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Post by Catherine on Apr 15, 2012 14:28:10 GMT
Sod's law strikes again - just as the "black" tulips come into flower, the white ones start to shed their petals!! Taken from inside the wee conservatory......
The original black tulips from years ago, that only ever flowered as two and a shaky one, are even better this year than last - hurrah!!
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Post by Catherine on May 5, 2012 11:48:29 GMT
Miniature palest pink rhododendron coming into flower now, just as the lilac one next to it sheds her petals.....
The teeniest tiniest forget-me-not plant........I know I'll regret this if this wee plants thrives - they'll be EVERYWHERE next year
She has plenty of room though......
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Post by Catherine on May 5, 2012 12:55:15 GMT
Not sure what, if anything, you've done to deserve this - Ginnie's post sent me into the garden to take a pic of the forget-me-not....... The pretty peach ladies are at their best, just as the black tulips are on the way out, some of each made it into the house - pretty.......we had to tie up the big pink and white dicentra, which the tulips surround, she got snowed on and kind of splayed out, never to stand tall on her own again!! The original black tulips, haven't flowered properly ever - counted 15 flowers this morning!! The indoor crops are coming on a treat, parsley, chives and coriander - we had some of this very coriander on a home made beef curry the other night - easy pleased, that's me!! You'll be pleased to hear that although the basil is also doing well, I forgot to take a pic....... More pretty peach ladies round the other side of the dicentra - the dark foliage is the peony galloping on These perfect pink girlies haven't flowered for about three years - Doug the Mole likes them cos they're miniature and don't tower above him - too much!! Right next to them, the white dicentra is coming into flower now dunno what's happened here - the picture has disappeared from my stuff on Tinypic too! Just coming into bud - having moved a good two feet along from where it used to live, the lily of the valley nestles under the taller Solomon's seal Solomon's seal,just coming into flower, has also moved along the garden a good bit - I suspect the roots of the nearby yew tree have forced things over....just in case it croaks, I have a couple in pots, I love it, one of my favourite plants - Solomon's seal, not the yew tree!!
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Post by Catherine on Jun 24, 2012 9:09:11 GMT
A new baby last summer, poppy "pizzicatto" has thrived - and isn't as small as I expected!! Last year, 1 flower, this year, about 15 and still going - despite the ongoing monsoons and gales that conspire to batter the petals from her.
Precious pink peony - in between attacks of weather!!
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Post by Catherine on Jun 24, 2012 9:16:47 GMT
Dicentra, peony, alium & iris
Solomon's Seal going full tilt
These pretty little pansies just keep coming back - battling through the lilies - such beautiful little faces, make me smile
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Post by Catherine on Jun 24, 2012 9:23:52 GMT
What a lot of pink!! New pink geranium replaces dead chrysant with Livingstone daisies at her feet to keep her company - the daisies were given to Mrs Wednesday/shed by her mother in law and had sat in their trays for 3 weeks before I was cheeky enough to ask what was she doing with them - mainly she was having a domestic about them, she didn't like or want them but hubby did, cos they were a gift from his Mum - OMG!!!! Anywayz, she gave me a tray - completely tray bound, I've been delighted that they have survived - even had some sunshine yesterday, so the opened up beautifully
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Post by Catherine on Jun 24, 2012 9:29:33 GMT
Princess passion flower, a gift from Peacock Castle - she's not in her final spot yet but she has been transplanted into her proper pot with her climbing frame - several times a day I go tendril twirling - trying to get her to grow down a bit and fill some lower spaces, before she grows up, she also has Livingstone daisies at her feet
the sword lilies at her side have all had their tall leaves broken by the wind - bugger!!
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Post by Catherine on Jun 24, 2012 9:47:58 GMT
Meant to say, I'm so extra delighted with the passion flower because she'll partly hide the shed - I hope - I still laugh out loud at something Crooky posted when I very first (so proudly ) posted pictures of the garden - Crookster came on and said "Hey, somebody's thrown an old shed over your fence"!!!!
I miss Crooky and Craigie Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Post by Catherine on Jun 25, 2012 6:22:10 GMT
Poppy Pizzicatto popped her last bud this morning, that's her last two flowers - she really needs a much bigger pot!!
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Post by Catherine on Jun 25, 2012 19:32:35 GMT
The last poppy, purty girl! They forecast rain tomorrow, that'll be the end of Poppy Pizzicatto for this year - although the seed heads look fabulous!!
I came in from work, brilliant, warm sunshine and just stood and SMILED , I'd forgotten these wee gems, or expected them to turn up their toes and just croak after being so very tray bound and just plonked in wherever I had a space........thaya gawjus!!!!! ;D
Then I gave in and had no more spaces, so, the rest of thesolid mass of root went into a shady area - shady until teatime.... pic in a mo - puter going bonkers!!
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Post by Catherine on Jun 25, 2012 19:54:40 GMT
No, really, I couldn't eat another thing!!! Half a leaf is more than enough - bandit bugs!!! Sawfly larvae, now caterpillars, chomp through and shred Solomon's Seal
Not the dreaded lily beetle - just a big fat snail
Night-scented stock in the daytime is a bit of a scraggy aggie
In the evening.........lovely lilac petals open and in an hour or so, drench the whole garden with their heady scent - i gave Zal a pack of these seeds - he's not entirely sure where he planted them - he'll just have to follow his nose....
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Post by Ginnie on Jun 25, 2012 23:49:09 GMT
You certainly have a lot of colour out there!
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Post by Catherine on Jun 26, 2012 6:24:38 GMT
You certainly have a lot of colour out there! Mainly green & PINK!!!!! Except for poppy and the red geranium - those wee daisies, as I said to Penny last night on the phone - they are a delight - even if they do look like a tart's knicker drawer!!! ;D
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Post by Catherine on Jun 26, 2012 6:27:51 GMT
I'm on the lookout for wee fairies for the garden - I used to have a little terracotta one but she got broken beyond repair; and I've never seen any since and that was about 10 years ago!!
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Post by Ginnie on Jun 26, 2012 20:54:10 GMT
I'm on the lookout for wee fairies for the garden - I used to have a little terracotta one but she got broken beyond repair; and I've never seen any since and that was about 10 years ago!! Well I have one here who's threatening to leave if Minnie Ginnie doesn't behave himself!
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Post by Catherine on Jun 27, 2012 6:00:27 GMT
I'm on the lookout for wee fairies for the garden - I used to have a little terracotta one but she got broken beyond repair; and I've never seen any since and that was about 10 years ago!! Well I have one here who's threatening to leave if Minnie Ginnie doesn't behave himself! Really??!! That bad??!! I thought he got along real well with the fairies, more his size and all, oh dear, what can he have been up to no?!! Is he allowed to go to Topsail with you? Maybe he's just a bit overexcited at the prospect.......
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Post by Catherine on Jun 27, 2012 6:32:53 GMT
Arf!! Just had a text from Zal - nope - he cannot find the night scented stock in his garden - but he has located a plant that might be it, just not in flower yet!!
He's up so early (well, it is for him!!) because he's making tea and toast for Rachel -- aw!
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Post by Ginnie on Jun 27, 2012 20:55:59 GMT
Well I have one here who's threatening to leave if Minnie Ginnie doesn't behave himself! Really??!! That bad??!! I thought he got along real well with the fairies, more his size and all, oh dear, what can he have been up to no?!! Is he allowed to go to Topsail with you? Maybe he's just a bit overexcited at the prospect.......Well, that fairy is a teetotaller for starts... MG will be going with me.
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Post by penny on Jun 30, 2012 16:26:38 GMT
Your garden is looking fabulous Catherine, thanks so much for taking in the passion flower, I knew she would be well looked after and have a good home with you and Colin. Will try to take some photos of the roses in the back garden here and post them on to this thread, I have been trying to learn to do lots of different things on the computer this week.
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Post by Catherine on Jul 1, 2012 8:49:59 GMT
Really??!! That bad??!! I thought he got along real well with the fairies, more his size and all, oh dear, what can he have been up to no?!! Is he allowed to go to Topsail with you? Maybe he's just a bit overexcited at the prospect....... Well, that fairy is a teetotaller for starts... MG will be going with me. Ah, that explains your fairy being in such high dudgeon with MG!!! My little terracotta Rowan tree fairy, from my last garden, just appeared overnight under the sapling Rowan (Mountain Ash) tree that our neighbour gave us, it was growing in the wrong place - who works for the coucil sorting out all the trees and stuff that Telford is rich in - he said there were always fairies under Rowan trees!!
Anywayz, she was more than partial to a buttercup brimming with best rosehip syrup - I think that's how her first wing incurred the first injury - trying to fly under the influence......
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Post by Catherine on Jul 1, 2012 9:00:59 GMT
Pash showed her first (since I've had her) flower yestarday!!!
The fact that the pot is on gravel and that I can't stick a stamp on straight have conspired to make Pash in her frame look all squinty - she's not really - well, I don't think so!!
She doesn't quite hide the shed, yet..... but she has the most sheltered corner of the garden
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Post by Catherine on Jul 1, 2012 9:02:57 GMT
The first of the lilies should flower in the next couple of days - Stargazers, I think, I can't remember, they were planted last year - maybe the year before!! be a nice surprise!!
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Post by penny on Jul 2, 2012 18:13:14 GMT
The passion flowers look lovely already. Every bodys gardens should be going mad with all this rain, my back garden looks like a meadow as its been too bad to get the mower on it and the hedge at the front of the house is so huge I cant see across the road!
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Post by Catherine on Jul 7, 2012 9:10:43 GMT
Harrumph!! These aren't Stargazers, these are the ones I thought I'd chucked out last year, cos I don't like the colour - the pack showed them as candy pink.......brick pink, is what they are AND they're NOT scented, humph!! Quite spectacular, though and bless them they flowered, monster flowers, without sunshine, in the midst of yet another monsoon
These smiley cuties are a hark back to childhood; we lived on a a street that went uphill and downhill, uphill and downhill - we lived at the top of the biggest uphill and to add insult to injury the house was higher yet; there must've been 30 or 40 stone steps, with a bit of a landing to catch your breath in the middle - at the side of that landing was the biggest clump of these - I know them as Marguerites or Margeritas (so, does Zal as it happens). I bought this plant last year, planted it and it promptly died!! Looking so much better this year - until a gang of tiny black wriggly wiggly worm like things attacked - chomping, leaves and petals alike and settling down on the yellow bit for a rest - BASTARTS!!!! I gave them a spray of Tumblebug - nah!! In with the Roseclear...........victory is mine!! Mwah ha ha ha!!
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Post by Catherine on Jul 7, 2012 9:16:54 GMT
The geraniums DO NOT like this endless rain, their blooms have turned to mush........grrrrr!
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