3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

34c??? Today 32c is predicted. Whoa! Nice to have you educating me here! Never expected it to be so hot your way!

That's a frightening video and that man looks like Cumberbatch with beard glued on!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

4 for £1:99p

 

[johnny canoe]

Hello Leeski,
Well I haven't been terrified yet but I do watch the storm clouds when they are rolling in. Should a tornado form and start moving my way, I'll head to the basement and start praying.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Oh my gosh @johnny canoe that looks soooooooooo scary!!!!


Have to agree with you @alp.....its B C in disguise

 

[alp]

4 for £1:99pView attachment 40347

That's a real bargain!

That's brilliant and I saw some new flowers in Lidl. The fuchsia flowers turn up rather than being shy and the 4 upper petals flare up. Very pretty!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

I'll look out for those @alp ......may give them a sneaky wink to follow us home too

 

[alp]

I'll look out for those @alp ......may give them a sneaky wink to follow us home too

 

[Leeski]

Hello Leeski,
Well I haven't been terrified yet but I do watch the storm clouds when they are rolling in. Should a tornado form and start moving my way, I'll head to the basement and start praying.

I guess you kinda get use to what ever you climate throws at you I’m a bit of a drama queen with things like that I’m the first one to leg it to the shops and buy 300 tins of baked beans if we have 4 inches of snow lol
Can’t cope with this heat we have here at the min it’s like living on the sun

 

[alp]

I’m a bit of a drama queen with things like that I’m the first one to leg it to the shops and buy 300 tins of baked beans if we have 4 inches of snow lol
Can’t cope with this heat we have here at the min it’s like living on the sun

! Can't blame you. To be marooned by the snow is no laughing matter. My late father-in-law was in tears over not being able to drive and at the same time living at the end of a stick so that he could enjoy the seaside.

Extremes are no good. Just when I thought England weather is temperate and clement and out came severe snow, heat and lack of rain .. Across the weather map, no rain at all and everywhere is red, red, scarlet! Fancy you plant all your lovely flowers with tender loving care in summer and down come thunderstorm and all your efforts decimated.. Perhaps, Essex isn't so bad after all!

 

[Leeski]

I would be mortified I had four full water butts 4wks ago now just got butts !

 

[alp]

I would be mortified I had four full water butts 4wks ago now just got butts !

You had 4!! Heavens smiled on you and you were spoilt. Mine (8 or 9) went a month ago! And now money down the drain.

 

[Perki]

Hello been in and out of the garden today, planted a couple of monarda scorpion, I find growing monarda a bit temperamental :scratch:. Dead head lots of plants, cut back the sambucus black lace which was casting to much shade, tidied up the greenhouse look much better now. Planted some pelargoniums / lewisia in some terracotta pots for a GH display. Other than that I've been a bit fed up, been out and took some pictures I'll put some on now

 

[Perki]

Rose Generous Gardener such a beautiful rose, starts off pink and fades to white

Clematis super nova really got going now

adopted rose from next door, Dorothy Perkins from what my mum said when it was planted

Pelargonium in GH

Going to have to retake this pic when the Helenium in full flower. Ligularia Little rocket the star at the moment

Rose paul Scarlet , looks great when coming upto the house

I forgot to take a pic when the rose was flowering shame, campanula pritchards variety is very small this year

Helenium M Beauty

Ligularia Przewalskii - monarda Squaw

Look at the state of my lawn that just one patch.

 

[alp]

@Perki

Helenium Moerheim Beauty takes my breath away!

Are the white feathery blooms Astilbes? Mine (the white and red) is just a trickle. Very sad.

The white likes and the purple clematis just set off each other so well. Paul Scarlet is a fantastic rose. £1 from poundshop. Always am impressed with mine.

Stunning view, stunning flowers and stunning photos, @Perki !

I also trimmed my black Elder, but thankfully not too much as it screens off some of heat from my back garden. It's an oven there. Concrete ground and brick wall. Strange enough one lantern shrub has been singing sitting in that oven! Just show how much I know.

Been watching Garden Rescue. Before I really couldn't bring myself to watch it. When @Upsy Daisy said she was watching it, I wondered if she was being serious. Now I am addicted to it. Charlie is a force to reckon with, though would like to see a slimmer version of her with shorter and neater hair. Quite enjoyable series.

@Perki you could be part of the Garden Rescue .. Lovely planting schemes and gorgeous flowers.

I am off to watch TV now as the fan is near the settee and I am sweating like a pig here! Ahhhhhhh, no more heat wave please!. It's a sauna here!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Fab....u...lous @Perki