What did you do in your garden today?

[Black_Thumb]

Major heat wave here last week and the upcoming week. It is normally 80 degrees or so in the summer here, but this week it's been in the high 90s and low 100s. The humidity has been hovering around 80% as well. We did manage to finish tilling the ground I showed in the picture I posted a couple days ago, as we will be planting some flowers there perhaps over the weekend. My sister is coming to visit for two weeks beginning this evening, and so we'll be entertaining her and probably not getting much done outside, aside from mowing the yard. I have to mow every three days or the grass gets out of control.

We had yet more flowers bloom that we weren't aware of. I'll have to get a couple photos to share.

Our cucumbers continue to take over the entire raised bed we have them in. I believe my carrots are going to be a dismal failure (as usual), and so I think I'm going to try something different. I'm going to get a bunch of little cups and plant one seed per cup and see which ones germinate, and then I'll transplant them to one of the other raised beds. I also need to do a bit of research as to what kind of soil they like, as well as have my raised bed soil tested.

Today, I'll be trimming the front hedges, if I don't get rained out.

 

[Sean Regan]

We're not expecting rain until this evening
Didn't do much.
Took down the last bit of our white quince on the fence, it's been dying a bit at a time over the last couple of years.

It's left this fence panel rather bare.

But there's new bits coming up from the roots.

Tennis to watch this afternoon.

 

[Sheal]

I've potted on a couple of dozen young plants grown from seed. Papaver, Monarda, Coreopsis, Asclepias and a young Cotoneaster 'Berried Treasure' that I took as a cutting.

 

[Vicy]

Got back from a week in Greece and repotted some of my French beans and cucamelons. Luckily my mum and sister looked after it all whilst I was away as UK had a heatwave!

Finally seeing chilli's on my plants, beans on my April sowed runners and ate first two courgettes tonight!

I'm really proud of my collection. Its been a challenge growing purely in containers but not having earth in your garden shouldn't stop you!

 

[DirtMechanic]

Since I have had to give up on fescues I spent the day plugging and sodding St Augustine in my shade areas. Then composting everything. Then watering in. Becky picked blueberries and black berries and squash, cherry and roma tomatoes, and some cucumber. I asked for blueberry cobbler. I had to be specific, the yankee in her wants to make a pie, and that just will not do. I need that butter goodness!

 

[Tincasteve]

Been watering where needed and mostly talking to passers by about my cherry toms and why i plant marigolds with them and sweet peas picked, picking about a kilo of tayberries with loads more to come. Potted on some giant flowered fuchsias for sale soon. The penstemon cuttings are almost ready for sale as well.

 

[Sean Regan]

Spent about three hours in the garden today, despite the heat. Mowing strimmimg and clearing up with my garden vac.
Dead headed most of the last rhodo to flower, (the tall one) and pruned off the tops of the quinces on the fence either side. Keeping them controlled stops them causing too much shade for this bed.

Gave this camelia a good prune.
I took at least six inches off it all the way round. It would "bully" the rhodos if not controlled. Of course this means we won't get many blooms on it next year. But we like it for the glossy leaves.

We don't mind having only a few blooms as when it was one of the three here in the centre bed seventeen years ago, they caused a mess..

So I dumped two, cut this one down to a couple of feet and replanted it behind the Japanese lantern "where I could keep an eye on it." Reducing the size of this centre bed opened up the garden.

The grass I brought on in my "icecream tub greenhouse" has taken here, in the worst position fo any grass to grow, in permanent shade.

Hard to see, but there are distinct tracks in the phlox on the rockery, made by 'arry our hedgehog when he's on patrol during the night. He must be like a small tank as he barges his way through it.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

I have a hole in the hedge each side of my garden and a track across the grass joining them. I have seen cats, a fox and a huge badger crossing the garden via them. Be thankful it's just 'arry.

Not a lot, just potted up a pack of nine pelargoniums that were reduced from £3.50 to £1. They looked pretty miserable when I got them, but now after a couple of days shade and water they look good.

 

[DirtMechanic]

I have a hole in the hedge each side of my garden and a track across the grass joining them. I have seen cats, a fox and a huge badger crossing the garden via them. Be thankful it's just 'arry.

Not a lot, just potted up a pack of nine pelargoniums that were reduced from £3.50 to £1. They looked pretty miserable when I got them, but now after a couple of days shade and water they look good.

Ok here is a push for a motion camera!

 

[Amateur Gardener]

Pruning this Calamansi tree

 

[Tincasteve]

Pruning this Calamansi tree

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Calamanse make a beautiful tasty refreshing drink.

 

[Sean Regan]

Too hot to do anything apart from giving the acers a mist spray around 2.00pm.
All the pots will get a water around 6.00pm.

 

[Black_Thumb]

Had another new flower pop up in one of our raised beds. I think it might be a periwinkle, but not sure.

 

[YumYum]

Had another new flower pop up in one of our raised beds. I think it might be a periwinkle, but not sure.
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Kinda looks like it. Looks awful vieny to me for some reason. But they are real easy to care for. They are annuals but will seed the dirt by the hundreds and come up next spring. Also the colors will bleed over if you have more than one color. We keep them in pots.

 

[Sean Regan]

Haven't done much today, as nothing really needed my attention. Mostly just had a check round

Dead-headed a few roses. Try to get at them before they drop petals all over the patio.

This rose was one my wife didn't like, so years ago it got "banished" to the bottom of the garden. But at this height she can't avoid noticing it if she looks out of the French windows (I let it grow that tall).

Our "Monet" acer hasn't escaped getting a bit of sunburn despite me mist spraying all the acers mid-day. But It's due a trim soon so the burned leaves will be gone. It goes a multitude of shades between pink and light and darker green through the summer.

This is our Sorbus in the bottom corner of the garden. It has very small blossoms that you hardly notice.

But boy will it have some berries! These will turn red in the Autumn.

This is a pink wisteria. It's in the small bed the otherside of this fence. I deliberately trained it to grow over the fence and trained it along the side of the house. There would have been no room for it on the pergolas on the back of the house.

I've stopped it growing any further, or it would meet the Mayleen clematis on the trellis over the top of the front door. I need to ptrune off several of the unwanted strands. It's been "consolidating" for a few years, it didn't produce many blooms this year, but we hope for many next year.