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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Minus 8 is the lowest recorded so far...
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    stone-porn
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Looking great Nollie. I started a hot border too, along the back of my extension - still a work in progress, but I have clashing, strong colours in it too. Good fun isn't it? :)

    I have a couple of Heleniums too [the usual Moorheim Beauty one] just planted recently so they should add a bit of rusty orange to go with other things, and clash with the shocking pink Dianthus and Lychnis. I have a good dark lily called Black Magic or similar. it's just flowering now, and is a good dark red, with a hint of orange. They're handy for some verticals  :)

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Gorg lillies. My garden is about to get hotter - cosmos everywhere, strong sweet peas (purples and red, I think), dark red coreopsis, red dark roses, bumble salvias, purple clems.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    That's looking fabulous, Nollie  :) 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Yes it is fun, fairygirl, easier to hide your mistakes too, as of course it was meant to clash, really! Cheers raisingirl, its a month on from those pics and things are changing, mostly for the better, but some problems too. Will post updates soon.

    Fire I first read that as ‘stoned porn’  - ooh er missus - until I looked again and realised you must just be admiring my walls  :D


    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I am admiring your fine buttresses!
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    TMI  :D
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Gorgeous lilies, my garden is rubbish this year, my cosmos and other annuals that I grow to fill in when Foxgloves etc are over, are still in pots, no point in planting them out, the ground is like dust, I’ve just been out and cut a load of stuff down, I’m quite heartbroken really, but it can’t be helped, I think this may be the way of the future so will have to rethink for next year. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I’m so sorry Lyn, that is heartbreaking  :'(

    Climate weirdness is probably only only going to get worse. I am used to planning and planting for drought, but this year have suffered snow, monsoon rains, then blazing sun,  high humidity and fungal infections. Local farms and allotments have been ravaged - the crop fields were totally flattened by fierce storms and hail, we all lost our early broad beans, tomatoes suffering... So I am now having to adjust in the opposite direction and wondering what to expect next. Apart from the roses suffering mega blackspot, my ornamentals are growing at an astonishing rate so at least there are some compensations.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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