WHAT'S LOOKING GOOD IN JANUARY 2019
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flowers popping out in the cold today
@Daren ... I have always found your garden to be one of the most inspiring - fantastic use of stuff that the posher lot would chuck out - with terrific results. Well done.View attachment 48927
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flowers popping out in the cold today
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Thanks Tetters, that's really nice of you to say that I Do love Trying to do things in a more organic & Natural manner. just making it up as I go rather than following a book so to speak
I Do love Trying to do things in a more organic & Natural manner. just making it up as I go rather than following a book so to speak
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Little colour yet, but there are some signs.
Our mimosa is nearly in flower. We've had it in a big tub on the patio for many years. It gets pruned every year after it has flowered, otherwise it'd take over the patio.
Likewise our eunonymus is decades old, never looks any different all year round. I keep it trimmed back towards the fence so it doesn't cast a bigger shadow over the flox on the rockery.
We've three quinces, this white one and further down an orange and then a pink. The white one always flowers first. They each produce a lot of fruit but all three look different from each other.
Again I prune these back to a band along the top of the fence, as they would overpower the azaleas and rhodos.
An assortment of bulbs in this bed are doing well, I've forgotten what's in there, but I don't really care as long as they look good when they flower.
Masses of buds on these rhodos.
The iron sulphate I watered in has killed off the small patches of moss and perked up the grass of the lawn. On the right-hand side there's a riddle covering some "unclaimed" divots I pinched from my golf course, (where some players had taken them out of fairways, not replaced them and you can't see where they should go back) I'm using them there, to patch a tiny bit of the lawn. The riddle is to stop the blackbirds pulling up the patches to look for worms.
My wife says I'm stealing the golf course a bit at a time.
The canes in the bottom right hand corner are in the tub of our new Stella Cherry. Wires are attached to a few branches to pull them away from each other to stop them crossing. I'll remove them in a few months once it's started growing, when the branches will stay in their new position.
Trouble with nature there's sometimes no symmetry at all.
I did the same with that Sorbus next to the pagoda. I corrected both a forward lean and a bend to the left it had developed, the same way, but it took a couple of years.
Everything is looking quite tidy. So I'll go and put my feet up.
Our mimosa is nearly in flower. We've had it in a big tub on the patio for many years. It gets pruned every year after it has flowered, otherwise it'd take over the patio.
Likewise our eunonymus is decades old, never looks any different all year round. I keep it trimmed back towards the fence so it doesn't cast a bigger shadow over the flox on the rockery.
We've three quinces, this white one and further down an orange and then a pink. The white one always flowers first. They each produce a lot of fruit but all three look different from each other.
Again I prune these back to a band along the top of the fence, as they would overpower the azaleas and rhodos.
An assortment of bulbs in this bed are doing well, I've forgotten what's in there, but I don't really care as long as they look good when they flower.
Masses of buds on these rhodos.
The iron sulphate I watered in has killed off the small patches of moss and perked up the grass of the lawn. On the right-hand side there's a riddle covering some "unclaimed" divots I pinched from my golf course, (where some players had taken them out of fairways, not replaced them and you can't see where they should go back) I'm using them there, to patch a tiny bit of the lawn. The riddle is to stop the blackbirds pulling up the patches to look for worms.
My wife says I'm stealing the golf course a bit at a time.
The canes in the bottom right hand corner are in the tub of our new Stella Cherry. Wires are attached to a few branches to pull them away from each other to stop them crossing. I'll remove them in a few months once it's started growing, when the branches will stay in their new position.
Trouble with nature there's sometimes no symmetry at all.
I did the same with that Sorbus next to the pagoda. I corrected both a forward lean and a bend to the left it had developed, the same way, but it took a couple of years.
Everything is looking quite tidy. So I'll go and put my feet up.
Hello Sean , has someone pinched your photo's? I've seen rhe exact same ones on another forum under a different name.
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Well spotted, but you aren't the first to notice.
I use different names on some forums.
They are all the names of characters from a particular classic 1940s film.
Sean Regan gets several mentions in it, but like me on here, they are never seen.
Film noir buffs would see the connection.
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zigs
Cactus Grower, Kent.
Love the vinca!
They've not stopped flowering
Still cold here, won't be long now
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