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Post by bixaorellana on May 18, 2020 16:48:24 GMT
Your roses are glorious, Lugg, and so healthy!
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Post by mossie on May 18, 2020 18:20:16 GMT
Here for a complete change is part of my untamed wilderness
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Post by mossie on May 18, 2020 18:22:44 GMT
And here is a wind planted flower, growing between the patio and the house
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Post by bixaorellana on May 18, 2020 18:46:12 GMT
So lush, Mossie!
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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2020 20:12:50 GMT
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Post by lugg on May 19, 2020 19:27:31 GMT
Do you still remember the names of each one? No not all...some were here before me but the bright pink one is a Bourbon and I think Zéphirine Drouhin, the yellow one is a David Austin rose , Golden Celebration. Mossie I imagine that the cotoneaster must be a magnet for bees. Lovely blooms K2 - a riot of colour.
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Post by casimira on May 20, 2020 1:02:22 GMT
I knew that yellow one was a David Austin!!
Simply stunning!!
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Post by mossie on May 20, 2020 6:55:20 GMT
My wife was the gardener and I remember her shoving me into sending away for some David Austin roses. That must begetting on for 20 years ago and some are still performing, I do try to remember to cut them back from time to time. I was only the second under gardener you must understand, so only did exactly as I was told and no more! Now of course, without instruction, the garden is in charge.
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Post by mossie on May 20, 2020 11:05:32 GMT
Here is one of the David Austin roses. it has to compete with the mint which started as a small bit at one end of the border but now is colonising the full length. Also a snap of a little garden growing in a joint in the slabs Plus some of the alpine poppies growing wild and Love in a Mist, also an interloper
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Post by casimira on May 20, 2020 11:45:56 GMT
That David Austin is a beauty Mossie and has held up so well over time. Your wife would be pleased.
The poppies and the nigella (love in a mist) are pleasant surprises.
The oxalis you can keep...
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Post by mickthecactus on May 20, 2020 12:57:54 GMT
Yes, we all have that bloody Oxalis..
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Post by bixaorellana on May 20, 2020 16:43:53 GMT
Beautiful pictures, Mossie, and the rose looks awfully happy there with its mint pal.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 20, 2020 17:00:54 GMT
The rose is beautiful but I had a bad experience with David Austin when they twice sent me the wrong rose and tried to fob me off with a lame excuse that with so many roses they can get them wrong.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 20, 2020 17:15:30 GMT
I love to see flowers that grow through the cracks.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 21, 2020 10:50:10 GMT
Dianthus
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Post by bixaorellana on May 21, 2020 16:24:34 GMT
Dianthus and forget-me-nots ~ what could be more charming?!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 28, 2020 0:36:15 GMT
There are some things that stay in bloom in my yard, like the honeysuckle and the Clerodendrum. I have two climbing roses in a large pot, a white and a deep pink. Sometimes they're both in bloom at the same time and sometimes they alternate. Right now the pink one is blooming like mad. This is making me really happy. Last year when these bloomed there was a surprise white one in with all the others which have been blooming red for years and years. After bloom season I carefully extracted a bulb from the white parent so I could give it to my landlady. My red ones duly bloomed this year and the landlady reported that her white one bloomed. But I didn't get any white ones. Lo and behold now, very late for Amaryllis, these little beauties finally decided to bloom ~
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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2020 8:49:58 GMT
Superb photos Bixa! I spotted a white and blue Dietes in my garden but no others in bloom.
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Post by casimira on May 28, 2020 12:22:10 GMT
My clerodendron , the exact same one as yours Bixa , never stops blooming.
I don't have any dietes any more. Sometime ago I ripped out all of them out. I had them planted in a narrow strip and the clumps of them took up so much space and it was difficult to grow anything else in that particular bed.
The blooms were so sporadic and they had a tendency to look ratty.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 28, 2020 17:26:14 GMT
I spotted a white and blue Dietes in my garden Thank you, Tod! I yearn for the combo white & blue Dietes, but have never seen one either for sale or in a garden around here. My landlady gave me a white one which did nothing forever. It finally grew a bunch of leaves & is now in a pot. Still no blooms, though. I don't have any dietes any more. Sometime ago I ripped out all of them out. Re: Clerodendron ~ I always preferred C.thomsoniae, but got dealt the red one. I've learned to love it for its profusion of blooms, even though I kind of hate how much pruning it needs. But it redeems itself again by being such a hummingbird magnet. The reason I have hardly any yellow Dietes is the same reason you don't have any -- they like to take over & their foliage can get raggedy or sickly.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 30, 2020 11:41:16 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 30, 2020 11:54:18 GMT
Gorgeous images. Never taken to roses but I like them in other peoples' gardens
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Post by casimira on May 30, 2020 12:25:29 GMT
Stunning photo Kerouac.
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Post by lugg on Jun 3, 2020 20:14:54 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 3, 2020 21:48:27 GMT
Yours is indeed the garden of earthly delights, Lugg! That Sambucus is sheer glory and so big. I think it's the prettiest one I've seen. That particular shade of pink clematis is just wonderful with the yellow roses. All of your photos are as fabulous as always, and the one of the columbines is positively 3D.
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Post by mich64 on Jun 4, 2020 2:22:03 GMT
Mossie and Kerouac, those are gorgeous roses! My sister loved yellow blooms, I have been looking for something I it had not occurred to me to think of roses. I hope I can find something similar Mossie.
Superb photos of some beautiful blooms Bixa and Lugg.
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Post by bjd on Jun 4, 2020 5:45:21 GMT
Lovely, Lugg. After your previous post about a sambucus I looked it up, thinking I would love to put one in the garden. Then I saw that they can reach 5 metres and decided against it.
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Post by lugg on Jun 4, 2020 8:40:19 GMT
Thank you all Then I saw that they can reach 5 metres and decided against it. Yes I have chopped it back twice and will continue to do so - this is as large as I am going to allow it to be. I am hoping by careful management it remains bushy rather than tree like.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 4, 2020 17:00:01 GMT
It's magnificent now and will only be more so the bushier it gets, Lugg. Reading the comments from you & Bjd, I remembered how impressed I was by the Sambucus I saw in Kew Gardens. I knew I had a picture in my report, but when I looked it was a close-up, not the whole thing. Still, I enjoyed seeing again the wonderful use of (almost) black-foliaged plants in that particular section of the garden. (it's in #7 of my report) But the other thing I found was this comment from you, which you might enjoy seeing four years on ~ The sambucus is so pretty, mine had just one flower this year but is really thriving so next year hopefully will have more but the foliage is so lovely it does not really matter.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 4, 2020 17:29:14 GMT
Really lovely pictures lugg.
Sambucus is a stunning plant but needs an awful lot of space.
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