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[AnneKipankitoo]

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

The gladioli are gorgeous

I read this week that there is a massive decline in numbers of monarch butterflies. They are so beautiful. I know it’s awful to lose plants but you are doing nature a great service 😀

Your gladioli and lily are beautiful 😍

Thank you for sharing the article...and the compliment about the gladioli and lily.

I have to keep my caterpillars in a mesh cage..otherwise, they run away! I've found chrysalis in the strangest places. One had somehow managed to climb all the way up to top of my tool storage and attached itself right above the door, so now until it hatches, I cant open the door. I have no idea how it got so far away....cheeky monkey!😂

Best restaurant in town … 😂

Sunflowers have gone crazy since we had a bit of rain. Anyone know when I can expect my chilli’s (in the background ) to start ripening?

Picked up this from the garden centre clearance section today, it should get white flowers all over next spring.

Chilli’s have started ripening and the first gladiolus (my first ever) has bloomed into this amazing colour way (buds were all white)

My zinnia and cosmos

Sweat pea.

Zinnia - super-plant, they make great cut flowers and they're tough but delicate at the same time. Grown from seed

recent greenhouse harvest - rainbow chard, tomato and chilli. The chard grows back again after a week, amazing stuff, and so delicious - earthy and sweet.

@daisychain01 - beautiful!

Are your sweet peas growing unsupported?

I was astonished by my zinnia, never grew it before but decided on a whim in deepest darkest February to order the seed. Fabulous.

Tried aster at the same time. They were ok but I may turn into one of those people I see on Gardener's World who grow many thousands of one type of flower, and if I do it will be the zinnia.

I’ve never grown them @ILikeDungs but they are very pretty, they remind me of dahlias.
When did you sow/plant out your seeds?

Sowed in the greenhouse on April 14th. Can't remember exactly when I planted them out but it would have been once the temperature was warm enough at night. Their blooms are curious. They start off looking quite pretty enough and presentable as a flower but then just get bigger and more impressive, and the colour changes so my Benary's Giant Salmon Rose went from pale to deep salmon and then some developed a shimmering pink/salmon almost purple base of petals. And not every bloom on the same plant is the same-- some have an open petalled face and others have petals forming a cone shape.

Yes they do look like some dahlias and I chose not to plant dahlias because there is such a fad of them right now. I wanted to buck the trend and this worked, they are beautiful like dahlias but also quite different and I don't have to fuss with all the tubers and lifting palaver.

I’m going to try them next year! Thanks for sharing.

That photo is "painting perfect"! So beautiful!

edited because it posted twice

Thank you! Those blooms were my reward for the countless full watering cans to keep them alive during this dry summer. So worth it :)

If you don't mind, that photo will go in a list of mine, " Flowers to paint". Thank you, well done.

@Maggiethecat I grow my sweet pea supported on obelisks. If you look closely at the left hand of the photo you can just about see the pinnacle of the obelisk. They are green so they do tend to blend in. The day I took that photo the sky was absolutely bright blue and cloudless so I got down on the ground and took the photo looking upwards for an unusual angle.

my zinnia are still in bud so I should get more flowers during Sept.

big disappointment this year is morning glory. I was hoping to take some lovely photos of my three wigwams but not one of them has flowered. So strange. Loads of leaves, no flowers. Apparently they can flower as late as Sept but I'm running out of hope ....

That is a very clever photo shot @daisychain01 . I still can’t see the obelisk!
Your sweet pea flowers are lovely and the foliage looks good too - often they go awfully brown and withered.

My garden is still putting on a good show.

Beautiful. How have you kept your grass looking so healthy? Mine is yellow as a yellow thing.

Cosmos still doing well despite some heavy rain and strong winds. I put quite a lot of manure in the pot so I think that has helped

My lawn is also very parched and dry ILikeDungs hoping the recent rain can reinvigorate it somehow..

The manure certainly did the trick Toootss the Cosmos looks so healthy..

My lawn is mainly moss and weeds. It is quite dry in places as we have big trees too.