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Jimson weed. Datura stramonium

Hi Rose,how was your holiday?
This rose is the cleanest one growing here.

I love the vivid colour of this one Julia.

I love yellow roses and this is a beauty!

Hi Balcony I've just completed another booklet to give out for the children in our community. I've called it FAB Wildlife. FAB....Fish Animals Birds. It's short verses about different creatures in the world and I've drawn lots of pictures for the children to colour in. It's going to take a while to print and put the little booklets together but we'll get there.......

Thank you Klahanie...they are a bright cheerful, red colour.

It's a very big garden for one person to look after, Wylie or do you have help? I like how the garden is divided up into "rooms", a very effective way of being able to have more than one garden! :)

Yes, I've seen your blog this evening. You have an immense garden!

It's just as bad, if not worse today! :(

A very good piece of poetry, Lindak! :)

I see that as being rather difficult! :D :D :D

Where are the Ladybirds & Lacewings this year? We could use their help! :D

You couldn't do that here!

Is it thorn apple. Could be wrong. You might call it a different name over there.

Oh I know, hoping to mow ours tomorrow :-)

They look healthy and pretty. Lovely idea to plant them there.

You own an interesting spot and I love your plants.
Thanks for posting Wylie.

Yank you Janey. I have Sarah Bernhardt as well but it does not like the place where I planted it. It is a gorgeous peony when it likes its spot.

Thank you both. Will have a closer look at leaves to find the culprit.

:o))

Yes it was. I'm looking forward to seeing it bloom.

Thanks Janey and Josie. It also has a lovely scent.

Thanks Janey.

Janey, that's a shame. I actually moved one as the leaves were too big for the position it was in, it has recovered and is showing a couple of 'spikes'.

Good luck with the Penstemon. I think it was 'Garnet' variety?

Snap! I found a couple of orange Welsh Poppies yesterday. Once they have finished flowering I shall hoick out quite a few.

That's a big area to look after Wylie!! Some beautiful and interesting plants you have there. A weird coincidence, on the weather this morning it said above us (Engand) the atmosphere is full of smoke from the Canadian widfires.

Some sort of leaf miner, or as suggested, caterpillars browsing the green bits & leaving the skeletons

And if humans would stop breeding like flies on a compost heap there would be fewer people & less need for more housing! Allowing all the immigrants doesn’t help either. Some of them don’t seem to believe in birth control. The men like to show how virile they are by fathering lots of children.

There appears to be a green caterpillar in the first photo. Something is definitely browsing over the leaves, so not rust.

An interesting blog. Ty for sharing your visits. I’m glad you enjoyed Winchester, that Wisteria was a picture. I haven’t been to the Hillier Gardens yet, perhaps one day. It was nice to see photos of you & your family, also your garden with its many roses. I liked your flower arrangement too, & the rose which you have given away to your neighbour!

Usually these pots are either side of the back door ...I think with the naturally spread Erigeron around they have settled in.

They do spread around easily.

A lovely one. I like the roses that have fewer petals.

Thank you Janey.

Spectacular!

Very attractive flowers Hb..

Such a gorgeous one Klahanie, I do like it's open face too.
I have Sarah Bernhardt and the wind and rain has flattened her to the ground! Tomorrow I'll try and sort it out.

Unusual here to see a white one.

Lovely scene

I just wrote a blog that shows a lot of my backyard.

The petals are bending back, so it is almost like a shooting star.

Beautiful!!

How lovely it looks too Shirley. I'm afraid the one you sent me hasn't done so well and I don't understand why.
I've grown them in the past all around the garden and I thought it would come on really well. The penstemon is looking strong and healthy though..☺️

Really pretty!

Lovely shades together Shirley. My Welsh poppies are all over my garden too and some are orange now!

It is striking Julia, lovely colour.

Yes mines the same Balc. I haven't been on the site for a while because of the trouble accessing it.
I'm at my daughter's at the moment and it's working ok here..

Mine's working this morning but very slow.

I had the same yesterday, but seems OK now, very frustrating

I find it an easy one to grow unlike a couple of others here.