@Victoria Sponge, your soil sounds like mine at the moment. We had our garden landscaped in the autumn and had all the topsoil which was mostly clay removed and replaced with lovely new soil. It must still have some clay in it as we have a solid crust on top. For the new roses and clematis I’ve planted I’ve had to prepare a larger planting hole than normal a couple of days before the plants arrive to make it a bit easier for the plants.
@Nollie, I planted a new Lady Emma Hamilton in a spot where it will only get morning sun so I’m hoping the blooms won’t fade and it responds to some shade like your LOS. @Mr. Vine Eye, I’m glad you decided to stay at the allotment as it sounds as though your whole family benefit from being there and the children are learning valuable skills which will be useful in later life.
I did something really drastic with a new clematis from Thorncrofts after watching a YouTube video from a clematis “expert”. I cut off all the lovely top growth and will plant it today, i had to psyche myself up to do it😂🙄 and felt really guilty afterwards. It’s a group 3 so it’s got plenty of time to grow back before flowering late summer.
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@Bright star I have a potted Lady Em that’s in dappled to full shade for most of the day, couple of hours sun at best, and it does fine. Roses that need ‘full sun’ can’t always take my full sun and cope better with much less here. If it gets a decent amount of morning sun with you it should be fine. Mine still goes spotty in high summer though!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I've been painting the bench this morning. Quite please with the colour. Should definitley stand out more against the orange-red brick wall now!
We also had a morning out at the allotment, set up the shelving in the tunnel (took lots of evidence photos!!) and some prep.
Watched a spider catching a fly by running across the surface of the pond, then carry it back to the marsh marigold pot! Lots of little waterboatman type creatures in there.
Very nice display @celcius_kkw . What are you going to do with the bulbs / pots when they finish ? I do save daffodils and others but Tulips are a bit iffy depends on how big the bulbs are. Have you got plans for a summer display
I wouldn't worry about your lasagne plants @edhelka its trail and error they still look nice either way, I've been doing lasagne planting for years and they still don't all come to plan, I keep getting stunted /shorter tulips most likely a water problem or compost seen as I don't change it till summer.
I am glad you've gone back to the allotment @Mr. Vine Eye would of been a shame to lose it for someone else's doing. Plus the extra space.
I want to the garden centre yesterday they had some potted DA roses in , nothing I fancied but it looks like DA are distributing roses to garden centres now. I'll go for a wonder round the garden today and probably pot some seedling on.
@Mr. Vine Eye you could use the 'magic' pens like what they do with the bicycles at the start of university term to trace them if they're stolen, on your shelving.
Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth
I have at last found my first bud on the Celebration rose. Which has beaten my Blue for You And the photo bombing standard red.
And for the one who wanted to know about the habit of Sheila's Perfumed here she is This is all without the temperatures going higher than 3° at night, and no rain for a month, aren't plants adaptable. 😀
@edhelka I didn’t actually pay attention to the flowering time of the bulbs last autumn.. I planted all the tulips deepest with daffodils above them. So far it seems the tulips have reliably flowered after most of the daffodils with a nice overlap. I do find that the tulips in the ‘tulip only’ pots seem to bloom better compared to the ones in lasagne pots.. but despite that the lasagne tulips still perform well enough for me to want to do it again this year. I find the lasagne method really space saving.. as I won’t need separate pots for the daffs and tulips etc..
@Perki Thank you. Yes I do have plans for those pots.. I will be saving my daffodils but not the tulips - if I had a garden I would have planted them in a secluded border and see how they get on but I don’t.. besides I would like to try growing some other types of tulips anyway.. the daffodils seem more limited in varieties so I don’t mind having the same ones for next year.
With that in mind I won’t be letting the tulips die down naturally so it would free up the pots earlier for my cosmos (I’m growing purity and antiquity this year from seed) and lupins (I grew them from seed as well, not sure if they will flower this year but there’s only one way to find out..). I also have two Dalmatian foxgloves this year to go into that spot..
@pu@purplerallim Is that a flash of red coming through the bud on Celebration already? Seems like you’re on to the first UK bloom in this group this year..!
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@Mr. Vine Eye, I’m glad you decided to stay at the allotment as it sounds as though your whole family benefit from being there and the children are learning valuable skills which will be useful in later life.
We also had a morning out at the allotment, set up the shelving in the tunnel (took lots of evidence photos!!) and some prep.
Watched a spider catching a fly by running across the surface of the pond, then carry it back to the marsh marigold pot! Lots of little waterboatman type creatures in there.
We all really enjoyed it. Felt like home!
I wouldn't worry about your lasagne plants @edhelka its trail and error they still look nice either way, I've been doing lasagne planting for years and they still don't all come to plan, I keep getting stunted /shorter tulips most likely a water problem or compost seen as I don't change it till summer.
I am glad you've gone back to the allotment @Mr. Vine Eye would of been a shame to lose it for someone else's doing. Plus the extra space.
I want to the garden centre yesterday they had some potted DA roses in , nothing I fancied but it looks like DA are distributing roses to garden centres now. I'll go for a wonder round the garden today and probably pot some seedling on.
Some BS already, I can cope with that, but oh the sawflies!! Can’t keep up, would be out there all day picking the blighters off:
Which has beaten my Blue for You
And the photo bombing standard red.
And for the one who wanted to know about the habit of Sheila's Perfumed here she is
This is all without the temperatures going higher than 3° at night, and no rain for a month, aren't plants adaptable. 😀
@Perki Thank you. Yes I do have plans for those pots.. I will be saving my daffodils but not the tulips - if I had a garden I would have planted them in a secluded border and see how they get on but I don’t.. besides I would like to try growing some other types of tulips anyway.. the daffodils seem more limited in varieties so I don’t mind having the same ones for next year.
@pu@purplerallim Is that a flash of red coming through the bud on Celebration already? Seems like you’re on to the first UK bloom in this group this year..!
They've all survived the frost, there are no aphids (but I do have ladybirds in my garden for the first time) or blackspot yet which is great.
Climbing Iceberg - this is my slowest growing climber.
For your eyes only - has doubled in size
Port Sunlight - bare root November
Eyes for you
Mamma Mia