Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Campanula lactiflora? I had one and lovedi. Then one wet spring the slugs got it.
I've spent a fortune on slug food.
Wildly hot again today. Watered the pots again, pulled up more onions to ripen and broad. Beens to eat.
Went to greencombe again which was lovely and cool. Some wonderful hydrangea varieties but not much else. I looked for potential cuttings as I was the only one there but its too early in the year. Theyre canny closing in July.
I tried to ger some seeds from a white echium for Dave but got only small spiders. The seeds were stuck fast so felt a bit foolish 
Back to the huge purple ones on a sea front. Noticed another bed of them further up. They seem popular on the coast.
Drove through heat,muck spreading etc to get to the market for my expresso geranium only to find he hadn't turned up ..... hurumph! 

goldfinches

Definitely a campanula Poppy, the tallest I've ever seen so if you get a name for it do let me know so that I can put it on my wishlist please. Ta very muchly, goldfinches.

Davesnave

DB is under the weather mobility-wise at present ,so our visit to Rosemoor with the Garden Club was somewhat restricted. It was far too hot to contemplate walking all the way round anyway. The entrance is always planted with loads of up-market tender perennials that wouldn't stand 5 minutes of winter weather, but it does look impressive:

Davesnave

The Hot Garden was certainly baking, but with some of the cast still to flower, it looked just moderately warm overall, rather like the simmering relationship between these two......

Meanwhile, in the Cool Garden next door, someone had a neat technique for putting an extra bit of sparkle into their cold drink!

Farway

Must have been baking at Rosemoor Dave, especially being in one of the heat warning areas.

I'm longing to get up to Wisley but with my breathing etc it will need coordinating with hiring one of their mobility scooters with covid entry booking as well,so not as easy as it once was just deciding to go.Maybe come mid August the CV will be eased & be one less problem

Early watering again, and potted on the the Heleniums, hoping to get them to a reasonable size to overwinter

Plus because the Shasta daisies I sowed two year back are doing do well now in the gardens & borders I have sown a few more as space fillers, I know I could split the originals but I've got seed so no problem. They should be OK to plant out come Spring all being well,

Hoping to get some into my son's front garden.

Used mainly for parking on weedy gravel but there is a neglected mini hill where a tree was removed, dry as dust, currently there's Evening Primrose there, neglected and unloved but ideal for daises & maybe a couple of Heleniums slipped in. His front garden is one you would not want next door to you.

Last night unable to sleep when next door's security light came on about 0245, and here's the culprit

Sorry for poor pic, mobile phone through window

phoebe1989seb

Goodness, you must have been brave/mad (delete as appropriate!), to have attempted that in this heat, Dave 😎   

Super pics as always, everyone 😄
The one of mine you commented on, Poppy, was more down to dodgy mobile camera (how all my pics are currently taken) than skill, lol! 

I'm supposed to be shifting bricks in readiness for our next phase of building work, but having moved a few the other day, I've abandoned it for now... although I have to say it is somewhat cloudier today, so I might manage some later 😉

Davesnave

phoebe1989seb said:

Goodness, you must have been brave/mad (delete as appropriate!), to have attempted that in this heat, Dave 😎   

Easier and cooler than trying to find bits of glass in the hay field and plenty shade is available. We more or less had to attend, as the Garden Club had booked/paid in advance....although I have a membership....err... I'm not sure how that worked??

This morning the hay was due to be baled, so I was out there tidying the corners up before the 14 year old with the heavy kit arrived. I jest, but he's younger and hopefully tougher than the previous guy, who was only 46 when he drove the John Deere off into the sunset. The mobile phone means agricultural  contracting is one of the most stressful jobs out there. Everyone wants the same service at the same time, preferably yesterday

Just had a message to say grandson 1 has broken his other arm. He broke his left elbow when he fell off his bike, aged 3. Now he's broken the right one, falling off the monkey bars in the park,aged 6. Great start to the summer holiday!

twopenny

Very little done in the garden other than where I shall move things come the autumn - gazing from a cool (er) kitchen.

Picking raspberries is the most arduous thing I've done.

RAS

So much cooler this morning.

Was very hot yesterday when I was at one of the volunteer sites. We spent a lot of time watering and picking fruit. With the rain followed by hot spells a number of the saplings in the hedge have trebled in size this year. And the stuff in the polytunnels is going great guns although it' not very human friendly in there.

Not a lot of top fruit; the trees are a bit young and it tends to get quite a lot of frost but loads of soft fruit (and some veggies) over the year.

pink_poppy

Oh no, sorry to hear about the broken arm. I remember when he broke the first one, didn’t he need surgery on it?? Poor wee soul, I hope this one heals quickly.

I thought the purple bush looked like a campanula, never seen one like that before though. I think twopenny is right with it being a Lactiflora, goldfinches. There seems to be a purple variety when I googled. I’d love one in my garden too.

phoebe, I knew it was your dodgy camera that gave the dewy effect, still made for a lovely photo though 😊

Another hot one here. Out for a walk yesterday and we spotted some seals on land (we didn’t get too close so they didn’t see us). I think the heat was making them grumpy as two of them were winding each other up with one whacking the other one with a flipper and the other one complaining loudly. So funny, although the complaining seal sounded like a cross between the devil 👿 and an Orc 😳😂