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Thank you Klahanie...just spruced this area this pm.The dark leaved shrub is Physocarpus diablo.

You are doing a great job around your garden Shirley. So many lovely plants.
I am glad to hear that your water system is in perfect shape now.
You are not alone to be frustrated by the internet. I am so many times in many ways.

I am a dahlia lover Janey. I have many of them.

Thank you Shirley and Janey, It is a first time I grow it.

Thank you Janey for your comment.

Lovely part of your garden Julia. What is the dark leaf bush on the right?
All of your bushes are kept in such nice shape.

It is now back to slow mode ... 14.28 hours ... taking ages to go from one photo to the next.

I agree, it really does stand out.

Rose, it was a fabulous garden to visit, shame we didn't have the energy to tour the whole place.

Beautiful!

So pleased you got it sorted Janey! Your hydrangea looks great!
Enjoyed yesterday! x

How frustrating for you Shirley to get home from a lovely break to find no hot water!
But now it is all done and you are ready for the winter and hopefully it will be late this year!
Your garden is looking beautiful and your lawn puts mine to shame. Unfortunately I can't do a lot of garden jobs now due to a prolapse.
I am pleased you found your photos. I was looking at Willow Cottage photos and the one I especially was looking for wasn't there. So strange!

I had one very similar, many moons ago Klahanie, very pretty.

Beautiful colour!

Thank you Balc and Klahanie, more rain today, so it'll be even happier!

Great Janey!

Yes they are lovely, thank you Janey. They have grown really tall.

Sometimes the watering is to do with the pot not draining well Balcony. We always put some stones in the bottom of the pot before the compost. I have a french lavender in a large pot and when the flowers go off colour, I cut them off. It flowers for a long period over the summer.

Thanks Balcony and Janey. I keep dead-heading them and they keep flowering. The bees love to disappear into the pink petals.

We quite often see different birds on the river. Sometimes we see the Kingfisher fly across in a flash of blue, sometimes the Heron or Cormorant.

It looks wonderful Janey.

A WhatsApp Freecycle group is a really good idea and you've got yourself a very nice rose Balc.

What a fabulous garden you have, Shirley, with so many lovely plants!

I upload photos almost daily from my mobile phone & never have problems finding them. I always copy them to my Pictures folder where I have folders for the balcony, (for at least 10 years!), & in that folder I have sub-folders for every plant on the balcony, or in the house! I can find almost any photo I want in just a few clicks!

My wife just downloads photos to her laptop & never knows where they end up & if she needs to find a particular photo she thinks may be on there she has to spend 15 minutes at least looking for them!

Wherever they have come from, Shirley, this is a beautiful colour in Gladioli! :)

Mango trees grow very tall. Hope the fruits taste good! :)

It's a lovely colour, Janey! They are often a washed out pinkish colour that not very pretty.

Yes, I joined here 2008 so it's been quite a few years now and if I can keep accessing it now and again I will. I've quite a soft spot for it and people on it..☺️

You are quite right, Janey! This one came from a lady at our church who had just recently got married. When they moved into their house she decided this rose didn't go with the colour scheme for her new garden. She offered it to anyone that might like it on the church's WhatsApp Freecycle group & I saw it & asked for it. She gave it to me & now it's flowering.

That's wonderful to see Linda.

They're stunning poppies Linda!

You can perfectly well post on 2 forums, or more, I once had 4 all going at the same time! I also keep coming back to GoY. It was the first gardening forum I ever joined! :)

I've never experienced temps higher than about 44C, in Madrid in 1974. I was 50 years younger then but the temps may have been artificially inflated as the street I was walking along was being resurfaced with hot tarmac! I could feel the heat rising from the street as I went past.

It was all done by hand back then, no machines to spread an even layer of it on the road surface. The poor guys were stripped naked to the waist & almost as black as the tarmac they were spreading out! I remember feeling very sorry for them! ;(

At 8.40pm GoY seems to be working relatively quickly! :)

It is a lovely old variety! But it's an absolute magnet for greenfly! I had to clean off the buds several times. I don't think the ants had anything to do with this infestation like they did with the Pansies on the balcony railing a few months ago. I didn't see any ants around this time.

Thank, Shirley, it is a pretty rose & a very old variety too!

I once bought a climbing 'Masquerade' (back in 1980, I think), it died in one of those "once-in-a-lifetime" winters, I think that may have been the winter of '81-'82, not sure now! It flowered in the first year I planted it but it was the 2nd year when it died. ;(

So do I! :) But I can't seem to keep them alive for long! :( I think I probably overwater them!

Hi Shirley, the last time I looked in was about a month ago and couldn't access it for the adverts, not as bad today though..☺️ thank you.
Yes the gardens really needed the rain and especially the hydrangeas, I love it's raspberry colour too. Bought with no name just H.macrophylla.

They could be Wisteria racemes Karen!

I agree, so beautiful!

Hi Janey, good to see you on here. The plants really did need some rain, didn't they?

Your Hydrangea is a lovely deep, rich colour.

So pretty.

Lovely Balc. I had this in my old garden and it's colours range from the gold to orange to red, it's a really pretty one.

You are most welcome.

In that case, it serves you well!

By the way, the gladiolii are all from a supermarket 'colourful Summer bulbs' collection.

Julia, I took a few more photos this afternoon, uploaded them to the computer and all of yesterdays appeared too, hooray!!

Josie, it's my favourite flower at the moment in the garden.

Hello Janey, lovely to see you here. You have managed to get on to GoY again, woohoo!

A stunning colour Shirley!

I agree with Meadowland, it’s a fab colour.

Love them Julia. I'm going to try them next year..

It's a beautiful one Klahanie, I have a couple in my garden a dark purple one and an old white buddleia. The butterflies love them!