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[AnneKipanki]

The number 2 is nearly full . Thanks to everyone for the photos and posts . I hope we can continue.

That's such a perfect tattoo style Rose @AnneKipanki!

@Rookiegardener I can't actually remember what dishes it's generally used in but I do remember that the seed blurb said it's not well known outside Italy. I have used it in white sauces and eggy things with good effect.

@DrWAnker and @Noflora gorgeous pics. Particularly like the orange/pink petals and the middle of nofloras pics.

@AnneKipanki
Your beautiful red, red rose doesn't even look real! Where are all the irregular petals, spots, and insect bites that mine have? You are quite a talented gardener. Well done,Anne!🌹

It does have all that @Sweetpea1532 . They are not in the photo.

Hollyhock - first year I’ve had these, they seem to like it where they are and I think they’re gorgeous. Not sure what I do with them at the end of the season. Do they die back and return next year? Or do I cut them back?

Gerbera - again, first year of having these. Love them, they just keep on flowering.

Non-stop begonias - one of my favourites as they just keep on blooming (guess the clue is in the name!)

My new roses. Again, first year of having these, not had shrub roses before. They were planted at the beginning of June and I’ve been really happy with how many buds they’ve produced (gave up counting after getting to 34 buds on just one bush).

Given they’re so new, the stems are all quite fragile at the moment, so they’ve all been a bit battered by at least 3 occasions of very strong winds, but they seem to be doing ok.

Gabriel Oak, Olivia Rose (standard) and Lichfield Angel (planted in memory of my handsome cat).

My rambling rose (taken a couple of months ago, it’s finished flowering now). This was planted 4 years ago and was tiny when I first got it. No idea what it’s called, it was on the “rejects” shelf in a little garden centre and it was the first rose I’d planted (not had a garden before). Each year, it produces over 200 buds and looks gorgeous when in full flower.

Hibiscus bud getting ready to open. Each flower only lasts for a few days, but well worth it. It’s in it’s fourth year now and I’m amazed each year when I can see that it’s coming back again. Think the weather is going to be a bit rubbish over the next few days, so have attached photo of full flower from last year. They’re huge - I measured one the first year and they’re 30cm across!

Wow, all the photos are just incredible. It's so lovely to sit down with a coffee and read your posts and click on each picture.
The weather has been dreadful here, the poor roses need a few days of sunshine to recover.

Here are Japanese anemones and Rudbeckia (I think)?

May I join? I love this thread.

We’ve had appalling weather here- high winds and torrential down pours, our side lane flooded! So the garden has taken a battering, these and the surviving flowers! I clipped a lot of my roses back and took a bunch to my grannie.

These are all rejects from the clearance section of the garden centre.

Beautiful @RightioMalbec .

@Furries , I cannot remember regarding the hollyhocks.
I used to have them about 20 years ago but gave up .

I've missed a lot. So many beautiful flowers. @AnneKipanki your rose seems unreal. So stunning. @Furries I'm jealous of your roses! My dream is to have a rambler one day but I'm chicken as I have no idea how to train it or look after it.

@Rookiegardener - just go for it! Honestly, I’ve never had a garden before I moved here. I bought it (well, two of them, either side of the structure) and plonked them in the ground. The dog dug the left hand one up after about two weeks, but it survived!

TBH, I thought it was a climber. But having read up a bit since, am pretty sure it’s a rambler as it only flowers once a year. I hack them back (sorry, I prune them) end of January each year and they just keep going! Am pretty sure that you could do much better than me. I’ve been awful with them - never mulched them, never fed them and sometimes forget to water them! If you’ve got a spot in the garden then just go for it - mine took 1,5 years to really get going and now it just doesn’t stop.

Wow so many gorgeous pics to catch up on. Lots of beautiful roses, I have my eye on a rambling one 🥀
Love the flower of hollyhocks, never tried growing them though, maybe I'll give them a go next year.
My DA rose finally opened its flower buds 😁
Have been busy here looking after a baby hedgehog found wandering a busy road. I looked after him until a proper hedgehog rescue could take him in.

Oh , so cute @popgoesperfection ❤️.
Beautiful rose too.

I had a couple of toads yesterday

Loving the wildlife!
Very jealous of the lovely roses, I shall endeavour to enlarge my collection. Here is a little ground covering one I have, the blooms are small but lovely. And a recently purchased euphorbia.

Is the euphorbia a white flower?

I'm not entirely sure @AnneKipanki. The care label was in black and white and German and not terribly formative .
I was just attracted to the regularity and colour of the foliage. I'm looking for shapes and colours to complement the other pots I have and hopefully provide some interest throughout the year.
I did also go for a few small silvery weird shaped things and a green and cream spiky grass..Carex of some sort.

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The grass might be a spreader so keep an eye on it.
I saw a white flowered variegated euphorbia in someone's garden. It looked lovely.

My 'garden' is all in pots at present as we are having building work hopefully soon, in a fairly new house.
My cunning plan is to grow up loads of stuff in pots ready to be planted once the work is complete in a couple of years.
I'll keep anything that looks spreading in pots! I have a pineapple mint that is huge, that's going to be staying where it is!!

He's adorable @popgoesperfection

Here's Winchester Cathedral, today

I put out some (too much)! food tonight. It worked within minutes

@Furries that is a beautiful hollyhock! I have them and cut the long stems down after they've finished and started to dry out. I don't remove any healthy looking leaves and they seem to put out new leaves over the winter and then send up new flower spikes the next year. I'm not sure if they keep on and on doing this, but they also self seed.

I found a little lizard while pulling out ivy roots earlier - poor little chap. He was totally covered in muck - could barely see his markings (having researched the spotty tummy suggests he was a male). I released him to a safe location close to where he'd previously been having snapped some pics, after he unfroze and started trying to burrow under my thumb. So exciting!
(In case anyone's giving me the side eye for handling him, I had to remove him from the area I was digging or he would have been either buried or injured or both - the area had probably had lots of air pockets before I started hoicking the roots out due to position, and presence of lots of broken crocks which I was also removing)