Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

I know what you mean, taff. I love seeing different gardens and I do wish I was more creative - I just don’t have the eye for it.

That wee sitooterie is beautiful, twopenny.

I’m going to post some photos and run as DH is calling me to watch another ‘Band of Brothers’ episode…

I spotted an almost white aquilegia today - it’s in the most awkward position to get a photo and I almost couldn’t get back up again 😳

I think the Robin is being a wee bit cheeky ❤️

Masses of flowers on the holly.

And I nearly squished the stinky critter as it literally dropped down in front of where I was walking…

-taff

Missed your sitooterie too 2p, looks beautiful and a faceful of wisteria, heaven!

pp your cheeky robin was funny! Yeah, don't step on shield bugs...it's the one thing my Italian family are rabid about....

wort

Dusty, I can finally show the lovely aquilegia from the seed you sent . Thank you 😍

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

 I do wish I was more creative - I just don’t have the eye for it.

And then you post these two examples of great creativity!

pink_poppy

That's a lovely fluffy aquilegia, wort.

Urgh, I forgot the blood-sucking critters are around on a morning too   hanging the washing outside earlier was horrible - they were everywhere and I've been bitten again. I can't wait to have a shower so that I can "wash those midges right out of my hair"    

twopenny, where do you get the tea tree lotion from??

Your Wisley photos are lovely, Farway, I'm glad you enjoyed whizzing around.

Dusty, I'm sure I recognise your garden pic, have you posted it before?? It's worth posting again anyway, those plants are stunning.

I would never have thought to attempt potting up that wee silver birch if I hadn't seen it on here, W_M. I think there's a tiny wee berberis in the same pot, so that's going to be teased out and potted up at some point too.

Another beautiful and sunny morning - I won't be going back outside until the midges have gone back to bed though. No rain forecast for another week - when I was weeding yesterday the soil was like dust - it's just so dry.

Dustyevsky

I'm reading and running, too, this morning. Lots on. Many fabulous photos here, and talking about style or creativity, I can see a connection between scenes from Farways's whizz, and those I see in Rosemoor. Maybe the RHS itself has a signature style?   

Thanks for the aquilegia photo, wort. That's a bit different, isn't it? I'll have a photo of the parent to show soon. The same seeds have produced a double white I've seen somewhere here, and also another clematis-flowered one which seems dwarf....though it could just be a young-un which will grow more next year.

Delving into the Rosemoor archive before it goes completely out of date, here are a couple of camellias I snapped a month ago now. No names, no pack-drill!

Dustyevsky

Paspatur said:

WM my Little Leo are not seeds they are grown on plug plants

Yes, the seed people don't seem to push this variety. I'll have a go, if I remember!

Super sitooterie view 2p!

Working_Mum

Good morning everyone,
I am loving your Wisti Sitooterie 2P - how beautiful is that! I also love your tea tray! My auntie Margaret had one exactly like that and I loved taking her tea on it! I have had a little chat with my new planted wisteria and laid out my expectations

Here is the promised pic of the self seeded silver birch Poppy - sorry to read you've been bitten by midges; we don't get them in this neck of the woods.



I thought I'd share this pic - I pass these hawthorn on my morning constitutional with Rome0  (who does look like a child drawing of a dog Taff - he is a cockerpoo but looks like a miniature spaniel. it's lovely to see the two colours together and they small amazing. I can't work out how/why one smells of w99 and one doesn't!



Our OG in May is great in many ways - you see the promise of what's to come but also how awesome Spring and early summer can be for colour and pollinators etc. It also tends not to be too hot - although this Sunday may buck the trend. I shall take pics and share next week.

Farway Rome0 was grateful for the virtual ball throw - he is obsessed with his ball. I took this pic of his ears after he'd been "helping" with the moss removal in Mum's grass (it's mainly moss now) and he'd been rolling round with abandon and "throwing" his ball for himself and running and catching it!



Have a smashing weekend everyone if I don't get on later.

((WM))

twopenny

Lovely! Brings back memories WM🙂
I like your birch too, that would be just nice outside my front window. Probably with something other than the dustbin 😁

Poppy, Teatree Plantation or Herbal Authority. Whatever it should be 15percent. Cures athletes foot and oyster cuts too! I find it in whole food shops but probably available online. Lasts forever.
I swam in a tea tree lake once. It didn't remove the wrinkles though.
For walking on the moors I've mixed Citronella oil, a few drops, in aqueous cream, but you could use almond oil, to stop getting bitten. It used to be available in shops back in the day but been replaced by expensive chemicals now. They can't charge enough for the simple stuff.

Love the yellow aquilegia (thank heavens for spell check 😊) wouldn't that look gorgeous in drifts.
Cool night, cooler so far. Dashing off for camera group and domestic nonsense.

Farway

Sunny & warm again, rumour is this may be the hottest day so far.

Just in case it does turn out scorchio I fed & watered first thing, just the back garden for now

So many lovely pics, and a wisti sitooterie. 

Not sure who asked, but the Wisley wisti have gorgeous scent. I never knew they had scent until recently, never having been that close to them until now.

WM, love the silver birch in a bin, gives me an idea for my red filbert now it will not being going to volunteer border.

Seeing Worts ex Dusty aquilegia has prompted me to try to get a photo of my white one. If you never hear from me again, I'm bum up, & face down, sprawled in the flower bed, awaiting International Rescue.

twopenny said:

Apart from trying to tame the trifid sage leg went so not a lot done garden wise.
Seems I had a strawberry ripen overnight and it got eaten 😔
Tomorrow the netting goes on though I can't see any nearly ripe.
Also found a battered chicken thigh on my nice clean path. Wonder what dropped it and didn't come back for it.

So it was feet up this afternoon with the birds whizzing around and the fountain playing (sounds like a toilet cistern filling up but I still like it) and perusing just how crowded the garden is.

Hope leg mends ASAP & thanks for prompt on strawbs, mine are not ready but I'll take a hint.

Image now of 2P, sitting in sitooterie, listing to toilet cistern & nibbling a battered chicken thigh

I wonder if you have a visiting fox? I used to find old work boots, just one, never a pair.

-taff said:

Oh dear, pressed wrong page with comment instead of saved draft..So Farway your todays Whizzley photos are beautiful...This is the seond time I've written tis bit so basically wow to your photos and envy for the people who decided on those plants, those views and how they did it. You know every year I see something new and I realise that while my knowledge of things may be increasing, I really don't see a garden the way the people who designed those types of gardens do. They do such a good job...

They do, but having been to Whizzly over the decades I find even they change things around, presumably as ideas change, or the original idea never worked out

I have in mind a very wide border, planted either sides with drought tolerant plants and grassed centre path up hill

It was a joy to see with flowers & bees, then last year it got revamped, and now the grass path is replaced by white stone path, in a serpentine fashion, snaking up & between the planting

The white stands out, the path is less steep, and makes you meander and look at the plants, plus I bet kids love running up & weaving along the path.

Update on actual garden, daff foliage removed, now need to add BFB & get those dwarf dahlias in

My Sunset apple has failed to set fruit :'( , no idea why, except it is it's first full year, maybe that's why? 

Young tree, loads of blossom on & around it

Not a disaster, I was just hoping to have a taste of at least one Sunset this year

Peas, ex grown for shoots, now all planted up, all seem to be growing away. Next stop is waiting for flowers on them.

More Whiz pics, these in the hilly rhododendron area

These poppies reminded my of tropical butterflies dancing in the dappled sun