Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Backbone - that's exactly it. I've too many little pretty plants that aren't going to get as big as I'd like. 

Have you properly damaged yourself Dusty? Enjoy the cool weather while you've got it. I've had enough of this hot sunshine summer malarky already, roll on autumn!  

Farway

'morning folks. I was going to get the hose out and water the back garden items first thing, but it may rain, it's looking very dull & promising, the weather radar has gallons of it over the Isle of Wight, just needs a puff of wind to get it over the Solent and job done

Lovey roses there Blue, even if costly it's sometimes worth it. I can't quite read the name of the orange one, what is it please?

Unlike my Peace that was bargain BOGOF, still not flowered after two years and looks very forlorn. I'll persevere for now. The border it is growing in is fine for roses, Deep Secret loves it and the perfume wafts about

If I do get the hose out later, I'll tie in the tomatoes while I'm out there.

I quite like the look of my Cherry Falls, supposed to be sort of hanging basket type, the flowers are in a cluster, as it's my first time of growing it's fingers crossed

Looking far ahead if CF succeeds here I can see alternate pots with Balcony Yellow & CF tumbling, make a nice edible border up my front steps

Spotted a flower spike forming on my Jazz buddleia, which is good because it is in a pot and was nearly bumped off by Vine Weevil. Repotted into fresh weevil free compost, and it has made it through. I have VW killer to water onto the pots later this month to try & prevent a repeat

More blackberries on the way the Thorn Free is now flowering, it did well last year, usually it succumbs to mouldy fruit, and neglect , once rain arrives

Here's Deep Secret taken at the weekend

YoungBlueEyes

Wow that’s a beautiful colour Farway! Deep Secret, I’ll have to look out for that one. 

Here’s my 2 labels. Both garden centre jobbers, and definitely good value for money. 

I thought yous were all down the bottom left corner. Daddy was a few years working down there, he always referred to it as the Isle of Widget. He loved it and was sorry they moved him. 

YoungBlueEyes

While they're both a beautiful old fashioned fragrance, the pink is a ...thicker...? smell. 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Have you properly damaged yourself Dusty?

Not much.  As I said, going up a bit of very steep stuff, “If I don't have a heart attack now, I'm good for another 12 months!” 

Unhappy circumstances meant no serious walking last year, so I'm way out of condition, that's all.

How about some chickens? Here's the 'blue laced' one....

...and here's the black that will have green & blue tints:

They're very well-behaved and learn fast. A week with us and they have the routines sussed. In a week or two, we'll give them  an outdoor run and let the others see them. All part of gradual integration, though these ladies will be big and able to look after themselves when full-grown!

twopenny

Yes Blue, it seemed to be an age! 
First year I used lots of cheap and discounted plants and it was cheerey. 2nd year impatient because there was just too much fence. 3rd really was the business.
Those are lovely healthy roses. Next year twice the size 

Ab,sorry to hear that.I get it first thing in the morning along with some other health stuff and think"enough already!"

Of course we post our best pics. I'll post the other side where the tree died and its been to wet/too dry to replant. 

YoungBlueEyes

Twice the size would do me rightly Actually if everything could just triple in size please, that’d do me rightly! 

I need to start thinking about protective netting/fencing/coverings for my fruit and toms. Bladdy squirrels are bottomless pits 🤨 I got a sunflower bush the other day from the garden centre, they’ve picked some of the barely-opened buds off  

I need a gun.  And cooler weather…

twopenny

My lovely pink daisy agaranthum (or whatever) has been eaten to blazes by something and the heat when newly planted hasn't helped. But it's still alive.

The Greengage tree, winter jasmine, honeysuckle, and rose don't seem to like this end. Even the iris aren't blooming there. nothing is healthy

One side and the other side!

Weather who knows? Was cool and bright this morning, then hot and humid - phew - then black and thick cloud blowing over lunch time and now grey and still.

I did take some photos of gardens around because they had some cracking ideas. Each very different. So more later

twopenny

Mk 2..........seems the threads aren't presented to me in 'latest' at the mo. They must be fiddling with the gubbins.

Dusty, love those hens! Aren't they beautiful?! My local nursery that I've used for decades used to have roaming dogs then roaming pretty bantams.

That deep secret is just gorgeous Farway.

I dropped into a tiny village museum yesterday and someone has made the most beautiful garden on the sheer slope behind with the roses named. The dry has made them mostly scrunched up but I'll go back and photograph as soon as when we've had enough rain to revive them.

My roses that were surviving the heat, just, have succumed to the drop of rain overnight and rotted - of course. But there are still plenty of blooms front and back to do. More blooms, more dead heading. We reap what we sow : There are worse jobs than plucking scented petals into a basket on a sunny day.

Farway

Quick visit with an update, watered the back as required, no rain of course & now sun is beating down.

Deep Secret rose has a heavy scent, lovely IMO

With the sun, I leapt into action after lunch, slight exaggeration on "leapt". But I have planted up two new, square, large tubs at the front. Using the grow bags I never used from Home Bargains to fill them. The contents looked OK, friable & council tip debris free

I've planted the cannas I grew from seed in them, plus the one squirrel left over. Watered in and tomorrow I'll sprinkle a few Persian Jewel Love in a Mist in there, and can't resist, a few radishes while at it

Nice chickens Dusty, a relief BFlu is past for the moment

2P, I wonder if there is something lurking in your soil, where the plants aren't happy? Or maybe it's just the grotty end?

Oh, and best pics, while watering I found my pot grown Muscat grape roots have been scoffed by, fittingly, Vine Weevils. It just pulled out of the pot when I checked this afternoon

However, having put it safely to one side for photographing replanting later I seem to have, err, mislaid it . Can't find it anywhere, very odd as its small bush size. No doubt it is with the missing trowels, secateurs, hand forks etc

I'll have another search later, I don't want it out of soil to dry out