Garden Snap Shots!
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Excitement eh?🤔 mmmmm, I remember that, distantly mind-back in the day when we could shoot off all over the Country, talk with strangers who we could understand without muffled face coverings. Hug family members who we met regularly, giggle, laugh raucously without worry of infecting/getting infected. Walk towards folk without them scurrying away. Neighbours slowly becoming strangers, mourning a lifestyle we didn’t realise was so enjoyable. . .Err sorry muscles you were saying?😞
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Those were the days Rocky😁 I’ve missed neighbourly chats through the hedge over Winter, but folks are emerging now thankfully. We have actually got to know some of our not quite so close neighbours a lot more this last year. Mainly because we have been in to see them!😂
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Lovely surprise in greenhouse today. Forgot I had planted these, some lovely little iris I bought last year. They will go into garden once they have finished flowering. On kitchen window at the moment😁
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Beaut splash of welcome colour in a generally yellow/white season TDA👍🏻. I have the big Flag irises on a northern border that flower late spring-early summer.
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They are lovely Rocky, I recall buying them, split the little bulbs between me and Mum. They had got pushed behind another pot. I have some flag iris, but not doing very well☹️ I don’t seem to have the knack with these. Not buried too deep, leaves come up, but they don’t flower. I got two more iris for my birthday, one flag, one pond. Will plant them both carefully. My pond ones do very well.
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Thanks impy, that’s how mine are planted, albeit in a very large pot. Always in full sun, rhizomes showing. I think it must be to do with the pot🤷♀️ Think I will plant them in ground this year. Just got to find the right space. I do ok with the little bulb ones and the pond ones, just a disaster with flag iris😬
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Some ‘lower’ order birds or even animals generally don’t get much press from folk, they don’t engender the need travel around the country because they rarely do gigs in the UK, I find the much maligned House Sparrow & Starling the epitome of survivors in the true sense of the word-they adapt. The usual fayre on offer in my garden is mostly inundated by customers so the Sparrows have adapted to the Tits fatballs & half coconuts, the Starlings too. They hang from them at all angles sometimes on 1 foot✊. They have my respect for sure-
PS-the plumage of the Starling is beautiful👍🏻
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Sorted through my birthday bulbs and corms this afternoon. Potted up some nice anemones, but had to read up about a rather unusual corm my Sister bought me.....a Starfish Iris, Ferraria Crispa. South African in origin, more of a houseplant than garden plant. Very unusual, will look forward to seeing this later in year.
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No me neither Impy. Had to read up about them, going to be this year’s challenge I think. Looks more orchid like in some ways to me. Funnily enough, I have some orchids I grow in house, and despite my usual half hearted care, they have all thrived and flowered this year, out now in fact. Fingers crossed for this one🤞
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Well, things are warming up here. Froggy love fest last night in the big pond, caught at least half a dozen of the little blighters getting frisky.
Sink pond still free of froggy doings though.
And we had a belated burial here today. Our beloved horse’s ashes finally laid to rest. He will have a nice plant over him once we have done a bit more landscaping and barking.
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I'm not much of a gardener, to be honest, but the stay at home rules thisxlast 12 months has given me the chance to get to grips a little with our back garden. I even built a new shed last year!! 😃
Went to Planters today and bought a few plants and have plsntedxthe nasturtiums (dead easy to grow). I've sealed the water feature, ready to power up on Thursday when the paint 1has well and truely dried, and then, hopefully, will get out the large cantilever parasol this week with the hope that we'll be able to use it soon..... and I need to paint my little white wall again.
Does anyone have trouble with garden solar lights? I have already thrown about 10 away and am thinking of replacing them with ''string lights' that plug in to the mains and will hand on the fence rather than stick in the ground!!.....
David
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Yes, some solar lights don’t last long DSB. But, you can change the batteries in the solar units, just need to get the right ones. Like you, I have thrown away two sets this year. Got a new set, will see how they go. My OH bought me a solar powered fountain for our big pond (got fed up of issues with mains powered one, it’s a 50 metre run from house) Astonished at how good this is. Been in two years now, no problems, it’s brilliant in sunshine, stores power for dull days. Even has an underwater light for nighttime. Wouldn’t hesitate to get another, not cheap, but good value. So it’s like a frog disco down there😂
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Our little cherry Kojo No Mai is looking good but something else turned up in the garden this week. It looks like the spout from a medieval pot. I will have to check it out. We are on what used to be an ancient orchard and we find things going back thousands of years, anything from Flint tools to Roman tiles! (We're not far from the southern end of the Fosse Way.)
I think I might have a dig around this particular spot to see if anything else turns up.
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Very interesting Brue.👍
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Still got daffodils doing well here, have a few different kinds and colours in garden.....and the tadpoles have hatched😁
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Things are really getting going now, although being further south the plants have the benefit of milder weather etc. I pruned our hydrangeas the other day but the frost last night got their tops so not quite warm enough for everything yet.
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Beautiful colours there Brue. Your garden looks lovely and interesting.😁
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TDA. This thread provides a nice diary of the year progressing. I have been outside doing some weeding, the problem is I start to notice more weeds, the "nice" background greenery is sometimes big dandelions and nettles hiding away in the wrong place.
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Two shrubs & a flower giving me pleasure in our garden at the moment...shame you all can't share the fragrance of the skimma
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Beautiful impy. I planted more Snakeshead Fritillaries this year, as I seem to have lost some. We have a Quince as well, bit darker than yours. I had to give mine a hard cut back last year, after it had flowered, as it was getting a bit straggly. I rewarded me with another lovely set of flowers, but no fruit. Didn’t mind, as I don’t use the fruit.
I am not well up on shrubs, but we have cleared quite a large patch this year, barked it over and I am looking for a few things to give colour all year round. Not easy as it’s prone to shade later in day. Did put two nice Broom plants in though. And I have a variegated standard holly planned.
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Thank you, will do👍
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Some more garden colour.
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The frosts have continued so lots of seedlings are being protected in the greenhouse. Some of the hardier veg have been planted, peas, beans, leeks & shallots etc. An old Canary Bird rose is tough and is out early as usual. Lovely rose with a nice scent.
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Still bitter cold up here overnight, daren’t put anything out☹️ I have got all my bulbs and tubers into pots now, and some flower seeds sown, but not as far on as yours brue.
I am fighting a running battle with our squirrels at the moment, anything outside and in a pot is being dug up every morning, have taken to putting pebbles and tiles over unplanted bits of earth. Goodness knows what they are after, they have five feeders to go at, and the lawn is pock marked with dug up nut holes😡
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I’ve trimmed the hollys-& used the cuttings, they’re keeping everything away right now, I was getting a lot of soil digging, 4+” of holly does a grand job😂😂
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👍 Brilliant idea🤩 I need to trim our holly. Hawthorn as well....ouch.
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