Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Scottish Agus.....catterpillars eat purple moor grass and hibernate. They pupate early July and emerge a couple of weeks later. Who knew they could be so complicated.

Spent the day walking with a friendly group, drinking coffee and eating cake so the only plantwise thing was seeing wildflowers and wondering what their names were. I'm sure I knew years ago but going to have to be some research.

My computer is on the blink and can't be seen to for a week + fixing but I've found books to be a lot more accurate and easy to find stuff.

We've had a few spells of heavy rain. It was very muggy yesterday but fresher finally by this lunch time so both the garden and me are looking so much better. I could do with a break on the unremitting heat and dry so I don't mind. Just I forgot to pick some raspberries and it's a race between me and the blackbird.

Farway

Nice pics P P, I like the yellow plant Telekia speciosa, maybe one I'll slot in my memory for the volunteer border, could go well with the white Shasta daisies, at least it'll be insect friendly and car proof

The fresh sowing of Shasta daisy I made last week has germinated, plus the Heleniums I pricked out into individual plugs are starting to show new growth, getting ready for 2022 already

Checking yesterday during a dry spell, blackberries are starting to colour up, just a bit of a reddish tinge at the moment

My Lakemont grapes came to nothing, the bunches have vanished without flowering or setting so no idea what happened there, it's only a young plant so that could be why, fingers crossed for 2022

However the Green Muscat has set and bunches are forming, this rain should get them swelling up, and the runners that escaped snailageddon have embryo beans

wort

finally got some rain , quick heavy downpours, so possibly not enough to wet the soil well enough. Dashed out to take these, thanks for the identification of the yellow daisy, which I don't remember planting and was surprised to see when it popped up a few years ago!  But do like daisy style so must have done!! 😂😆

phoebe1989seb

More super pics everyone 😆

I was dodging the showers when I posted mine yesterday, so failed to identify the plants, lol! Dave is correct - of course 😃 - on all counts.... the Persicaria is 'Taurus' and the Macleaya Cordata is 'Kelway's Coral Plume'.

The latter is certainly taking over, so I can see why you might not want to encourage this thug 🤣 Fortunately, where ours is located - in the jungley part - we need all the thugs we can get!

Most plants we tend to buy/plant in groups of at least three but this was purchased as a single, small plant in May 2020 and it's come on in leaps and bounds....

Here it is (behind the dwarf bamboo and cannas) shortly after planting....The Telekias are on the foreground.

Ganga

It has finally rained in the NE of England were we live ,would you believe it ,just when i wanted to mow the lawn ( back garden grass ) well weeks of sunshine has made watering a necessary now not so  

Davesnave

phoebe1989seb said:

 the Macleaya Cordata is 'Kelway's Coral Plume'.
Here it is (behind the dwarf bamboo and cannas) shortly after planting....The Telekias are on the foreground.

Looks so well-behaved and innocent, doesn't it?  

We have a Saponaria, 'Betty Arnold' who is also pretty and pretty invasive. I have her down by the stream currently, but it remains to be seen whether she'll flower properly there.

I have a picture somewhere, but I'm lazy tonight and this link tells you all you need to know. We did indeed get it from Mr Brown's exciting nursery, near Evesham.

https://tinnisburn.co.uk/products/saponaria-officinalis-betty-arnold

twopenny

It's bucketed down repeatedly again today, bouncing off the tarmac.

The Raspberry canes have now hit 6ft and the bush tomatoes have stems of 5ft! Rain + warmth.

Nothing I can do about it now but both are producing really well so we'll see what happens.

Now I must go and open the garden gate to let the hedgehogs in if they're coming. Fingers crossed.

Farway

twopenny said:

It's bucketed down repeatedly again today, bouncing off the tarmac.

The Raspberry canes have now hit 6ft and the bush tomatoes have stems of 5ft! Rain + warmth.

Nothing I can do about it now but both are producing really well so we'll see what happens.

Now I must go and open the garden gate to let the hedgehogs in if they're coming. Fingers crossed.

I have vision of hedgehogs quietly queuing waiting to be let in

Sun's back today, still a bit windy after a proper gale yesterday, we now have a 24 hour reprieve before next lot of bad weather piles in from West so, after you Dave of course

Unfortunately at the wrong time for my tree lilies, now out and lovely but need calm & warmth to really scent the air

Only gardening today is trundle the garden waste wheelie bin round for collection tomorrow, which may happen if the lorry driver pings etc are resolved, otherwise it will sit there until they are

I need it empty because not only do i have a bit more Judas tree to put in, I'm about to start summer pruning the apple trees

Seeing Wort's photos, one looks like Crocosmia, Lucifer. I have same in my garden, always looks striking to me, when compared with the orange ones any way

Here's Lucifer

Davesnave

My weather app says you will cop it overnight, Farway, which is the best time.

Lucifer is hard to shoot and convey the colour fully, but I'll visit Paul's Best Yellow today and see if it's worth a snap.

twopenny

I wish the hedgehogs were queuing! 
I opened the door last night to massive snails and slugs. Too wet to send them on a trip and they haven't been early summer.
I've had to adapt since the new path sits properly to the base of the gate and open it at night.