My gardening diary, ( amongst other things)

Igamogam

Bluebells..............just a small alert. Please only buy British native blue bells - their Spanish cousins are very invasive Previous owners of our garden planted them and although I allow them to flower I never let them seed and and if I accidently dig up the bulbs I throw them on compost pile. We are fortunate to live in a rural location and are surrounded by fields which in early spring are a hazy carpet of blue from native blue bells - the scent from them is fab . Other invasive bulbs which I really regret planting are white alliums AAARGGH!.

Loving the Verbena Piq - slugs ate mine this year! Going to invest in some nematodes next year because lost too many plants this year.

Best bargain plant |I ever bought cost me 50p from £stretcher - it was literally a 30cm stick with 2 tiny yellowing leaves. I felt sorry for it and just shoved it in a space along the garden path as it claimed to be a winter flowering scented honeysuckle - now its a large health shrub about 8ft tall with the most fantastic scent all winter - all I do it trim back branches that hang over path - everybody stops for a sniff!

silentsister

I'm going to write this before I feel too intimidated. Taking encouragement from all your words, I promised myself 30 minutes in the garden to start tidying up. I managed 13 before the rain came! But I've been back and have now cut back much of the hedge by the drive - I've even been able to shut one side of the gate! So the green bin can go out tomorrow without shame, in all I was out for over an hour and I do feel happier that I've done it. But I was also discovering some fragrant leaves, a little white flower on a shrub and some beautiful red berries. Definitely not holly - but I'll be getting out my flower book.

I love the smell of honeysuckle and a carpet of bluebells is superb!

ani_26

silentsister wrote: »

I'm going to write this before I feel too intimidated.

Noh

Taking encouragement from all your words, I promised myself 30 minutes in the garden to start tidying up. I managed 13 before the rain came! But I've been back and have now cut back much of the hedge by the drive - I've even been able to shut one side of the gate! So the green bin can go out tomorrow without shame, in all I was out for over an hour and I do feel happier that I've done it. But I was also discovering some fragrant leaves, a little white flower on a shrub and some beautiful red berries. Definitely not holly - but I'll be getting out my flower book.

You've put me to shame, now :rotfl:


Could it be this?





Pyracantha Mohave

"Pyracantha Mohave" A dense, medium-sized to large shrub with large, deep green leaves. White flowers in spring followed by masses of orange-red, persistent berries which ripen early. Will tolerate a wide range of demanding conditions, including shade and exposed positions. Their dense thorny evergreen growth makes them ideal for intruder-proof hedging or for training on walls.



I have one, and this is the only one i can find, similar.

ani_26

Igamogam wrote: »

Bluebells..............just a small alert. Please only buy British native blue bells - their Spanish cousins are very invasive

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Ah, somebody told me how to identify the two, whilst on a ramble. I'd forgotten. Thanks for that.

Best bargain plant |I ever bought cost me 50p from £stretcher - it was literally a 30cm stick with 2 tiny yellowing leaves. I felt sorry for it and just shoved it in a space along the garden path as it claimed to be a winter flowering scented honeysuckle - now its a large health shrub about 8ft tall with the most fantastic scent all winter - all I do it trim back branches that hang over path - everybody stops for a sniff!

Cuttings all round, by the looks of it?

ani_26

Indoor gardening, today. :rotfl:


The tomato and pepper plants have all had a short, back and sides, fed and watered. I've brought the two pepper plants i left to err, wilt away outside, inside. Lots of shoots and four peppers emerging.

It's less of a forest on the window sill, at any rate.


Still contemplating THE tomato. Anyday now. Your days are numbered. Aaaaawwww

Igamogam

ani_26 wrote: »

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Cuttings all round, by the looks of it?

I may well have a go at that:)

Rainbow_Bridge

I hope you have a 24 hour armed guard around that tomato, imagine if one of the neighbour's got to it before you :eek:.

I love all the pictures, and I will be out in my garden giving it a good tidy up this week xx.

silentsister

It's a skimmia (my friend says) and I tried to post a picture (and failed!). I didn't prune that one but I had a go at the one with white flowers. I've just gone out with my torch to pick its leaf, so now I can spend a few happy [STRIKE]minutes[/STRIKE] hours with my books and see where I get to.

I love the idea of your tomato plant looking all spruce and the tomato itself having no idea of what's to come!

ani_26

Rainbow_Bridge wrote: »

I hope you have a 24 hour armed guard around that tomato, imagine if one of the neighbour's got to it before you :eek:.

They won't do that. It's currently on vacation, basking in the sunshine on the window sill, ( not.) :rotfl:

ani_26

silentsister wrote: »

It's a skimmia (my friend says) and I tried to post a picture (and failed!).

Take your pick?


http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=skimmia&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&s

I've just gone out with my torch to pick its leaf,.

You'll be catching sc's at midnight, before you know it...................:D

I love the idea of your tomato plant looking all spruce and the tomato itself having no idea of what's to come!

You are all making feel even more guilty.

This is the culmination of time in its very essence. The first tomato seeds i've ever planted, all those months ago. I can't even remember when, 6 months ago?


Who would have thought it, back then?