That happened to me with the white fuchsia with slender ballerinas. I saw it in a,garden and wanted to get one and then I found that it had been in the GW mag that week. I had to wait until the next year too.
These are my Gardeners Delight tomatoes from the man in the market. For yet another year they are wonderfully sturdy plants growing well. Compared with the tomato plants you see in garden centers these are great.
This year when I asked about the plants the man said "I'm not bringing my tomatoes into town from the nursery until this cold wind has stopped." Compared with the tomato plants you see in garden centers these are great.
Fabulous gardens and plants. Guernsey Donkey - do you know the name of the willowy little pink Dianthus you have as your first photo a few posts back? A neighbour grew some from seed and gave me some but couldn't remember the name. They came up beautifully but the rain the last few days has battered them down - as per pic below.
Everything in my garden has been hammered with the rain the last few days - happens every year though. When the lovelies just start to bloom - we get a week of rain.
This is Hemerocallis 'Bumble Bee'. They just started to bloom and now they are like this below. Rose 'Munstead Wood'. 3 of these, all blooming at the same time - now so many of the flowers have fallen apart and are just piles of petals on the soil. The flowers don't seem to last very long once they have expanded to full size. Gorgeous though!
Clematis 'Rebecca'. Same story, started blooming like mad, ruined in the rain.
Small clematis 'Pink Fantasy' - outdid itself this year with about 300 blooms continuing. It's only round a 5ft high obelisk so quite tight - now all have turned brown at the edges with the rain and looks a proper mess.
Dierama 'Dark Angel' - one stem only - squishy with the rain but hope will continue to flower.
Briza Media was lovely - two clumps with stalks bent down to the ground now. Hope some spring up again when the rain stops.
Continuing the rain 'saga' - first 'A Shropshire Lad' bloomed the other day. Fell apart in the rain today.
Was too late to do 'proper' baskets so tried lavender with the blue 'thing' - Convul...something?
Think the osteospermum are 'Serenity Bronze Magic'. My white cosmos are a bit stumpy - I try white cosmos from seed every year but can never get them tall. They're my 'Nemesis' I think.
Strawbs in pots are all coming along nicely.
Think this is 'Comtesse de Bouchard'. I water it when I think it needs it, about 30 more buds (it's only 2 years old) and feed every two weeks - but this flower is the largest, the others are all quite small and look quite wimpish. I'm maybe not giving it what it needs.
These pods are a mystery as I can't see where they are coming from. They are all over the garden and I have to keep picking them up. They're about 1cm long and there are hundreds of them which I keep clearing up.
The hemerocallis vary a lot in terms of how "rainproof" they are. The lovely pale yellows and creams do tend to "melt" in any rain. They are lovely though.
@yarrow, love your pink rose, does it have a nice scent? intriguing pods, can someone identify them? Lovely flowers, this Dierama 'Dark Angel'. "one stem only", how old is it?
Yes, we've all been yearning for the rain --- here in my part of Brittany we are having the worst drought for many years --- but when it comes suddenly some of our flowers are a bit overwhelmed.
Some beautiful flowers there - shame about the rain. I love the Briza with raindrops on though; I guess that one will spring back unscathed, unlike some of the roses etc.
Yarrow, those pods look like un-fertilised flowers which have dropped their petals, then been discarded by the plant. What about fuchsias?
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That happened to me with the white fuchsia with slender ballerinas. I saw it in a,garden and wanted to get one and then I found that it had been in the GW mag that week. I had to wait until the next year too.
These are my Gardeners Delight tomatoes from the man in the market. For yet another year they are wonderfully sturdy plants growing well. Compared with the tomato plants you see in garden centers these are great.
This year when I asked about the plants the man said "I'm not bringing my tomatoes into town from the nursery until this cold wind has stopped." Compared with the tomato plants you see in garden centers these are great.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Fabulous gardens and plants. Guernsey Donkey - do you know the name of the willowy little pink Dianthus you have as your first photo a few posts back? A neighbour grew some from seed and gave me some but couldn't remember the name. They came up beautifully but the rain the last few days has battered them down - as per pic below.
Everything in my garden has been hammered with the rain the last few days - happens every year though. When the lovelies just start to bloom - we get a week of rain.
This is Hemerocallis 'Bumble Bee'. They just started to bloom and now they are like this below.
Rose 'Munstead Wood'. 3 of these, all blooming at the same time - now so many of the flowers have fallen apart and are just piles of petals on the soil. The flowers don't seem to last very long once they have expanded to full size. Gorgeous though!
Clematis 'Rebecca'. Same story, started blooming like mad, ruined in the rain.
Small clematis 'Pink Fantasy' - outdid itself this year with about 300 blooms continuing. It's only round a 5ft high obelisk so quite tight - now all have turned brown at the edges with the rain and looks a proper mess.
Dierama 'Dark Angel' - one stem only - squishy with the rain but hope will continue to flower.
Briza Media was lovely - two clumps with stalks bent down to the ground now. Hope some spring up again when the rain stops.
Continuing the rain 'saga' - first 'A Shropshire Lad' bloomed the other day. Fell apart in the rain today.
Was too late to do 'proper' baskets so tried lavender with the blue 'thing' - Convul...something?
Think the osteospermum are 'Serenity Bronze Magic'. My white cosmos are a bit stumpy - I try white cosmos from seed every year but can never get them tall. They're my 'Nemesis' I think.
Strawbs in pots are all coming along nicely.
Think this is 'Comtesse de Bouchard'. I water it when I think it needs it, about 30 more buds (it's only 2 years old) and feed every two weeks - but this flower is the largest, the others are all quite small and look quite wimpish. I'm maybe not giving it what it needs.
These pods are a mystery as I can't see where they are coming from. They are all over the garden and I have to keep picking them up. They're about 1cm long and there are hundreds of them which I keep clearing up.
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The hemerocallis vary a lot in terms of how "rainproof" they are. The lovely pale yellows and creams do tend to "melt" in any rain. They are lovely though.
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'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
@JO, love your dark pink dahlia!
@yarrow, love your pink rose, does it have a nice scent? intriguing pods, can someone identify them? Lovely flowers, this Dierama 'Dark Angel'. "one stem only", how old is it?
Yes, we've all been yearning for the rain --- here in my part of Brittany we are having the worst drought for many years --- but when it comes suddenly some of our flowers are a bit overwhelmed.
Some beautiful flowers there - shame about the rain. I love the Briza with raindrops on though; I guess that one will spring back unscathed, unlike some of the roses etc.
Yarrow, those pods look like un-fertilised flowers which have dropped their petals, then been discarded by the plant. What about fuchsias?
I use Internet Explorer, it doesn't say that.
My garden is really bashed from the rain. Hope it recovers by Sunday 9th, my Open Day.
I don't have IE but I think the equivalent is "show picture"
My garden was the same after rain but it has recovered in a few days.
@BL
I no longer use Microsoft Internet Explorer (or its newest avatar, Edge). Too intrusive. I recommend using Chrome or Firefox, much more user-friendly.