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[AnneKipankitoo]

To continue the other thread. This is thread 7.
This is our beech hedge.

Just seen that it's also called fox and cubs!

Finally have taken photos, but it is not easy, they are very tall. I can get the tops, or the base, but not both without losing definition (the camera cannot replicate the eye-- their effect is fine when viewed in the beds).

I love their floatiness and height. It's like they give the beds another story.

My potentillas are loving the sunshine.

Loving this climbing rose from Harkness Roses called Bridge of Sighs - starts off peachy orange & fades to cream. Will train it up the fence.

My scabious are looking fine, I'm also working on a woodland shady bit.

Some lovely photos. My prairie planting is very purple and white at present! Waiting for the rudbeckia to bloom for a blast of yellow, lots of buds and it's spread like mad in the wet spring. Currently verbena, scabious, geranium, lambs ear, astrantia and the last if the ox eye daisies are carrying the show. Loads of bees but very few butterflies this year. Has anyone else noticed that?

@Lottsbiffandsmudge i think fewer butterflies as well this year. My brassica’s have been largely untouched even though I didn’t put netting over for ages.

beautiful display - very keen for mine (planted this year) to bulk up and fill out.

This is it's 7th summer. I am in the realms of crowd control.... I've decided to let whatever does the best just keep doing it's thing and not try to manage it too much. Hence the verbena, which self seeds profusely, and the lambs ear, which has spread a lot, are quite dominant. But I love them and so do the insects. My salvias have finally decided to give up the ghost so i will replace them next year because I love them! I have lost some bits to the slugs this year, heleniums esp. But again not going to fight nature. I also have a lot of weeds that I allow to do their thing, because they are actually quite beautiful!!
I haven't done any annuals this year ( I usually do zinnias and cosmos) because we have been away a lot and I wouldn't have got them to maturity, and anyway the slugs would have had a field day! But the love in a mist self sèeds as do the aquilegia and I have a few marigolds back as well.

Baby veg busting out all over!

@Lottsbiffandsmudge seen very few butterflies here (SW) but they usually appear once the buddleia is out - so another few weeks & I'll see.
Noticeable lack of ladybirds this year for us - we usually have lots overwintering in the garden; not seen any since late winter. No nymphs either. Really odd. Usually our cherry tree gets infested with aphids & that brings out all the ladybirds. This year our cherry tree has been untouched, but lots of other plants have aphids instead but no ladybirds at all. Really strange year.

Certainly this year. Summer was slow arriving but autumn was a perfect Melbourne one, warm and sunny. No obvious reasons and it's showing in both native and exotic plants, though not all by any means.

Yes it does seem to be that. We have just got to the stage where the garden is in a semi-presentable state. I'm hoping next year I get round to actually planting flowers but for now quite happy with this little surprise that has grown next to the huge thing which is a rosemary plant, it looks like a little tree that's how big it has gone 🙈
I really need to read up on how to cut plants back properly and pruning

Been very sunny today and lillies out

@applecatchers36 they look magnificent!

Very excited that my evening primroses have finally flowered. They smell amazing.

Beautiful everyone

I agree with @AnneKipankitoo ! Flowers are all so lovely this year and your greenery @Rosemaryandlavender1 is brilliant and looks healthy.

Whilst visiting my mum in the US south, I discovered that the tree squirrels put out the word that Sweetpea1532 's mum's cafe is open and giving away free lucious peaches from the tree SP planted 3 years ago. The little creeps raided the tree and only left a few rotten ones for us...and that was after polishing off all her blueberries! Bad squirrels!😭😡

Sorry to hear about those greedy squirrels Sweetpea am not a fan of squirrels as they always dig up my spring bulbs!

Trailing Fushia and Foxegloves

Do your foxgloves self-seed @applecatchers36 ? I had one white one last year & this year ended up with 5 all in a line from where the flower stem had drooped.

Black Knight Buddleia looking great - but no butterflies yet ☹️

Thanks@applecatchers36 your foxgloves and fuchsia are doing very well!

@APurpleSquirrel love the buddleia...our butterflies are a bit late this year, so yours will probably show up soon. I've seen lots of Monarchs and Swallowtails. They love to come and fly through the spray of water the hose when I'm watering.

Sweetpea are finally making a show but it won’t be the bloomfest I had imagined, first year growing them.

Grateful still for something.

Sweet peas at last!

Ah so lovely to see the sweet peas ladies 😍

Straw flowers opening up

Beautiful