Adding more to the borders

This really is the very last of my planting in the borders for this year.  They are so full that I actually had to give away six hollyhocks I bought and some other things because when  came to put them in there really wasn't a spare inch.

I accidentally bought two different Lavateras but they are at each end of the east border so it probably wont matter too much, I hope.  I also hadn't thought about their ultimate size and I was buying them to fill a sort of half a metre 'hole' in the planting.  If they flourish they will be at least a metre wide - hey ho, breathe in everybody.

I found some lovely huge cream foxgloves to add to the ones I already have - I like each border to echo the other so I thought I needed some more.  

The scabious was just because I wanted some more blue.

More blue too for the front of the border - I always knew this plant as Lithospermum 'Heavenly Blue' - basically because it is - heavenly that is.  It seems to have changed to  Lithodorum Blue...... thanks to genetic work it seems many plants are changing their family name.  

Gaura always lends a bit of 'fluff' to a border and will flower its socks off if happy.

All these 'Verve' purchases (above) were from B and Q.

Finally, after deciding there wasn't a spare inch and having given away a ton of stuff, these two Japanese Anemones sang their siren song and they were duly bought and planted.  I know they can be a thug but it doesn't seem like one of my gardens without them.  I decided on pink because, the national trust nursery I bought them from o the way home from York, didn't have white!!

If you aren't a gardener you will see a ton of spaces in the borders but I know just how much more growth there is to come in just a couple of weeks time.

By the time I had typed this - the garden looks totally different - pots changed and added to plants coming into flower and better still, today, the sun is shining.