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Kate, just writing you a PM.

Gorgeous!!! I’d be pleased too - love to have the space for one.

So pretty, Karen. In bloom too! I have one Nepeta in a pot which is in leaf but no blooms here yet 🤞

Shirley, I do hope you are fully recovered? I’m
Sorry to hear you’ve been unwell and in hospital. I hope your stay was a positive and supportive one 🤞
Thank you for you kind message.
Keep well and I hope the sunshine is helping x

Thanks kindly, Eileen, hope you and yours are keeping well and happy. Look forward to your pics and blogs too x

Aw thank you, Klahanie! That’s kind. I’m looking forward to catching up with your fab pics and blogs! You’ve such amazing views and the wildlife is wonderful! 🦌

Jane, I’m looking forward to seeing your garden pics - all of a sudden, everything will be in bloom!
Best wishes x

Thank you, Rose. I hope you have been keeping well! Hopefully you’ve are making the most of this lovely weather we’ve been having 🌹x

Thanks kindly, Chris. I do hope you have been keeping well! Hopefully you’ve been making the most of the lovely sunshine and enjoying the garden 🌼x

Thanks so much, Karen! I’m looking forward to catching up with your garden and all your latest posts. Keep well 🌺

Thanks Josee, hope you are keeping well, yes, it’s been quite a time of it recently! Work has felt like a 24/7 situation.
Quite stressful, not enough time in the day to feel like you’re doing everything as you should, sadly.
Hope you’ve been enjoying these glorious sunny days in the garden! 🌷

Thanks Callie, hope you are keeping well ☺️
We certainly have had some really lovely weather and such lovely blue skies too, x

Thank you, Julia, I’m happy to be back, although possibly not as frequent 🙁
April is busy at work, staff shortages still. We think it’ll be beginning of June when we’ll hopefully be back to our norm 🤞
The weather has been a real treat of recent hasn’t it!

FF..your not the only one.I enjoy
watching part of his programme..not mad on veg growing though.I do have a 'jewel' type corner which naturally evolved.

Am I the only one who watches GW, just to watch the lovely dog that follows him everywhere? I also like seeing the other gardens that are shown. I’m usually doing crosswords when he’s planting his veg seeds, or going on about the jewel gdn, so the program is mostly background for me. My garden is a mixture, like Meadowland says.

A lovely day out for you all. I took my boys to Swanage for a hol once and I seem to remember a derelict railway track.
They are in their 50’s now. I will look up the railway link, Ty for posting it.

I’m not surprised, it is really lovely.

They’re the best type, that come up every year.

I like the colour of this one. I think they look good when the colours are mixed. Love the smell of wallflowers too. They used to be sold as cut flowers in past times, but not anymore.

Thanks so much Klahanie..a gift on our anniversary 3 years ago.

It’s funny everyone is commenting on the tree fern instead of the palms. 😂

Tree ferns can grow very large in California. Some genera can grow to more than 50 ft (15 m) tall. They’re definitely not recommended for small spaces.

Lovely to smell too!!

You're right they have been wonderful to see this year. There are several shrubs blooming around here and we are enjoying them.

Beautiful flowers.

The Hyacynths have flowered well this year. Lovely to see.

Lovely combination.

Karen, your daffodils look really pretty.

Balcony, thank you so much for telling me the name of these lovely little flowers. I bought them last year and this year they've excelled themselves. They are in full sun out the front.

I agree HB...they are a delight.

Queen Emma lily a pretty tropical plant. It actually can grow larger than 10 ft (3 m), it can grow to 15 ft (4.6 m) in time. I have posted some on GoY in the past that were over 8 ft (2.5 m) tall here in San Diego. My Queen Emma lily in my front yard is 6 ft (2 m) tall. It definitely needs a lot of space, even in a pot.

That’s great! It is very satisfying to get orchids to bloom.

Yes David, they are a very good fruit for Diabetics and I also buy them regularly.
I just saw this plant in a garden centre and thought I would try growing my own!
I have been told to net the fruits before the birds eat them ... :o)

Really beautiful plants, Wylie! I love them all!

I have had 3 Amaryllis flowering on our living room table but 2 have now finished while the third is just starting to go over a little.

Beautiful flowers, Wildrose! :)

Are you going to try & grow some Blueberries, Shirley???

For a couple of months now I've been buying them in the supermarket every Saturday & eating them a couple of times a day!

Lovely tree fern, Andy, but not for me though,it would block all light to the balcony & besides there would be no room for anything else! How would I water it??? I'd have to push a hosepipe out through the living room windows to reach it! :D :D :D

These are lovely Pulsatilla vulgaris or Pasque flowers, Lindak! A fried came me some a few years ago but they only survived 1 year on the balcony! :(

There may be a few bulbs around the country but it wouldn't survive our winters being outside. There are few parts of the UK that are frost-free all year round so it would have to be grown in a greenhouse.

I did a search for this lily & it seems it is a big plant but nowhere did I find a mention of it growing up to 3m high!

I have enough difficulty in keeping my Amaryllis alive over winter let alone a "monster" like this! Though I would certainly like one - or more! :D

that is dedication in deed You got some lovely ones there.

lovely blog Karen. Who enjoyed the swings more??? haha
Went round that area a long time ago. BC [Before Children].

I can't grow anything that needs acidic soil/compost as our water here is very hard. It's not possible for me to collect rainwater either. The roof of the building is 7 floors above us & the downpipe is hidden behind a wooden panel on the balcony. We had lived here for years before I found out what was behind the panel! Then it was only because the housing association took away the asbestos that must have protected the rainwater downpipes that I discovered it! At least I think that's what the asbestos was for - what else could it have been used for afterall you wouldn't expect them to catch fire!!! :D :D :D

Thanks, FF, for letting me know &I'm sorry I can't help you more. :( I've never used iPods or any other Apple product! Except for a moment a couple of weeks ago, when my grandson was showing me something on his Apple phone, I haven't even touched an Apple product!!!

:0))x

Well done to him ... and you for helping him!

Karen, I always remember that Spritzhenry loved them in pots.

Thanks Hb.

Karen, I hope it doesn't grow too big!

It certainly is ... :o))

I think as it's not a bright red I can live with it!

Rose, they were the only flowers my Dad would grow on his allotment, even then he did so begrudgingly as Mum loved them so much. :o))

Beautiful tulips in a beautiful pot.

You've got some beauties there Wylie. Loving 'Tarantula' and aptly named too.