3: Gardening Diaries ...

[BigC]

Good Morning @Logan and diggers everywhere a fine day in prospect here again..the grass is growing like nobodys business and I'm having to cut it every other day...after all it is fertilized every fortnight.

@BigC what is the grass you have bought ? I hope it isn't phalaris arundinacea or commonly know as gardeners gators, it spreads like crazy.

You may be correct @Perki but I will contain it in a sunken black bucket (with holes) The squatmata was bought for such a spread and can be tailored and manicured as and when, but its slow growing and I cant see it being much of a problem over the years..thanks of the info guys.
Lovely gardens and an abundance of flowers above as always...I'm late this morning so must dash sorry if I haven't hit the like button ...I will do later this evening..all the best and have a great day....C

 

[alp]

BigC They might self seed and then you will have them everywhere. Probably not! Ireland might be too cool for that. That sure is a lovely variegated grass. Cheer you up when it's dark and raining!

 

[Logan]

@alp your garden is amazing. I must have missed your post about putting your house on the website. Which one is it please ?, I like to have a nose.

 

[alp]

@alp your garden is amazing. I must have missed your post about putting your house on the website. Which one is it please ?, I like to have a nose.

Hehe! No. If you can't send me your address, the pleasure is not reciprocated! Call me cheeky!

 

[Logan]

Hehe! No. If you can't send me your address, the pleasure is not reciprocated! Call me cheeky!

Oh ok, i just thought that you had.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning all
Oh dear !!! @alp my Easter Star hasn't opened yet......I'll let you know what I get when it opens

 

[alp]

I have a whole tray of seedlings too. Just imagine a tray of yellow tiddlies! I look forward to seeing yours, @Upsy Daisy !

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Just potted on one batch of next years Wallflowers... the others aren't big enough yet
Also have a tray of Bellis waiting to be done too.

Have visitors this afternoon, so they probably won't get done today.

 

[alp]

I wish I could plan for next year's batches. Well done. But here, I tear out wallflowers I don't have room for them. Any way, they will spring up next week. This year, two plants seeded themselves in a pot! Spooky or what! Now is aquilegia a weed or not?

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Love Aquilegia.....but have too many common ones,, desperately trying to introduce some of the very beautifully named varieties this year.....but dare I say it the weather hasn't been kind to the seedlings Excuse the shaky hand pic( 2nd)

 

[Logan]

Now is aquilegia a weed or not?

A plant is a weed in the wrong place, yes aquilegia is a weed, it seeds very easily.

 

[alp]

Love the first one, @Upsy Daisy . I have one growing on its own volition on the edge of the raised bed. I tell you, things just grow vertically on my raised bed, making it so unnatural!

I have bought 2 doubles reduced. One came back - a very dark one, but it's single even though the label said double. And it was tiny. I chopped it down so that my dahlias can see the sun. All my blueberries bought online were hidden and now they are showing - 2 branches each! as they had been buried for so long. The blessed Verbena Bonariensis are everywhere - seedling s- self propelled! I had to discourage a woman from buying 3 (Thank heavens the proprietor was not within earshot or I would be banned from that place!) Imagine! Even one will spread like wildfire and they obviously have legs and I can see new plants everywhere in my garden.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Common ones are often classed as weeds...shame!
But the cultivated ones , Nora Barlow, Miss Scott Elliot, Green Apples....... are really lovely
They breed very easily with each other and eventually if they mix with the common ones ( which are proving hard to eradicate!) you eventually end up with the common murky pink ones.
Keep telling not to misbehave in our garden.....

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Pretty pink one as well.....just snapped it off

Before and after pics..

 

[alp]

Such fine and bright weather is only good for one thing - taking photos

A cross between yellow and pink alstroemerias

Acanthus mollis very happy

@Upsy Daisy These lilies stand at the hottest spot in my garden, as you can see. I haven't watered them for a long time. The car exhaust fumes and the setting sun bake them and yet they come back every year. Worth keeping in mind.

I am willing the bamboo (behind the rose) to grow tall to hide that hole up the wall as toxic fumes come out from there. I have already emptied 230L of water into that area!

Apricot hollyhock is another candidate for dry area.