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[alp]

@Mark56 What is the first flower please? What a stunning photo! Is it an echinop? So beautiful!

@Verdun The salvia is a patens or a ??????? the one with a long name. I so want one of those. Trouble is you never seen them in diy gc...

@BigC you surely have earned your beer .. I want my son to enroll for a joinery course so that he can build me one of these. Is that the right course?

@BigC Bamboo is big on Japanese garden and ploughed sand and strategically placed stone. If you add moss, that will be icing on the cake! Remind me of the Japanese gardener designer who always wins in Chelsea Flower Show!

 

[Verdun]

Salvia Guanajuato alp. Very,,very tender but very, very beautiful. Much bigger than the usual patens growing here to over 5'

 

[alp]

I must google and see where I can buy one. It is beautiful and big and bold. Couldn't find the yellow hibiscus which caught my eye in Homebase.. Shame.

 

[BigC]

@BigC you surely have earned your beer .. I want my son to enroll for a joinery course so that he can build me one of these. Is that the right course?
Certainly wouldn't do any harm....

Bamboo is big on Japanese garden and ploughed sand and strategically placed stone. If you add moss, that will be icing on the cake! Remind me of the Japanese gardener designer who always wins in Chelsea Flower Show!
I have a few books on the subject of Japanese Water Gardening

 

[alp]

Crikey 2.40am??!! You're still up?? Japanese art is quite unique and interesting.

The rain was so heavy and the humidity so high that I could not sleep. My 100L bin butt was already full!

 

[Logan]

Morning all.Nice day, might get some thunder storms early evening.

 

[Verdun]

Morning folks.
Dry and bright so far.......today much rain lately so, Mr weatherman, can we have another heatwave?

 

[BigC]

Crikey 2.40am??!! You're still up?? Japanese art is quite unique and interesting.

Too tired to sleep...cat naping and woke up believe it or not to the TV still blurring away and a very interesting docu-drama program about Samurai..after which I zonked out until now...
Cloudy outside there's rain in the air and lots of it for sure...I have to get the front step fitted after breakfast to free space in the garage...it seems a straight forward replacement job but as always I'm sure there will be a snag here and there.....problem is I need a 4 man lift...and all available parties dont become available until tea time.. so I'll prepare everything prior and maybe give the pergola a first lick of paint.weather permitting ..I also need bamboo for the trellis so I'll to nip to the local hardware establishment for that at some point (shops dont open until 1pm on a Sunday over here)...see ya all soon with some pics of my day......Enjoy yours wherever you are..Regards C

 

[alp]

LOL! Samurai doc... We have full sunshine now. Get some rest, @BigC we don't want you to have any accidents.

 

[BigC]

We have full sunshine now

are you sellin any

 

[Logan]

@BigC You take it easy with the step.

 

[BigC]

@BigC You take it easy with the step.

By back is already killin me lol

 

[Zenj]

Morning all warm here sun and cloud here's a few photoes from my walk round this morning
Second flush for the Siberian Irises must be all the rain in the NE

 

[Logan]

By back is already killin me lol

You should listen to your back, it's saying enough is enough. I have to stop Gardening when my back starts aching a lot. I have a bad back. So please take it easy.

 

[Logan]

@Zenj lovely flowers and that dragon fly.