Above is the border in the churchyard which is planted up for flowers and foliage to cut for church. This saves hundreds of air miles. It's also used by the After School club who have made vegetable gardens at the far end and provided insect hibernacula, beetle banks and a bird feeding station. It's a lovely, active garden. 
This border which replaces a tatty bit of grass cut by the council, is now full of daffodils but in summer has day lilies, alstromerias, campanulas, alchemillas, ligularias to name but a few. It's a riot of blue, yellow and orange and is a favourite of many of us.
Another border, this time begun by the householder who planted rose bushes and then ran out of ooomph. We have 'daffed it up' for spring and planted lots of perennials for summer colour. I gave the roses their first real pruning last weekend - I still have the scars! You can also see one of the barrels which we have placed around the village - 12 in all. Many of these are sponsored by local groups and the village shops and we just provide the planting. There are some perennials in this, though they are hard to see, and a dozen small plum coloured tulips, just on the point of opening. (This one courtesy of the Women's Institute.) Now please can I go to my allotment and plant my spuds?
11 comments:
The part of your churchyard which I can see looks wonderful, and the rest sounds wonderful too. How lovely for the after school club to have somewhere to grow vegetables.
The great thing about village life is the community spirit which really comes over in your photo. A pleasure to see.
Love the first pic. The idea of all that activity, laughter and happy bugs buzzing about happy flowers and vegies!
Lovely to have a village that pulls together like this.
It must be like lively in a huge garden - lovely!
Gosh, you've worked hard! I hope there's a small army of helpers - it can be good fun when everyone pitches in. I love the barrels that you've dotted around - might pinch that idea for the small shop area that forms my 'village'. Good luck with the judging - let us know how you got on!
It's lovely, I bet the rest of the village residents are so glad that your group do this every year.
Thanks everyone, there are 10 of us altogether - yes, we certainly do feel apreciated by everyone in the village. We are offered plants that people are splitting, cups of tea, ice lollies and on one memorable occasion - a hot June day - chilled glasses of white wine. That's the way to garden!
Pinch the idea by all means Caroly - we pinched it in our turn!
Lots of nice gardens! Your committee does an excellent job.
Hope you managed to get down and plant your spuds! Easter is late this year and I didn't want to wait.
Thank you for the wonderful glimpses of your village. It looks fantastic, those judges ought to be impressed!
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