Your photos are great aym. Here's an example of a bad photo (of some nice flowers). I don't have a camera so you're stuck with my best efforts on a kindle
Aym: Lucky you, 2 nights free. Hope you have a lovely time and pack some extra batteries if it's a handheld fan, if the temps keep rising you'll have it on all day.
I used to feel a bit put off posting snaps of my efforts compared to the amazing pictures on the camera thread but since throwing caution to the wind on the "GOS" I don't care anymore. I'll quite happily stick up any random thing now (I do draw the line at a selfie though)
Runny: Yes the mollis is a messy girl but I love the acid green of the flowers and it's a great vase filler. I only have it in the front garden and it seeds everywhere. I've got clumps coming up in the cracks in the driveway and it's even escaping out onto the public footpath and sprouting on the street.
So here we have rosa Bridge of Sighs with prunella vulgaris on the left and alchemilla mollis on the right, the prunella vulgaris is about to be harvested and dried for herbal remedies and topical ointments. Then rosa Gertrude Jekyll which is going into some perfumed handcream I am making and lastly the marigolds I sacrificed this morning which are being made into marigold face cream.
The garden is nothing if not useful.
There are also some herbs to be harvested and dried.
Great pictures Lou & Sophie. My first proper upload here, I've been gardening for just over a year now and have learnt so much from everyone on the site. The large fuchsias have been in the family for 50+ years!
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Your photos are great aym. Here's an example of a bad photo (of some nice flowers). I don't have a camera so you're stuck with my best efforts on a kindle
My first vase of sweet peas & alchemilla.
First flowers on my annual hibiscus grown from seed even after all the rain and wind
hmm pictures not showing?
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RB - I love A Mollis too
but restrict it's spread. It's a good filler, in the garden and in vases of flowers.
My hydrangea
Aym: Lucky you, 2 nights free. Hope you have a lovely time and pack some extra batteries if it's a handheld fan, if the temps keep rising you'll have it on all day.
I used to feel a bit put off posting snaps of my efforts compared to the amazing pictures on the camera thread but since throwing caution to the wind on the "GOS" I don't care anymore. I'll quite happily stick up any random thing now (I do draw the line at a selfie though)
Runny: Yes the mollis is a messy girl but I love the acid green of the flowers and it's a great vase filler. I only have it in the front garden and it seeds everywhere. I've got clumps coming up in the cracks in the driveway and it's even escaping out onto the public footpath and sprouting on the street.
So here we have rosa Bridge of Sighs with prunella vulgaris on the left and alchemilla mollis on the right, the prunella vulgaris is about to be harvested and dried for herbal remedies and topical ointments. Then rosa Gertrude Jekyll which is going into some perfumed handcream I am making and lastly the marigolds I sacrificed this morning which are being made into marigold face cream.
The garden is nothing if not useful.
There are also some herbs to be harvested and dried.
aym
sowed the hibiscus which are annuals late March put them outside middle of june first flowers today and lots of buds ,have a nice holiday
Great pictures Lou & Sophie. My first proper upload here, I've been gardening for just over a year now and have learnt so much from everyone on the site. The large fuchsias have been in the family for 50+ years!
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