Show Us Your Pictures 4

[AnneKipanki]

Just a little fourward planning . We are all looking forward to another thread of fabulous pictures. It can be a quiet time but I am sure some of us will have autumnal colours to share . The trees are starting to turn here . I have just picked an allium from my photo collection to start the thread off .
You are very welcome to finish or visit the old thread . I do not know how to do ... this is the old thread here thing .

I think the label is still in the pot, will check when I bring it in for the night. I remember it's an annual (sadly!).

@florentina1
I love both the old and the new gardens.
Isn't it wonderful how thinking about plants and looking at them can be so healing?

@FeltTipPenny
That purpley-blue is amazing. Thanks for sharing!

This is a another picture of the old garden. I do miss it but not the work to keep it maintained.

My blue flowers are Senetti, for anyone who was interested.

@FLOrenze When my son grows up and nobody needs space to play any more I'd love to get rid of my scraggy lawn and do something like yours (old or new, I love both!). Such a peaceful haven.

I’ve never planted bulbs before. Shoved some in the ground last autumn, then kind of forgot that I’d done it. So when they started poking through it was a pleasant surprise..

Some of them have now flowered and waiting for others to open. I absolutely love them, they’ve really brightened up my front garden.

Keep getting an error when I try to post photos, will try to add them later

Beautiful @FLOrenze. Thanks @FeltTipPenny.

blog.countrylife.ie/gardening/senetti-care-tips/

So many beautiful and unusual pictures. I love such vivid and intense colour.

My pink Camellia. My red blooms in February & March, and this waits until April.
April is such a beautiful month... cherry trees, tulips, camellias, fruit tree blossom

And how could I forget... Magnolias

@AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet
Your pink camellia is so vibrant and healthy looking.
I love magnolias, too.

My hedgehogs are out and about, and so many nesting birds. A wood
Pigeon used to nest in a plum tree near my back door. The entire tree snapped in Storm Callum and the WP was bereft, they now nest in the closest possible site, in some thick clematis. They are busy this morning. There is a blackbird’s nest fairly close to that.

We have blackbirds feasting on our pyracantha berries. Oddly, the male eats the red ones and the female the yellow.

@SirVixofVixHall

Hedgehogs? How many do you have?...I'll trade you a few ground squirrels for some adorable little Hedgehogs.
That is a sad story about the wood pigeon losing its home in the storm. We usually don't think about the animals losing their homes when a tree comes down in a storm. I'm glad the WP found a new home in your clematis.
Speaking of clematis, this popped out in my DDIL's garden...a real surprise.

Does anyone know the name of this curly flower that smells of pineapple sweeties?

It could be Pineapple (Moroccan) broom.Although the leaves don’t look quite right.

Beautiful and interesting bloom @Sweetpea1532!

Several hedgehogs around. They really like my garden as although not large, It isn’t too tidy, has wild areas, and is very quiet.
I like that yellow flower but have no idea what it is.

Reminds me of Wintersweet, even though it isn’t that.

My DDIL is on a gardening forum for her area...maybe someone will recognise it and I'll let you know...it hasn't bloomed for the last 3 years?
Meanwhile, a strange thing is happening in her gardens...the red oak acorns that dropped last year have taken root and they have a zillion baby oak trees everywhere....the same has happened with the pine nuts....a zillion baby pine trees are growing everywhere...some are 30cm already...no extra water or sunshine? Covid19 ?

Maybe because the air is purer, making it easy for things to seed.

Hi All,
I found out the name of the pineapple smelling yellow flowered shrub...turns out its a Calycanthus yellow athens..Sweetshrub...supposedly very rare. My DDIL asked her gardening forum about it and everybody is very excited...evidently not easy to come by...people asking where she lives
Lots of questions about it. Lol! We just thought it was an ordinary bush...one lady wrote a sweet post about how when she was a child, her mother would gather up blossoms, crush them and tie them up in a handkerchief and give them to her and her sister to sleep with. Interesting as they are native plants...I guess urban sprawl has killed them off.
Yes, @FLOrenze, I think you could be right! The earth is healing somewhat.
Oh! We found a snake in the garden today!!!
A man came and took him away and was happy we didn't kill it...although poor diddums might be deaf now from all of our frightened screams It was an Eastern Bullnose snake...mildly venomous, thank goodness. Plays dead when scared ...opens his mouth and sticks his tongue out like men used to do in the old cowboy movies when they were shot...quite funny.

Obviously, didn't mean that men getting shot was funny...actually we also used to hang our tongues out when we pretended we were dead as kids.
I would post snake photos, but he wasn't very colourful...although the inside of his mouth was purple

Wow ! Some great stories there @Sweetpea1532.♥️💕

@AnneKipanki
Thank you!
I'm full of it!
Yesterday was exciting in the Family Sweatpea! Not only did we have the snake incident, but I also found 5 mice in the attic, and an unknown creature
( opossum, raccoon, or armadillo maybe) triggered the security camera, oh and a skunk visited yesterday morning 🤭
Two weeks ago there was a bear that triggered the camera
And I can't leave out the 9 wild turkeys and scorpions 😳
Time to start a petting zoo🦝🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🦨🦨🪱🦂🦃🐻

😮 wow!!!!