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[AnneKipankitoo]

To continue into Spring 2022.

Unfortunately, I am not sure how many pictures I will be able to supply this year . Some builders are in building an extension for me .
I might have to live off all your lovely photos. Keep them coming!💐

I harvested loads of this today... this is the "after" photo!!

Update from 2 weeks :)

Aquilegias still going strong.
Queen Elizabeth roses gearing up for the Jubilee weekend!

Lovely roses *Kingscote" what a display

Got some pansies, geraniums & first roses in bloom

Ooh what rose is that @applecatchers36 ?

WobblyLondoner thank you

We only have a smallish garden but we have packed quite a bit in. Some of my peonies are in pots - the pink tree peony has rejuvenated - we had it quite a few years with the occasional one flower but it had a strange extra stem that dragged and then having seen on a website a peony specialist saying you could cut back hard we bit the bullet and literally took the extra branch off last year and really pruned hard - to be fair before doing this I did get my DH to agree that if it didn't work I would be allowed to buy a new tree peony luckily it worked and this year we had six huge blooms - fingers crossed for next year

Just waiting for my Generous Gardener to bloom - now I have worked out how to add pictures I will take sone when it has flowered - I know there are some who have had problems with theirs growing. Not sure quite how long we have had ours - perhaps 10/11 years ? It is growing up our garage wall and across the garage "front" - probably 6metres plus - it is glorious.

For anyone who hasn't got this years David Austin 2022 guide - free from their website- please order one - whilst I'm used to getting one each year this one is extra special for their 60th anniversary and is a really great read

Thanks everyone. Great photos.

We had hail showers here this morning so it was a good excuse to cut the first flower from my Gertrude Jekyll rose. It's a very small bush so there wasn't much stem length but it filled an old candle jar. Smells absolutely lovely so I'm moving it up to my work desk.

That's beautiful

Do you mean a Gertrude Jekyll @starlingdarling ?
My one is very different to that .

Definitely Gertrude Jekyll. I bought it from David Austin a couple of months ago but the canes are only a few inches tall. Not sure if the photo shows clearly how tiny it is. I think it might be a little longer before it gets full on blousy flowers but it's better than the Ferdinand Pichard I planted last year which gave me two tiny flowers before going back to sleep for winter (thankfully making up for it now!).

This is mine .
There was someone on this thread a few years back who had bought GJ from David Austin . It was not , and they replaced it .

Ooh I'll keep an eye on it and ask DA after I have a few flower photos. I bought it from their own nursery when I visited so would have hoped they'd spot the different but it was rather bare. I just checked Instagram and some look like mine but most look like yours. It's smells so beautiful I don't want to give it back but maybe I can persuade them to send me a new roses 🤣

Starlingdarling not sure as it was in our garden when we moved might be a China rose? 🌹smells lovely

The other person was in the same situation as you. She bought from DA too .

Beautiful roses ladies. I really want the Gertrude Jekyll now. Speaking of roses I pruned my duchess of cornwall a few months ago and used a really really poor pruning trick since I killed it. It's completely gone black and brown. Sadly 3 of the roses I pruned only one survived (the one that had the lightest pruning). I think I left it too late when I did it and also had no clue what I was doing. Just copied the David Austen tutorial.

I managed to buy two new roses but the nursery I buy from told me they're completely sold out of the duchess of cornwall and I'll have to wait till next year .

I'll send some pictures tomorrow of the new roses I purchased. Pretty but not quite like my old ones.

Munstead Wood in her full glory. Wish you could scratch and sniff - it smells amazing!

I have munstead wood too - I sat out this morning with my tea and she smells glorious

These are my Gertrude Jekyll, both on the same bush. I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed by it - it doesn't repeat much so it has a brief moment of glory (both colour and smell) and is then gone. I don't think it's in the optimal spot though so I forgive it! I've had it for about 10 years now.

Having a wonderful moment watching the bees flitting around the foxgloves. Fantastic flowers.

My moth orchid - which I bought last year as a 'flowering plant' has flowers.

I found an egg in my trough

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I bought fox glove plants at a car boot 3 yrs ago and have them all over the garden, but the added bonus was the stowaway, moth mullein which I absolutely love.

Do you keep chickens @AnneKipankitoo ? Or is it a random bird egg?