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[AnneKipanki]

Morning!
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The garden and it's back drop is stunning RIPwalter & looks like you had good company from your canine friend?

Got some hibiscus poking through the Osmanthus and some Mexican Fleabane

@AnneKipanki

So gorgeous *@RIPwalter*! Lovely borrowed scenery too .

Thanks, the long term plan is to do a proper borrowed viewed by taking down a section of the back wall and put in a iron barred gate (I've found a nice old one with broken hinges that I need to try and negotiate with the farmer for) so that we can see the view from the kitchen, and also make the garden feel bigger.

Hope you are successful @RIPwalter .

Lovely photos @applecatchers36

@RIPwalter

You've really worked hard getting your garden into shape! Gorgeous scenery and a cute doggie...does doggie like to 'help' by getting right in the very middle of what you are trying to do like my little pug, Gracie used to do? So helpful!
@applecatchers36...I love Mexican fleabane...so sweet

Hello, I've been enjoying all of the photos - I love looking at all things green, starting to become more of a hobby now.

First post on here, we've typically grown some veg but not done much with flowers. Have planted dahlias and sweet peas from seed this year and really pleased with them. Have lupins and delphiniums that I hope will flower next year. Everything here is in pots. Still got various veg too and have tried cucamelon this year so
interesting to see what it tastes like.

Also tried wild flower seeds but look more wild than the packet and need some attention!

Great photos @Containergardener .
Lupins did not work in my garden, unfortunately.

Wow @Sweetpea1532! That is incredible!!

That's an amazing transformation @notsogreenthumb! Sounds like a lot of work but well worth it. Your courgettes are looking good too, I'd say your garden is flourishing!

Great photos @RIPwalter!

Lovely @applecatchers36. I want to try some Mexican Fleabane in some cracks in a wall I have at the back of my garden, but I didn't get around to it this year.

I've got some Trumpet Lilies that have opened up (please excuse the bright blue hose in the background!), a tiny but cheerful Daylily, and a bright Hanging Geranium.

Wow, @Containergardener, those Dahlia look great! I'd be pleased with them too! I tried Dahlia from seed for the first time this year too, but mine are way, way behind yours. Not even sure they're flower this year 🤷🏼‍♀️

Thanks @beautyisfoundwithin I think we've just been lucky. Have great yellow ones too.

Looks like you've lots going on in your garden! Lovely flowers. Any ideas for a north facing wall? (No fences here just walls between gardens). Currently wondering about finding something to do a living wall in some way, to up the green!

Can you see the little bee?

I am so chuffed with my sweet peas. Nearly gave up on them, they looked rubbish in May. Now I think they might be the best I've ever grown. Charlie's Angel, Claire Elizabeth and Bobby's Girl (in memory of my Dad). The stems are so long and straight!

Great @CheerfulBunny. We love sweetpeas on here ♥️

@AnneKipanki Thanks! I think my OH is sick of me going on about them.

I really like your purple hardy geranium. What variety is it? I've recently started acquiring them with enthusiasm!

Thanks @Containergardener. No advice for a north facing wall I'm afraid. That's exactly where I'm planning on trying the Mexican Fleabane (based on another poster's advice). Although this year I have had a couple of things pop up on their own, not sure what they are, just some kind of wild flowers I'm assuming. The pink one that looks really similar to a Geranium has sprouted up in the wall and the blue/purple ones are growing along the bottom of the wall. Nothing show stopping but they seem to be happy and add some life to the wall at least.

Lovely @AnneKipanki! I see the bee 🐝

Gorgeous Sweet Peas @CheerfulBunny, really lovely full frilly flowers. Your plants look really healthy and strong too.

Not the best picture but my buddleia has spring into action all of a sudden

@bettyfloormop

Thank you *@Sweetpea1532*

The bees have been loving the poppies in the front too ❤️

Also a pic of my wisteria ( donated by a neighbour who didn't have a decent spot for it to thrive) which seems to be happy growing up the outside of our house, and my beautiful DA roses in the back garden with the most heavenly scent ❤️

Is your wisteria potted or in the ground?

[quote Sweetpea1532]@AnneKipanki
It's a little nest of a hummingbird sans eggs....she did an excellent job of hiding it...I had to get a ladder to reach it and then stick my phone through the leaves to try and get photos...I felt like Sir David Attenborough
She used some of the pampas grass plumes to line the nest to make it extra soft. It's so tiny...not much bigger than a wine bottle cork.[/quote]
That's incredible!!

Are sweet peas hard to grow? They always look too delicate for my clumsy hands

@AnneKipanki

Yes, I saw some very busy bees... And the gorgeous colour that has attracted them

@ImprobablePuffin
I've been growing sweetpeas for 30 years...I started with seedlings from the garden center. I like the mammoth varieties because they have large flowers and long stems for cutting and sharing with friends. ..I call them the friendship flower because the more flowers you cut the more they will grow...so you'll have plenty to share...if you don't cut them the flowers will turn to seed and they won't last very long. Several years ago I found tonnes and tonnes of wild SPs growing on a slope..I waited for them to finish blooming and harvested the seeds...1000s of them! The next year, I just threw the seeds about and now they reseed themselves.... I have them very well trained...right, fellow long- time posters??
Someone will come along in a minute with some good SP growing tips. @CheerfulBunny
Looks like she knows what to do because hers are gorgeous!
BTW, there is no one in the world who has clumsier hands than me!

Thanks so much, I might have to add them to my list of things to try and grow!

I am not sure @CheerfulBunny.
We bought it years ago and it grows to 4 to 5 feet .
The ones in the garden centres now are about foot .

@beautyisfoundwithin
Even your wildflowers are amazing!
For some reason I have discover lone sweetpea seeds in various room of my house! I'll see something on the carpet and look closely and instead of a dead insect, it is one Sweetpea seed..it's happened four times in different rooms on different days
Sweet has magic seeds?😲

@AnneKipanki I've tended towards the blueish ones so far but that purple is very tempting..

@ImprobablePuffin Sowing sweet peas is full of controversy - some people swear by sowing in Autumn and some rebels (like me) have started sowing in spring, after the equinox. You have to have somewhere to keep them for months and months while they're straggly and untidy and generally a pain in the arse and my spring sown ones have been fine so I'll do that from now on. I always use root trainers or bog roll inners as they have long roots to develop. Don't plant them out until there's no danger of frost and dig in loads and loads of manure before you plant. Keep well watered until established and tie in as they get taller. That's it really.
I seem to get better results with freshest possible seeds. This years were from a Higgledy Garden and a random independent grower on ebay and they've been fabulous!

[quote CheerfulBunny]@AnneKipanki I've tended towards the blueish ones so far but that purple is very tempting..

@ImprobablePuffin Sowing sweet peas is full of controversy - some people swear by sowing in Autumn and some rebels (like me) have started sowing in spring, after the equinox. You have to have somewhere to keep them for months and months while they're straggly and untidy and generally a pain in the arse and my spring sown ones have been fine so I'll do that from now on. I always use root trainers or bog roll inners as they have long roots to develop. Don't plant them out until there's no danger of frost and dig in loads and loads of manure before you plant. Keep well watered until established and tie in as they get taller. That's it really.
I seem to get better results with freshest possible seeds. This years were from a Higgledy Garden and a random independent grower on ebay and they've been fabulous![/quote]
Amazing thank you so much x