Ah, lovely to read through all of the posts here. Such a gorgeous garden @D0rdogne_Damsel. Just a thought - as your restaurant is now open again, you must be getting through quite a few eggs - you could crush up the shells to protect your plants from slugs? I got a couple of buckets full from a local cafe and have started to do that around my young hostas. The do look a bit messy though.
Restaurant opening ok, but thwarted by the weather, of all the times we needed good settled weather @Victoria Sponge .... I think Macron may well be getting a great deal of grief from a variety of places. Glad to be open and despite the cold wet weather people are happy to be out.
I may have misled you @Perki one of the lupins is Terracota, the other is Towering Inferno, I adore both and have noticed even more buds on both today. Either way, still pinkier than I had hoped for. Not Great Dixtor @Nanny Beach, although I might have a look out for some. The slugs and Lupin aphids are a pain to keep on top of though so I am not sure I will get more, shame because they are lovely blooms.
@didyw, I am using coffee grains at the moment, not quite so obviously messy, but not entirely convinced about efficiency. I watched a video about slugs and was astonished how many there are in the garden and how well/easily they reproduce....not an easy battle.
The annuals, Cosmos, Zinnia and Gaillarde are being very slow to get going with the lack of warmth, making the new bed part look a bit bare. The geums are also lacking in greenery which seems odd. lots of blooms, but they look a bit lost without a green backdrop of leaves which I am sure they had last year.
Some sun forecast later in the week, as ever patience required.
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I may have misled you @Perki one of the lupins is Terracota, the other is Towering Inferno, I adore both and have noticed even more buds on both today. Either way, still pinkier than I had hoped for. Not Great Dixtor @Nanny Beach, although I might have a look out for some. The slugs and Lupin aphids are a pain to keep on top of though so I am not sure I will get more, shame because they are lovely blooms.
@didyw, I am using coffee grains at the moment, not quite so obviously messy, but not entirely convinced about efficiency. I watched a video about slugs and was astonished how many there are in the garden and how well/easily they reproduce....not an easy battle.
The annuals, Cosmos, Zinnia and Gaillarde are being very slow to get going with the lack of warmth, making the new bed part look a bit bare. The geums are also lacking in greenery which seems odd. lots of blooms, but they look a bit lost without a green backdrop of leaves which I am sure they had last year.
Some sun forecast later in the week, as ever patience required.
What a difference...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pM2BZzRmRc9GThCX7
The Rudbeckia are now about 9 feet tall, too difficult to photograph, very strange weather/climate to blame!