Can we have a thread of pictures?

[AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet]

Of our gardens, plants and flowers?

Here are some of my current blooms from around my garden; Cistus, Hydrangea and Mallows, all pink

(I think mumsnet only allow 3 uploads)?

Yes , today.

Shame, about defeat and flowers.

Here's Wales for you. Sometimes wonderful weather sometimes terrible weather lately, but still very beautiful though.

Thank you @AnneKipanki

Beautiful pictures @BlueEyedBengal I just love the gate. So simple & natural.
Wales is indeed beautiful

Another pot

This is a lovely thread, full of everyone's love and creativity for green spaces 💖 🌷

We made a bug hotel this summer, very eco-friendly (old wood pallets, pieces of bamboo, old slate tiles and other miscellaneous scraps from the garden. We put the drains in so we can plant some aubretia and succulents for the spring.

Not sure whether it's too late now and better to wait until after Christmas.... there are already quite a lot of 'sitting tenants' moved in over the summer and we're keeping fingers crossed for hedgehogs in the ground floor, so we packed the inside with leaves and left space for them to nip in there if they want. Otherwise voles or field mice would be welcome! We live in the Forest of Dean so very rural round here!

The other photo is where we sit in summer. We did a mini-makeover - pergola, extra block paving and a small irrigation system for the pots. All for £300 but we've eaten outside a lot this year!

Not sure whether it's too late now and better to wait until after Christmas... for the aubrietia and succulents that is ...

That is lovely @daisychain01

Such a beautiful area to sit @daisychain01 🌸

And the bug hotel is fascinating. I've seen them along the sides of the roads here.
Fingers crossed that a hedgehog will accept your invitation
They will be sleeping soon

I have no idea about the aubretia and the succulents

My 2 Hebes today - thank you @AnneKipanki for IDing them, I had no idea what they were And our first frost, this morning ❄️ 🌸
I hope my Camellia will be ok

at the Halloween smiley faces

I think the hebes are ok to minus 12 .

One of my other pots this morning. New one for this year .

Forgot to attach

at your name change!
You had me for a minute there
Very clever!

I love it. Enormous display of flowers!

You would not need to change yours !

Thank you @AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet and @FranneKipankinstein for you lovely comments. I lol'd at the username change and @Always you are already fine with your's

It is getting very cold at night - I put some winter flowering pansies and primula in a stone trough at the side of the house, so I guess the advantage is they won't all flower profusely and be dead by Christmas

I'm taking a chance with the aubretia as they tend to be tough as old boots, but may just leave the succulents until Spring as they are delicate little snowflakes ha ha.

I just googled images of aubretia, it's soooo pretty

Thanks @daisychain01
I like to get into the spirit of things

@AnneKipanki

🍷🍾🍹 cheers!

@AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet

Aubretia is a very pretty flower - the lovely thing is it self-seeds a lot so you only need a small amount and spreads over a year or so. Beautiful varieties in mauve, lilac, deep purple, even white. It likes to scramble over stone walls and on rockeries and spill over the side of raised patron beds.

A bit like campanula so @daisychain01

My Camellia appears to be surviving the frosts. I don't remember previous Octobers being so cold

What a lovely and heartwarming thread, such gorgeous flowers and gardens

You have frosts already?! I'm going to put fleece jackets on my vulnerable plants, like the potted olive tree, we've been down to 5 or 6 degrees which is chilly but not dangerous yet.

That plant with the strappy leaves and orange flowers that @userxx admired looks like a Hemerocallis, the day lily. There are some specialist nurseries that grow hundreds of varieties, worth a google as they vary tremendously in flower form and colour.

Here's a few pics from garden this year: reddish rose is Hot Chocolate, odd beige rose is Koko Loco and yellow/apricot one is Lady Hillingdon Climber

Those roses are gorgeous @TheNoodlesIncident .

They are beautiful @TheNoodlesIncident and I just love the names too.
Fleece blankets are a good idea

Here are some of mine today; all are still doing well. They're obviously far more resilient than I give them credit for
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Yours look beautifully healthy @AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet. It's been an awful year for black spot, even with pre-emptive spraying it's still affected all my roses. Unfortunately with being wind-carried, the spores get blown from one garden to the next so there's not a lot you can do, and obviously nobody really wants to use chemicals like fungicides unless they have to. So I have had to accept there will be some degree of it on them all.

I have noticed your love for Japanese anemones, love that double variety you have. I don't want to make assumptions that you know/don't know, they are superbly robust but do spread quite rapidly and can be invasive, so you do need to keep a check on them. It's great for filling in awkward gaps, but they can just stampede over your other plants in favourable conditions...

Here's Madame Alfred Carriere, flowers even in shade bless her