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Post by Catherine on Jul 7, 2012 9:23:49 GMT
Pash is getting the hang of it - gowing both up and down her frame - all my tendril twirling has paid off!! She has 3 flowers now
Now, I know we've all seen rain before but when we have standing water on the gravel in the back garden - that is exceptional - I had to paddle over to the garage to the tumble dryer - positively awash!! That's not the shape of the puddle, it's the reflection of the porch in the water
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Post by penny on Jul 11, 2012 20:10:37 GMT
Glad to see your tendril twirling has paid off, pash is looking much fuller in the middle now, she was a bit thin and pathetic in my garden.
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Post by Catherine on Jul 12, 2012 6:51:26 GMT
Glad to see your tendril twirling has paid off, pash is looking much fuller in the middle now, she was a bit thin and pathetic in my garden. Not at all, Penny, she was just fine when she got here; she's got a much bigger frame to twirl around now and I think she likes it!!
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Post by penny on Jul 16, 2012 17:39:55 GMT
With all this rain we keep having, perhaps this thread should be re christened 'Pics Of Your Meadow'?
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Post by Catherine on Jul 17, 2012 6:51:59 GMT
It is all a bit lush and verdant, tropical rainforestesque!!
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Post by Ginnie on Jul 17, 2012 23:25:01 GMT
With all this rain we keep having, perhaps this thread should be re christened 'Pics Of Your Meadow'? Rain? You have rain over there? PLease send some over. Need it really, really bad. Today was 32 degrees. 40 with the humidity factor.
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Post by penny on Jul 17, 2012 23:32:53 GMT
With all this rain we keep having, perhaps this thread should be re christened 'Pics Of Your Meadow'? Rain? You have rain over there? PLease send some over. Need it really, really bad. Today was 32 degrees. 40 with the humidity factor. It's done almost nothing except rain for weeks and weeks Ginnie, people have had their homes flooded again and again. Your welcome to it for a good while, everyone is fed up. It would be great to sen# you some and some to Vic!
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Post by Catherine on Jul 18, 2012 7:25:25 GMT
Rain? You have rain over there? PLease send some over. Need it really, really bad. Today was 32 degrees. 40 with the humidity factor. It's done almost nothing except rain for weeks and weeks Ginnie, people have had their homes flooded again and again. Your welcome to it for a good while, everyone is fed up. It would be great to sen# you some and some to Vic! Penny's right- the weather has been miserable!! Back in May, Shropshire was officially declared to be in drought......hot on the heels of that - the wettest June since records began - and July's not shaping up too well either!! However, it's supposed to be warming up and getting finer - HURRAH!!!! I have lilies and geraniums waiting for the sunshine to bring them into flower and I swear there are rust spots on almost everything in the garden - except for the passion flower, she's rambling upwards and onwards - four flowers yesterday again!! You may have the rain, Sir Gin!!
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Post by Catherine on Jul 24, 2012 15:41:41 GMT
These are from last week - pretty passion flower
My, how she's grown!!
I foolishly expected a pale pink cala lily.....these are so sweet, only small and looking like rasperry ripple ice cream!!
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Post by Catherine on Jul 24, 2012 15:53:57 GMT
General view, from the side to the back of the house, of the lilies I don't like and all the others just waiting to flower
These pretties have really come on in a week - and just 2 days of sunshine really helps
Right next to the pink ones, the black cala are more than a week behind but starting to flower now - I didn't expect white speckled leaves on this either!!
Hopefully, the cala lily in this pot, now it's been moved out of the shade, will very soon be a nice white beauty. The tall leaves surrounding, most of which were broken in the recent howling gales, I'm hoping will be sword lilies, whatever they may look like!!
Part of the weekend's endeavours, the ivy tripod - at the foot of which lives our brand new fairy, she is Autumn Fairy, I have named her Arya
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Post by Catherine on Jul 24, 2012 16:00:14 GMT
Undecided if she should live in at the foot of the now growing three ways ivy (which goes purple in winter)
Or plonked at the front, at least she's safe for now while Minnie Ginnie's in Topsail Colony
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Post by Catherine on Aug 2, 2012 6:39:55 GMT
You'll be delighted to know - all eight of you!! - that I've taken some more pics this morning - but what will delight you even more is that I don't have time to upload and post them at the moment!! ;D Passion flower has REALLY come on Aha!! You can't wait now, can you??!!! ;D
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Post by penny on Aug 2, 2012 19:17:35 GMT
You'll be delighted to know - all eight of you!! - that I've taken some more pics this morning - but what will delight you even more is that I don't have time to upload and post them at the moment!! ;D Passion flower has REALLY come on Aha!! You can't wait now, can you??!!! ;D Sarcasm, M'Lady? So early in the morning?? ;D ;D
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Post by Catherine on Aug 3, 2012 8:54:20 GMT
You'll be delighted to know - all eight of you!! - that I've taken some more pics this morning - but what will delight you even more is that I don't have time to upload and post them at the moment!! ;D Passion flower has REALLY come on Aha!! You can't wait now, can you??!!! ;D Sarcasm, M'Lady? So early in the morning?? ;D ;D ARF!!! Me? I don't think so!!! Me & my vicarious gravitas just know the truth!!!!
Here goes!!
This is a new baby, planted in the beds that I've forked and replenished with manure, compost and LOADS of bark. I fell in love with this fellow as soon as we walked into the garden centre - we'd only gone for more manure!!!!
Ornamental Millet, in the part of the beds that is best viewed from inside the wee conservatory
And L'il Miss Lavender Papillon begged to come home with me.....
The far side of the "red bed", Curly Red has moved from his lonely pot beside the garage, the fuschia, I'm hoping will keep coming back and the berberis was already there, the tiny red dot is the tiny baby hydrangea - this is the daftness of carry the red of the conservatory furniture outside, best viewed when it's the outside you're in
More air and room for the others, now that dicentra has been cut down, peony has to die down a bit yet - so much bark!!!! I'll not be pulling out random weeds for YEARS!!!!
The other end of the re-done beds
Need a rest now, or shall I carry on!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D The next bit's much brighter!!
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Post by Catherine on Aug 3, 2012 9:14:15 GMT
Milady Passion Flower of Peacock Castle reaches the top!!! (4 flowers today)
Raspberry ripple lilies
with the highly scented white one coming into flower now too
Exotic dark beauties "]
From the back door
To the left
Just one more newbie, deliciously highly scented Phlox
Pash's prettiest flowers kind of surprise me as I go a-tendril twirling, to my heart's content
Aaaaaand - relax!!
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Post by penny on Aug 3, 2012 10:14:13 GMT
Your garden is looking lovely and the passion flower is flourishing, I knew you would look after it! The flowers are beautiful aren't they.
The lilies are coming along very well too. Kate has got lilies in her garden, one of which is about 4ft tall but has got no flowers!
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Post by Catherine on Aug 4, 2012 10:14:04 GMT
This beauty flowered in the sunshine yesterday and she smells deeeeeviine!! - another two big fat buds on the same plant!! The stargazers at the other side of the garden are going to pop very soon!!
"Black" & "white" lillies!!!
Close up Pash at the very top!! Clever girl!!
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Post by Catherine on Aug 16, 2012 12:24:46 GMT
Reach for the stars!!! Every aspect of her frame is now covered, with the exception of the back leg - and we're on our way to that one!!
Bugger! I've cut off the very top in the pic DUH!!
You may have noticed some little figures at the base of Pash......Autumn Fairy (Arya) was joined yesterday by Sidesitting Fairy (Darcey) and just look at who popped out of the mountain of bubblewrap in the box along with the new fairy!!!!!! A bit bruised and battered, with a black eye again - he reckons the RCMP were a bit rough on him - he's playing Chris' original guitar to impress the fairies, he says they like the music..........he's a TART!!
The fairies are named after my cousin's two little grand daughters
Lily city, the scent is fabulous! There are only four plants here, each with as many as ten blooms!!
Stargazer central!! Didn't realize there were so many!! Also beautifully scented, the garden smells GORGEOUS!!
A very bad pic of a big furry bumble bee coming out of one of Pash's buds
The soon to be a flower on the mysterious sword lily.......
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Post by penny on Aug 16, 2012 16:57:33 GMT
The plants are all looking lovely, as are the fairies.....pity about MG with his shiner being a blot on the landscape!
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Post by Catherine on Aug 18, 2012 12:35:59 GMT
The suspense is unbearable....almost!! ;D Looks like the sword lilies are going to have white flowers; there are now four or five, in various pots, ready to flower.....
Pash will have flowers at the very top very soon
For the big fat bumble bees to roll around on!!
A new flight of fairies flew in yesterday....I've had to group the at the foot of ivy together to get the pic, they're lost when with their plants....
Yellow fairy with the crocosmia
Purple fairy with the lavender - obviously
Hmm, I think this is purple fairy with the fuschia, so it's blue with the lavender.....
There, all done!!
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Post by penny on Aug 19, 2012 18:03:32 GMT
Great photos, Catherine! The garden is looking beautiful, you've worked so hard on it. I hope Minnie Ginnie isn't going round twirling his moustache at all the fairies, you will have to keep a close eye on him in case he is chatting them up...you know what he's like!
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Post by Catherine on Aug 20, 2012 7:11:32 GMT
Great photos, Catherine! The garden is looking beautiful, you've worked so hard on it. I hope Minnie Ginnie isn't going round twirling his moustache at all the fairies, you will have to keep a close eye on him in case he is chatting them up...you know what he's like! Thanks Penny - no sign of MG since though - the 1st sword lily has flowered - I'm sure I can hear a sigh of relief that it''s not stopped raining long enough for me to take a pic.......not a very loud sigh - we're a bit thin on the ground of late........
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Post by penny on Aug 20, 2012 18:25:48 GMT
Yes, its getting quieter and quieter on here isn't it. Rather upsetting really
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Post by Catherine on Aug 21, 2012 6:49:49 GMT
Just in time for Milady Penny's birthday.......................................................the first sword lily flowers!!! TA-DA!!!! Pretty with a sweet delicate fragrance - worth waiting for!! They're very tall - even with wind broken leaves!
These guys popped up, just after the last fairy landed!!
Couldn't resist it!!
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Post by Catherine on Aug 26, 2012 9:39:08 GMT
After a quick Google, it would seem that sword lilies are, in fact from the gladiolus family, being, in particular, Abyssinian Gladiolus Peacock Orchid!! They're gorgeous, up to six shy flowers on one stem!!
Sorry, couldn't resist it, the last fairy has landed - and the nice lady who sent them to me popped in a wee surprise stowaway!! Maeve Moonbeam and Mystery. I've also had another three of the pixie fairies, I'm using them to mark where I've planted stuff that will disappear over winter......that way, I won't plant something else on top of it!!
The fairy family is reunited..... Arya Autumn, Maeve Moonbeam & Mystery and Darcey Dancer
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