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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 25, 2020 20:18:57 GMT
Oh, it must be full of bugs.
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Post by bjd on Jul 26, 2020 5:46:49 GMT
Nice to see your garden looking so well, Cheery. It's so dry here that's it's rather depressing.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 26, 2020 9:20:51 GMT
Gorgeous darling! Really stunning - Cheery you must get so much pleasure seeing it all develop.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 29, 2020 13:09:34 GMT
Sweet peas
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Post by bjd on Jul 29, 2020 15:03:05 GMT
Lovely! I sowed some seeds, one bloomed and wilted, the others did nothing. I bet they smell nice too.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 29, 2020 15:44:21 GMT
Sweet peas rarely get their due, but you have proven that ignoring them is a mistake, mick.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 29, 2020 15:51:12 GMT
Lovely sweet peas Michael dear. I've not grown any for years, him indoors doesn't like the smell.. philistine. Thank you the nice comments about the garden. It is quite nice this year, but things are starting to go over now. At least the tithonia and mina lobata have started flowering now..I prefer the hot colours to the pastel ones. On a sunny day I can hear the bees buzzing around the flowers from the kitchen if I leave the door open.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 29, 2020 16:14:08 GMT
Oh how lovely! Reminds me straight away of my dear mum. Being a farmers wife she had access to any amount of manure for her very long trench of sweetpeas. The perfume is heavenly.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 29, 2020 16:32:43 GMT
So pretty, Mick. I need a scratch & sniff monitor!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2020 4:52:59 GMT
I don't have much blooming in my foliage-intense garden, although I noticed this evening that a gardenia is opening. The finicky geranium in a hanging basket decided to put out some blooms and the pink climbing rose is giving its all ~
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 2, 2020 17:17:32 GMT
Lovely Pelargonium.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 2, 2020 17:21:16 GMT
Canna Green Kniphophia Abutilon
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 2, 2020 17:57:22 GMT
Thank you huckle. Appreciated.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 3, 2020 6:27:55 GMT
Mick, there are Cannas and then there are Cannas….. I am forever trying to get rid of "volunteers" springing up all over the garden. The flower is red and leaf green, but the flowers are never large and attractive. Rather puny and a waste of time. I root them out because they are such greedy feeders. Cannas are something we cannot buy at the Plant Nursery but I have acquired some by asking gardeners who have splendid cannas visible to the road that passers by. I once got my hands on the most vivid shocking pink cannas. Don't know what happened to them but I suspect moles ate the bulbs.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 3, 2020 16:16:16 GMT
Ooh lovely Mick, gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous...and the abutilon is splendid (and gorgeous)
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 3, 2020 16:26:21 GMT
The best things in the garden this year (aside from th bumblebees) have been the sunflowers. I would usually have something exotic purchased from a garden show to lust over at this time of year...but as I haven't even been to a garden centre since early March this year I've had to rely on the herbaceous perennials that I already have and seeds. These sunflowers (sown in March) have intense yellow petals and are sumptuous. I love them and so do the bumblebees.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 3, 2020 16:31:45 GMT
That’s a stunning picture Cheery!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 3, 2020 16:39:13 GMT
Thank you Mick x
Our crumbling old wooden shed in the background...soooo needs replacing. We replaced the fence at the back and down the right side of the garden a few years ago. If we took down the shed our next door neighbour's fence (on the left) would fall over as it's very rickety. Next year we really do need to get a new shed tho...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 3, 2020 16:42:57 GMT
Sunflowers are always glorious, even standing alone. But I'm sure that you have also seen the fields of 10,000 sunflowers standing together. Breathtaking!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 3, 2020 18:52:03 GMT
Only in photos Kerouac. There is a large council estate nearby which I walk through with the dog sometimes. There are a few refugee families housed there. One lady, I think that she's from Syria, has planted several sunflowers in her small front garden and also in the waste ground opposite her house...I'll have to take a pic when they start flowering, if the local vandals don't get to them first.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 11, 2020 12:27:24 GMT
Dahlias
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Post by tod2 on Aug 11, 2020 16:02:22 GMT
Oh so lovely Mick! Is that a Clarice Cliff vase??
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 11, 2020 17:25:47 GMT
£1 from local junk shop. One of my favourite possessions.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 12, 2020 9:32:02 GMT
Aah! But many a junk shop has turned up priceless items - I love Antiques Roadshow!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 13, 2020 18:21:27 GMT
We have a show like that in France too, where people who spent one euro or even picked up items from the trash heap end up selling their item for hundreds of euros.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 22, 2020 11:18:55 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 22, 2020 11:27:53 GMT
What a display! That is fantastic!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2020 16:32:05 GMT
Oh fabulous!!!
Those are proteas, right? I've seen pictures of them growing in the wild in S.Africa, but had no idea there were so many cultivated varieties. What riches!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2020 16:36:36 GMT
Those are really excellent, but I certainly could not name any of them.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 22, 2020 19:00:15 GMT
Love proteas...tried to grow one once. Failed. Managed to grow kangaroo paw but not the proteas. I sometimes manage to get a couple from my favourite flower shop...
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