Each summer I try to grow something that is new to me. this year it is a white Angelonia growing happily in my old tyre in a corner of the front garden. I shall repot it in the autumn and try to grow it on in the conservatory. It is a good plant for heatwaves seemingly!
happymarion love the Yucca G. glowers, posted pics of mine in Gallery, I so love it when it flowers.
Mattbeer, I don't grow any of plants in your pics but like them, "like them I say"...just in case Verd is looking in. Nice colour on fencing, looks really good.
After eating strawberries with my breakfast, lunch and supper for a month I am quite sure summer has arrived but the great thing about this summer seems to be the tomato crop which is so lovely after the disastrous blight season last year. this is a new one for me - forked truss which has 30 "Sungold" tomatoes formed on it. I usually eat my first tomato on Aug 4th in Bristol but this year it was July10th and I have eaten dozens since then, in fact more than the total of last year's crop already.
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I walked round my neighbour's garden this morning to see her summmer flowers - all so lovely.
Blackest - the red fella is Lychnis ciliata "Firecracker". It spreads.
Blackest, I thought the red stuff was Atriplex hortensis known as red orach or mountain spinach. You can eat it if it is.
Watch for the little yellow flowers which transform it and you will know then it is Lychnis ciliata.
Leucanthemum Broadway Lights
Zinnia Whirlygig
Alstroemeria Orange
Lovely Mattbeer
Each summer I try to grow something that is new to me. this year it is a white Angelonia growing happily in my old tyre in a corner of the front garden. I shall repot it in the autumn and try to grow it on in the conservatory. It is a good plant for heatwaves seemingly!
happymarion love the Yucca G. glowers, posted pics of mine in Gallery, I so love it when it flowers.
Mattbeer, I don't grow any of plants in your pics but like them, "like them I say"...just in case Verd is looking in. Nice colour on fencing, looks really good.
After eating strawberries with my breakfast, lunch and supper for a month I am quite sure summer has arrived but the great thing about this summer seems to be the tomato crop which is so lovely after the disastrous blight season last year. this is a new one for me - forked truss which has 30 "Sungold" tomatoes formed on it. I usually eat my first tomato on Aug 4th in Bristol but this year it was July10th and I have eaten dozens since then, in fact more than the total of last year's crop already.
Marion - your tomatos are looking great. Still to get my first red one here - and doubt whether any will make it by August 4th !