Hellibores | Uccello Lane

Spring Late – 2019 Guest Photographer

Spring 2019 has been glorious – after the hot summer we had some good rainfall – and now it is lush. We had a guest photographer capture some of Uccello Lane – and some old photos of how it was.

Starting with “The Bank” everything is in flower including the wisteria, snowball trees and the lavender. Have a look at how it was in 2013 .

The Bank

Iris getting ready to flower

Trav’s Trees clear away bank

July 2013 – Heading towards the Cherry tree on the Bank

Bank in July 2013

The Bank

Seaside Daisy

Seaside Daisy growing in a rock

Snowball Trees

Wisteria

Trees

The Bank

Lavender Hedge

The Bank

Yellow flowers

Pale yellow flower

The edibles and kitchen garden are getting planted – and the fennel has taken over.

Spring Onion

Leafy Green

Chooks

Mango Marigold

Fennel

Hedges

Strawberries

Poppies

The birch forest with the helibores underplanted and trees with bark that look like an owl..some old pictures from 2015 – before the birches grew

Birch forest

Smoke Bush

Standing Tall like a Birch tree

Trav’s Trees guys do the clearout

Birch before they grew

Trees Tagged

Wisteria

Helibores

Trees – Owl

The Secret Garden has a lavender hedge and a new wrought iron door to peep through – it all started with a string line and some plastic fencing…

The Secret Garden

String Line set up to start

Vince fixing the Secret Garden Door

Excavation

The Secret Garden

Before the Hobbit Door

The Rosa Arbor is in getting ready to burst – and the natives are also keen to get in on the season…

then it across to CrabApple Walk – past the dry stone wall and across to the perennial garden

…..From the beginning

Rosemary Hedge

Salvia

Summer Joy

Dry-Stone Wall

Wattle

Hellebore

Daffodils

Salvia Pink

Lobelia

Wattle

Cherry Blossom

Hellebore

BlueBells

Flower after the rain again

Tree Fern

Red Flower that keeps on flowering

Blue Salvia

Hellebore

Hellebore

Rosemary in the rain

Wattle

kangaroo getting ready to leap

Flower after the rain

ARt Deco Wrought Iron

Daffodils

Wattle

Hellebore

Tree Fern

Wattle

Yellow Flower – Daisy

Hellebore

Lilly Pilly

Rose – Carpet on the bank

Hellebore

The Yellow Garden….September 2019

It is Spring and it is all about the Yellow Garden – daffodils and the Wattles have never looked so stunning.

Daffodils

Tree Fern

Salvia

Summer Joy

Wattle

Yellow Flower – Daisy

Flower after the rain

Trees – Silver Birch Clopse – Every Edna Walling Garden should have one!

“Walling’s style was demonstrated with her magical method of placing silver birch trees in subtle harmony with one another, she took five potatoes from a bucket, threw them all in the same general direction and said “There!” It was no more haphazard than nature’s way.”

So we found an area at Uccello Lane that seemed perfect for the silver birch “forest. We had seen an amazing example at Alowyn where hundreds of silver birches had been planted closely together and then underplanted with hellebores. Firstly the area had to be cleared and the soil prepared. Trav’s Trees came and removed undergrowth and weed “trees”. Adam and his men from Three Colors Green prepared the soil and then Heather Allen decided on the plantings – sort of Edna Walling style!

The birches are growing and we plan to extend the area to incorporate the Pear tree and add some more Birch’s so it really does become a Birch Forest!

Mass plantings of Silver Birches at Alowyn Gardens

Birch Forest – Alowyn Garden

Birch Forest – Trees tagged ready to be cut down

Trav’s Trees guys do the clearout

Planting ready

Well what do you think – is it like Edna’s?

Yes but is it straight?

Perfect says Adam

Standing Tall like a Birch tree

Birch Forest – Early Days

All planted – now for the underplanting

Birch Forest – Early Days

Trees Tagged

Underplanting

Birch Forest – Later

Before the Secret Garden – ‘Louis Van Houtte’ Elm – Birch Forest behind

Russell Lupins

Starting to Grow

Birch Forest – The sign

Hellebores – The Winter Rose

The Hellebore’s are out – mainly in the Birch Forest area but they appear where there is no other color and have such amazing tones. Next to the Camellias they provide some winter relief from the cold wet feel to the garden.