Well almost wordless, the field outside the garden is looking amazing, I wanted to share its beauty with you.
Looking out of the upstairs window (ironing today so this is what I can see
Lots of Verbascums looking stately
Pink, yellow, white – Malva, Verbascum and wild carrot
The same flowers throughout but with a different percentage of each in different parts of the field
The cool, wet July has allowed this to happen!
It’s looking fantastic. What a gorgeous view to have. 🙂
I can only really see it from the top room where I iron, the hedging hides it from inside the garden.
So beautiful, I wouldn’t mind ironing if I had a view like that!
I always hate ironing but this helps!
What a view – both the garden and the countryside beyond. That offer of me coming over to do your ironing for you still stands!
Tell me when you want to come, Sarah! I’ll have a huge pile waiting for you.
I think I would burn holes in things just staring at the view!
So far I haven’t! But there’s always a first time.
A beautiful sight! Few things can top a meadow full of wildflowers.
I think this is quite inspirational for how to plant naturally; of course the scale is large and the same look is very difficult to achieve in a garden.
I love the mix of wild and cultivated areas in your photos, Christina!
That really is a stunning view. Love those verbascums. 🙂
The field is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen it; the rain and cooler weather mean that different plants have survived long enough to flower.
It’s intriguing to see the effect of the different percentages, isn’t it?
This it is, I think that’s what I’m trying to achieve in parts of the garden; that natural, random but not evenly mixed matrix.
Well if you have to iron, that is definitely the view. I’m green with envy! (but not about the ironing).
Sadly linen and cotton need ironing; I like wearing natural fibres but don’t enjoy the ironing.
The Verbascums add interesting height to the meadow. You certainly have beautiful views.
Mostly the field is just dried grass, that’s why it seems so special.
I love your long view. The field looks so full of cool stuff, and I do like the extra rain look better than the bone dry….
Is this field fallow or has it been uncultivated for a while? Also what happened to the bushes? sorry so may questions 🙂
The field belongs to our neighbour and it hasn’t had anything but sheep on it (and that rarely) over the last 10 years. I doesn’t even always get cut down which it should as it could be a bad fire risk, because of the extra rain this year there are definitely more species flowering. Sorry, what bushes? Christina
With our rainier summers a field like that would have been overgrown with trees in those ten years! I meant the bushes (trees I guess) that appear dead, just wondering if they were killed to keep the field open or if it just happened.
The trees died through lack of water in all those ten years I think.
You certainly are lucky to have such a spectacular view!
Finalmente posso vedere il prato che mi dicevi! Hai fatto bene a metterlo in un post! anche io ho visto molti prati meravigliosi… questa sarà un’estate indimenticabile!