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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316

    Lilyp, I can just imagine the perfume! Your vase photos look really good.

    S. E. NSW
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

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    GD "I am not sure of the poppies name, but the flower only lasted a day."

    Maybe Papaver ephemera.image

    Whatever it's called, what a glorious flower, even for a single day, it's worth it. Of course one must not be away on holiday on that day.

    Last edited: 25 June 2017 09:56:14

  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003

    Beautiful pic from everyone...........Barefoot gardener, I love the gargoyle on the wooden post.

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    @Lily Pilly,

    I've tried to restore a more "natural" colour balance to your lovely bouquet of sweet peas. Hope you don't mind.image

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  • Oh how I love sweet peas - they are gorgeous, and I have grown them in the past - but they don't agree with me - sneezing every time I pass too close to them.  So I can admire your selection Papi Jo without the dreaded sneezes.

    Thanks for the name of my poppy, it really cheered me up to see the flower in my "wild flower" area.  It was quite the star of the show last week.

    Yes, the stream does run into the pond - but the pond is rather a taboo subject at the moment with the high PH which is killing off the water plants.image

    Last edited: 25 June 2017 12:45:19

  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    Great piccies everyone, love this thread.

    GD2 Sorry to hear about the ph problems with the pond, especially as it looks so good.  You asked me a question a while back re the names of the roses I posted.  Sorry it's taken a while but I have not been around.  The names are as follows top to bottom.

    Golden Beauty

    Mortimer Sackler

    Gertrude Jekyll

    Munstead Wood

    For your eyes only

    No idea I inherited it (that's a statement not a nameimage)

    Claire Austin

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Hi GD2,

    Sweet peas not mine but Lily Pilly's own. I only re-posted her photo with a more natural colour balance.

    Don't know the real name of your poppy; I just made up a fancy name based on the ephemeral nature of the flowers!image

  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Papa Joe. Thank you, photo taken on my phone late

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254

    Hi all,

    For anyone interested in the names of the plants in my East mixed border I posted 3 days ago, I've put that pic again with clickable pins for names. On my garden site at http://www.rezeau.org/wp-garden/en/page-mixed-border-east-june-2017/

    @Lily Pilly, glad you liked my "colour balance fix". Smartphones are not that good at colour balance. I can't take photos with my "dumb phone", so I take them with a real 'old school' camera. Can't phone with my camera however.image

    Last edited: 26 June 2017 16:04:01

  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291

    Looking good everyone! Papi - what a fantastic webpage! Love the pin-drop idea, and the QR codes! 

    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
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