Garden Snap Shots!
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I had a nice surprise in greenhouse today. I was checking on a few pots and had a look in the one that I planted the Starfish Iris bulb in (some of you might recall me mentioning it last March, it was a birthday present, photo on page 4) I have dug it up for a look three times through the year, with no signs of anything sprouting…..but today, yippee, a a sprut sticking out of compost🥳 I need to re Google now, to look up care.
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The witch hazel is out in our garden. If only the sun would shine the perfume might come out. Here's a close up of "Jelena" a nice orangey red colour.
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Well, if you're stuck at home thinking of plants and gardens I found this nice Spring Tour of Abbotsbury sub Tropical gardens down near the Dorset coast. Put it on full screen for the best results, a pity it wasn't a sunny day as the coastal views towards Portland Bill etc would have been superb!
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Called at a local Garden Centre yesterday . I bought these two pots of perennial Chrysanthemums from the clearance area, with the previous year price of £9.99 for 10p each. Never grown Chrysanthemum before but thought these to be worth a go. Don’t know what they may look like but had to be a bargain at 10p a pot. Any help on growing them appreciated
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Good bargain hosta👍 I have some in that state that I put in pre Christmas and they did nothing. I would take some small scissors and cut back the dead/ dying growth, then keep them free from frost and put into a larger pot with some fresh compost to sort of feed them. Hopefully they should put plenty of nice new growth on, and flower well later in year. The mystery will be…..what colour😁
Our garden is where we were when I started this thread last year, snowdrops and crocus, hellebores and things budding up. Always cheering to see things coming through again😁
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Can they be Split
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Yes they can Hostahousey. Hope they turn out well, brilliant price so nothing lost.
We had a beautiful sunrise at the front of our home this morning and then a bit later I took a photo of St Ewe, our ever faithful but overgrown Camellia. It's been flowering since early January.
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Brue
Again nice photo and in particular your beautiful Camellia. Ours is still in tight bud even though both are in tubs and in a sheltered area from wind and frost. Herefordshire is a relatively mild county but this year we do seem to be lagging a bit with various plants and flowers, strange as that might be, not having so far a hard winter.
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Yes mine too Brue , mine has been in a cold greenhouse since October. But it’s leaves are curling and some have gone brown. Yet the buds seem fine ..... Any help
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Apologies for not getting back to you HH. Couldn’t get a reply to load yesterday. Brue has it covered though😁 You can take soft growth cuttings as well.
My amaryllis is doing great. Around 24 inches tall, two strong flower stems. One done, one in full glory.
Hoping to get some seeds in later this afternoon….in between building a shower cubicle😯
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Daffs ......Just Love Em
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HH try a top feed with ericacious granules. We don't have a very acid soil so a top up helps outside or in pots. Having said that we were at Stourhead this week and their Camellias had yellowing leaves. Maybe all the rain has leached out nutrients in the soil this year?
Look forward to seeing your Amaryllis TDA. I miss having a few around but I've gone over to keeping geraniums all year round in our conservatory and just don't have any space.
I sowed some Cosmos and Coleus seeds this week, OH is ahead of me with all his tomato seeds etc.
Happy gardening everyone!🥕🥕🌻
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SNOW ...!!!! forecast for next week , just hope it doesn't affect the Wisteria buds which are just developing. Last year at this time a frost killed them all off.
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Yes just when flowers and buds think it's safe to come out!
This is a nice early clematis which is out in our garden just now, hope it survives!
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Frost has got my Pieris this week…..again. Most other stuff doing ok though. Bottom of our very old apple tree……and some Snakeshead Fritillaries.
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Purchased this plant ( at a reduced £1 section ) because I just liked the leaves. But it didn’t have a label, anyone know what it is ?
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Thanks for that bru , any idea of colour?
are they perennials?
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I might be wrong or right
But here's one I took earlier, does it look like a possible? A single stem, yours looks better! If it's right it will be white like mine or mauve and yes it's perennial.0 -
I had to look it up😁 a nice plant. Bargain at a £1👍
Roses budding up nicely here, but. I have a very poorly looking clematis, it has gone over all of a sudden and looks to have some kind of problem close to ground, sticky and mushy☹️ It’s been fine last couple of years, and was doing really well up to this week. Bit of a mystery. I have my suspicions centering on the pooch🤔
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Yes it leaves looks similar brue, I'll have to wait and see.
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This may sound wacko but-it looks like ‘Mexican Coriander’ folk I know grow it & I’ve eaten it at theirs(remember I did say it may sound wacko) it was strong in a salad🤷🏻♂️🤔
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A closer look at the leaves . Had a look at the Mexican Coriander Rocky but it’s leaves seem to have like half diamond edges where my plants leaf is fairly smooth. But time will tell .
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HH. My phone isn't working very well but I managed to take a photo of another plant waiting to go in, this is tall and has white flowers too. Phylostegia?
Edit. let us know what mystery appears.
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I see it👍🏻. I was working from memory, I’ve since done the sensible thing as you did & googled it👍🏻. Yup, the only thing they share is long leaves😊
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Last stab-‘Bellflower’ have blue coloured flowers🤷🏻♂️
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Yes, we will have to wait and see
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