Garden Snap Shots!
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Our cheerful Acer that goes red in the Spring before it turns green.
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The Wisteria has made a fantastic show this year .
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Yes Bru , I have 3 Wisterias two in the garden ( Prolific and Caroline )which have done Ok . But one ( Blue Diamond I think ) in a large pot had it about 8 years and never flowered , this year 4 small blooms so hope it gets better next year .
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For those who know Yorkshires East Coast well they’ll know Reighton(plant) Nursery, it’s huge & it has everything. During a visit 3yrs ago we looked in the ‘cheap as chips’ no label’ section & found this Rhodo(below)⤵️. It was 3x too big for it’s pot, it was rough looking & super pot bound. My research came up with-‘Georgian Snow Rose’ but I’m not convinced. Each year it has got better with more flower buds. This year they were the size of a conference pear. It is a wonder to behold. I have it in one of my acid beds with Magnolia, Azalia etc. best £15 I’ve ever spent. Rhodo’s of a similar size are priced £50+. Moral of the story-buy cheap & pamper greatly😊
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If I paid £15 to own you Muscles & you were pot bound & too big for your pot you my friend would get the same TLC👍🏻😘
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Know it well Rocky. I love to browse chuck out bins as well, some great bargains to be had as you say. End of season is best, folks like to buy things in full bloom, our local Nursery has 50p sale bargains for scraggy left overs. I buy, clean them up, pot them on, over winter and hey presto……a lovely plant.
Glory of our garden at the moment is my wonderful Lady of Shallot climbing rose. Three years in situ now, and it gets better every year. The scent is stunning as well.
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The second season of our front meadow. It has been like this now for about 2 weeks and will be going strong well after we return from holiday. Last year it started fading late September.
Colin
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Looking lovely EM👍
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Remember the discussion on the plant in this post . It turned into this, which I think is a Campanula . Am I right ?
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Yes you are right, I think a few of us, like me, were wrong...
But a lot of young plants looks similar before they grow. Very nice HH. 
I'm pleased with this Dahlia, it hasn't got a pretty name, Honka Rose but it's a good plant and has survived into year two.
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Couple of photos of two of my favourite plants…. First one is for Tinny, it’s a fabulous rose called Proper Job, bought in Cornwall a few years ago. Photo doesn’t do it justice really, it’s a really deep crimson, and has a gorgeous scent.
Second photo is of Giant Scabious, and an ordinary sized Scabious. Giant is a wonderful butter yellow colour, and each flower is close to 4inch across. It was a gift from a Garden volunteer colleague back in my Brodsworth days.
The much smaller scabious I bought years ago at Charlecote on our way back from a visit to Royal Shakespeare Theatre. It’s known as Rafe, after Ralph Fiennes. Star of play we saw. I like plants to bring back memories😁
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Proper Job! Isn’t it just that👍🏻
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Stunning rose, I got this one, and our incredible rambler from a very knowledgeable lady gardener who specialised in roses. She sold plants from her own beautiful home and garden between Helston and Hayle. I told her I needed something that would do well in part shade and she came up with the perfect option, evergreen as well, and a great anti theft plant, I wouldn’t want to get tangled in it! PJ likes it sunny though, but it’s doing really well.
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Third attempt to load a few garden photos, ready for the upcoming open day for local funds. Others doing the same, so it will be busy for several of us. Not looking good weatherwise despite predicted heat arriving soon!
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It all looks beautiful Brue👏👏 I would be round it like a shot😁 I love the NGS open days, such variety. Have very happy memories of going to one at Lamorna Cove many years ago, and the owner gladly allowed us to take our three Airedales around with us (on leads of course😁) She had a sweet little Fox Terrier that gardened with her, and we spent ages nattering about plants and dogs. Hope the fundraising goes well👍
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Four really nice Salvia plants which really add colour .
Hot Lips
Ruby Lips
Lemon Light
Washingham White
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Yes that the problem I have Impy, I just can’t resist buying when I see a plant I like. But finding room becomes a problem.
l didn’t know about Salvia’s until the lockdown but fell in love with them , there seems to ben100s of them.
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Before the rain started today I took a photo of our schzewan pepper tree which is covered in peppercorns for the first time. We are growing it in a pot but will try planting it out later. It's got huge thorns so not the easiest tree to handle.
Also our bargain Lidl "sale" Olive tree is covered in blossom but I don't think we'll see olives growing here. Looks attractive if nothing else.
And our only Echium this year has gone skywards, lots of seedlings around for more in the future.
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Lovely quite exotic stuff brue😁 Our nearest nursery has started selling huge Olive Trees, in pots 5ft diameter. Very expensive but folks are buying them, one of our neighbours bought one last year. It will be interesting to see if it fruits this year. It had loads of olives on when they bought it.
Garden for me as well today. Quite nice here after rain last night. I am trying to sort out some Hazel trees into a semblance of a hedge. Want it clear underneath, to around four foot, then a couple of feet of greenery to give some privacy a foot or so taller than our rear wall. Lots of nasties to clear underneath, nettles very vicious at the moment.
We have a serious bindweed issue here at the moment sadly😱 Our neighbour’s are lovely, but don’t do anything in their garden beyond mowing a tiny lawn patch near the house. Their garden is huge, twice the size of ours, but it’s full of bindweed, nettles, sticky weed, and everything overgrown and neglected. To compound things, bindweed is considered “pretty”, but it’s starting to invade our garden badly, despite my efforts to do what I can to sort it out. I simply will have no resort but to spray it. Very hard work, it’s in the hedges as well.😱😱😱0 -
Wisteria at it again , both started flowering for second time
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Next doors Magnolia is blooming also
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{ and there ain't many cheaper }
