Well the gasman cometh so that’s a start! Sandra is resting in her basket, but if she isn’t looking better by this evening it’s off to the hospital for her. Fortunately it has an excellent 24hr emergency service.
@Tack, that’s the east wall of my house, I love the stone too, but it can get pretty hot!
The plant I’m most pleased with at the moment is this Loropetalum Black Pearl. It’s in a too small pot (which needs topping up I’ve just noticed) but still putting on a fab display:
Those two bare canes on the right belong to Rosa Moyesii Geranium, new last year but hasn’t flowered yet, very slow to get going.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
My lady of shalott rose has been budding for a week or so and its really beginning to take off now. Its miles behind some of the roses on here but nonetheless as my first foray into roses I'm excited its beginning to grow!
excuse the fence being patchy, its due a second coat next week when it warms up again!
Ericaceous @peteS, it’s very ph sensitive, that’s why it’s in a pot. Tried one direct in my alkaline soil and it hated it, the leaves turned a dirty olive colour and it looks pretty sad. Black Pearl is the hardiest, lots of cultivars are more tender. Here’s the one planted out:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@fromtheshires ...your LoS is doing fine, it will soon catch up in that pot... one of my favourite roses, I hope it becomes so with you too.. I like the colour of your fence.. dark is the way to go especially with roses in mind, I think..
@peteS ..nothing wrong with your Gallica, very normal.. no need for you to do anything..
I had a Loropetalum @Nollie but it didn't get through a winter here.. so that was that... yours is beautiful, maybe there are hardier types now, mine was called 'Fire Dance'..
Black Pearl is a relatively new cultivar, allegedly hardy to -10c, certainly sailed through a couple of weeks of hard frost here, down to -7.8. I think Fire Dance is more tender @Marlorena
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
hmmm.. I'm quite taken by it.. I can get one over here..
@Perki ..I'm so excited, my Veronicastrums are poking through... can you tell me please if they are likely to flower this year? you don't see them with roses, so not sure how this will pan out..
I love seeing all your beautiful gardens, and am very envious of the roses, so I bought a new one yesterday with a gift token. It's called sunny skies I think, I hope it does as well as the lovely ones on here
Thank you @Fire, look what you made me do! If Grasslands had sold @Nollie 's Loropetalum I'd have had that too, but am sort of glad they didn't, I have enough pots.
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@Tack, that’s the east wall of my house, I love the stone too, but it can get pretty hot!
Love those hellebores @Fire.
Those two bare canes on the right belong to Rosa Moyesii Geranium, new last year but hasn’t flowered yet, very slow to get going.
excuse the fence being patchy, its due a second coat next week when it warms up again!
...your LoS is doing fine, it will soon catch up in that pot... one of my favourite roses, I hope it becomes so with you too.. I like the colour of your fence.. dark is the way to go especially with roses in mind, I think..
@peteS
..nothing wrong with your Gallica, very normal.. no need for you to do anything..
I had a Loropetalum @Nollie but it didn't get through a winter here.. so that was that... yours is beautiful, maybe there are hardier types now, mine was called 'Fire Dance'..
@Perki
..I'm so excited, my Veronicastrums are poking through... can you tell me please if they are likely to flower this year? you don't see them with roses, so not sure how this will pan out..
Just editing to say what a stunning hellebore @Fire