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Well a bit of a odd ball day sun and than very dark clouds here’s a few from this morning after mowing the lawn
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Lovely anemone! Just like a pin cushion. Lovely astrantia! I so want them and I bought one and now I don't even know where it has gone -allotment or garden? Love the orchid. I saw some on sale but the price was £10.99 and one member of staff even recognised me, calling me a bargain hunter! Ooops!
Just come back from bargain huntings. Pensioner's day and the 2 gcs were aBUZZ with walking sticks. You could hardly move. But I could feel the buzz and the joy emanating from trolley loads of instant gratification.
On the way back, saw a young man with a pair of sunglass moving his arms hidden by a screen outside a balcony on the 3rd floor of a block. I looked closer and saw he was literally wearing a face-mask protecting his nose and mouth. Like this - all black
What a brazen way to manufacturing industry in broad daylight and in plain sight of a very busy street, served by about 9 buses routes!
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Another viewer cancelled. It's getting like a joke.
Now, I have some faux amis
Iris Caligula and Iris Broadway Star. I think they look the same.
Think Caligula has a richer yellow. Apparently, they are different flowers.
Can't resist this one.
Now, I have some faux amis
Iris Caligula and Iris Broadway Star. I think they look the same.
Think Caligula has a richer yellow. Apparently, they are different flowers.
Can't resist this one.
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Did half an hour of watering and everything was bone dry. Spent £20 on gc yesterday and sold £20 of my excess INDIAN CHIEFS and one couple didn't turn up. Bought Bess
I wish it would pour down with rain, but no. When I dug up some giant alliums, I could see it was bone dry. No wonder the flowers were so small. Bought Bessera elegans, Mel ? Orange Dahlia and a Belladonna for £4.32, on top of the £20. They were bone small and shrivelled. So many people in the gc and I think Chelsea helps. Don't think much of the Yorkshire one this year. So much concrete and architecture in the show gardens this year, I have really been put off. There is an unenviable pattern that some well-established names must have a gold medal. Some concrete (very horrible looking pieces of thnggummy) seared into some landscape with boring green has won an overall best of show and of course, that garden is being sponsored by the sponsor of the whole show! Some insidious stench one can smell. I prefer to watch Garden Rescue - romance is still alive, for me, any way!
Another forbidding dry day!
Demoralising weather report
Did some cuttings on salvia amistad, and alas, I think I have lost all my salvia Patens. Tears can't heal the pain!
I wish it would pour down with rain, but no. When I dug up some giant alliums, I could see it was bone dry. No wonder the flowers were so small. Bought Bessera elegans, Mel ? Orange Dahlia and a Belladonna for £4.32, on top of the £20. They were bone small and shrivelled. So many people in the gc and I think Chelsea helps. Don't think much of the Yorkshire one this year. So much concrete and architecture in the show gardens this year, I have really been put off. There is an unenviable pattern that some well-established names must have a gold medal. Some concrete (very horrible looking pieces of thnggummy) seared into some landscape with boring green has won an overall best of show and of course, that garden is being sponsored by the sponsor of the whole show! Some insidious stench one can smell. I prefer to watch Garden Rescue - romance is still alive, for me, any way!
Another forbidding dry day!
Demoralising weather report
Did some cuttings on salvia amistad, and alas, I think I have lost all my salvia Patens. Tears can't heal the pain!
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Broadway Star responding to the heat
Acanthus
Cistus
Peonies very happy even though it has been bone dry!
Planted out some lettuces in the allotment and one lady suggested using weed suppressing membrane. She was right but a bit late. I could see tons of little weeds scrambling for air and heat already!
Acanthus
Cistus
Peonies very happy even though it has been bone dry!
Planted out some lettuces in the allotment and one lady suggested using weed suppressing membrane. She was right but a bit late. I could see tons of little weeds scrambling for air and heat already!
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Woke up very late as I did a catch up of Chelsea Flower shows. Did an hour of watering and it was hopeless as it was bone dry and it is already heating up at 8am. I was already sweating. Switched on the laptop and found yesterday's post!
Managed to relieved my garden of 6 Indian Chiefs and still have 15. I remember years ago, I had to chuck them - I literally kept buying reblooming irises and they all turned out to be Indian Chiefs.
Very dangerous to go to Lidl. Ended up buying 2 Brugmansias! Oooops! De-cluttering was a distant memory. Yesterday, a man came and got some irises and he showed me the most beautiful and handsome of chickens and birds. He owns a nail salon - easy money, he said. The working environment is usually appalling - a narrow strip of a shop and toe and hand nails are pampered. Hope his shop is bigger. Easy money, he said. Amazing that as he's from SE Asia, and yet he knew Wedding cake tree and he's definitely a plant lover. Might buy an egg incubator - a proper one and ask him for some eggs. Very handsome white chickens and he only lives a few minutes down the road.
Managed to relieved my garden of 6 Indian Chiefs and still have 15. I remember years ago, I had to chuck them - I literally kept buying reblooming irises and they all turned out to be Indian Chiefs.
Very dangerous to go to Lidl. Ended up buying 2 Brugmansias! Oooops! De-cluttering was a distant memory. Yesterday, a man came and got some irises and he showed me the most beautiful and handsome of chickens and birds. He owns a nail salon - easy money, he said. The working environment is usually appalling - a narrow strip of a shop and toe and hand nails are pampered. Hope his shop is bigger. Easy money, he said. Amazing that as he's from SE Asia, and yet he knew Wedding cake tree and he's definitely a plant lover. Might buy an egg incubator - a proper one and ask him for some eggs. Very handsome white chickens and he only lives a few minutes down the road.
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Thank you, Zenj !
Son left the house at 10.20 and he locked my keys in the lean-to. So had to watch TV. Glad that Adam Frost took over the questioning section. I cringed a bit when the man asked for scented plants on chalk soil and the Rich Brothers must be cringing when they looked at the programme. Chalk soil is a bit tricky. All I know is clay. The brothers are so young.
Yes, bearded irises for hot place with poor soil. They are toughies and yet throw up such gorgeous bloom. Would love to have Domino Noir!
These are serrated oriental poppies, but not half as good as those I used to have in the front. They must have been erased by the aggressive Acanthus Mollis
Stipa gigantea are flowering - first time in this garden!
I think this is Mont Blanc
Amazing this new stem is throwing up 4 flowers. I've hardly fed the plant. Sorry, Sparticus!
These many seeds need to germinate
The two longest waterlilies new shoots have gone to their final home. Hope they like it there.
Son left the house at 10.20 and he locked my keys in the lean-to. So had to watch TV. Glad that Adam Frost took over the questioning section. I cringed a bit when the man asked for scented plants on chalk soil and the Rich Brothers must be cringing when they looked at the programme. Chalk soil is a bit tricky. All I know is clay. The brothers are so young.
Yes, bearded irises for hot place with poor soil. They are toughies and yet throw up such gorgeous bloom. Would love to have Domino Noir!
These are serrated oriental poppies, but not half as good as those I used to have in the front. They must have been erased by the aggressive Acanthus Mollis
Stipa gigantea are flowering - first time in this garden!
I think this is Mont Blanc
Amazing this new stem is throwing up 4 flowers. I've hardly fed the plant. Sorry, Sparticus!
These many seeds need to germinate
The two longest waterlilies new shoots have gone to their final home. Hope they like it there.
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Started watering at 5.20 and Goldie was already croaking and it was very chilly.
Another dry scorcher
A beautifully scented rose which changes from peachy to white! called Remember. Very delicate flower. Not bad for £2!
Very pleased with this Bluewine Bird - more intricate and the colour is just sumptuous!
Lagurus Ovatus which would not stop swaying because of the wind!
Elegant Stipa Gigantea is flowering .. quietly!
Love Honeybell!
Clematis
Another dry scorcher
A beautifully scented rose which changes from peachy to white! called Remember. Very delicate flower. Not bad for £2!
Very pleased with this Bluewine Bird - more intricate and the colour is just sumptuous!
Lagurus Ovatus which would not stop swaying because of the wind!
Elegant Stipa Gigantea is flowering .. quietly!
Love Honeybell!
Clematis
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Morning all cool first thing now sun and cloud with a breeze a few from this morning I have a lot of catching up to you alp you have so many in bloom your Irises are a joy to see.
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Zenj I just want your cool and temperate weather. Flowers and plants are now covered with bugs - green, black ... All the hellebores leaves are sticky and all the seeds exploded prematurely. I feel like I am such a bad mother.
I have watered, but it's a scratch on the surface. When I finish with all the butts of which I have only 2 left, I will use metered water and I don't care about the money. I so want to cry when I see how dry it has been.
As Adam Frost said, the only thing that would survive would be irises and it's a shame that I have about 15 Indian Chiefs.. I hate the company which kept sending me this. Not that they are not pretty, but to be send so many was a bit cruel. You couldn't even complain as they came to you shrivelled, dry up and it took about 2 to 3 years to realise that they are all the same.
Paul Scarlett is very happy, despite the lack of watering!
Love the translucency of the aquilegia. What are the first two flowers please, @Zenj ? Love the creamy dreamy colour!
I have watered, but it's a scratch on the surface. When I finish with all the butts of which I have only 2 left, I will use metered water and I don't care about the money. I so want to cry when I see how dry it has been.
As Adam Frost said, the only thing that would survive would be irises and it's a shame that I have about 15 Indian Chiefs.. I hate the company which kept sending me this. Not that they are not pretty, but to be send so many was a bit cruel. You couldn't even complain as they came to you shrivelled, dry up and it took about 2 to 3 years to realise that they are all the same.
Paul Scarlett is very happy, despite the lack of watering!
Love the translucency of the aquilegia. What are the first two flowers please, @Zenj ? Love the creamy dreamy colour!
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Baby goldfinch pond bathing this morning
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Hi alp
Fist one is Tradescantia Osprey or spiderwort
Second is Liberia grandiflora grown from seed as taken over 2 years to flower
Fist one is Tradescantia Osprey or spiderwort
Second is Liberia grandiflora grown from seed as taken over 2 years to flower
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Good morning - very early today. Just woken up. All very quiet.
Zenj Goldfinches are so lovely, but seeing their antics, i understand why newspaper story reports that sparrows are no match for them. They are quite aggressive and noisy. They are like my Goldie rooster, but Goldie is very sweet with human beings. Goldie is all proud and aggressive with my Polish chicks and silkie and yet when he was housed with the hens, he was reduced to taking refuge in the hen laying compartment. Reversal of fortune. Quite hilarious. Yesterday, I fed the hen with live worms and they preformed the best of acrobatics - jumped high up to get the worms.
Just got delivery of three black double hellebores - an order I had long forgotten. Surprised to see a postman leaving something in the porch as I thought I had not ordered anything that big. Sometimes, an order takes so long that you totally forget it.
Another hot day
Zenj Goldfinches are so lovely, but seeing their antics, i understand why newspaper story reports that sparrows are no match for them. They are quite aggressive and noisy. They are like my Goldie rooster, but Goldie is very sweet with human beings. Goldie is all proud and aggressive with my Polish chicks and silkie and yet when he was housed with the hens, he was reduced to taking refuge in the hen laying compartment. Reversal of fortune. Quite hilarious. Yesterday, I fed the hen with live worms and they preformed the best of acrobatics - jumped high up to get the worms.
Just got delivery of three black double hellebores - an order I had long forgotten. Surprised to see a postman leaving something in the porch as I thought I had not ordered anything that big. Sometimes, an order takes so long that you totally forget it.
Another hot day
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Morning all a cloudy start with rain forecast for this evening and than showers off and on for the next 4 days cooler ,black double hellebores nice.alp you will have to pamper them what size are they.
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