Love that Lily Fairy, and your daylily B3. Great pictures on here
PapiJo - the pink spiky thing is a veronica - can't remember its name but its something space rocket-y. Takes me all my time to get pictures loaded on here - daren't add labels for fear of losing the lot and having to start again
We are so lucky having this forum - it's so great to see all these plants and gardens.
Papi Jo: you asked if the 'pink rose' in my pic had a nice scent. It's 'A Shropshire Lad' and has a lovely subtle scent - but it's a young plant at the moment and I was told not to expect really noticeable scent from a distance for a couple of years yet when it has settled in and grown on a bit. You asked how old the Dierama 'Dark Angel' is. I have no idea. I planted two light pink ones a couple of months ago which are only about a foot high - and which fell apart into separate corm sections when I tipped them out of their pots. They are young and I'm told not likely to produce tall stalks for a year or two yet. The 'Dark Angel' was a gift and had one two noticeably tall stalks about 4ft high, one which has flowered. But I noticed today that the second stalk is opening at the top. Never having had Dierama, I hadn't a clue 'how' they opened and flowered as the stalks looked just like leaves.
Liriodendron: thanks for responding to my puzzle of the pod on the leaf. There are hundreds. I have just today solved the mystery by looking back to some photos from the first week in June. I live in a flat (100 year old bay-windowed stone type) and they are built in a kind of circle joined up. Each flat has a small garden triangle shaped and all point into a large 'communal green' for all flats to use. ( A very Scottish set-up and very common here in Edinburgh).
At some point, a large eucalyptus tree appeared in the last 14 years and has grown to about 50 ft. Nobody can remember its origins. It IS beautiful on a breezy day - but whether it's a good thing to keep or get rid of results in a 50/50 yay or nay response.
This year, it had flowers for the first time in all the years it has been at the edge of a neighbour's garden - and this is where the hundreds of pods are coming from. I only realised this looking back at photos - and it is ridiculous that it never occurred to me that they could be from the eucalyptus because it had never flowered before.
I must apologise to some of you because I only today 'discovered' that there were some messages in 'My Messages'. I'd never looked at it before as I never assumed I'd have any messages from anyone. So apologies to those where there are messages from some time ago which I did not respond to and thanks to Guernsey Donkey for the info on the little Dianthus.
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Love that Lily Fairy, and your daylily B3. Great pictures on here
PapiJo - the pink spiky thing is a veronica - can't remember its name but its something space rocket-y. Takes me all my time to get pictures loaded on here - daren't add labels for fear of losing the lot and having to start again
We are so lucky having this forum - it's so great to see all these plants and gardens.
Papi Jo: you asked if the 'pink rose' in my pic had a nice scent. It's 'A Shropshire Lad' and has a lovely subtle scent - but it's a young plant at the moment and I was told not to expect really noticeable scent from a distance for a couple of years yet when it has settled in and grown on a bit. You asked how old the Dierama 'Dark Angel' is. I have no idea. I planted two light pink ones a couple of months ago which are only about a foot high - and which fell apart into separate corm sections when I tipped them out of their pots. They are young and I'm told not likely to produce tall stalks for a year or two yet. The 'Dark Angel' was a gift and had one two noticeably tall stalks about 4ft high, one which has flowered. But I noticed today that the second stalk is opening at the top. Never having had Dierama, I hadn't a clue 'how' they opened and flowered as the stalks looked just like leaves.
Liriodendron: thanks for responding to my puzzle of the pod on the leaf. There are hundreds. I have just today solved the mystery by looking back to some photos from the first week in June. I live in a flat (100 year old bay-windowed stone type) and they are built in a kind of circle joined up. Each flat has a small garden triangle shaped and all point into a large 'communal green' for all flats to use. ( A very Scottish set-up and very common here in Edinburgh).
At some point, a large eucalyptus tree appeared in the last 14 years and has grown to about 50 ft. Nobody can remember its origins. It IS beautiful on a breezy day - but whether it's a good thing to keep or get rid of results in a 50/50 yay or nay response.
This year, it had flowers for the first time in all the years it has been at the edge of a neighbour's garden - and this is where the hundreds of pods are coming from. I only realised this looking back at photos - and it is ridiculous that it never occurred to me that they could be from the eucalyptus because it had never flowered before.
I must apologise to some of you because I only today 'discovered' that there were some messages in 'My Messages'. I'd never looked at it before as I never assumed I'd have any messages from anyone. So apologies to those where there are messages from some time ago which I did not respond to and thanks to Guernsey Donkey for the info on the little Dianthus.
Glad you solved the puzzle, Yarrow!
The bee's bum was on the teasel!
Anyway, I think flower names are often boring. Cosmos bee's bum would be a good'un
Lovely dahlia - the name - I rest my case.
some lovely cool colours and a nice bit of weeding, Busy