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Starting a fresh thread for this year :)

My first task will be buying some compost so I can start planting the vast selection of free seeds in my possession.

I have far too many, so if anyone is interested in being sent a few packets, just pm me. I’m happy to post them on.
 
#349 ·
Saw my raised bed in the sun and wanted to share
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I don't know what it is but this plant with pink flowers keeps on appearing, it's spreading, but I like it so it can stay.
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#355 ·
My garden's still very much a WIP (& that's going to be even slower now as I've recently taken on an allotment because I just felt I needed evern more work!

Some of this year's blooms:
 
#357 ·
I'm trying to expand my range of colour, some of the alliums are white but they're nowhere near open yet!

I keep going on Sarah Raven's website & looking at her collections, I love all the pastel mixes she does.
 
#358 ·
Well. The clematis has had a major haircut and filled a wheelbarrow but I just can’t get any higher up it so I’ll just have to hope for the best. There’s definitely some green in some of the stems - and I’ve probably cut bits I shouldn’t…I shall keep my fingers crossed for next year.

The bluebells are all dying now - I don’t like this bit where they are dead and you have to leave them to feed the bulbs, always looks so messy.
 
#359 ·
Well. The clematis has had a major haircut and filled a wheelbarrow but I just can't get any higher up it so I'll just have to hope for the best. There's definitely some green in some of the stems - and I've probably cut bits I shouldn't…I shall keep my fingers crossed for next year.

The bluebells are all dying now - I don't like this bit where they are dead and you have to leave them to feed the bulbs, always looks so messy.
My grape hyacinths are the same, plus there's goosegrass coming up amongst them that I have to keep removing.
 
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Thought I would get a few annuals to put in the pots on the deck at the static only to find out all the local nurseries have closed down. Need to go for a longish drive for just a few pretty flowers.
Not sure what’s happening with one garden centre, it’s apparently been closed since March last year and hasn’t opened since. Looks to be intact still, I guess they’ve just not been able to find enough money to open
 
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The garden is very green this year .... needs more colour imo. (Though everything's a bit late because of the long cold Spring).

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Excuse the grass .... No Mow May .... will give it a trim now it's June :)

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This Rhodi is back to full strength despite being cut right back to a few short stumps about 3/4 years ago :)

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The red Rhodi in the background was pruned severely last Autumn by the tree surgeon and looks very spindly. I'm contemplating cutting it right back to stumps and refurbishing that whole border.

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Flag Iris

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I'm sure by now the pansies and forget-me-nots would be over and replaced.

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Snow in Summer is gorgeous this year.
 
#372 ·
So a few weeks ago I tried to rescue my pots at the front of the house (the little fir trees weren't very happy) and the violas and pansies at the back of the house were pitiful this year, but I thought I'd put them in the front pots, give them some new compost & miracle grow feed…and look! They have perked up no end :)

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Will go and dead head when it's a bit cooler…I'm happy they have been rescued though.
 
#383 ·
@Lurcherlad and @Mrs Funkin, your plants look lovely. I love snow in summer, reminds me of my childhood home, we had loads of it in the front garden.

I think all the rain we had earlier in the year has done the plants a world of good.

My first of my very favourite rose has come out today

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Hope you don't mind me asking which rose it is. I love roses :)

Ive been away for 5 days and come home to a garden which made me smile x

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#376 ·
So we have lots of cuckoo spit on the three big lavenders...and today there was a starling fest sitting on the lavender, I can only assume because they were eating the juvenile frog hoppers inside the cuckoo spit?

It was around this time that Oscar was chilling in the conservatory and a juvenile starling (I think) flew into the conservatory and he went BONKERS! :) So much for being aged and infirm ;) He didn't catch it or anything, fear not.
 
#377 ·
So we have lots of cuckoo spit on the three big lavenders...and today there was a starling fest sitting on the lavender, I can only assume because they were eating the juvenile frog hoppers inside the cuckoo spit?

It was around this time that Oscar was chilling in the conservatory and a juvenile starling (I think) flew into the conservatory and he went BONKERS! :) So much for being aged and infirm ;) He didn't catch it or anything, fear not.
There's more to Oscar than meets the eye. ;)

I went out early this morning to find Toppy and a squirrel who was sitting in our guttering swearing at each other.
 
#379 ·
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Just spent a lovely afternoon in the garden.

Created a couple of planters from some rectangular supports for a bath in the Hydro Centre we are knocking down to make a training room, had a couple of Azaleas that I bought cheap plus a couple of home grown Lupins and new Dahlias recently purchased as plugs and stained, lined and filled the planters.

Gave everything a good watering as I am out training dogs this evening till after 8.00 and now having food and drink.

Only down side was the neighbours are smoking wacky baccy again and the sickly sweet smell is drifting to my house.
 
#380 ·
Jack and I are chilling in the garden at the moment, enjoying the shade and a light breeze.

We too have neighbours on the wacky baccy a couple of gardens down one way, while a couple of gardens down the other way is an Indian family holding a wedding reception ..... a good variety of music playing .... including Bangra, Bob Marley, etc. and not too loud, so actually quite pleasant.

Makes a change from the usual screaming kids, dogs barking and brain splitting power tools for hours on end! ;)
 
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