Blooming into Flaming June

[Blackpuddingbertha]

Keeping the potting shed party going from the previous Rhubarb Society thread and all threads before it.

Please feel free to join in all gardeners, whether novice, professional or aspiring. Plenty of blackberry gin for all.

[HumphreyCobbler]

You have to show us what it looks like cantspel, it sounds amazing. What a lovely idea.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

I have just bought more lily bulbs online. I blame cantspel.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

I was looking for something else entirely and found some lovely ideas for containers.

[iheartdusty]

The lily garden sounds divine. Please post photos later, cantspel.

Do you think strong wind can inhibit growth? I have various young plants which have been suffering under raging gales for a few days here on the south coast, plus the chilly and damp weather before, and they just aren't doing anything. My sweet peas (to replace the ones guzzled by snails) and ipomoeas are the same size as when they went in a few weeks ago.

but the tomatoes on the kitchen window sill are galloping away. I love the smell of tomato plants.

[iheartdusty]

thanks for posting that pinterest link, those containers are fab

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

They are, aren't they? I joined Pinterest but haven't done anything with it - that came up when I was trying to work out what varieties of heuchera I got from T&M last year. Browsing Pinterest for planting ideas might be the way to go.

I think strong wind can stunt plant growth - think of the stubby little trees one sees on cliff tops. That said, a little bit of wind rock is meant to be good, isn't it?

[cantspel]

Hopefully mn will sort out the posting of photos so i can put some decent ones up that everyone can see without having to squint at the screen on our profile pages.

Love those pinterest containers. Yet another site for me to feed in gardening addiction.

Maud you can never have to many lilies

[Bumbez]

Lovely pics cantspell

I hope you saved me some pimms?

I was wondering if anyone knew what the plants are at the bottom of my garden ? I suspect they're weeds. I've put a picture on my profile .

It's lovely here here on the Isle of Wight, I've managed to run round with the lawn mower and pot out a few recently bought plants - lavender and flaming something or other.

[WynkenBlynkenandNod]

Sorry Bumbez, not sure what they are. Cantspel I love your garden. Would you mind posting another picture when the lillies ar flowering ?

Decent weather here today as well so made a very overdue trip to the allotment and dealt with as man of the weeds as I could. Built a wigwam and stuck in some Borlotti seeds. Someone gave me 6 cabbages so stuck thm in. I'd decided I'm not going to do courgettes or French beans up at the allotment as I always end up with marrows. Then the guy who gave me the cabbages came back and asked if I would like courgettes and I found the word 'yes' coming out of my mouth. So now there are 4 in. Hopefully the frost will kill them.

A bit of Oca I missed last year has sprouted so I might put some more tubers in directly. I clearly missed lots of potatoes as well, they are coming up amongst my rather pathetic leeks from last year. The Rhubarb is in its second year and has gone nuts, will definitely pull some. Was delighted to find some tiny gooseberries on the bare rooted plants that went in earlier this year. Raspberries and strawberries also growing very well and I regret introducing alpine strawberries to the herb bed. The chives will flower soon so might split them and bring some for colour in the garden. I've left all the calendula seedlings and forget me nots in down one end and a clump of nettles.

The piglets were all out playing and I could hear them as I was digging, it was lovely.

[Blackpuddingbertha]

Love the lily garden pics. Great idea.

The frost last night caught me by surprise and has knocked two of the squashes back. I'm hoping they will recover, they are the only ones I don't have spares for

Piglets [sigh]

Nice here too today, DH has cut and strimmed the lawn. I'm pleased to report that some of the bluebells that I planted two years ago and DH mowed last year are up and flowering.

[MousyMouse]

the pound roses have not taken. not one of them.
I cut off a bit of the tips but it was bone dry.
now trying to find nice other roses. maybe stem ones for the front that also act a little bit as hedge? where is a good place to get them? a large diy place is near, but their plants often look a bit sad...

[HumphreyCobbler]

what a shame Mousy

we ordered a lot of our roses from Peter Beale, they are very reliable.

piglets [double sigh] Our pet pigs are enjoying having the run of the field, we have not bothered to use the electric fence as they are such placid, non digging/escaping kind of pigs.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Bumbez - I can't see very well, but those look a little like celandine leaves to me. Are there any flowers?

My 99p store rose is doing nothing. V poor investment.

[cantspel]

Agrees with maud it is pilewort and a weed. Get it out now as it is pretty invasive. You need to dig out the little tubers or they will regrow.

I managed to bring some with me in the soil of plants which i bought with me when i moved last year and the tubers have settled themselves around the plant root. Going to try that new round up gel on the leaves to try to get rid of it without damaging the plant.

[cantspel]

I will add more lily pictures as they come into flower. I am still awaing my pineapple and ginger lilies to break the surface but everything else is thriving.

[onefewernow]

Ginger lilies! I am envious.

[HumphreyCobbler]

the scent must be amazing - lovely pictures.

The apple blossom is just coming out and the cherry blossom is in full swing. The orchard looks lovely as the nettles haven't really got going yet. My friend is looking after some sheep that apparently don't eat trees. If they really don't, we will have a couple as pets to keep the grass down in the orchard. The farmer next door used to put some of his in for us, but we have planted too many new trees to do this now, plus the buggers were always getting in the garden and we are not prepared to risk it anymore!

I have lots of buds on the oriental poppies and the alliums are starting to open. The aquilegias have colonised the entire garden, to my immense satisfaction. DH is very happy as the box balls we bought from a car boot sale a couple of years ago are now of a size to plant in the £4.50 pots from Aldi, he has bought ten more which brings the total to 22 .

I planted some pots up with night scented stock, sowed the rest of the opium poppies near the playhouse, sowed some spinach, planted out geum peardrop on the edge of the arch into the cottage borders, replaced one of the ferns in the verandah that had died.

It is a cold but still day, a non windy day is always appreciated in this garden

[cantspel]

Love the idea of sheep in the orchard or maybe even a goat?

I love goats and would love one but i think the local foxes would love it more than me.

We have had a bright if somewhat windy day today. I have potted up some begonia bulbs, swept the patio of oak leaves and started the battle with the ground elder.

[WynkenBlynkenandNod]

I'd like a sheep, imagine no grass cutting. Might get hungry though as don't have a lot of grass.

I took a trip to my favourite garden centre in a walled garden and row upon row of roses. Looked at the climber section one bought this. It didn't have info on as the rest did so I wasn't aware of quite how big it gets. It's going against the bare expanse of raised deck. Also bought a clematis called Ben's Beauty to go next to it.

Cerinthe seeds popped through my letter box so they are in. Found new homes for the spare courgette plants and am getting some kale plants in return (feel a bit guilty as they weren't my plants to start with). The bud on one of my (two) Alliums is cracking and I'm very excited as never had any in the garden before.

[WynkenBlynkenandNod]

Found label on my rose and it does indeed say 7 meters for height. Think what I'll do is train it so there's a single main stem up the 5foot of the sides of the deck and then it can cover the railings in time. It's evergreen and thornless so will provide a green back drop to the pots I will eventually plant and we'll get the benefit of flowers in May. That will teach me to read the label properly.....

[Bumbez]

There are no flowers although there may have been some in February. Thanks maud they do look like celandine. I think I'll leave them for this year, they don't look too bad .

[Blackpuddingbertha]

Beautiful start to the day here but clouded over by 9am. Potted on my Turks turban squash and bush marrows and they're out under a cloche. Dug up some of the self-seeded borage for my mother. Sowed dwarf French beans in modules for germinating in the conservatory as the ones that went straight in the bed have done nothing. Also potted on the chocolate mint even though they are still teeny tiny.

I have lit the fire in the potting shed for this evening's GW. Anyone popping in for a pimms? I have borage.

[WynkenBlynkenandNod]

One solitary French bean seed has finally germinated in the greenhouse. I'll have a Pimms please, recovering from the knowledge I have bought a monster plant.

[Blackpuddingbertha]

I think your monster plant looks lovely .

[happyreindeer]

Hi there, my garden is totally overrun with weeds at the moment especially dandelions. Buttercups are just springing into life. Oh! and a massive crop of nettles. How do I get rid of them?We live next to a field and a lane etc so feel I am fighting a losing battle