In the Garden

[Northerner]

Another little pretty has appeared 🙂 Not sure what it is called ETA: It's apparently a snapdragon 🙂

 

[grovesy]

Another little pretty has appeared 🙂 Not sure what it is called ETA: It's apparently a snapdragon 🙂

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Antirhinium.

 

[Ditto]

Eggy what is the tree in the blue tub?

Luv Snapdragons, they keep coming back, not just bedding which is what I thought. 🙂

 

[eggyg]

Eggy what is the tree in the blue tub?

Luv Snapdragons, they keep coming back, not just bedding which is what I thought. 🙂

It’s an olive tree. We got it as a present a couple of years ago, it’s gets little teeny tiny olives on then they drop off. We thought we’d lost it last year, we went on a six week holiday in September and only remembered about two weeks in we should have put it in for the winter. We were in France by this stage. Came back end of October and there had been frost but it’s grown again. Phew!

 

[trophywench]

Friend - in Portugal - had his garden ripped through by a forest fire a few years ago. His 2 yo olive cutting he'd been nurturing was also blasted. Now 2 years later it's amazingly healthy. The elderly Greek ladies always swore by giving the whole family grove of mature trees a damn good beating with heavy besoms every year, to ensure a good crop the following year. Has worked for centuries!

 

[nonethewiser]

Planted 25 new plants last year & just before lockdown, some are flourishing others not so, couple have died dozen have brown leaves so looked on net which says possible fungus infestation, bought treatment to spray them with.

Annoyed, dont know if it's down to hot humid conditions or what, kept them watered & fed as recommended using Miracle Gro.

 

[Northerner]

Planted 25 new plants last year & just before lockdown, some are flourishing others not so, couple have died dozen have brown leaves so looked on net which says possible fungus infestation, bought treatment to spray them with.

Annoyed, dont know if it's down to hot humid conditions or what, kept them watered & fed as recommended using Miracle Gro.

That's disappointing I was expecting hundreds of daffodils from all the bulbs I planted, but barely any of them grew Which is a shame, because the ones that did were beautiful.

 

[Ditto]

Good grief re olives, treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen!

Shame about your daffs, the squirrels didn't make off with them did they? Think I said about my friend who planted tons of Crocus and ended up no Crocus but next door who didn't have Crocus had a beautiful display thanks to the squirrels digging them all up and transplanting them.

I bought a Wisteria from Aldi yesterday. Can't believe my faith! I'm a tryer if nothing else. A critter came in the night and decimated my newly planted herbs, the mint and the coriander are gonners but they didn't like the origano or the parsley. Picky. 🙂

My friend posted this to my fb page saying Saw this and thought of you. Heh!

 

[trophywench]

I wouldn't choose to plant mint in the garden unless I already owned an ancient bucket that I could cut the bottom out of, to bury in the garden before planting it to prevent the root runners taking over the whole garden. So your existing plants just had a lucky escape if you ask me!

We grew wisteria from seed we begged from a gite we stayed at one year. Nurtured it and overwintered it successfully - then a daughter promised to come and water the garden while we were on holiday - yeah, a day before we came home after 3 weeks away. Lost 6 utterly glorious hanging baskets, my agapanthus, all 6 baby wisteria and god knows what else.

 

[Northerner]

Good grief re olives, treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen!

Shame about your daffs, the squirrels didn't make off with them did they? Think I said about my friend who planted tons of Crocus and ended up no Crocus but next door who didn't have Crocus had a beautiful display thanks to the squirrels digging them all up and transplanting them.

I bought a Wisteria from Aldi yesterday. Can't believe my faith! I'm a tryer if nothing else. A critter came in the night and decimated my newly planted herbs, the mint and the coriander are gonners but they didn't like the origano or the parsley. Picky. 🙂

My friend posted this to my fb page saying Saw this and thought of you. Heh!

Hehe! I've never seen a squirrel in my garden, too many cats, I suspect 😱 I'd love a wisteria, hope it flourishes! 🙂

 

[Northerner]

We grew wisteria from seed we begged from a gite we stayed at one year. Nurtured it and overwintered it successfully - then a daughter promised to come and water the garden while we were on holiday - yeah, a day before we came home after 3 weeks away. Lost 6 utterly glorious hanging baskets, my agapanthus, all 6 baby wisteria and god knows what else.

I can't 'like' this post, it's too tragic What a shame

 

[grovesy]

Good grief re olives, treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen!

Shame about your daffs, the squirrels didn't make off with them did they? Think I said about my friend who planted tons of Crocus and ended up no Crocus but next door who didn't have Crocus had a beautiful display thanks to the squirrels digging them all up and transplanting them.

I bought a Wisteria from Aldi yesterday. Can't believe my faith! I'm a tryer if nothing else. A critter came in the night and decimated my newly planted herbs, the mint and the coriander are gonners but they didn't like the origano or the parsley. Picky. 🙂

My friend posted this to my fb page saying Saw this and thought of you. Heh!

I have found that if you buy when just had a delivery of plants, Aldi plants can be good value for money.

 

[Felinia]

Another little pretty has appeared 🙂 Not sure what it is called ETA: It's apparently a snapdragon 🙂

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We used to call them bunny rabbit plants! But yes - snapdragons or antirrhinums

 

[eggyg]

@Ditto we have bought loads of plants from Aldi, probably the most successful is the lavender. Also our grapevine and Bramley apple espalier were both from Aldi and have thrived.

Sorry photos have gone on sideways for some reason.

 

[Northerner]

I have wildlife in my garden! 😱 Froggy was sunbathing and didn't move a muscle for at least 5 minutes before hopping into the grass 🙂 No wonder I don't see many slugs in my garden 🙂 Not sure where he can have spawned though, unless a near neighbour has a pond, there are no places in my garden where water can accumulate, even after a downpour 🙂

 

[Robin]

Having visited one of our favourite gardens yesterday, (Buscot Park, near Lechlade) and drooled over the herbaceous borders in their walled garden, I thought I'd go out and do some tidying up and deadhading in my own garden before it got too hot. Ha! When I was dripping, I came in and checked the temperature on our neighbours weather station that he puts online, and discovered it was 29. 8 degrees already! That’s enough gardening for one day!
This is what I aspire to, the long border at Buscot, below, but my plants never grow to the right height!

 

[Northerner]

That is lovely @Robin 🙂 I gave up on the gardening before I started! 😱 🙂

 

[Ditto]

Lovely photos and a tragedy that happened to me every year when I went on holiday. The teenagers were oblivious. I'd come back to dried out baskets and the neighbours kindly informed me they watched them die. Thanks a bunch.

Sounds like a machine gun is going off in Mum's garden, the sound of the leaves hitting the ground from the Eucalyptus, the drier and hotter it gets the noisier. Too hot to go out till darker. I burnt my feet on the balcony at my flat, going out to water my little tree tubs that are lined up under my windows. I know! I should have been wearing shoes, but how hot is that, and it's shady along that balcony. I was quite shocked. I hates global warming.

 

[Contused]

<snip>Sorry photos have gone on sideways for some reason.

Here ya go…

 

[Robin]

This is our actual long border. Nothing’s quite the right height, and bits of it look good at various times, but never all together.