New garden bench

It was hard to resist. When you see something like this you should get it if possible.

This is the new acquisition for the garden. Among all the materials available I prefer wood for the garden furniture and this piece has an special touch. It is made of teak but recycled teak and it looks quite new after all. In the pictures you can see that the bench seat is made ​of different pieces put together (one of them keeps little holes from older times) and then sanded to shape the smooth rounded corners.

Recycled teak bench

Is very stable but not so large that it can’t be moved wherever necessary. So far it was the seat for the grill master in the last barbecue, the horse for the little ones and do not know why people tend to sit down there and not on the other "more comfortable" chairs and benches.

Recycled garden teak bench

English rose Graham Thomas

David Austin in his book “The English Roses” says about his Graham Thomas rose...

“Graham Thomas” might be described as no longer in the top flight of English Roses, although it is a valuable variety, no least for its colour, which is unique among English Roses and rare among other roses.

And I only can think that he wrote down this under a serious attack of modesty because how this beauty can not be on the top of the top. Healthy plant, beautiful foliage and what a colour! In this point I totally agree with Mr. Austin, of course.

Graham Thomas

Honestly a flower garden must have this rose or something important would be missing. Don’t you think so?

Pink flower garden

It must be something unconscious. It is obvious that the Garden Chair likes pink in all of the shades available. Just with the almost fading roses of the Leonardo da Vinci rose, the Red Leonardo da Vinci rose, the Strawberry Hill rose and the peonies I got these arrangements.

Leonardo da Vinci rose, Red Leonardo da Vinci rose and Strawberry Hill rose

The Leonardo da Vinci varieties go perfectly together. From crimson to pale pink these flowers go through all the spectrum.

Leonardo da Vinci rose and Red Leonardo da Vinci rose

I save these peonies from the hunger of the slimy slugs and voilà!

Peonies

The roses below are Strawberry Hill and although they look like falling apart they hold their beauty long and the smell is fantastic.

Strawberry Hill rose

Chamomile

I really like the smell of chamomile in the air. Among all of the herbs I must say that this is the best. Beautiful colour and better fragrance.

Every year I seed chamomile in pots and place them where it looks prettier then I pick the flowers little by little and I get enough for having a nice herb tee for the next autumn.

Sweet chestnut tree

I can hardly believe that we could seed a sweet chestnut tree! Actually three of them.

We just replanted to bigger pots and who knows, perhaps we can eat chestnuts in few years.

But it is better to enjoy the moment and see how little by little they grow.

Gertrude Jekyll rose

It is cute, isn’t it?

Gertrude Jekyll rose

Gertrude Jekyll is an amazing English rose. When it just opens it looks like a little champagne cup; thin and delicate. Just afterwards it gets bigger and thicker and stays for quite long time.
The flowers have a very deep pink colour and what a fragrance! It lives up to its name.

The new peony

The peonies are flowering at last and they are so pretty that the Garden Chair decided to buy more to plant them just opposite on the other side of the main path. Easy task, in principle.

Full of excitement and some money in the pocket the searching of The Peony started but soon it became an impossible mission. It took approximately half an hour to find the section in the garden center where in principle the peonies are and surprisingly there were only three little ill plants available and for an astronomic price!

Peonies in this area must be out of fashion because there were none, really. Moment of giving up but... what was there between the dahlias and the little conifers? Just the peony the Garden Chair was looking for: Paeonia “Shirley Temple”.

Paeonia "Shirley Temple"

Promised to do well in shadow -perfect for the purpose- with nice scent pale pink flowers and the plant becomes reddish in Autumn.
Mission accomplished.