Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

My post disappeared?! 

Ok. My guess is saxifrage - 

Also - my unhappy toms  

Throes few nearly ripe ones have been the same for a couple of weeks, it’s all ground to a halt…

pink_poppy

Your post is still there, YBE, just on a different page.

I think your guess is right - saxifrage - I thought the flowers looked like cornflowers but knew the foliage was wrong.

Your poor toms - I gave mine another severe haircut last night so it's literally just toms and no leaves now. I'm kinda fed up with having the plant (& fungus gnats) in the house now.

Himalayan Balsam - hmm, I'm pretty sure that's a plant I identified in our garden when we first moved in... Would it be in a garden environment or does it have to be by water?? I actually chopped it right back last year and of course the bloomin thing grew back twice as big. My DH is in the process of digging it out but it's absolutely HUGE. So far he's used a mattock, axe (sorry YBE, we do have an axe!!) and spade. He's going to have another go later this week with another type of spade - I can't remember the name, but it's long and thin and we used it to dig out holes for fence posts in our last house).

No sign of perseids here - I looked out at bedtime and the rain was hammering down. I was awake at 3.45 a.m. this morning and looked out again but it was just cloud. I remember seeing them a few years ago and also the ISS going over.

Dreich here too today. It's forecast to be nicer later in the week, just as the Scottish schools go back...

YoungBlueEyes

Funny that's exactly what I thought poppy! Oh look at the pretty conflowers, oh wait no look at them little leaves.
What sort of weather have you got? Could your toms and gnats not stop outside now? 
What a beggar being awake at that time and still not being able to see them And yeah I remember the ISS going over a good few years ago. It was Christmas eve and me and my sister were stood at the front door watching it whirl past with daddy shouting about letting all the heat out ha haa! 

-taff

God sorry Farway, I failed to mention the hydrangeas and your GD, stunning!

Oh dear YBL, they do indeed look a bit unhealthy...I think  a general feed, some shelter, a bit of pruing and they may cme back, take off the dead foliage at the bottom, but honestly, they look on their way to being a sick parrot....

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

OT no perseids here (too cloudy) and a dreich day in store. Drizzly and cooler than it has been, I'm on the brink of putting socks on!

A chappie on local radio here said Thursday will be the next best night for the Perseids. Still looks like it will cloudy here, tho'.

Our visitors go home today. There's a vague chance I might get something done later. Cloudy but mostly dry.

YoungBlueEyes

I'll snip them back so they're properly baldy and see what transpires. Thanks taff  

And maybe the "aurora viewing" bit on Ventusky will be handy for the perseids too....

Farway

Rain here, and I was also up at 3 ish, loo run, just clouds and no perseids.

For ISS and satellites, there is an app, Heavens Above, free, uses GPS for location, gives lots of options as well as ISS, rocket launches, Starlink, Cosmos, Hubble etc. I've seen Starlink going over, very strange because it was a chain of satellites one after the other.

Latest was launched on the 11th

So, if Ventursky says no aurora, try for a satellite or two

YBE, your sad tom, are you sure it's not blight? I can't quite see the stems, but do they have black marks on them? If so, it's blight

I think RAS pic is crocosmia / montbretia, I have Lucifer strain, stunning but as Dusty mentioned, not all are prolific, I planted some Lucifer in the Volunteer border, nothing, but thriving in my garden, BTW mine lean a bit with the weight of the flower heads, so not quite carefree. The seed heads are quite architectural as well

No gardening today with the rain & damp, I had hoped to pick some more blackberries and a blight patrol. I do have more runners ready to pick for dinner, so will have to dash out & get those later

In the meantime, here's Happy Days, the blight resistant tom, a decent sized fruiting one. Plus visiting Cabbage White caterpillar on a walkabout from the nasturtiums

And the sweet small red one from a supplier in the West Country

pink_poppy

Are those buds on the second pic the tomato flowers coming, Farway, or a different plant?? At first glance I thought they were carnation buds haha.

I think Tom might have to go outside, YBE. It's got 3 toms fully grown and changing colour and 6 green or still growing toms. I'll wait until tomorrow when the weather is supposed to be a bit nicer. The chilli/pepper plants will have to go outside as well because they're crawling with gnats. I STILL haven't repotted them and one looks like it's starting to grow a fruit.

ArbitraryRandom

Dustyevsky said:

Any ideas? I'm feeling lazy!

What an interesting plant! My first thought was Sheep’s bit (given the time of year and the colour), but I don't think I know of anything with those leaves and that style flower. 

Can you confirm that the succulent leaves are the same plant as the compound flowers? 

LessImpecunious

I was about to say Sheep's Bit too...pretty sure the succulent leaves are not the same plant (prob a Sedum) - have a look at the base of the flowering stems - elongated and slightly hairy...and one of sheep's bit habitats is coastal cliffs...