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Reckless Abandonment wrote: »That's a beauty.
It was something useful to do during the lockdown.
And the watching it growing everyday in the kitchen window takes the mind away to growth and away from the C business on the media.
Keeps the optimism high.
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If a mod can look at my post and let me know why the IMG link never works for me it would be greatly appreciated.
Anyway here's a link to my winter planter:
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You know how sometimes you take your morning coffee out into the garden to enjoy a break in the weather, and you decide on a whim to pull up the dead stick that never grew into anything?
Well, about that ... :rolleyes:
There were (still are) more important things on the To Do list for this winter, but as this bed is now twice the depth it was when I went to bed last night, it looks like I need to add "draw up a new planting scheme" to it now. Oops. :pac:0 -
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Photos taken today. One huge tomato plant growing from the ground has taken over the greenhouse and flowering like crazy and producing fruit.0 -
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As the blanket of dusk was beginning to gently settle over the mountains this evening I sauntered up the garden after a stressful day’s work.
I stopped dead in my tracks when I noticed the hawthorn blossoms gleaming lustrously out at me in the ebbing light.
I stood, paused and gazed in the stillness of the evening. In that one fleeting moment the cares of the day were washed away.
Celebrate your garden’s little moments!
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Thanks Red Hare.
I love mosses and lichens and all that, they're absolutely beautiful once you look at them up close.
No, it's not a green wall, it's just something that grew on top of a NW facing, neglected flowerpot. My only intervention was to reuse the soil (while keeping the top layer intact) to fill another, larger flowerpot where I had transplanted ox eye daisies but for which I didn't have enough soil. Then I left Mother Nature to her own devices. 0 -
Buds finally beginning to burst into beautiful blooms here this week!
I love this combination at the moment. Geranium Rozanne with Rosa Schoolgirl.
The wildlife pond is beginning to settle nicely into the garden and it’s teaming with insects! The Blue Eye Grass is very eye catching right now.
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I have not had much chance to get done what I wanted to do with the main piece of garden this year (yet...) We have had some great shows from our old reliables and the front entrance to the main Garden turned out quite well.
We have two magnolia trees, the main one had the most flowers it has ever had this year, but they were damaged by an unexpected two day frost just as they were starting to open.
It is nice to see the burst of colour that Summer is bringing, the two photo's below show the contrast.
Our Rhodedendron's did well this year, they are showing some growth now after flowering. The pink one is years old and potted, the red is about 2 years and planted in that raised bed and the yellow is a year with us in a pot.
Finally the roses, these were covered in aphids at one stage, but they seem to have gone now thankfully. Two climbers around that entrance pergola.
We have had some casualties this year after a harsh Winter and Spring here in Northern England. The fuscias are still tiny shoots, the Hydrangea has just stopped after having growth and our Peony flowers seem to have become deformed.
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Even on the most sodden miserable evenings the vibrancy of the Vipers Bugloss brightens the dullest corners. My stop and smile moment of the day as the rain dollops down.
I managed to grow just one successfully from seed a few years ago, now they’ve finally taken over. Bees are slowly beginning to cluster.1 -
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Not sure about everyone else's garden, but due to the wet cold spell early Summer, everything was delayed and is only now bursting into life. I usually stick to three main colours in the garden: white, purple, some orange and the odd red from Crocosmia Lucifer (first pic) as I dearly love that plant. Lock down over 2020 meant I no longer cared and planted all the plants and the clash of colours have come into their own this Summer, lol.
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The ‘cultivated’ wildflower meadow is in full swing now. Almost all annuals this year so hoping the perennials will make a show next year.
I love the history behind the corn marigold. I got this from ’Seedaholic’:
”The corn marigold was probably introduced with the introduction of agriculture and has certainly been around since the Iron Age. It was once so common and damaging to crops that its destruction was required. During the 13th century in Scotland as a law of Alexander II states that if a farmer allows so much as a single plant to produce seed in amongst his crops then he will be fined a sheep.”
According to ‘wildflowers of Ireland’:
“This species is classed as NEAR THREATENED in the Red Data List of Vascular Plants 2016.... it was an enormous pest as it grew in among the native cereal crops and it was not until the 1970's when an effective herbicide joined the battle, that the plant started its decline.”
Very sad really considering how brilliant it is for pollinators. I’ve been watching the corn marigold closely over the past few weeks and I’ve been amazed by how many pollinators it attracts. The field is full of them and each one has up to 5 insects vying for a spot inside one.
This one has me a bit demented. I’ve been trying to determine if it’s Mayweed or Chamomile. But maybe someone with a better eye can help!
As for my ‘wild’ wildflower garden, ie the area left to Mother Nature herself... it’s definitely holding it’s own!
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