Not really a flower person, they have to earn their keep and be very low maintenance but you are all obviously having an effect on me as I bought flowers just because they looked pretty!
I noted that, @Hostafan1, although I have a 5-yr old crowded agapanthus in a 30cm-wide pot and it’s got 11 flower stalks on it... there must be a tipping point and I’m not there yet...
Some of the answers to questions are terrible though. In answer to ‘my rose is covered in aphids and has terrible blackspot, what can I do’... the answer from the nervous looking lady from Peter Beales was, ‘pick off the leaves and give it a foliage feed’. No mention of wiping/hosing off aphids or leaving them for the ladybirds, nothing about clearing up fallen leaves etc. Perhaps if they had given her an extra few seconds she might have been able to give a fuller response. Or she did and they edited it out.
Much prefer Hampton to Chelsea, tho and the gardens are really good this year, I thought. Maybe with one notable exception..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Haven't watched it yet. I wanted to buy some Agapanthus, but not plants (had to go to another event straight afterwards so was on a strictly 'things that can fit in the bag' rule). I nearly bought plugs but didn't, and have regretted it ever since
Some more gardens.
The Springwatch Garden:
The Stop and Pause Garden. This was actually lovely, I didn't get a photo from the angle that shows it at its best.
Some planting in the Smart Meter Garden (I didn't go in):
The APL: A Place to Meet garden. Great use of a small space (though any disabled guests would have literally nowhere to go). There was a rill, a plunge pool (in front of the part pictured) and a pond!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Great pics @LG_....... I didn’t take any this year.
We had a great day there on Tuesday - not too hot and not too crowded. Favourite gardens were the Springwatch one and the mindfulness one, although there were lots of really good ones this year.
we also went and watched one of the talks - James Alexander Sinclair being very entertaining as usual, and a guy from the RHS with some controversial and thought provoking views on compost 🤔😱. Basically saying a badly run home compost heap gives off a lot of methane (lots worse than CO2), and unless you can do it properly its better to send it to a waste facility that can. Food for thought 🤯
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Careful, it's addictive.
Some of the answers to questions are terrible though. In answer to ‘my rose is covered in aphids and has terrible blackspot, what can I do’... the answer from the nervous looking lady from Peter Beales was, ‘pick off the leaves and give it a foliage feed’. No mention of wiping/hosing off aphids or leaving them for the ladybirds, nothing about clearing up fallen leaves etc. Perhaps if they had given her an extra few seconds she might have been able to give a fuller response. Or she did and they edited it out.
Much prefer Hampton to Chelsea, tho and the gardens are really good this year, I thought. Maybe with one notable exception..
Some more gardens.
The Springwatch Garden:
The Stop and Pause Garden. This was actually lovely, I didn't get a photo from the angle that shows it at its best.
Some planting in the Smart Meter Garden (I didn't go in):
The APL: A Place to Meet garden. Great use of a small space (though any disabled guests would have literally nowhere to go). There was a rill, a plunge pool (in front of the part pictured) and a pond!
I really liked the pebbly rill.
We had a great day there on Tuesday - not too hot and not too crowded. Favourite gardens were the Springwatch one and the mindfulness one, although there were lots of really good ones this year.
we also went and watched one of the talks - James Alexander Sinclair being very entertaining as usual, and a guy from the RHS with some controversial and thought provoking views on compost 🤔😱. Basically saying a badly run home compost heap gives off a lot of methane (lots worse than CO2), and unless you can do it properly its better to send it to a waste facility that can. Food for thought 🤯