flowers!

Had a walk round Pudsey today and a good look at all the perennials we planted earlier in the year and they are doing marvellously! They have all grown a lot and some have started to flower already. The geums in front of the leisure centre have bright orange flowers and look absolutely gorgeous with the purple heucheras.

The beds on Lowtown are doing the best, even though they are the last ones we planted. Everything is looking healthy and the knautia 'Melton Pastels' are flowering already; some are burgundy and some are pink. The flowers are popular with butterflies so hopefully lots of wildlife will be attracted to the area.

All the bedding planted by the council is totally past it and looks terrible now so planting perennials instead was definitely a good decision and something we should do more of in the future.

The spring bedding will be removed in the next few days. The barrier troughs will have some summer bedding planted in them; we will decide what we are planting at our meeting on Thursday.

A few perennials have been stolen so these will need to be replaced too. There are 2 libertias are missing; they are slightly unusual and quite expensive plants so I suspect they were stolen by someone who fancied them for their own garden rather than just vandalised. But we have only had these 2 plants stolen out of all the beds we planted so it isn't too bad really.

We'll also weed the beds to keep them looking their best. I'll add some more photos soon now the plants are flowering.

There's an article on the Pudsey Times website today about the judges' spring visit:

http://www.pudseytoday.co.uk/news/Pudsey-praised-by-Yorkshire-in.4089160.jp