Garden Snap Shots!
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Peedee. The snowdrops have been lovely this year, I think the dry weather has helped. TDA strangely enough I bought some little London Pride plants on ebay last year, they used to be popular as edging plants didn't they, still haven't planted mine up.
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Interesting little plant PD, I had to look up it’s Latin name, as I know it only as London Pride. Is Saxifraga Urbium. The London Pride tag apparently comes from the fact that it colonised the bomb sites after the London Blitz, which is rather interesting (to me anyway🤣). Makes sense that it was in garden pre your ownership, it doesn’t seem to feature much in modern gardens. But I like it, and have moved clumps around. Mine suffered last year in the heat as well, but it’s come back nicely, I will keep more of an eye on mine if (🤞) we have another hot Summer.
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Something nice for me to add to the garden, Sis has bought me a yellow flowering Magnolia😁
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Looks great, never seen one .
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I first saw one in full bloom last year, in a neighbours’s garden. They don’t get as large as many Magnolias, and the colour was lovely. Mine is sort of a four foot stick at the moment, with buds, but hopefully it will flourish. It’s called Yellow Bird, there are other yellow varieties as well. Got a nice new Fig as well👍
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My new Magnolia has flowered😁 Just the one bloom, but lots of other new shoots, so it seems to be doing well. Still in its pot in the greenhouse at the moment, as we have had some very cold nights recently, but I have identified a spot in garden for it. Fig doing ok as well. Reminder, I need to clear out and tidy the greenhouse, it gets used as a log drying shed in Winter, as well as housing lots of other things.
Just watching our resident Jackdaws, who seemed to be doing a strange dance on our gravelled path. Little blighters are ripping up the weed membrane for nesting material.🤨 Our resident birds decimate our basket liners every year for nesting. Food, water, shelter from predators, hedges, trees and shrubs for nesting, pooch to chase off neighbouring cats, it’s an avian paradise here!
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Had a lovely day in the garden here,a pottering around doing this and that day. It’s “yellow”time at the moment, still got lots of daffs, a few primroses hanging on. Two of my current favourites out at the moment, an Erythronium (Pagoda Lily), and some acid lemon frilly edged tulips….
Lots of birds around, squirrels everywhere, and a very small rat! Neighbour’s pooches came round to help, a small JR and an enormous Rottweiler, both great fun. OH has almost finished a bit of fencing, and it was fun seeing our pond literally heaving with tiny tadpoles😁
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Getting productive now. 🌱
Canary Bird rose is also out.
No takers for this box so far
Glastonbury thorn flowering.
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Beautiful Brue👍
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Thanks TDA, you'll be pleased to hear I saw a beautiful yellow Magnolia in full flower in one of our nearby villages. If yours looks like that in the future it will be quite stunning! I've never spotted one before just seen them in pots in plant nurseries etc.
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Some Hostas that are more forward than the rest of my collection.
They are June which this year as started to revert back to its parent Halcyon. Also Wolverine , Sagae, and El Niño .
its nice to see some spring growth
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Your hostas look beautifully healthy😁 Mine aren’t as far on as that yet, but doing ok.
The Magnolia is in the ground now Brue, just hope it likes it’s new home. I spent the last few sunny hours yesterday tidying up pots and repotting where required. Awful wet and windy day now, so confined indoors at Mums at the moment.
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I've been outside this morning as we have quite a few things that need to come out of their pots and into the ground, most have gone in now. I have been trying to find plants that make nice edges to the borders so that we don't have to grow so many annuals to fill the gaps. Came in because I got quite cold but it's not very warm at all inside or out!
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I saw an interesting idea at HC Brue, they were using Epimediums to edge one border, looked like they had been cut quite low to keep them small, but that multi colour foliage, plus the Spring flowering looked very nice.
Two ideas used at Brodsworth Hall in the past, one was low growing ivy, kept in check along the border, nice if it was variegated or with gold in it. Second was a border made up of Echivivums (?🤔) those little succulents that have lots of babies. Not frost proof the second though, certainly not in Yorkshire anyway🤣
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Thanks TDA looks like the Epimediums in our garden have already decided that's a good idea, they've spread from the back and are advancing forwards.
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Just a few photos of some of my flowers, the mini raised bed has a lot of trailing small phlox and is great at this time of year and glad to see it as I thought I had lost it last year due to the heat but it has recovered well, not done well with Iris flowers this year this is the only one in the bed of them and not really crowded either but will move some later in the year to see if that helps.
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Lovely colours Red Kite. Your garden is weeks further on than ours, we have a 0c overnight warning for Tuesday!🥶
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We're on an extended ticket to Heligan Gardens so day one here.
Previous visit 30 years ago, things have changed!
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Keep the Heligan photos coming Brue👍 Never fails to impress. We love Trebah as well.
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https://www.iwm.org.uk/search/global?query=63622
Scroll down IWM page.
Day 2, deluges and foghorn, paths flooded, dog saturated, my waterproof shoes waterlogged....everything wetter than wet.
Just about managed the kitchen gardens and the older lawned areas. Managed to see the Thunderbox Room now listed with the Imperial War Museum as a memorial where the departing gardeners had signed the walls before leaving for WW1. Some never to return.
Spotted signatures of recent gardeners on another wall nearby. Also a waterlogged group of Dutch garden enthusiasts!
Can't return tomorrow as no suitable shoes left to wear. Wellies left at home. Can't remember when I have got quite so saturated in recent times!! 🤔
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Coo, sympathies Brue. We have been there when it’s been like that as well. The Thunderbox room is very poignant, not surprised it’s listed. We like to head up onto Bodmin Moor on days like yours, just mooching around from small church to small church. Conversely, we have had some lovely warm balmy evenings watching a live theatre production at Heligan as well, so it’s just the luck of the draw.
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Brue disappointing when you don't see gardens in their glory. Well done for going in such conditions. I have a Lighthouse full length coat and matching hat, very suitable for such conditions along with waterproof trousers. I can't do wellies so stout walking boots. Done me proud on days like that but I think you probably stuck it out longer. Poor dog 🐕 😢.
I have to say the photos show its not shabby even in such conditions.
Do you think they'd swop for my handsome set up?. I have to keep adding to the blocked area, little blighters of 3 cornered leek keep trying to escape! I did salvage the chosia from another area hoping to relocate in the covered area. Got caught by the frost 2 days ago. I've been ruthless with the few plants that shared the space, I'm to frightened I'll cause an outbreak somewhere else in the garden. When I think it's all covered, I'll find an old tarpaulin, I'm sure there's one somewhere, to make the area look a bit better.
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The dog was ok Bakers2, small enough to go inside OH's coat, just peeking out so wet on her head!
I have ordered some new walking shoes...the gore tex has been well and truly breached this time.
Well I think you will have fun moving all that off later on but I'm sure it will be successful and save a lot of extra work.
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Quite pleased with my Clematis Montana this year, flowering all along my side fence.
David
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That makes a stunning looking boundary.
When we moved into this house there was one growing against the house, don't think there was much brickwork that didn't have greenery 😱. Totally in the wrong place so I had it out after it flowered. Had one in a 60ft tree at our previous house, looked stunning and more appropriate.
Having watched the garden for a year I'm putting my own stamp on it. Much was rampantand overgrown... I have now planted one in the corner of the back garden to add some interest to our tall patchy hawthorn hedge being taken over but ivy which has a good hold.
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More clearing and planting 😀.
Bought some veg plugs and got them in and the rain came just right.
Think 🤞🤞🤞the last, with the exception of 3 cornered leek, clearing of borders and debris is complete phew. The original slabs in front of the border had to come up as the rose of Sharon was well tangled under it. Slabshad toplaced at the back of the border as soil level higher than fence! Other slabs from behind the garage place temporarily to stop weed growth until we get top soil and turf and garden help coordinated in next week or 2. Last upright slabs temporary sited, lugged to many from front to back!
Heap of stuff on top of the plastic covered 3 cornered leek is some of the debris from the bed and under the slabs, I shifted another couple of barrow loads. I notice the 'leek' is fighting so hard now 🤞. I'm hoping DIL may take hard-core later for farm track holes.
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