The garden at the front of the house has always played second fiddle to the garden at the back and the patio. I suppose this is because we do not sit out and relax at the front and neither to we encourage Mili and Hecate to go out onto the front.
In addition, I have always thought this space to be at its best in winter and into spring. The snow drops are at their abundant best before anything else has dared to show its first shoots. The front of the house is where the only naturalized daffodils are found and, of course there is the clematis and the bluebells, all of which are early season beauties.
However, it struck me this week that the front garden has held its own well into the summer this year. The steps up to the front door are currently flanked with the colourful flowers of the hardy fuchsia and the orange crocosmia. The latter is a new addition and I have been really pleased with the way it combines with the burnished colours of the weeping copper beech.
The whole area is densely packed with shrubs and flowers. The only lawn is on the other side of the drive. This makes it probably the least labour intensive area of the entire property.
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