Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Welcome back wort - glad you had a good time and got nice calm seas

Dusty, that's another belter of a sunset. You do get them down there eh.  Re my swish rose, I look forward to your answer cos I kept the label... 

Edited to remove sarky comment now the photo has appeared ha haa!  I don't know what that is wort, but one of the proper people on here will  

-taff

wort, mock orange? Haven#t seen leaves that colour before though. Does it smell lovely? If so, it is

Could be Philadelphus Coronarius Aureus...and my very belated condolences

p.s. I have two, a normal looking one with the archingstems and a dwarf one, both of them smell like the reason I grow things...

-taff

YBE, that's a really good photo, the top one, all great colours of green and a lovely rythm across. I'm not sure about the sun, I think I like it more now but then I used to be a proper goth, all in black, would explode if the sun shone on me, loved the winter. I still love the winter but sun means growing so I like that too now. And the flowers are comfrey.. Get yourself some floaty linen stuff, the suns not so bad in that..fingers crossed for your rescue attmept too. I will let you know if the erigeron live or if they've gone too far. I have one tin of slug pellets I've had for ten ish years, so if the worst comes to the worst, I will employ the ulitmate solution. I haven't cracked it open in four years so hopefully it still works. I do not want my struggling baby szechuan pepper to get munched again! I've even resorted to hanging one tray from the greenhouse window catches to stop them eating my babies.

wort, welcome back too...and enjoy the crawling

Dusty, that did make me laugh. I thought it was bad enough zooming with shaky phone camera hands on a plant where I was pretty much guaranteed a bee would happen along...they do move fast though those little sods. Lovely colour sunset there too. 

SUnny here, means there's washing to do. I've just sown my basil, greek and normal, but when I was doing the greek one, I fumbled the packet all over the place. I'm hoping I dropped enough into the pot to come up...And what they say about watched pots can equally apply to stuff in the greenhouse....

wort

A few pics from holibobs,  the tree was huge and the branches spanned a good way across !!

wort

Taff philadelphus sounds right, 

The leaf thing in the bottom left of the collage is a close up of the tree flower? Leaf 

Farway

Some great pics again, insect spotted after some peering. Maybe we need a competition, like spot the ball.

The purple aquilegia pic I really liked YBE, such a delicate shade of purple. 

I may need counselling now with this aquilegia stuff.

Welcome back and sorry about your niece Wort, but I don't recognise the plant

Fingers crossed on the Final Ultimate Solution slug pellets Taff, despite a lot or even most of the older products being bad for the environment, they did work. I was half listening to GQT on radio yesterday, and even they were bemoaning use of coir instead of peat.

I did get the cosmos planted, and California poppies sown, and rain later should sort out watering for me, you lot wih scorching sun, dull here drifting up from t'channel

YoungBlueEyes said:

 Had to cancel plans with Lovely Neighbour for tomorrow to go to an Open Garden. It's a local <person's name> Hall and I'll be missing out on a treat, but the sun + heat would be too much for me now. Has anyone else found that - you get less tolerant of heat/UV as you get older? Not that I was ever a sun worshipper but 20' and 5 UV never used to be an issue with a good slather of sunscreen... 

I was never one for heat, always wanting to Look at Things.

There's a garden expo near here next weekend, I went once, but it was more like a glorified Middle of Lidl garden event, with some expensive plants bunged in, so I've never bothered since

What I will miss, is the D day 80th down Southsea seafront. Should be excellent, but my walking is just not up to it now , so I'll just have to keep eyes open for the Red Arrows and the commemorative flights going over.

https://www.visitportsmouth.co.uk/whats-on/d-day-80-commemoration-p2333251

Today's pic is a climbing rose, from a cutting I took decades ago, it just goes on without any bother or trouble

pink_poppy

Hmm, my bluebells definitely don't look blue in real life, or on my phone - not sure why they look so blue on here, they're more a delicate purple. No sign of the thrushes this morning - there were three in the garden yesterday - mum, dad and baby Baby had a long, leisurely bath in the pond while waiting for snails to be delivered. I crunched on a few empty shells when I was walking around the garden last night (with my feet, I wasn't eating them )

I've got that first plant on your pics, YBE, the one with the white droplets. Solomon's Seal - originally identified by Dusty.

Welcome back wort - glad you had a good holiday. I love that tree in your pics.

Another one who's not a sun worshipper. Fair skinned and freckly here. I was out weeding yesterday and the sun and heat drove me back inside - I just can't cope with it. I did a bit more weeding later when it had cooled down a bit, only to be sploshed with big heavy raindrops. I don't think it amounted to anything (curtains were closed to watch a film) but it was a clear night with a Funky Gibbon Gibbous moon and apparently the aurora was visible slightly.

Lovely and sunny at the moment, although the view in the distance is slightly obscured by mist or something. DH is working, so I'll potter around in the shaded bit of the garden doing a bit more weeding.

YoungBlueEyes

Apologies wort, I should have said earlier - condolences on your niece  
Fab pictures from your holibobs, I especially like the big tree - it looks like a dozen skinny trees having a group hug. Or elephant trunks maybe  

Posh Friend’s aquilegia really caught my eye - it has more …folds…? on the back than my one. Strikingly pretty it is. She has loads of them self seeding everywhere and doesn’t like them, naturally 🙄

The heat thing, I don’t know what it is. I’ve been to plenty of hot countries  and with a big hat, floaty linens and plenty of spf I’ve been fine, got a tiny amount of colour even. But this last year or so my skin prickles like it’s burning when I’ve only been out a wee while and I’m a one woman spf oil slick! Thanks for the non medical advice etc. 

The first photo (Love Lies Bleeding look-a-like), the one next to it was fully open and the petals were the softest lime green with darker green marking up inside the tube - snowdrop stylee. But that one didn’t have a jet black carnivorous fly the size of a baby on it so… I’ll tell Posh Friend it’s a Solomons Seal, thanks pp/Dusty  

Hazy sunshine here too, it’s been lovely and cloudy all morning though. Turn the sun down and the clouds up and don’t touch the temp/humidity/breeze dials thankyouplease St Fiacre 🙏🏻

YoungBlueEyes

Oh and I spotted this yesterday, thinking I might lift a box cos it wasn’t too dear (if it works) - 

…and d’ya know what it is? It’s bits of dusty gravel

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

Oh and I spotted this yesterday, thinking I might lift a box cos it wasn’t too dear (if it works) - 

…and d’ya know what it is? It’s bits of dusty gravel

Not just any old dusty gravel, it's Volcanic dusty gravel

I predict it doesn't work, but I hope it does