around with my camera and took some photos from different views.

Potager
A small square potager provides a few seasonable vegetables

Potager

Leylandii
Two clipped leylandi frame a bed of knotweed, bamboo, bistort and holly

Leylandi pillars

Beech topiary
A 35 year old beech tree has been shaped into a spiral

Spiral beech

Digitalis ferruginea
Small "rusty foxglove" grown as a perennial from seeds given to us as a curiosity.

Foxgloves

Garth End Cottage garden
A view down the garden from the pond

The house

Irish yew
An Irish yew in front of a conical hawthorn. The yew has been cut back and bent - it is being shaped into a bird

Irish yew

Garden path
A view down the garden path towards the house

Path

Pergola
A pergola deeply covered with ivy

Pergola

Hanging baskets
Hanging baskets on the pergola bring some colour each summer

Hanging baskets

Fuschia
Fuschias grown in pots for shady spots

Fuschia

globe thistle
Globe thistles give some height and structure every year

Globe thistle

Hazel nuts
Emerging hazel nuts in their green skins

Hazel nuts

Lucifer
Lucifer - the bright red form of the common crocosmia

Lucifer crocosmia

Zigzag topiary
A 35 year old beech tree has been shaped into a spiral

Box zigzag

Garden bench
An oak garden bench near the pond.

Garden bench

Garth End Cottage garden
Beech clipped into a spiral, with golden privet and box in the foreground

Top topiary

Crazy paving
Broken paving slabs used in the pergola for crazy paving.

Crazy paving

Zig zag box
Zigzag topiary in box

Zig zag path

Front garden
Front garden with box topiary, and Scottish pebbles.

Front garden

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