2: Our gardening diaries - from latest toys, flowers to wildlife .. Please upload pics

[Logan]

Morning all

 

[alp]

Good morning to a new day!

 

[alp]

I need help with the IDs of these please

They could be
Naga
Birdeye
Cayenne
Finger
Serenade
Scotch Bonnet
Habanero
Fresno
Jalipeno.

Please help!

 

[Logan]

1 is a scotch bonnet
2 could be a Naga
5 could be a cayenne
6 could be a green Cayenne

 

[alp]

3 could be a jalipeno? It's usually fat and round (as seen from pickled jalipeno. Thank you, Logan.

 

[alp]

Bought a lot of plants today. Quite a few Bromiliads x 4. Quite a few
Aechmea at 75p each. I bought 7 of them.

Very pleased.

 

[alp]

Logan: guess what? I repotted them and then read that you don't need to repot them. Any way, I'm glad that I watched videos on youtube and learned about how to take care of them.

 

[Logan]

Morning all

 

[alp]

Good morning to all. Didn't wake up until 7.20 as I watched the mystery of Edwin Drood last night which ended 11pm. Quite an exciting film and a good one.

Thumb up to youtube as this lady has taught me how to take care of aechemeas. Interesting that you have to pour a bit of distilled water into the urn which holds the flower stem. Never heard of it and the roots are only for anchor..

 

[Logan]

That's great. Going now got to make my special mince pies for Christmas.Putting sherry in,so i might have a bit myself.

 

[Zenj]

Morning all another very cold night and frost roll on Spring .

 

[alp]

Morning all another very cold night and frost roll on Spring .

Think about Wednesday - a dizzy high of 10c and 11c for us in the south.. Hope the sun is out by then. I'm going to a fab day as the sun is already out till 3pm.. blue sky and all that .. Chill in the air though. Can't wait to go out and look at my hellebores ..

 

[alp]

We lost the Ashes again. Hope they don't do it every Christmas and New Year. Lost every single year almost .. Why send a bunch of losers out to dampen our festive season mood? Breaking News: Aussie regained Ashes .. It's groundhog day, not breaking news..

 

[Zenj]

@alp Here's a bulb I will pamper until spring .This nursery is in Durham only 30 minutes run from us and a nice day out visiting city and cathedral only open though three days a week March to October so will visit than.

 

[alp]

By Jove! What a nice surprise! Thank heavens that you didn't buy seeds as £4.00 might end up with nothing. What a unique flower.. Nothing similar! Nice that you could visit and buy them on site. I bought more bulbs and Farmer G is stuff in transit. I really love their stuff .. Thank you for introducing them to me. Shame I couldn't get the allium big bulb for £1 as they were out of stock by the time I found the following 10% code. Summerhill still wants £2.49 for a bulb.. Went to B&Q and saw new summer season bulbs or rhizomes and it is with great sadness that I have to announce they have NO NEW, let alone exciting, stock .. Same old, same old. I nearly burst into tears!

Now this is your "grand projet"! Exciting time ahead.