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[Logan]

Morning all, nice morning.
@Upsy Daisy lovely garden
@johnny canoe nice plant
@Stink Bug nice pics

 

[BigC]

Morning all.....Beautiful pics everyone @Upsy Daisy your garden looks amazing, some nice plants in there for me to add to my borders
Have a great day people whilst in Sunshine or in Rain.......(incidentally ...it is raining here....again)
Regards
C

 

[alp]

Good morning everybody. @Stink Bug What are the names of the lovely plants please? Very pretty and full of flowers.

@Upsy Daisy What a lovely and interesting garden with lovely features .. Hope you can sit there and enjoy yourself to cool off today.. Such an array of different plants. I have a lot of seedlings still coming up to be recognised and I have killed 3 giant slugs this morning.

 

[BigC]

@alp

and I have killed 3 giant slugs this morning.

The bane of my life mate.....especially the Hostas....Its an ongoing war I have to fight every year....These frogs in the pond are totally lazy

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Good morning everyone, how are things?


Gosh where does the week go!....Friday already

Another lovely sunny morning albeit without a single raindrop in sight

Our poor plants are having to toughen up and cope with this lack of water, but sadly not sure for how long they can withstand it

Just checked again and we are still ' booked' for some rain on Tuesday... fingers crossed.

Well here's to another Frazzling Friday...sun blocks at the ready!

 

[alp]

@alp
The bane of my life mate.....especially the Hostas....Its an ongoing war I have to fight every year....These frogs in the pond are totally lazy

I know what you mean! I chucked some ladybirds into my lean-to, hoping that they would consume my aphids. But no, they have other ideas and I found out that the aphids were still rampant and apparently, the ladybirds were having rampant s ex and there were babies everywhere.

@BigC Might be only go for slug resistant hostas. I never thought much of hostas as it is too hot in Essex for them, but having seen some beautiful foliage and lovely flowers, I can appreciate people's love for them.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Update! Things have changed yet again....rain arriving late Monday afternoon for a couple of hours..... believe it when I see it!!

 

[Logan]

TONIGHT
No GW some flower show is on.

 

[Stink Bug]

Good morning everybody. @Stink Bug What are the names of the lovely plants please? Very pretty and full of flowers


The Hardenbergia genus is a member of the pea flower subfamily of the legume family and was named after Franziska Countess von Hardenberg. There are three species in Australia, growing in areas from Queensland to Tasmania.

 

[tbendl]

A few pics taken today of our very parched gardenView attachment 23610 View attachment 23611 View attachment 23612

Good grief Upsy it is stunning, gorgeous, amazing... I am out of words! And a happy Friday to you all!
You can have some of our rain, even my fish this morning were wondering why it seems to be wetter up top than down below in the pond.

 

[alp]

Just had dinner and my consciousness is already drifting... It's so hot so have the fan on now.

Double lily Elena, been attacked by beetles, but this one seems to have escaped .

Garden is now full of Mambo

Another of my primula auricula

hypericum has form fruits

A zinnia

Busy bee getting inebriated on a yellow Tanz echinacea. Saw an orange one in the market and they were asking for £7! Whoa!

DS Telma

Another strepto

I really like this hydrangea as it has serrated petals.. Lovely

 

[tbendl]

I like the mambo.

 

[alp]

@tbendl I was actually after Blue Bayou. I bought supposedly Blue Bayou and left it in my lean to. Once it had a bud, I stared at it every day and I started to worry. When it flowered, I found out it was a double, not a single and it turned out to be the wrong plant. In the end, i got a refund. I was also sent some dinner plate dahlia which I had never had throughout my life. I loved it though.

And this is Blue Bayou

I have yet to see my Blue Bayou. I have bought them THREE TIMES!

 

[tbendl]

Hahaha I think you are just meant to have the mambo and no blue bayou for you. Heheee

 

[alp]

I hope I can see my Blue Bayou... One was killed by overwatering in the winter. The other one was not sent the right one. sent Mambo instead. Now I just keep my fingers crossed. Have you got any dahlias, @tbendl ?