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How does your garden grow?

14 June 2013 by Eileen

Recently, I met Annie Spratt at the Tots100 Blog Summit and found her amazing blog. I am an amateur gardener but I am very keen to learn and keep my garden in good shape. I am linking this post up with How does your garden grow? over at Mammasaurus.

How does your garden grow

The wintry weather stayed with us for a lot longer than average this year and this has had a knock on effect on my plants. Usually by this time, my Lavender would be blooming with a mixture of purple and white but alas they have stayed quite small. These are my garden plants:

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How does your garden grow lavander

It is a little on the plain side right now but I hope to be able to show you more photos in a few weeks. If you like gardening or showcasing your plants and flowers, click the badge to join in and see how other garden grows!

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Comments

  1. devideaster says

    16 August 2013 at 10:20 am

    It is very important to provide adequate watering to all the plants in a garden for proper growing. Your garden is looking simply great and I also have lavenders in my garden. You have maintained your garden in a better way.

  2. Abby Carroll says

    11 July 2013 at 3:54 pm

    lovely garden 🙂 i have just started a garden patch for my 2 and 4 yr olds lots of lovely easy flowers and strawberries! 🙂

  3. Nichola Fabfortymum says

    15 June 2013 at 9:14 pm

    What a beautiful garden, I can’t wait to see your Lavender when it blooms, it is such a gorgeous plant.

  4. MultiLayerMummy says

    15 June 2013 at 8:14 pm

    you are so neat & tidy, my garden needs a lesson from you, yours looks great. Our lavenders have flowers mostly already, can’t wait for them all to bloom, the smell is fantastic!

  5. AnnieMammasaurus says

    15 June 2013 at 4:22 pm

    How lovely! I really like how symmetrical you have kept things in your garden in that top photo, it works really well. Looks like a relaxing space to have 🙂

    I too am waiting for my lavender to burst into purpley goodness – hope we don;t have to wait much longer!

    Thank you for joining in and sharing x

  6. Natasha Gandy says

    15 June 2013 at 9:33 am

    So lovely !! My garden is also in a bad way – we need a gardener to help us get it in hand so we can deal with it really 🙁 We only moved in a year ago and it was overgrown then and we have hardly touched it ! x

  7. Anna says

    14 June 2013 at 8:38 pm

    I love the flower photos on mammasaurus. so beautiful! my garden is in such a bad state 🙁

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