Garden Snap Shots!
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Back to peat free Compost. Used in this recent local fb bargain purchase.
One on the left is the one I described earlier as looking like dead blackbird feathers. The expensive Dobbies without John Innes. On the right Aldis own.
Both watered by Saturdays heavy rain, yet there's a dry area in the expensive side.....
Edit added another photo.which illustrates dryness and texture better
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Wisteria just opening and 3 Allium’s Pin Ball Wizard just starting to open. These bought last year at Harrogate Garden Show so waiting to see how they develope
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Bits and bobs...I was up very early today so got some planting done. Will the sunflower seedlings survive or will the pigeons win again!?
I took photos of this nice rose, Jacqueline du Pre and the alliums, purple sensation. Then our "no mow" area which has shot up this year due to the rain. Also I have been given these Oeniums by a neighbour (apologies spell checker can't work that one out) what to do with them is the question?! I know they have to go inside the greenhouse in the winter.
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Brue, I have quite a few Aeoniums, I have some I use as focal plants on patio, others are in with other succulents in a larger pot. I use clay pots for mine, so they don’t topple over, and always put gravel on top to stop squirrels investigating. They are fine out in garden up here from around now to first cold spells, then they go inside, either into greenhouse or inside house. They look good with houseleeks and Echeveria in a big wide but fairly shallow pot in a warm sunny spot, but make sure you can lift put when it gets cold😁 Mine originate from a couple I bought down at a roadside sale at Church Cove, Lizard, had lots of babies!
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Doggy wash day here, some of his favourites needed a clean. Blinking football burst in washer…..snow everywhere!🤣🦮😱
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Wow Brue , Roses in flower already. Mine are only just making buds.
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This is the best one at the moment, Princess Anne, always excellent!
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Wow again Brue….
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Now the Clementis is starting to die back the roses are starting to show through.
David
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We are enjoying a lovely warm sunny spell at the moment, and roses are out very early here. White is Winchester Cathedral, Orange climber is Lady of Shalot, pinky/blue is a climbing Blue Moon, and the yellow one remains a mystery!
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OH has been renovating our big laundry sink pond up by the house today. It had sprung a slow leak from the plug hole, which had been bunged full of sealant when we first got it. (Staff from my first Leisure Centre rang me to say it was being taken out, and was just going to be dumped into a skip some twenty odd years ago, so the sealant we put in has lasted well.) Off to Wickes tomorrow for some new, once it has cured, it’s just a matter of new gravel, then replace all rocks I have collected from up and down the country, clean all plants up, refit fountain and hopefully it’s back to full working order. I like the sound of water up near the house, but it does drive some visitors mad😁
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Very envious of the above roses, waiting patiently for flowers now the Wisteria is fading.
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Speaking of Wisteria, I notice at Swiss Farm on of the toilet blocks had a nice display on the outside. It seems that there is a lot of it about in Henley on Thames.
David
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It's been good this year unfortunately OH bought a white one a couple of years ago and as it wasn't flowering at the time it was a bit of a punt. Unfortunately it still hasn't flowered so I'm wondering if it ever will? Anyone else experienced this non event?
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Yes Brue, I have. I bought a wisteria years ago, kept it in a large pot, never let it get pot bound, but while it was healthy with leaves, never a single flower. In despair I planted it into only bit of ground I had free at the time, back of house, quite protected, and it did really well! Until our blinking Council came down one breezy day spraying weeds on adjacent cul de sac and killed it dead😡 I wasn’t best pleased. Perhaps I hadn’t got the pruning right when it was in a pot, not sure🤔
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A question about Wisteria if I may. Clearly it's a climbing plant but does it cling to the building or does require fixing, or perhaps both?
David
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No doesn’t cling like ivy , needs a wire or support lay on or to twist around .
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It needs something to wind and trail from DK, it isn’t like ivy, it doesn’t put roots into brickwork. It’s usually grown on a sturdy wooden frame, or a strong wire frame if free standing, or strong wires firmly anchored into walls if you want to train it up and along house walls. It can grow extensively, metres long, and can get very heavy like grape vines, hence the need for something strong to tame it and stop it collapsing. I think Hostahousey has posted a photo of his big wisteria climbing up and over a wooden pergola?
It needs pruning twice a year to get the flowers as well. Usually July, and then another prune later in year, so you have to think about it’s care and how to access it safely. He doesn’t know yet, but my ex firefighter and a ladder will be required at some point🤣
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Wisteria can take up to 30 years to flower. I always advise to buy wisteria personally in April/may & only if you see flower buds. Even grafted need proving. It took my Double black Dragon 10yrs to fully mature, buy it was so worth it.
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Update on progress over the last year. We moved into a new build in Devon last Sept. The plot has been wild in living memory and the top 40+m or so of the plot we decided to have as a meadow. The meadow grass has been sown, about 400 hedge planted, 3 twisted, willows, a walnut, plum, pear, eating and cooking apple trees planted. the wild flowers go in for next year. The existing hedge boundary we are trying to get back into shape, loosing track of the rubbish we've pulled out of it. We're looking forward to seeing the reults of our efforts over the next couple of years.
Colin
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I have 3 Wisteria Prolific, Blue Diamond and Caroline. Caroline I bought maybe 12 yrs ago and it was in flower when I purchased it. This plant I put into a V large pot, but it has never flowered up until last year with 2 very small blooms. This year only one small bloom the other two as previous pics show have bloomed twice a year .So really I think if possible it’s better to plant in full soil . All my Wisteria are fed at least twice yearly .
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This is ours, planted and growing well! I think it's best to buy one when it's in flower, ours should be white, maybe it will oblige next year?!
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That’s going to look lovely Eriba. A lot of work, but well worth it. Be great if you could post more photos later in year.
Plant looks healthy enough Brue. Fingers crossed for next year🤞
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Got a bit of an accidental royal theme going here, William and Kate are starting to do well, nice scent too.
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Roses are simply stunning this year, although a bit more blackspot around. Took this yesterday of our huge Alberic Barbiere climber, which climbs through fencing at back of the house. (Our house is back to front, we have big garden technically at the front, but there’s no access for visitors)
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