Beautiful flowers ajm280 and everyone, it stuns me how beautiful nature is and that we can have this beauty in whatever form we like right on our doorsteps so exciting planning for spring, i have just ordered 3 dahlia tubers....now the waiting....
I bought the Heuceras in about June at an open day from a local nursery which specialises in the genus. Chelsea winners no less.
The H "Paris" were quite small plants then. None of my other H s flower so well. I have not fed them anything special, the bed has been improved with mutipurpose compost and our own garden compost.
My garden was not looking so good when I first came on here, hence the name.
Aym280, i ordered the dahlia tubers from Sarah Raven, 20% off, doesn't mean they will perform though i guess, but if they don't she'll be the second one to know,heehee! I will probably get a few more from local garden centre when they stock them. My dear friend gave me a dinner plate size flower from her allotment, i took a picture, ignore the camelia leaves?? I propped it up in the camelia! What a gorgeous flower it is, she got me hooked, she grows lots of them, all different colours and sizes, i'm a bit boring, not keen on too much random colour, so i have gone for gentle colours, cafe au lait,gerrie hoek and recoleta? Think i might put the sunflower picture in the local horti show in april, my first attempt at being a horti society member, goodness i sound old
The first one is a Roscoea, still flowering. The second one is a Nicotiana , you are right. This is Nicotiana sylvestris. They grow to about 5 ft and smell nice at night.
Beautiful delph and daisy, that one could win a prize for sure! My pics taken with my iphone mostly, odd one with my ipad. This is my clematis and rose which grows up pergola, rose was amazing this year, could be due to wet spring?
Haha aym289, don't stress yourself, gardening is meant to be fun ) you are allowed to give yourself a break over winter....i just get carried away when i look online at plants, i bought some sweet pea seeda today, going to try potting them up now, eek i can't believe i'm getting excited about sweet peas! At least our hobby is a nice one, no drink and drugs, haha.....well maybe the odd g&t in the she-shed after a hard days mowing! We haven't a huge garden but enough room for me to start digging borders all over the place, my hubby thinks i've gone crazy ) the more borders the more plants!
Thank you, i'll have a look at the sweet pea thread, its huge! Omg, agapanthas are one of my favourite, a black one sounds awesome, i have to google that! I love dark colours, fell in love with choc karma dahlia and brought her home, and my choc cosmos, a dried up bit of old thing i bought and planted, excelled itself...
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Graham Thomas flowering happily yesterday.
As are my Heuchera "Paris" which have not stopped all summer.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Beautiful flowers ajm280 and everyone, it stuns me how beautiful nature is and that we can have this beauty in whatever form we like right on our doorsteps
so exciting planning for spring, i have just ordered 3 dahlia tubers....now the waiting....
aym280
I bought the Heuceras in about June at an open day from a local nursery which specialises in the genus. Chelsea winners no less.
The H "Paris" were quite small plants then. None of my other H s flower so well. I have not fed them anything special, the bed has been improved with mutipurpose compost and our own garden compost.
My garden was not looking so good when I first came on here, hence the name.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Aym280, i ordered the dahlia tubers from Sarah Raven, 20% off, doesn't mean they will perform though i guess, but if they don't she'll be the second one to know,heehee! I will probably get a few more from local garden centre when they stock them. My dear friend gave me a dinner plate size flower from her allotment, i took a picture, ignore the camelia leaves?? I propped it up in the camelia! What a gorgeous flower it is, she got me hooked, she grows lots of them, all different colours and sizes, i'm a bit boring, not keen on too much random colour, so i have gone for gentle colours, cafe au lait,gerrie hoek and recoleta? Think i might put the sunflower picture in the local horti show in april, my first attempt at being a horti society member, goodness i sound old
The first one is a Roscoea, still flowering. The second one is a Nicotiana , you are right. This is Nicotiana sylvestris. They grow to about 5 ft and smell nice at night.
Beautiful delph and daisy, that one could win a prize for sure! My pics taken with my iphone mostly, odd one with my ipad. This is my clematis and rose which grows up pergola, rose was amazing this year, could be due to wet spring?
Haha aym289, don't stress yourself, gardening is meant to be fun
) you are allowed to give yourself a break over winter....i just get carried away when i look online at plants, i bought some sweet pea seeda today, going to try potting them up now, eek i can't believe i'm getting excited about sweet peas! At least our hobby is a nice one, no drink and drugs, haha.....well maybe the odd g&t in the she-shed after a hard days mowing! We haven't a huge garden but enough room for me to start digging borders all over the place, my hubby thinks i've gone crazy 
) the more borders the more plants!
Thank you, i'll have a look at the sweet pea thread, its huge! Omg, agapanthas are one of my favourite, a black one sounds awesome, i have to google that! I love dark colours, fell in love with choc karma dahlia and brought her home, and my choc cosmos, a dried up bit of old thing i bought and planted, excelled itself...
Loana Which clematis is that white one? I rather like that..
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'