Your gardening photos

Yes I think you’re right after a bit more research. Pheasant tail grass or New Zealand wind grass. Saw it yesterday, fantastic delicate flowers on top. Thanks RA!

echinacea purpurea

Peony

A few photos of our rural garden, enjoy.

After being eaten alive by the chickens last year, my ferns are thriving again. North-facing wall and one of my favourite bits of the garden.

It’s been a funny old summer, weather wise. I am still waiting for most of the sunflowers to bloom. The dahlias have done okay.

Dahlias hail from Mexico so the more sun the better for them. Plus if they are kept somewhere shady and damp it makes it all the easier for slugs and snails to get them.

That's lovely, you have a lot in a small space very effectively there. We have been the same over the Covid time, we moved into a house two years ago and have spent the last 18 months or so working on the sadly neglected garden, as you say, a life-line.

Could be to do with the size of the pic, it possibly wants them to be landscape and that one looks slightly narrower than it is high. Not sure but it could be that.

Thanks for that. Do you know if I change the info settings on my phone so they’re displayed correctly?

Has anyone else's yukka suddenly sprouted flowers out of the blue this year? I posted pics on FB and a few people have commented that theirs did the same.

This has been planted for about 15 years and there was never a sign of any flowering at all!

What got into them this year???

(Apologies if this has been posted about before, I just came across this thread, haven't read through the lot)

I have a small border that is very difficult to find things that suit it - south facing but with quite a lot of tree issues that make it less easy to establish plants. I just keep planting things and see what succeeds. I put in a Kaffir lily two years ago and left it to get on with it. Early this year lots and lots of new little plants started coming up at the opposite end of the bed. I had no idea what they were but even if they were montbretia I was willing to let them populate the place. It turns out they are Kaffir Lilies, they must have seeded from the first one but there were such a lot it was a bit surprising. Anyway I am delighted and they are welcome to populate the bed if they wish!

Mind your own business ! The most beautiful of all weeds. great for a shady spot ☘️

This is Skeeter's Broom. Lidl had them around 5 years ago. I have never seen them for sale anywhere else at any time. It has a very upright shape for an Acer and it will make me a great broom when I become a witch.🕷️ . I have to tidy up the area behind it. I planted a clematis behind it but the snails ate it bare in one night. I have also planted a Persian Ivy behind it ( you can see it peeping out.) This year the Tree is redder than it has ever been before perhaps because it is a nice autumn weather this year.

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Testimount to how mild its been this year, for the first time ever, my banana plant is trying to flower and fruit! I didn't even believe it possible here. Its north east facing in front of the house so doesn't even get the afternoon sun, makes me wonder if I should stick one in the back garden to see what would happen!

The result of a couple of months work.

The little one ran out of time to ripen 😁

I have just put in a Strawberry Tree, handsome plant with year round interest. I had them in a previous garden, I grew them from seed, and they did very well. The area I have put this one is a bit challenging for plants, a bit subject to wind, so I will look forward to seeing how it does.

Dudleya virens ssp. hassei from Santa Catalina Island off the west coast of North America. Lovely farina on it.

Garden looking good after the rain.

Grass not in great shape, lots of creeping buttercup to be dealt with