This is Nancy Nightingale’s garden. After a whole month of total neglect. Yes four full weeks of being ignored.
Our very own NN has been abroad on a secret mission and her home in the meantime been home to wannabe surfers and possibly hipsters. Not a gardener in sight.
When I visited yesterday I was expecting carnage, instead I was met with voluptuous, marginally anarchic, beauty. The cosmos and dahlias, asters and sunflowers, agapanthus and canna, gladioli and lavatera, were tangled together in a deep pile carpet of pure joy.
After a dead-head-athon, the purple beans and plum tomatoes were harvested and a few of the most obvious weeds tugged.
All is ready for her return.
Off The Edge Gardening 
Looks just amazing.
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You have done well. Show what a little neglect can do.
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Exactly! I may well do more of it.
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Well, it’s gorgeous: just how I would love my garden to look. So neglect is the key. And choosing the right plants, obviously.
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And a lot of luck! Sun and rain at the right time helps. 🙂
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“. . voluptuous, marginally anarchic, beauty.” You’ve outdone yourself with that piece of prose! Well done, you! And well done, Nancy Nightingale!
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Thank you Mrs D, and I will thank you too on behalf of NN x
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Beautiful neglect but based on good principles I’m sure. I wish you were my gardener! I’m sure your humour and philosophy would work it’s magic here too.
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Sorry but Gill will be moving to South Wales before she moves to London! She has connections here. And I have a pink plastic flamingo too (and a plastic duck in the pond to deter herrings)!
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It is true, the flamingo is a deal breaker.
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What a lovely thing to say, thank you 🙂
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I love these colour combinations. They gladden the heart. 🌼
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They do! It was a dull and dismal day and they lifted my spirits no end. 🙂
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Whoa! That is RAD! I thought those lived only in California, where we are known for our exemplary bad taste.
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Ha, ha ha!!! 😀
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