I can't see any untidiness busy Lizzie, only lots and lots of lovely healthy plants.
You are so lucky to have all that space for growing. I only have a 6x4 plastic grow house in the garden and am itching to get mine out when it's warmer and they're bigger.
Are they all flowering plants? I can see dahlias, geraniums etc.
I think your garden is going to look fabulous this summer.
Thank you Kitty. I'm opening my garden for the new French Open Gardens scheme (but it's run by the English!), like the NGS, in May. Some of the plants will go in my plant sale. There are runner beans, courgettes and cucumbers and a few pots of herbs there too. http://www.opengardens.eu/ Web site is a bit slow.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I incurred casualties the week before last I potted on my tall type lobelias and they frazzled in the heat in my conservatory...too warm in my porch also so I decided to put all the other seedlings out last weekend and immediately the weather turned. Had hail, snow, winds and a heavy frost but think I got away with it - a couple of damaged leaves and some discolouration but no losses. ('Phew!' smilie required)
Anyway, that's them hardened off!! Sowed the last today, various rudbeckia sent by Cotty on the swap thread and yellow toadflax.
Seedlings still inside are nemesia, bedding type lobelia, marigolds - descendants of seed Fishy sent the other year, cosmos and a few perennials.
Looking good Victoria, your plants are a good size and look very healthy despite the problems you've had. I've been doing the hokey cokey too, in out, in out, every time we have a warm spell of weather. I suppose a couple of hours of sunshine is better than nothing.
You've done well to get them hardened off with the hailstorms etc. Mine are still titchy at the moment as you can see in the photo above, a combination of late sowing and the colder temps I think.
Looking forward to it warming up from next week onwards (fingers crossed) so I can crack on with pricking out, potting on and hardening off some of the bigger ones. I've got stacks of 7" and 9" pots sitting empty in the cold growhouse.
Have moved quite a few to the growhouse, but have left the 'door' rolled up, as it's quite sheltered.
Have already moved some French marigolds to a trough outside, though it's a very sheltered spot under our porch roof.
The tomatoes are coming along nicely and I think the pelargoniums and geraniums will be ready to plant out soon .
Haven't had a lot of luck with lavender though, I have a few tiny seedlings left that I've managed not to kill yet, but I planted loads, as I wanted a hedge - although I don't think I have the soil for it anyway based on reading I've done since.
The warmer weather has meant I could finally move most of mine out to the plastic greenhouse. Just the chillies left inside the conservatory for warmth now and my 2 cucumbers which got nibbled on after their first night out.
More space meant I could get on with potting on into larger pots and it soon filled up, here's how it looks today.
Cosmos getting too tall for their tubes despite pinching them out.
My last tray of modules still to be potted up.
Lobelia, quite proud of this one as have had problems with damping off in the past.
Tomatoes, gardeners delight and tigrella.
Chrysanthemums, catmint and calendula (shh hollie, let's pretend I knew )
Zinnias and dahlias, seem to be a favourite with the slugs.
And finally nemesia.
Still lots more I didn't photograph but I'd be here all night uploading.
PS, forgot to mention the cleome "colour fountain" it's on the far right with the dahlias.
Have planted out my tomatoes and sweet peppers a few days ago, also lettuces, curly kale and runner beans. Cucumbers and courgettes are hardening off in the cold frames.
Started planting annuals into the flower beds where the tulips and forget-me-nots were. Cosmos "Antiquity", rudbeckia "Denver Daisy and Prairie Sun", cleome, penstemon "Tubular Bells". Started planting into the pots and troughs too.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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I can't see any untidiness busy Lizzie, only lots and lots of lovely healthy plants.
You are so lucky to have all that space for growing. I only have a 6x4 plastic grow house in the garden and am itching to get mine out when it's warmer and they're bigger.
Are they all flowering plants? I can see dahlias, geraniums etc.
I think your garden is going to look fabulous this summer.
Thank you Kitty. I'm opening my garden for the new French Open Gardens scheme (but it's run by the English!), like the NGS, in May. Some of the plants will go in my plant sale. There are runner beans, courgettes and cucumbers and a few pots of herbs there too. http://www.opengardens.eu/ Web site is a bit slow.
Your open day sounds like a wonderful event Busy Lizzie. I have just seen your photos on the pictures thread, your garden looks beautiful.
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Getting a little fresh air and sunshine outside the back door yesterday morning.
Lots of nice healthy plants guys
I incurred casualties the week before last
I potted on my tall type lobelias and they frazzled in the heat in my conservatory...too warm in my porch also so I decided to put all the other seedlings out last weekend and immediately the weather turned. Had hail, snow, winds and a heavy frost but think I got away with it - a couple of damaged leaves and some discolouration but no losses. ('Phew!' smilie required)
Anyway, that's them hardened off!!
Sowed the last today, various rudbeckia sent by Cotty on the swap thread and yellow toadflax.
Seedlings still inside are nemesia, bedding type lobelia, marigolds - descendants of seed Fishy sent the other year, cosmos and a few perennials.
How's everyone else getting on?
Looking good Victoria, your plants are a good size and look very healthy despite the problems you've had. I've been doing the hokey cokey too, in out, in out, every time we have a warm spell of weather. I suppose a couple of hours of sunshine is better than nothing.
You've done well to get them hardened off with the hailstorms etc. Mine are still titchy at the moment as you can see in the photo above, a combination of late sowing
and the colder temps I think.
Looking forward to it warming up from next week onwards (fingers crossed) so I can crack on with pricking out, potting on and hardening off some of the bigger ones. I've got stacks of 7" and 9" pots sitting empty in the cold growhouse.
Have moved quite a few to the growhouse, but have left the 'door' rolled up, as it's quite sheltered.
Have already moved some French marigolds to a trough outside, though it's a very sheltered spot under our porch roof.
The tomatoes are coming along nicely and I think the pelargoniums and geraniums will be ready to plant out soon
.
Haven't had a lot of luck with lavender though, I have a few tiny seedlings left that I've managed not to kill yet, but I planted loads, as I wanted a hedge - although I don't think I have the soil for it anyway based on reading I've done since.
The warmer weather has meant I could finally move most of mine out to the plastic greenhouse. Just the chillies left inside the conservatory for warmth now and my 2 cucumbers which got nibbled on after their first night out.
More space meant I could get on with potting on into larger pots and it soon filled up, here's how it looks today.
Cosmos getting too tall for their tubes despite pinching them out.
My last tray of modules still to be potted up.
Lobelia, quite proud of this one as have had problems with damping off in the past.
Tomatoes, gardeners delight and tigrella.
Chrysanthemums, catmint and calendula (shh hollie, let's pretend I knew
)
Zinnias and dahlias, seem to be a favourite with the slugs.
And finally nemesia.
Still lots more I didn't photograph but I'd be here all night uploading.
PS, forgot to mention the cleome "colour fountain" it's on the far right with the dahlias.
Happy growing everyone.
Have planted out my tomatoes and sweet peppers a few days ago, also lettuces, curly kale and runner beans. Cucumbers and courgettes are hardening off in the cold frames.
Started planting annuals into the flower beds where the tulips and forget-me-nots were. Cosmos "Antiquity", rudbeckia "Denver Daisy and Prairie Sun", cleome, penstemon "Tubular Bells". Started planting into the pots and troughs too.