Good weather there too flumpy. I have come in for refreshment after a couple of hours hard work. Some pictures i want to take so, if it is not too bright I will do that to give my back a rest before I start again. My friend is visiting on Friday so I want the garden all spruce for then as he gave me a great many of the plants in it! The week after I said i would like a fernery he went to a nursery and came back with eight lovely ferns for me! He is bringing cosmos on Friday surplus to his requirements so must clear a space for them.
TY Lyn. I remember Keith Wiley telling me how much rain you have in Devon, lots more than Bristol! Been up harvesting strawberries and took some pics, enticed by my Wm Shakespeare, Iceberg and Graham Stewart Thomas roses.
Your rhododendron is looking lovely, the leaves on mine seem to look a bit pale and not as many flowers this year, do you think I need to give it some fertiliser Marion? : )
That shrub with the red end leaves is a pieris, flumpy. If the leaves on your rhododendron are yellow just now they are the ones that are due to drop off. A general fertiliser feed should not harm it but if it is in good soil just make sure it does not dry out and water when necessary. They are plants of the Himalayas and used to woodland conditions so a mulch of leaf mould after watering would do it the world of good.
New York wasn't too hot as they'd just had a heatwave followed by storms, but it started getting hotter just before we left. It was interesting and there were some highlights, such as OH's concert and the gala dinner after it, the cruise on the Hudson River to the harbour with the famous NY views, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park. Otherwise it was noisy, dirty, crowded and claustrophobic! I would hate to live there.
The garden has grown a lot. I've been picking and freezing broad beans and raspberries.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Did you see anything of the Garden in the Sky in NY, BL? The rooftops evudently grow lots of plants there. Monty Don's lecture at the Botanic Garden on July 19th is sold out for the morning and evening session. One of the "stars"of modern plant evolution, Prof. Barrett of Toronto Univ. is coming to the garden to give us a lecture on modern plant exploration and novel diversity floral plants! That is on June 24th and I have booked my place. Looking forward to that immensely
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Good weather there too flumpy. I have come in for refreshment after a couple of hours hard work. Some pictures i want to take so, if it is not too bright I will do that to give my back a rest before I start again. My friend is visiting on Friday so I want the garden all spruce for then as he gave me a great many of the plants in it! The week after I said i would like a fernery he went to a nursery and came back with eight lovely ferns for me! He is bringing cosmos on Friday surplus to his requirements so must clear a space for them.
You may not when it rains constantly and you cant just pop to the shops, you have to plan a day trip!!
Your gardens coming on lovely Marion, beautiful pics.
TY Lyn. I remember Keith Wiley telling me how much rain you have in Devon, lots more than Bristol! Been up harvesting strawberries and took some pics, enticed by my Wm Shakespeare, Iceberg and Graham Stewart Thomas roses.
That shrub with the red end leaves is a pieris, flumpy. If the leaves on your rhododendron are yellow just now they are the ones that are due to drop off. A general fertiliser feed should not harm it but if it is in good soil just make sure it does not dry out and water when necessary. They are plants of the Himalayas and used to woodland conditions so a mulch of leaf mould after watering would do it the world of good.
New York wasn't too hot as they'd just had a heatwave followed by storms, but it started getting hotter just before we left. It was interesting and there were some highlights, such as OH's concert and the gala dinner after it, the cruise on the Hudson River to the harbour with the famous NY views, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park. Otherwise it was noisy, dirty, crowded and claustrophobic! I would hate to live there.
The garden has grown a lot. I've been picking and freezing broad beans and raspberries.
Did you see anything of the Garden in the Sky in NY, BL? The rooftops evudently grow lots of plants there. Monty Don's lecture at the Botanic Garden on July 19th is sold out for the morning and evening session. One of the "stars"of modern plant evolution, Prof. Barrett of Toronto Univ. is coming to the garden to give us a lecture on modern plant exploration and novel diversity floral plants! That is on June 24th and I have booked my place. Looking forward to that immensely