In the Garden

Wirralass said:
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......my solar powered water feature ~ lovely to listen to and to watch the birds having a dip!
WL
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I bought a bird bath like that without the water feature but did the birds use it, not a bit of it, so I decided to repurpose it as a planter with some houseleeks in. Where did the birds start to splash about in but my 3 tier trickling bowl feature.
Contrary birds!!!
 
Lol at the birds. :D We have that birdbath and the big woodpigeon likes to drink from it, while keeping an eye out for CheekyCat.

I want one of those fountains! I have it on my wish list. 🙂
 
Compost needs the air to it - not constantly, but quite regularly - plus worms - in order to 'cook' and if the heap is big enough you can have usable humus within a couple of months. Otherwise it usually just goes to liquid and rancid liquid at that, at the bottom in an enclosed space with no air. Dad built a wooden structure out of scrap pallets, threw a knackered old mat over the top, chucked a few clods of earth with worms into it after the first 6 ish inches and thereafter forked it over every few weeks. Lift side up, shovel slid into bottom, remove loam and use when planting something.
 
Cut down the trees that had grown on our side. First neighbour way back when the houses were brand new, had planted the leylandii slap bang on the boundary. We suggested he plant within his garden by a couple of feet as the trees would spread. He was quite firm about his idea. So the trees grew into one another. A year or so on, he took out every second tree and planted laurel. Then he sold the house. Next neighbours never cut their side of the trees which, now overcrowded, reached for the skies. They’ve been there 35 years now. Decidedly unkempt though we try to cut as far up and back to boundary as we can. Now approaching our seventies, a younger friend came over to help cut out the trees that had grown on our side of the boundary line. Looking a bit better, once wood is back in the timber yards post covid lockdown and Brexit shortage, a fence will go up.
 
grovesy said:
I have just bought some plug plants of this, I lost my ones a couple of years ago. Though I wont be able to smell the scent.
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Wishing you success with the plugs grovesy, they should grow fairly quickly in your greenhouse. Tell me, do you know if the Zaluzianskya will survive the winter elements?
WL
 
Thank you @trophywench the problem is I keep adding to the top, I've 7 bins on the go now and keep topping them all up and never using anything from the bottom. I should leave one to cook!

@Minky neat bleach or weedkiller and deny all knowledge. I wouldn't have put up with that over all those years and I'd have got somebody to chainsaw my side, ie the branches. Anything hanging over is yours! The cheek of it. Leylandii are horrid in the wrong place. I'm passive/aggressive all the way! :D

My 'sedum' or whatever it is has come over all unnecessary! Where did that spring from?! A Triffid.

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@Wirralass I’ve just realised my “z” plant seems to have disappeared from our garden. The scent is incredible isn’t it? I couldn’t believe it when we first had one in the garden.

The peonies in our garden are a month late blooming, but sadly as usual the week after they do we get heavy rain...they seem to be holding up so far...I love the scent of these too.

I think the pale pink one is Sarah Bernhardt...I’m always fascinated by so many petals.
 

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Lisa66 said:
@Wirralass I’ve just realised my “z” plant seems to have disappeared from our garden. The scent is incredible isn’t it? I couldn’t believe it when we first had one in the garden.

The peonies in our garden are a month late blooming, but sadly as usual the week after they do we get heavy rain...they seem to be holding up so far...I love the scent of these too.

I think the pale pink one is Sarah Bernhardt...I’m always fascinated by so many petals.
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What a shame. Whenever my family or friends go in my garden they never fail to exclaim how beautiful the scent is🙂
I had a white peoni, it came back year after year, but when my garden had an overhaul I think my precious peoni ended up in the Council tip:(
I love your pale pink peoni Lisa, I'll look out for one next time I go to the garden nursery.
WL
 
All beautiful. 🙂 I now have to have a white peony! Mum's peonies were over weeks ago, shame they don't last longer. What is a z plant again?

I was rushing hither and thither getting the other lillies round to the back before the lily beetles suss out that they're there! Agh. These were last year, but I don't suppose they'll flower now. Rotten lily beetles, just coz you're beautiful, think you can chomp my plants! I should kill 'em, but I can't kill things except houseflies, bluebottles, cockroaches and fleas. :(

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This is my favourite garden in the neighbourhood 🙂 I asked the lady for permission to take the pictures 🙂 She claims she's not a gardener! 😱 I think she's an exceptionally good one 🙂 Pictures don't really do it justice
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I love cottage garden style gardens like that. We’ve got foxgloves in ours, and are never sure where they're going to come up from year to year, or what colour or how many they'll be. Adds a sense of the unexpected.
 
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