3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

@BigC Has your cockerel woken you up?

You can keep the sun. I am happy as long as it's cloudy. Going to take some photos of my campanula - lovely white and blue. Water the garden as there won't be much evaporation. A great day for pottering in the garden. Enjoy your sunshine, BigC whilst I am going to enjoy the shade! When will it rain? I don't want a lot!

Ooops! @Perki 's favorite Caradonna is still alive!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Thank you very much @Mike Allen ......I would be truly lost with this helpful forum!

 

[johnny canoe]

The meadows of flowering flax along the Bow River the other morning.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Thanks @alp , so now I know that I have two of them, although the blue double doesn't seem to grow so rapidly and spread itself out quite so much. The white one is now distributed all over the garden , as I just chop off sections and and plonk them in other places, not fussy either....seems to grow in every type of environment......that's my kinda plant

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Lovely pics @johnny canoe .....those meadows look so tranquil ,must be an absolute joy to walk through them

 

[BigC]

A few pics from (lazy) Saturday....

 

[Upsy Daisy]

All the ingredients for a perfect relaxing day @BigC

 

[alp]

@johnny canoe You definitely have to fight it out with @BigC in the Photo of the month competition. I'd would go for the 2nd one. I love that one, but you might have other idea! It's so beautiful!

Love the colour scheme of the irises and alliums. I might copy your idea.

Love your clematis macropelata. Mine is boring and dull blue. I thought it was light blue and fluffy like yours. Love the pink. I bought them for £2 each with no flowers on! Wait for one whole year only to find they had very few bracts, not stunning like yours. Why am I always want to have others' stuff?

Love that composter warning! Just make me giggle!

@BigC It's lovely ensemble. Your garden is now perfect.

 

[BigC]

@BigC It's lovely ensemble. Your garden is now perfect.

Oh its far from perfect...still working on the grass...the grass is everything...its a living plant too...without it, I feel there is no garden IMHO....Its the Alpha plant..... so often over looked or on the flip side treat as an obsession by some...It dont have to be uber perfect but close will do hahahaha.

N.B. The Slate Sign and the Key Thermometer were £1 ea.at Poundland....

 

[alp]

Well done, @BigC - BIG BARGAIN Hunter! Look very nice on photo!

Bought 3 Tree peonies. £5 each. At this rate, I will have to move to Suffolk or Scotland and Ireland to house all my plants.

 

[Perki]

Oh its far from perfect...still working on the grass...the grass is everything...its a living plant too...without it, I feel there is no garden IMHO....Its the Alpha plant..... so often over looked or on the flip side treat as an obsession by some...It dont have to be uber perfect but close will do hahahaha.

N.B. The Slate Sign and the Key Thermometer were £1 ea.at Poundland....

To true, I love a good lawn. Keep threatening to rip mine up, I am hardly ever happy with it. I wish a ripped it up years ago and started again, keep trying to improve it.

 

[Perki]

I am looking online hunting for some more clematis going to have to rein in this spending after I get what I want that until some other plants spring to mind like that colocasia Black Coral I've been waiting for

 

[Logan]

Didn't do a lot in the garden, son came round for about 3 hours.

Tomorrow plant out the runner beans.

 

[Mike Allen]

@BigC Has your cockerel woken you up?

You can keep the sun. I am happy as long as it's cloudy. Going to take some photos of my campanula - lovely white and blue. Water the garden as there won't be much evaporation. A great day for pottering in the garden. Enjoy your sunshine, BigC whilst I am going to enjoy the shade! When will it rain? I don't want a lot!

Ooops! @Perki 's favorite Caradonna is still alive!

Like you. I was pleased with the change of weather. I managed to get two hours in the GH, mainly getting rid of dead plants. Take care.

 

[BigC]

Morning all....I find myself keep clearing pathways after the pesky birds keep raiding the borders...shouldn't complain really as they will be clearing a fair few nasties I expect. Yesterday I got some Aster and Cornflower planted into the border, sprayed the roses and transplanted a few pepper plants...Tomatoes doing very well as is the Lettuce but the mini Kalettes have failed again in the Greenhouse...way too warm in there (although the lettuce does fantastically well).