Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – Evergreen August

Welcome to Garden Blogger’s Foliage Day (GBFD) for August 2017.  My apologies for being absent last month.  Part of my reason for not blogging during all of July was that it was so hot I hardly spent any time outside at all unless it was by the sea or at the lake!  It was only enjoyable to have breakfast outside, lunch and dinner were eaten in the relative coolness of inside the house.  Those of you imagining me sitting on the terrace under the covering of the wisteria were I’m afraid dreaming of some other place.  With some days reaching the dizzy heights of 42°C (104°F) it was unbearable for me to be sitting even in the shade.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – High summer when foliage is essential

Firstly, many, many apologies for not posting for GBFD in May.  I was at the Chelsea Flower Show and didn’t have my laptop with me.  Thank you to those of you who posted anyway, I read your posts with great pleasure.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – Spring has sprung

Welcome to GBFD, a day to forget the flowers, if you can, and concentrate on the qualities of foliage.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – February 2017

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day.  Sorry I am a day late but life rather got in the way.  I also have to admit that nothing very different is happening in My Hesperides Garden regarding foliage this month.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – Autumn has arrived

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day where I share with you my belief that to have a garden that pleases you all year foliage must be a major consideration when choosing plants.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – autumn growth

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day, the post where I urge you to consider and appreciate the benefits that foliage gives to your garden.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – After the rains came!

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day where I ask you to look at and appreciate your foliage more.  I’m always glad when bloggers that I follow mention that they have been inspired to consider the benefits that good foliage bestows after reading about my approach to foliage.  It isn’t that I don’t want flowers, it is that those flowers usually need the support of good foliage and structural planting to show themselves at their best.

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – August heat

Welcome to GBFD, where foliage is the star rather than the flowers!  That’s a good thing in my August garden as flowers are in short supply.  What foliage stands up to the high temperatures, warm winds and lack of rain in August?

Garden Bloggers’ Foliage Day – Pruned shapes

This month I don’t want to focus on individual plants but on the forms created in the garden by pruning and pose the question is this natural?

GBFD – Green June

June has sped by; so much so that the fact that today is the 22nd of the month had completely passed me by as you will know as I said yesterday that I would be posting about the cut flower beds today, ho hum, that will have to be tomorrow now; Cathy at Rambling in the garden has posted about her cut flowers today so perhaps those who want to join with that should link to her.  But I hope you will join me in writing about your foliage too because even though I know your June gardens are filled with flowers it is the foliage that makes the garden look truly beautiful.