Our gardening diaries - from latest toys, flowers to wildlife .. Please upload pics

[Upsy Daisy]

Great pics Grey Parrot, lovely to see a hedgehog.........getting to be a rare sight these days sadly

Thanks......I'll get the hang of it one day

 

[Larisa]

@alp I think it's time to spray against aphids.
How long does clematis flower ( the clematis cartmanii Joe)? All summer?

Usually my balcony looks cozy in the summer with flowers. (Well, I think so).
But now it is filled with seedlings, roots, cuttings ... I'm really waiting for the heat to let me land it in the garden of a country house.
Today I planted a carnation. Tomorrow I will sow an Ageratum and Godetia.
The balcony has a cool temperature. This allowed my Schlumbergera to prepare to bloom again.

Pelargonium (geranium) also love the coolness for good flowering.

Woke up Calla and tuberous begonias.

I cut the Coleus for cuttings.

Now I can temper pepper, eggplant and tomato seedlings.

 

[alp]

Wow: What a lot of flowers.. Daisy: There is NOTHING wrong with your camera... Love your anemone blanda.. Must get some of those.. I have the same camelia, but not half as big a shrub.. It;s being baked. But I don't have the heart to move it.. Lovely primulas.. See, you can do it. When all the photos have finished uploading, just click the first FULL IMAGE once and all the pics will be big on the screen..

@Grey Parrot How I wish to see the hog big on the screen. Wonder if @Mark56 is still on his save the hog crusade.. Your Christmas cacti looks very pretty and we hope to see more of your lovely garden. Wonder what you've got in those big urns .. Thank you for sharing your lovely photos.. See you've made it!

@Larisa Such healthy chili plants.. What have you fed them with? Is that a hibiscus? Love the flower... such a small cup and yet the plants are so healthy.. I have really started to question my gardening ability..(actually, I don't think I have any ..) I have killed so many things this year...

 

[Perki]

Hello hope everyone well, not done to much gardening lately for me just plodding around doing bits and bats, I haven't even got round to watching GW and beechgroove yet. Lovely day today been re turfing my mum garden toda. I'll mow my lawn tomorrow after a visit to the GC, want to have a look at some salvas and late flowering clematis

 

[Larisa]

What have you fed them with?

Now only banana water. I do not want them to grow too active before landing in the ground.
I have 4 species of hibiscus, but here in the photos they are absent. Only vegetables and flowers, which I called.

I have killed so many things

Sometimes I also have failures.

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

I'm on a roll

Hello, May I know what the name of this flower? its beautiful.

 

[alp]

@Perki Funny you should say you haven't done a lot. That's how I feel. I'm moving around, but nothing really translates into plants in the future.. Probably because I have killed too much..

@Larisa I have a bottled banana ready by Monday and will use it to see what it does.. What is the that lovely red flower, not the geranium, I mean. The red lone flower.. which looks like a hibiscus?

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Hi Rajesh, its a Camelia but I don't know which one......sorry not very helpful am I . Somebody else might know with a bit of luck

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

its a Camelia

its Camellia japonica (Coquettii), I guess, googled it.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

 

[Larisa]

What is the that lovely red flower,

This is one of the types of royal pelargonium. In some countries they call "geranium".

 

[Logan]

Guess what? I was thinking of uprooting my aquilegias soon as I have a blue one which I hate and it self seeded everywhere .. 4 in front of some short plants.. @Mark56 Your lovely photo saves the chop.. If they are with white centre, I will keep them. If not, I'm afraid they will have to go.. I'm heart broken as none of my Nora Barlow has come to anything and there I was, thinking that I would have several doubles soon. This year has been disastrous for my seeds.. I lost my mojo.. I couldn't be bothered to repot some seedlings as some of them died after repotting. The compost was too dry and there was too much coir.. Instead of repotting, I caught up with Gardeners' World and hurrah - an hour episode next week! Yes, yes, yes please!

I must get some of those blandas and some white anemones..They are gorgeous..

My garden is now being baked. Tomorrow it will be an oven! LOL!

This poor beauty was trapped inside my lean to and I could vaguely see the orange patches.. I tried to capture its beauty outside. But it's a restless soul, never rested on anything. In the end, after following her flying around 3 gardens with my eyes, I gave up.

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Some pear blossoms

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A most deformed frilly edged red tulip and it was quite buggy as well - the poor thing!
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I think I have about 6 of these beauties.. Now that I have become used to them, I quite like them!
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Love snowflakes and the clematis cartmanii Joe..
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Uploads yours please .. Wonder if we can see @johnny canoe birdies today!

Morning all Alp. I saw a butterfly like that yesterday. It's a orange tipped white. Your pics always looking good

 

[Logan]

The pics are amazing. I always keep the fruit punnets for things. Got loads stacked up in the spare bedroom.

 

[alp]

Good morning to all, esepcially to Rajesh and Larisa .. Hope you all had a good night sleep.. Son came home with and I'm working flat out as a laundrette.. LOL! 2nd wash now.. With any luck, there might be a 3rd.. Going to the nearest park famed for rhodos..Expect a rhodo fest...

Rajesh: The pink camellia Williamsii x debbie is gorgeous too..

Have a very nice day!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning everyone another lovely sunny day, better make the most of it as I think I heard somewhere that it's suppose to break tomorrow and for the next week or so temps will be around 12- 13, that will hit hard after this little heatwave we have been enjoying.
For me , looking on the brighter side, at least I return to work after 15 wks sick leave with the weather not so good,makes me feel better .

Logan.......so do I , much to hubs dismay. I never throw any container away without first working out it's possible potential as a gardening essential.

I'm back on mulch spreading duties today ,must get an early start on that , as we don't get much shade in the garden this time of year and it does get very hot. I use a large staked sunshade moving it around the garden as I work.

alp have a lovely day with your son.....looking forward to seeing your pics later.

Happy Sunday to you all x.