Hi everyone, some amazing garden pics on here! Hope you have all had a good Bank holiday weekend. We still have lots to clear in our garden and really dont think we are going to get it done in time to plant out my peas and beans. We have an area out the front which we were going to lay with turf so i could use that area if really needed and delay the turfing. Is there 'a best time' to lay new turf, could I hold it off until later in the year?
We've had lots of rain today battering my beautiful foxgloves and peonies, hope theres still some flowers left tomorrow!
Figrat, I envy you your roses--I don't have much luck with mine. If the tent caterpillars don't get them, they are plagued with black spot. And deer love them of course. My foxgloves, all self-seeded, should be spectacular this year--they are just beginning. Today we should see some sun, but the rain moves back in tonight and for the foreseeable future. Yet, when I dug down to plant yesterday, the ground was dry 15 cm down. Can't win! They have postponed the school sports day until September.
lovely pictures.. inkadog i also find my roses are plagued by black spot.. tried all the stuff you can buy..but makes no difference.. i just live with it now
the wind has been howling today and all my foxgloves are hanging their heads.. and htey look so gorgeous at weekend.. and also my delphiniums have started to hang too.. the sun has been out most of day with heavy showers but the wind is getting up a pace now.
no gardening managed at all today and probably not for rest of week as weather is going to be bad.. managed to sow some seeds for next year and that is about it. not like summer out there at all.
I too have black-spot on every damn rose, especially my climbers although the shrub roses are slightly more resistant and suffer much less disfiguring foliage.
I've given up even trying to eradicate this problem after my newly bought climbing rose last year promptly got the disease and it was not even in the ground a fortnight!
My remedy is simple, I plant other climbers that will screen out the ugliness of bare stems on the uprights and stick to shrub roses for the borders. It's not entirely disguising the issue, but I can't live without some roses.
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Hi everyone, some amazing garden pics on here! Hope you have all had a good Bank holiday weekend. We still have lots to clear in our garden and really dont think we are going to get it done in time to plant out my peas and beans. We have an area out the front which we were going to lay with turf so i could use that area if really needed and delay the turfing. Is there 'a best time' to lay new turf, could I hold it off until later in the year?
We've had lots of rain today battering my beautiful foxgloves and peonies, hope theres still some flowers left tomorrow!
Some of this year's crop of self sown foxgloves. They did this all on their own!
And the Blush Noisette is exploding with blooms...
@figrat, j'aime!
@figrat, those are both gorgeous.
Figrat, I envy you your roses--I don't have much luck with mine. If the tent caterpillars don't get them, they are plagued with black spot. And deer love them of course. My foxgloves, all self-seeded, should be spectacular this year--they are just beginning. Today we should see some sun, but the rain moves back in tonight and for the foreseeable future. Yet, when I dug down to plant yesterday, the ground was dry 15 cm down. Can't win! They have postponed the school sports day until September.
lovely pictures.. inkadog i also find my roses are plagued by black spot.. tried all the stuff you can buy..but makes no difference.. i just live with it now
the wind has been howling today and all my foxgloves are hanging their heads.. and htey look so gorgeous at weekend.. and also my delphiniums have started to hang too.. the sun has been out most of day with heavy showers but the wind is getting up a pace now.
no gardening managed at all today and probably not for rest of week as weather is going to be bad.. managed to sow some seeds for next year and that is about it. not like summer out there at all.
I too have black-spot on every damn rose, especially my climbers although the shrub roses are slightly more resistant and suffer much less disfiguring foliage.
I've given up even trying to eradicate this problem after my newly bought climbing rose last year promptly got the disease and it was not even in the ground a fortnight!
My remedy is simple, I plant other climbers that will screen out the ugliness of bare stems on the uprights and stick to shrub roses for the borders. It's not entirely disguising the issue, but I can't live without some roses.
I am going to try spraying with diluted milk--but not until after this week's rain. It is just an experiment---nothing ventured.
@Inkadog, let us know your conclusions, however long that may take
@figrat - Lovely! My Foxgloves and Delphiniums are just starting to come out. Should be lovely!
I planted out my tomatoes and peppers today. Hope it wasn't too early, but they were getting too huge for the bedroom window ledge.