Garden Snap Shots!
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Bindeeed Brue , I was pruning one of my Wisteria ( how they have grown with all the rain ) and I found Bindweed among the branches . Never seen it before in my garden horrible stuff .
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Both Wisteria’s are coming out in flower. They have done this over the last 3 years .
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Mixed reactions this week in the garden. Have put a large Arum lily into ground, as it’s now too big a clump for its container. That went ok. Found another smaller Arum that OH bought me over Winter. It was potted on, but I found it a bit shredded. Something been eating at it. Decided to repot, on close inspection, found two very different caterpillars having a right old feast. Rather pleased to find them really, as this year has been a poor one for Butterflies. Carefully put them onto a patch of nettles, hope the survive. Arum is looking better already.
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Brrrr!🥶 It’s turned really cold this week here. But we still have sunshine, still a bit of colour in the garden, but plants are definitely winding down now. Today’s task was to protect my Banana plants that I put into garden early last year. They had a first Winter out last year, were unwrapped around mid May, and have had a really good year. Tops cut off, lots of fleece wrapped round and over tops, then more fleece loosely stuffed between three canes, and finally an upside down garden refuse sack covering the whole lot, with a bit of space for breathing at the bottom. All snug and protected now until next Spring🤞🤞
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I have a climbing rose, for the last two years I have trained it the way Monty Dom and most gardeners on you tube advise.
Which is to lay the upright growing branches horizontally. This,so buds that if left in the upright growing position would branch and flower on the horizontal, can now flower in an upright position all along the now horizontal branch. ( hope this all makes sense)
My problem is, I do all above .But instead of creating lots of individual blooms, these side buds just shoot upwards to about 6ft forming just an upright branch. That flowers at the top.
Anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
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Sorry about the delay in replying HH, I was transitioning to Non Member🤭
It might be something to do with the type of Rose. I have one doing the same, but it’s a rose that sends out long upright shoots all the time regardless of horizontal or vertical (Mme Isaac Perriere). Photo and name if you have got it?
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Correction, mine is an Alfred Carriere. Very fast growing, sends out fishing rod like vertical shoots. I have got a couple of side shots going horizontal, but I doubt it will flower now. Trying to get it to climb along wires to link to another arch.
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Can’t seem to get photos on nowadays, but my Rose is “ Bathsheba” I haven’t begun training it this year until all the plants round it die back a bit. Everything seems to be responding to the warm days and still going.
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Yes, I still have lots of roses in bloom. Bathsheba is called a vigorous climber, so it might still be growing like mad. My Alfred Carriere is doing the same. I have got a couple of long flowering side shoots trained along a wire, no flowers on these, but seems to have stopped with the ‘fishing rod’ like side shoots. I will trim these trained shoots back quite a bit once it stops growing.
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Just a couple of photos recently taken Pyracantha bush full of berries and now all gone as the Blackbirds have been busy and the Spindle bush/tree it has been amazing this year and even got a wild one near by but not as many flowers and berries on.
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I have a Spindleberry RK. It’s not in the best position unfortunately, but if I get the chance, I might see if I can move it.
Leaf raking here at the moment, but still got plenty in flower, including some nice roses. Weather has been warm ish and sunny here all week, around 15/16c. We have had a full day in garden today, OH log cutting, me splitting with a big axe! It’s a task I love. Garden looking a lot neater, but it will be covered in leaves again in a couple of days.0
