This is the one planted up by OH, with scabious, orange-coloured and -scented wallflower, gladioli, a yellow choisya, and some lobelia cardinalis "Queen Victoria".
I got what was left over from our multi-pound garden centre haul and made do with: an old rustred chrysanthemum, some white silvery plant that's been hanging around our flower baskets for donkey's years, some strawberries, another choisya, some poppies, a gaillardia in the middle, flanked by monardas, some random red cabbage plants, a lemon balm in the back and some wide-armed indestructible thing with purple flowers that wrap themselves around everything that we'd fished out of the garden one year and put in a pot where it came back, unfailingly, despite being routinely forgotten, unwatered and frozen solid over various hard winters. OH said it was a tradescantia and that looks about correct, judging by the pic in his Perennials book.
And this is an experiment: an intensively manured planter dedicated solely to veg: broadbeans, tomatoes, pumpkins and leftover lettuce seedlings. Doing well, isn't it? We took our inspiration here from a neighbour further up the road who has turned his front garden into a mini allotment and grows his courgettes, spinach, cabbages, herbs, asparagus etc. right next to his fence. It's great wandering past it and seeing how it all comes on.
And these are our front garden strawberries, instead of window basket flowers: they look very inviting and they keep our neighbours and our perennially harassed postie happy.
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