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[AnneKipankitoo]

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

My favourite flower bed at the moment

Lovely hollyhock and cosmos @ILikeDungs

In about 4 weeks I may have some decent photos of my dahlia to share.

Roses, clematis and sea Holly for now

I just love the blue of the sea holly daisychain

Blue in the garden is so refreshing and cool isn't it @ILikeDungs

I never realised (because it's the first year I've grown sea holly from bare roots) that the 'flower is colourless and quite insipid when it first grows, after a while it turns the beautiful vibrant blue. It's a fascinating plant. The spines and leaves are a lot sharper that teasels.

What roses are they @daisychain01?

Here's my Black Knight buddleia; David Austen The Lady Gardener rose & pink Mallow with bumblebee 🐝

I sure am enjoying all the beautiful colour @APurpleSquirrel @ILikeDungs @daisychain01 @Maggiethecat @LunaNorth @Lottsbiffandsmudge @Rosemaryandlavender1 @applecatchers36 @AnneKipankitoo Thanks for sharing!

Purple lobelia and pink stargazer lily

3 Freebies! Clematis nursed back to health from the Sainsburys ‘almost dead’ box, Spanish Flag from our street’s ’seedlings swap’ and Foxglove from last year’s GW mag seeds.

Beautiful @KingscoteStaff

Lovely @applecatchers36

Not sure this crab spider got the memo about camouflage!

The back entrance to my garden is looking pretty pleasing at the moment!

And the jasmine is about to have a bumper crop.

Very pleasing indeed @JeysusH a calming place to 'sit and be' 🤗

I proper lol'd at your crab spider @APurpleSquirrel 😂
I'll check the rose names as I always get them mixed up, and will report back....

Your clematis loves you @KingscoteStaff they take no prisoners, if they don't like someone's garden, they sit and sulk for months deliberately for effect. Your's on the other hand is a happy camper!

Oh that is gorgeous @JeysusH

My roses are all David Austin

The Generous Gardener
Gertrude Jekyll
Gabriel Oak

ive just taken this one of The Generous Gardener from the kitchen window because I loved the buds

That's beautiful @daisychain01, it's so chunky! Does it have scent?

Ah yes @daisychain01 clematis hate my garden. I've got a Montana that puts on a decent display every year but every other one I've planted either withers on the branch or grows a couple of inches and gives me one flower. I persist though! I've put one in a massive tub in a SW facing spot, I have hopes!

Lovely rose daisychain1

Your path and seating area looks like a proper green oasis JeysusH would love to sit down there with a book and a cuppa 😊

The bottom of the garden. I love it down there,

It's my morning coffee spot @applecatchers36.

It's a really calm spot to sit and contemplate with all the birds. Although the blackbirds were nesting in the ivy this year so I sat on the top terrace to leave them to it! (They usually go in the woodshed but made a beautiful nest at head-height in the ivy, I did sneak the odd peak at their 'pretending not to be there' chicks).

It's a great garden for birds, we had the blackbirds, song thrush, chaffinches, wren, hedge sparrows, house sparrows and house martins nesting this year, they tend to come back, it's a bit of a riot in spring! I think the poor weather was actually pretty good for the birds, they all fledged their first lot and had a second clutch. Birds love a gardener! I had a walled kitchen garden years ago and became very friendly with a male blackbird, every time I came out, he'd hop behind me and hoover up any worms I uncovered, he was bold!

That is such a beautiful spot @JeysusH

Oh that's lovely @daisychain01 - I've just acquired The Generous Gardener DA rose reduced from the garden centre - it's looking healthy & having repotted it I'm hoping it takes off along my fence. That flower is fabulous.
I also got a reduced DA Gertrude Jekyll but it's very small & may not survive (my Bathesheba died).

Yesterday, as well as repotting The Generous Gardener; also repotted two other rescues - a Syringa Charles Joly (lilac) & a climbing hydrangea (petiolaris) I'm hoping will grow up the back of the house which is north-west facing.

Our Gertrude was fabulous this year

It does have a very heady scent @JeysusH I want to bottle it!

Hibiscus going nuts