Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

 

Blush Noisette - fabulous scent. So far trouble free that's why I like the old ones. They seem tougher.

Semi evergreen extremely free-flowering and repeats very well. It bears masses of blush pink, small, semi-double, cupped blooms, with yellow stamens, held in tight clusters. They have a rich musky clove fragrance. 1817.  by Phillipe Noisette was actually 1811 I think.

There was more of it but I trimmed neighbours side. I wouldn't put it past her son to just break it off.

It will hopefully be trained along the top of the inside of the fence and I hope to prune it so there are few flowers on the way up but lots along the top - just so I can get through the door! Hopefully I'll get round to putting in the frame for the gate. Just waiting for the day that says 'lets get this done.

Davesnave

That's a lovely rose, twopenny. We have an older variety to go on the other side of our arch, but it's waiting for that special day as well!

At the weekend I caved-in and ordered oil for the boiler, as we're almost in July and there's no sign of a seasonal price drop.   At least I didn't panic and pay extra for quick delivery, even though the electronic thing was flashing in the danger zone. That's because I have my much more advanced length of wood, which shows at least a few weeks supply left. Anyway, the oil is coming this morning, so 'rapid delivery by 2nd July' would have been a swizz!

I feel that prices will probably only be going one way now, so the next thing to secure is next winter's log supply.

Sorry about the unseasonal deviation today. In other news, I might have a tomato turning.....

pink_poppy

More beautiful photos on here, especially the roses. I did read phoebe’s Ferdinand Pichard rose as Pilchard though 🐟 twopenny, your vase of Blush Noisette is absolutely stunning. Dave, I laughed out loud at the photo of your DD 😂 (ps sorry to hear about the possibility of 4 of your new hens might actually be boys 😕)

We had a gorgeous day yesterday, sunny and warm until late. We went out for a walk to watch the sunset and didn’t get back until after 10.30pm as it was still quite light.

I noticed a few redcurrants had been pecked off the bush yesterday and some stems were broken, so the birds have obviously found them.

I also spotted this funny looking flower (??) on a shrub we have in the garden. Any idea what the plant is?? I saw two of the same plants when we were out on our walk, both of which had hundreds of the funny looking red things, whereas we only have two on ours.

Farway

Lovely pics as usual and now it's stopped raining I may get out & take some especially as I have just bought a new cheap Chinese lens which needs trying, and I noticed this morning that rose Deep Secret is just about to open

With rain stopped I was out pulling rhubarb, now stewed & awaiting a crumble topping, that's the good news, the bad news is the constant rain has swollen the cherries so much they've split their skins and are just a soggy unappealing mess.

There a few that look OK, yet again thwarted for cherries , it's a dwarf tree and with hindsight I should have followed the commercial folks and built a shelter over it. Too late now, especially with my wobbles & balance, in my next life I will make sure to put cherries & peaches under cover

The rain has moved a lot on though, the Merton Thornless blackberry new canes have rocketed skywards and a job for later is get them down from the clouds and tie in for next year

Managed to shuffle the apple in pot into final space, opening up the hibiscus to the sun, spotted a couple of red currants ripening, and one goosegog with serious sawfly damage which is beyond recovery now. Plenty of fruit on it so should be fine

The Lakemont grape is going well with the rain and starting to look like grape bunches forming

Here's the peanut I found planted by a Squirrel and potted on by me, obviously it's settled in comfortably

wort

2p there’s no accounting for taste ! Roses over bins all day for me 😍 that’s a beautiful rose. 

Fab pics, all round. Dave that sunset is fab, I get good ones at the back of my house , last night it was streaming through and bathing the peonies in a vase on my front windowsill in a lovely apricot glow, so I took a pic!! 

It was boiling yesterday, so I waiting till after tea, before I cut the lawn, put the rose in the border out of its pot. Then attacked the weigela, and forsythia. Bin now full. Did my first hose pipe watering of the year, my water butt still pretty empty, very little rain been had here, and I’m on a water meter😳
warm but overcast today, very still outside just back from my walk, need to get some lunch now.

wort

Peonies catching evening sunset 

Ganga

Farway said:

Lovely pics as usual and now it's stopped raining I may get out & take some especially as I have just bought a new cheap Chinese lens which needs trying, and I noticed this morning that rose Deep Secret is just about to open

With rain stopped I was out pulling rhubarb, now stewed & awaiting a crumble topping, that's the good news, the bad news is the constant rain has swollen the cherries so much they've split their skins and are just a soggy unappealing mess.

There a few that look OK, yet again thwarted for cherries , it's a dwarf tree and with hindsight I should have followed the commercial folks and built a shelter over it. Too late now, especially with my wobbles & balance, in my next life I will make sure to put cherries & peaches under cover

The rain has moved a lot on though, the Merton Thornless blackberry new canes have rocketed skywards and a job for later is get them down from the clouds and tie in for next year

Managed to shuffle the apple in pot into final space, opening up the hibiscus to the sun, spotted a couple of red currants ripening, and one goosegog with serious sawfly damage which is beyond recovery now. Plenty of fruit on it so should be fine

The Lakemont grape is going well with the rain and starting to look like grape bunches forming

Here's the peanut I found planted by a Squirrel and potted on by me, obviously it's settled in comfortably

How did you manage to grow the 50p , are you hoping for a money tree ! if you manage i will have a cutting as my ex DIL seems to need one 

twopenny

Still waiting for my peonies to recover from being moved house/garden. How lovely to have enough to cut. it makes the world of difference to a room and you can enjoy the fruits of your labour for quite a while.

Cherries? I have 2 left and hanging on. Just waiting for ripening though I have no idea what colour they should be as it's the first I've grown. They are still yellowish on the non sun side. I just slung a net over.

And the Greengage is a funny shape. Some fruits still there but branches have lost their leaves. My new fruit trees seem to have pom poms of leaves on the ends of branches mostly. Can only put it down to the dry but if I prune again I loose fruiting wood. A conundrum.

Davesnave

pink_poppy said:

More beautiful photos on here, especially the roses. I did read phoebe’s Ferdinand Pichard rose as Pilchard though 🐟 twopenny, your vase of Blush Noisette is absolutely stunning. Dave, I laughed out loud at the photo of your DD 😂 (ps sorry to hear about the possibility of 4 of your new hens might actually be boys 😕)

We had a gorgeous day yesterday, sunny and warm until late. We went out for a walk to watch the sunset and didn’t get back until after 10.30pm as it was still quite light.

I noticed a few redcurrants had been pecked off the bush yesterday and some stems were broken, so the birds have obviously found them.

I also spotted this funny looking flower (??) on a shrub we have in the garden. Any idea what the plant is?? I saw two of the same plants when we were out on our walk, both of which had hundreds of the funny looking red things, whereas we only have two on ours.

Your shrub is a Crinodendron hookerianum, Poppy.

I remember fishing up your way at 10.30pm in the summer many years ago. We were parked up beside a loch and I said to DB, "Let's see if there's anything in here" and cast out a spinner on my do-anything-except-sharks rod. Immediately, I had a take and in came a fat mackerel. Over the following hour or so we carried on catching mackerel to order for anyone parked up who wanted some. Eventually it became too dark and  we went home, only to find we'd left the camera on the shore, so there were no pictures from that part of our holiday.

twopenny

Who had a problem with their Meconopsis?

There was a talk by an expert on growing for sucess on Gardeners World this week 25/6/21

Facinating, I had no idea of the history or growing conditions. It's right at the end of the show.