Gardening blog archive

New bin area.

Finally we don't have to drag the 2 greenbins down the steep drive fortnightly.....with...

29 Jul, 2021
Meadowland

V. Mini Blog- Echinacea

I have 2 varieties of Echinacea which i grow in the sunny front garden. Grown from...

28 Jul, 2021
Siris

Extra Petals/sepals On Daylily.

This is the first time this has flowered, since i made this cross a couple of years...

27 Jul, 2021
Siris

Surprise

Surprise flowering of my Clematis Viticella Plena Elegance. After 3 years i had given...

26 Jul, 2021
Resinone

Just a few random photos of my garden today..

Hi everyone I hope you’re all well? Here’s a few photos of my garden today..

26 Jul, 2021
Dandanspond..

Summer is fading, part 2

Two other photos. One is Forever Friends on the Amelanchier. The other is the pink...

25 Jul, 2021
Arbuthnot

Summer is fading

My small garden has been so colourful this year though looking quite congested. Yesterday...

25 Jul, 2021
Arbuthnot

Mini blog. Sunday activities!

Today was assigned to dividing the bearded Iris and replanting the young tubers around...

25 Jul, 2021
Meadowland

To many pots what to do ?

Rearranging my pots today and dead heading and it will probably take all day . Its...

25 Jul, 2021
Rick_n

Stepping outside in the evening sunshine.

It has been much cooler here today and a lot more pleasant because of it! Here are...

24 Jul, 2021
Wildrose

New "Garden"

Well, here it is my new , what I call , garden Please ignore Lilibet, can't think...

24 Jul, 2021
Bornagain

Black ants .

I have been watching them for a couple of months now on a couple plants especially...

24 Jul, 2021
Rick_n

Plant watching

I think many of us watch a developing bud and marvel in the final fully opened flower....

23 Jul, 2021
Seaburngirl

It's been a while!

Hello everyone, and hope you're all good, I feel i should almost re-introduce myself...

23 Jul, 2021
Shadydappler

Mini Blog Lysimachia

It is my intension to write mini blogs on my mini collections of plants. The first...

21 Jul, 2021
Siris

Summer living

Our summer climate is very dry. No rain all summer. It said that it is because we...

21 Jul, 2021
Klahanie_

Through the window

I've been watching these Great Tit parents care for their baby offspring through...

19 Jul, 2021
Amy2

Agapanthus

Opening up beautifully.A little lighter in colour than I thought but still pretty.

18 Jul, 2021
Gerardine

Pretty hedgerow

I have seen a lot of these pretty flowers blooming in large swathes in the hedgerow...

17 Jul, 2021
Waddy

Flowering sedums flourishing on the rockery

Took a few snaps later this afternoon of my rockery sedums which are now blooming...

17 Jul, 2021
Kate123

The rose garden and other delights....

Last September as you know I got rid of one of the g'houses and created a new rose...

17 Jul, 2021
Lincslass

Amaryllis flowering at long last!

Amaryllis flowering at long last! I can't do an animation on here but here are some...

16 Jul, 2021
Balcony

July sunshine - mainly Phlox

One of these days I will take some lessons in photography! Meanwhile this is the...

16 Jul, 2021
Sheilabub

Surprise visitor!

So...there I was up a ladder under my arch, tying my vigorous rose Strawberry Hill...

13 Jul, 2021
Rose1949

A few more of the July border!

Just managed to get out in the garden before it rained again! So I thought I would...

11 Jul, 2021
Rose1949

Feeling good about the new pond!

The top of the waterfall is now finished and I am pleased with the result, I am...

11 Jul, 2021
Stroller

my back garden this year

New patio with some new planting lots of old woody plants removed mostly replaced...

11 Jul, 2021
Drc726

Daylilies, first time flowerers.

These are Hemerocallis flowering on my allotment this year from crosses ive made. The...

10 Jul, 2021
Siris

Raindrops on Roses . . .

plus other flowers after the morning showers today. The sun is now shining,...

10 Jul, 2021
Shirley_tulip

Busy Bee

I watched this Bee trying to find the way into a Snapdragon flower . . . so pleased...

10 Jul, 2021
Shirley_tulip

Welcoming displays - does your village or town have something similar?

I noticed that South Ferriby, over the Humber estuary into Lincolnshire has not only...

10 Jul, 2021
Kate123

For Waddy !

I have at last found out via Libet who some of you will remember that the unknown...

8 Jul, 2021
Rose1949

The Hauser and Worth Garden

If you follow garden design, you will know one of the biggest names just now is Piet...

6 Jul, 2021
Andrewr

The July Garden

The garden is coming on in leaps and bounds! Some that have been doing well for a...

6 Jul, 2021
Rose1949

Thought it Would be Nice to Share a Memory

After seeing Bornagain (June) on here this morning it reminded me of when 6 of us...

6 Jul, 2021
Daylily

Rosa New Dawn

New Dawn, my avatar image is very special to me. In my family home I grew up in there...

6 Jul, 2021
Seaburngirl

Pottering and pruning this weekend, with the company of a sleepy girl.

In between shopping and visiting, I decided to prune some of the ceanothus/ivy hedging...

4 Jul, 2021
Kate123

What The ****

It's leaves were slender rough and long it grew so fast, its stems were strong What...

3 Jul, 2021
Bornagain