Garden Snap Shots!
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Thanks @Bakers2 . We’ve been here for 11 years now. I suppose we have what one would call an ‘average’ size garden, angled on one side. Over the years, plants have gone in, plants have come out, just can’t decide (lack of vision) what to do with it. I would dearly like to have another Koi pond, but because of access issues it’s nigh on impossible, considering the size of pond I’d want (13’x10’x5’). It’s digging up and removing all the soil that’s the problem. A while back, on Gardeners World they featured someone’s back garden who had put in a Koi pond surrounded by plants and a meandering path that created a tropical/jungle feel, it was absolutely stunning, to my eyes. Our garden now is ok to look at, but I’d rather have something that one can feel immersed in, if that makes sense? Sometimes I feel like just ripping it all out and starting again!
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some rose photos, and a bit of an experiment going rather well………..
I think this is called Black Beauty, a tea rose that has very large flowers. This is easily six inches across, and very lovely. Repeat flowers.
My Cornish rose, Proper Job, has a lovely scent and deep crimson colour.
Climbing rose, French origin, Mme Alfred Carriere. It needs butchering at times to keep it from getting out of control. Has a fantastic first flush, and then repeats.
Winchester Cathedral, a David Austin English rose that gives you everything, wonderful pearly pink flowers that fade to white, abundant flowers, gorgeous scent and it stated flowering late May, and will carry on until first frosts. Really healthy as well.
My experiment for new flower border🤩 This is Florence Fennel, a veg I love. I bought a pack of six very young plants and stuck each one in the midst of other flowering plants in a sunny border. The foliage is lovely, soft and feathery and edible, it’s aniseed flavoured. The bulbs are swelling nicely, and I am looking forward to eating them. Definitely going to grow more👍
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Wow @Takethedogalong your roses are beautiful. I'm not a rose lover, the 2 on our garden came from my parents garden and were only moved for sentimental reasons. My brother gave us a climber when we moved in, white iceberg I think, but it has awful blackspot. I'm torn between treating it or letting nature take its course 🫣
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I wasn’t much of a rose lover when we first bought our house, but I do regret now getting rid of the two or three neglected specimens we did have. No idea what they were, but at the time, garden wasn’t up to much, we just mowed the lawns, which were literally hedge to hedge, and concentrated on doing up the house. BIL, who had worked as a gardener in his student days did a bit of work for us, and it took a few more years for my inherited gardening genes to kick in. I decided to have a little roses area up near the house for the scents mainly, and then as the garden developed, and I volunteered as an EH gardener, my love really kicked in. They are fascinating, so many different options, and once you do a bit of reading, you soon get the hang of looking after them, although after years of never having trouble with it, blackspot is my main bugbear. But really, beyond a good cutting once or twice a year, they don’t really take much looking after. Mum has a couple of my Grandad’s old rose plants in her garden. They date from around 1948, when my grandparents moved into their last, and newly built house, not long after the War. They have really woody bases, but flower every year, and little troubles them, seem to be resistant to most things that get other roses. I have around 30-35 different roses in our garden, climbers, once flowering old types, hybrid teas, even some of the little “patio” roses I have been bought for indoors. These thrive once planted into ground and given some TLC. I lost two roses this year, had to dig them out to take out the hedge, and I think the frost got to the bare roots, it was my fault. But I have bought a couple of new ones to replace them, another Lady of Shalot and a white rose called City of York, which is a smallish climber. Both have flowered, just need to start climbing now.
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It is an Azalea, and a very stunning one. I took @Briang post to mean it’s was the “ace” in his garden. It’s out with bluebells and Cowslips, so a bit earlier in the year. A real pop of colour.
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Clematis Etoile Violette obviously likes the current heatwave.
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Yahoo, after a false start it’s raining here as well. Not heavy, but it is rain🤩
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SaSadly this front grassed area isn't picking up.so quickly 🥲
Glad you've got some rain now @Takethedogalong . It's a bit heavier here now but still.nice and steady
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We made the mistake of putting our pool thermal cover on our lawn to dry out in sunshine. When we took it up we had a ten metre scorch mark on our lawn😱 It’s coming back though thankfully.
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@Takethedogalong that was silly! 😡 ours is 'natural' 🤣. It's now dolly dancing and I'm damp running to the car, got to run to the saloon in a mo. Wearing sandals, it can run out then.....
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We came across this interesting community garden at Glanwydden, with a notice about its inception which is well worth a read.
Please ignore first photo, posted in error!!😚
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@RedKite nice Globe Thistles, I have two clumps in my garden, bees love them. Never tried a Hibiscus, lovely plants though.
That looks interesting @nelliethehooker , bit too small to read for me though, even blown up.
Water issues here at the moment. The pump in my new water feature had stopped working for some reason, although there was (solar) power there, as the lights were fine. Dismantled the feature, which didn’t take too long, and the pump filter was due a clean anyway. Poked the impeller, which is tiny, and it must have had a tiny bit of grit or something in it, as it’s whirring away merrily now. Just got to rebuild everything now……..0 -
Sorry @Takethedogalong I thought that it would have been readable. It is now dedicated to Mike Goddard who in 2021 cultivated it in the bank of an old field below the row of houses. He unfortunately collapse and died while working in the garden last May.
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A few of the plants and flowers that particularly caught our eye in the Gresgarth Hall Gardens at Caton, Lancs. The gardens have been developed since 1979, by Araballa Lennox-Boyd, when they purchased the property.
There is so much to see, and I think that this could well be the best time of the yesr for a visit.
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Wisteria blooming for third time this year , wanting to cut it but don’t want to loose the flowers. Plants in the garden showing hot weather and less water strain .
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Same here as well @hostahousey . It’s raining at the moment here, but it won’t be doing much. I am coaxing along a young Wisteria, it did well in Spring, just given it a bit of a stragglers off haircut. I think it’s hit my roses the hardest, they are not blooming as well as usual, and fruit just isn’t swelling like it should. We normally get pounds of raspberries, but very poor so far.
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LLooks Beautiful @hostahousey
@Takethedogalong My roses are awful this year, especially ones I moved up here, one has no leaves at all currently 😔. I've fed them and kept their water levels up as best as I can, luckily no hosepipe ban at present, just large consumption bill...... it seems to no avail.😪🥲
It's not just been the heat, it's hot again currently 28, but we've had so much wind which is so drying.
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