@newbie77, what is the lovely pink flower that’s also in your vase with pink rose? It’s very pretty.
That little spray of flowers are some mums I think. They are from a store bought bouquet. This rose looked too small on its own so I added them.
I am enjoying all the garden photos. My garden is quite green as well except one side with wallflowers still blooming. Last year by the time camellias, magnolias, rhododendron finished I had roses in bloom. this year there is a gap now. I will do sow more wallflowers this year to plant out in autumn.
Yes Nollie, it is so tempting to keep checking.
It is very windy today in the garden and raining now. I can never have a day off and good weather together. I managed to plant out beans and tomatoes and some already broke a bit. No idea how they will be by tomorrow.
Yes, having despaired of ever getting vaccinated, we bullied our way onto the system, then the jabs suddenly became available. No symptoms with the Moderna, so far..
Oh no problem, Marlorena, I missed ciaran’s photo, happens if you don’t refresh the page sometimes, looking back, actually looks pretty healthy to me, judging by some of mine anyway!
The roses from You Know Who were all pretty shocking, but I was most annoyed with puny Ivor’s Rose, as I won’t be able to get another one sent now, re Brexit, so I hope it picks up. Still, I am spoilt for choice of rose suppliers in France and farther north, so swings and roundabouts.
PS - love your Guernsey Cream clematis and the Lavender.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I've battened down all my roses, but I expect there will be garden damage tonight.
I base my purchases on pictures, ease of navigation of the vendor’s
website and online reviews. Part of my reasoning is that if a nursery
couldn’t be bothered to invest in a decent website with decent pictures
(I mean, even an amateur iPhone photographer like myself could take
better pictures than those shown on some of the nurseries’ websites) -
then what does it say about their attitude, their customer service and
the quality of their plants?
I do too. I would prefer to know the plants intimately or have personal recommendations, but I don't. I do go a fair amount on feedback on this forum. Although it's a bit unfair, I do tend to judge a company by its website. If there are lots of dead links, missing pictures, if it's hard to navigate or clearly designed 15 years ago and never overhauled since, I'm out.
I know a lot of passionate, gardening, creative and outsidey people loathe tech and admin. They can find it overwhelming, intimidating and alienating. It's hard for small business owners with these dispositions to have to get to grips with the primacy of websites, Paypal, social media etc. But it is the way the industry works now. Companies (as all business people) need to work through their tech avoidance.
I do find it bizarre that David Austin still haven't sorted out their website search glitches. I put in a big perennial order recently with Jacksons, only to find out that the wesbite wasn't up to date with stock and the whole thing had to be cancelled. A month later they still haven't fixed the probems. It's off putting. It's wasting a lot of people's time. Grump over.
Definitely behind compared to last year! As this shows
Will be worth the wait though I’m sure. I’ve got several in their third year now - Royal Jubilee, The Generous Gardener, Rhapsody in Blue, Ghislaine de Feligonde and Malvern Hills and these are all really quite sizeable now and have many buds. Will be a good show I hope!
@mar@Marlorena I have Helmsdale too. It’s been reliably hardy, and you get repeat flower later in the year. Mines looking sorry for itself. It flowered quite late so I left pruning til spring so it’ll take a while to bounce back.
@Marlorena I have Ivor’s rose (sorry for the late reply!) it’s in a huge pot.
It’s very healthy and it has one tiny but at the moment. Last year I found it a bit disappointing on the flowering front. It only had 3 or 4 blooms at once and was slow to reboot. Not much scent either. I will post some photos when it’s not blowing a Gale!
Seems like it wants to grow big. I will prob get rid along with amber queen and Claire Marshall if they don’t impress this year!
Foul weather here, torrential. I have my first Jab on Sunday. Oddly almost excited! Still no roses open for me yet - I'm wondering if the first bloom might actually be Rosa des Cistercians (last July styles purchase) as that seems to have the fattest buds so far. (Left corner here)
Two of my favourite shrubs in full bloom - Choisya Ternata Aztec pearl, and right Viburnum Opulus Roseum.
@JessicaS, your garden is looking lovely. Looking forward to all the flowers. Hope you have moved everything from table, they may fall down in wind.
I have put in all the garden supports I had around roses, tied up whatever I could and put pots against fence. Hopefully it would save some damage from wind.
@newbie77 Thank you! Its not too windy here thankfully more just rain. I put supports in the roses last week luckily. Ive clustered the pots together in the centre - they will all get planted out next week when I am on holiday, but its a handy dumping ground for them to harden off or wait ready!
Some rather small alpines from secret garden wont survive slugs that size so they'll have to wait, I picked up somemore to go around the stepping stones and some ground cover for poking through the fence in a few spots, especially after seeing @Marlorenas lovely dry border. Those Primula Denticulata have been lovely too, Im going to split them into more plants and spread them out more at the fronts and alongside the stepping stone path and I have ordered some seeds for next year.
Finger’s crossed all your plants survive the gales, we are due some storms over the weekend so I have been doing a bit of staking and tying in too.
Julia Child:
Gertrude Jekyll:
Stormy Weather:
Kew Gardens - I always forget I have this so also forget to water it, plus the cats use it as a toilet! It’s tucked away in a wild, shady spot and usually only blooms early season for me - it hates the heat:
Lateral growth on Soul, if the blooms survive the weather, it could be stunning this year:
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I am enjoying all the garden photos. My garden is quite green as well except one side with wallflowers still blooming. Last year by the time camellias, magnolias, rhododendron finished I had roses in bloom. this year there is a gap now. I will do sow more wallflowers this year to plant out in autumn.
Yes Nollie, it is so tempting to keep checking.
It is very windy today in the garden and raining now. I can never have a day off and good weather together. I managed to plant out beans and tomatoes and some already broke a bit. No idea how they will be by tomorrow.
Oh no problem, Marlorena, I missed ciaran’s photo, happens if you don’t refresh the page sometimes, looking back, actually looks pretty healthy to me, judging by some of mine anyway!
The roses from You Know Who were all pretty shocking, but I was most annoyed with puny Ivor’s Rose, as I won’t be able to get another one sent now, re Brexit, so I hope it picks up. Still, I am spoilt for choice of rose suppliers in France and farther north, so swings and roundabouts.
PS - love your Guernsey Cream clematis and the Lavender.
..well, severe gales all day tomorrow... if I didn't stake this rose, being near the North Sea, I would expect it to make landfall in Sweden..
Still no roses open for me yet - I'm wondering if the first bloom might actually be Rosa des Cistercians (last July styles purchase) as that seems to have the fattest buds so far.
(Left corner here)
Two of my favourite shrubs in full bloom - Choisya Ternata Aztec pearl, and right Viburnum Opulus Roseum.
I have put in all the garden supports I had around roses, tied up whatever I could and put pots against fence. Hopefully it would save some damage from wind.
Some rather small alpines from secret garden wont survive slugs that size so they'll have to wait, I picked up somemore to go around the stepping stones and some ground cover for poking through the fence in a few spots, especially after seeing @Marlorenas lovely dry border. Those Primula Denticulata have been lovely too, Im going to split them into more plants and spread them out more at the fronts and alongside the stepping stone path and I have ordered some seeds for next year.
Julia Child:
Gertrude Jekyll:
Stormy Weather:
Kew Gardens - I always forget I have this so also forget to water it, plus the cats use it as a toilet! It’s tucked away in a wild, shady spot and usually only blooms early season for me - it hates the heat: