These look wonderful considering the late frosts we had. I pruned the frost damaged tips off my hydrangea’s and got not flowers. I’ll leave well alone if that happens again!A gardening thread! Fantastic!
Really pleased with our Annabelle Hydrangeas this year. It’s hard to tell the scale in the photo, but the flower heads are huge. I love hydrangeas.
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SuperbHarvested my first crop of Runner Beans today and delicious they were too. These are my favourite vegetable and I always put a bit of butter on them before eating. I am so pleased with how my beans have turned out, have never grown them before. I planted the bean pods straight into the soil, early May. There are lots of flowers on them too and wonderful to see the Bees pollinate them also.
Home Bargains are selling trays of 6 plugs (chrysanthemum) for £2.99 so picked one up this morning while out shopping.Had hoped to do some gardening today but it’s rained all day.
I have taken some cuttings to propagate which I’ve not done before so fingers crossed they root.
What has everyone else been up to?
Aren’t the flowers wonderful?Harvested my first crop of Runner Beans today and delicious they were too. These are my favourite vegetable and I always put a bit of butter on them before eating. I am so pleased with how my beans have turned out, have never grown them before. I planted the bean pods straight into the soil, early May. There are lots of flowers on them too and wonderful to see the Bees pollinate them also.
We tend to leave the previous years flowers on until the threat of frost has gone and then prune.These look wonderful considering the late frosts we had. I pruned the frost damaged tips off my hydrangea’s and got not flowers. I’ll leave well alone if that happens again!
Wow that looks great and so tidy!Been gardening the past 2-3 years. Never thought i’d enjoy it but now i’m obsessed. I find it so good for my mental health. I turned the front garden into a veg and cut flower garden. My tomatoes have done so well this year. They seem to be an early variety which has helped.
The raised beds are surrounded by eucalyptus (coppiced to keep short), lavender, grasses, alliums, verbena.
I’m going to buy some bare root fruit trees at the end of the year and espalier them at the back of my raised beds closest to the house. (6x1.2x1.2m). View attachment 691914
Yes I agree, I did around 2 hrs in the garden today, just cutting the grass, tidying things a little, removed a couple of plants from pots & put the 6-pack of Chrysanthemums I got in Home Bargains, in their place.@Bereb45 Gardening is certainly addictive and is a great confidence booster, as well as being so absorbing to get stuck into. Your garden looks fab and you will love having the fruit trees. Such a good feeling to harvest your own produce.
Thank you. I’ve over planted so some things have been shaded out but it’s been great. The back garden has been neglected mind@Bereb45 Gardening is certainly addictive and is a great confidence booster, as well as being so absorbing to get stuck into. Your garden looks fab and you will love having the fruit trees. Such a good feeling to harvest your own produce.
A couple of my baskets are looking a bit tatty, so will be sorting them out later and planting up some winter baskets to keep in the patio area until ready to go up.What’s everyone been up to?
I’ve been tidying up my strawberry bed and potting on the runners. Once they take I’ll remove some of the older strawberry plants to make way for the new ones.
I’ve never done winter baskets. What do you plant in them? Pansies? Do they last all winter? How often do you water them?A couple of my baskets are looking a bit tatty, so will be sorting them out later and planting up some winter baskets to keep in the patio area until ready to go up.
So sorry you lost your dad. Sounds like his garden gives you pleasure and that's lovely.I’ve never done winter baskets. What do you plant in them? Pansies? Do they last all winter? How often do you water them?
My Dad loved to succession plant and tbh I never really took any notice of it. He died in January and I‘ve still got plants coming up in his pots that he‘d previously planted and it’s truly comforting to see. I’d like to continue it for him. I know he used to plant pansies and primroses/primula in his winter pots but can’t recall what else.
Thank you.So sorry you lost your dad. Sounds like his garden gives you pleasure and that's lovely.
Yes, mainly them, also the smaller cyclamen, winter-flowering heather and ivy and other green/yellow trailing plants like creeping jenny also You can also get winter flowering climbers like a nice yellow Jasmin.
When your pansies get too leggy, cut them down and they will come back again. I've had some amazing pansies since the early spring and I cut them down a couple of mths ago and they are still in full flower now. I like them because you do not have to deadhead and your winter garden takes care of itself. just poke your finger in the soil and if it's dry then water. I have to water my garden twice a day in the summer but in the winter I only if we have a long dry spell
That’s lovely that his garden is giving you comfort. I too moved some hydrangeas from my aunts house when she passed away more than twenty years ago. I’ve moved them twice and they get better every year.Thank you.
Luckily most of Dad’s plants are in pots so I’ve brought most to my home - he had over 100!
I’ve also dug up 4 hydrangeas from his front garden because he loved them and I didn’t want to leave them there once the house was sold in case the new owners disposed of them. They are now in my garden and thriving.
I’ve taken a few cuttings of a lovely mauve rose he had in his back garden. I’m hoping they will root but I think I’ve lost a couple. Fingers crossed for the remaining two cuttings.
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