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Yes indeed!

Nice! I buy a lot on line because I usually know exactly what I want. I prefer to buy from the GC though …you see exactly what you’re getting.

Shirley, I have the same one ...cut off all the affected buds and it is now producing more flowerheads.

Thanks Lindak ...

:o)))

I rarely buy anything on-line but this was a newspaper or magazine offer that included Begonias and 3 Roses.

All of the plants look healthy ... :o)

Yes, Shirley, we've seen quite a few white butterflies this week too.. Also, a Hummingbird Hawkmoth and a comma butterfly, so they are beginning to get about. Not seen many Ladybirds though.

Lovely show of flowers there Shirley.

What a lovely thing to do, I bet a lot of people are enjoying seeing the pretty flowers.Good luck also from me with your move Balcony.

I am!

I bought these from Parker’s too Shirley. I use them for my bulbs too. And occasionally for plants.

Thank you x

Thank you Rose x

Rose, I totally understand that. This area has a pre-formed pond liner that was impossible to get out, so it was broken up at the base with a small sledgehammer for drainage and then filled with crock, top soil and compost. Seems to have worked out ok!

You have a lovely group of Day Lilies Thorneyside.

Thanks Karen ... I did put a soapy water spray on the foliage a couple of times.

You must be thrilled to have so much flora and fauna now ... :o)

Karen, mine are 6 tubers from a J.Parker's collection, a company I have not used before so I'm hoping they will be gorgeous!

In that case I shall send you some of it later in the Summer.

Thanks Jane ... it's loving the heat ... :o)

Excellent. I have seen a few white Butterflies these past few days, not a single dark one though.

Too jazzy for you? If so, I think it will have to be removed!

Jane, I saw a huge snail on a Kniphofia in the front garden ... it's playing with the cars on the road now!

Me too! The best of luck with your move Balcony.
Will you have your own garden when you move? It's great how you are planting up these bins and wonder why the council put them there if the were going to remain empty!

I love that geranium Karen! Your front garden looks lovely and I tend to overplant too.

With your weather Wylie, anything is possible. I was more than happy at three years and maybe the one in the pot was just trying to break free.

Love it Karen!

Not possible Shirley as my son lives in Leicester and my daughter, bless her wouldn't have a clue, plus she works 24/7 with her own accountancy business.
When eventually I do get it cleaned out, I am going to sell it. I need easier jobs now at my age.

I don't know Wylie, you're the expert. I keep trying to get a picture where the colour is right but can't. They say the camera never lies but it does. I've tried with my camera and the camera on my phone but the colour still isn't as you see it "live".

Yes Daylily, it came from my local Blue Diamond GC. Plants there are pricey but also very good, well-grown and healthy. It’s worth paying a bit more for this I think.

It will Shirley. Mine all had aphids too but they have grown and are now healthy looking. :)

My garden is absolutely buzzing right now. Olive is hoverfly central. Bees and wasps all over the bottlebrush too. And now the Buddleias are coming so we will have butterflies. Then the bigger sedums will be in flower. Happy days! I have greenfly, but there are so many ladybirds, so no need to worry.

Thanks both.

You must have later flowering varsity Shirley. The totally tangerine flowered first here end of May! The honka is only just starting now.

:)

Hi Josie, I am so happy with the geranium. I have three. One I just moved to the back garden as it was hidden under Agastache and Rose. But the other two…well. last year I thought I-had wasted my money. They hardly grew. Theygot very bad mildew and I was very disappointed. It must have been the weather because just look at them now! I am so happy to see them like this. I grew this plant in Scotland but it was never anything like this. This must be a geranium that loves warmth! Maybe they all do!

Ah thank you Shirley it's a lovely one :-)

Lovely :-)

Ive seen a few :-)

Lovely :-)

Gorgeous :-)

Nice big one, mines quite small

Oh wow yes it is jazzy ;-)

I will look now 😄

Thanks Shirley its a lovely one :-)

Karen, my one and only Butterfly candy one has the horrible damage from aphids on it ... I wonder if it will even flower!

Seems the Hoverflies like it too!

They are, I've noticed a few more on H. Canadian Border Patrol now too, although they are usually in the foliage but not normally the flowers, havent seen them on the kniphofias yet :-(

I second that.

Such a lovely colour.