august in my garden

Cristina....your garden and plants are absolutely beautiful.....over here we have finally got some rain..... the grass and plants are looking very happy... as for me I've started a very big job.... now with the rain..... I am in and out, I have decided to trim a hedge of 170 feet in length and more than 8 feet high...ouch my neck..., but I shall take my time with it.... it looks like an endless task. But will get there in the end :)))

Stunning pics. Cristina.. well done on a wonderful garden :o)))

yes that is a VERY big job hun .we started that at begining of the year . removing 150 ft of hawthorns lol just fin it . so very gud luk wth it hope it not take as long as ours. glad you got rain at last ,can u send the sun here. ;0p

thanks terra just need sum sun ;0(((

Lovely pics Cristina, the collages look like they should be in a glossy magazine :-))))

I agree Annella....you have a fantastic garden filled with beautiful plants....I always love seeing it Cristina....beautiful roses and all displayed so well.......GORGEOUS!

ohhh thankyou so much. untill i jioned this site i really did not have a clue lol .its helped me loads. and the coments really spur u on to try bigger and better things. so thanks to every 1 who comments xx

We are having thunder and lightning just now, what a change in the weather, your garden is a picture Cristina, you should open it to the public!!!! Just beautiful. x

Brilliant.
you used a few pictures that must have taken a while but worth while.

All the colours of the rainbow, can't imagine how many plants you have. We know how time consuming it is just weeding not to mention all the other maintenance jobs, It must be very satisfying sitting in that swing seat admiring your handy work....with a glass in your hand ! Let's hope we get some summer back before the flowers are over.

Your garden looks lovely, the images and arrangement of them are stunning, Well done.

madge not had it as bad here as other places but wish we cud have some sun .bjs, thanks it does take a while, but i think it gives more of a pic. wen u c it like this, also its a bit quicker on the uploading thing as well lol. heron, how r you and penny. does it look as good as wen you saw it. lol. hows pennys muscles after her little ride on sunshine, think that made the day 4 her ;0) now then a glass of wot!!!!!!!!!!! i am thinking haha . hows ur wether there.o and b 4 i 4 get heron, looks like i finally got buds on the pereneal pea wooo hooo. thanks all 4 coments.

What a colourful garden you have Cristina. Most enjoyable trip around your garden, the use of collages is a rearlly good idea to show so many plants and areas of your garden.

thanks theo glad u like it

Your garden is stunning,Cristina,and a credit to all your hard work.You must be so pleased with it.I love the way you have done your pics too...one day,I may be brave enough to try doing this with mine..

thanks bloomer i am getting more convident now in the garden, and the coments really make u want to get on wth it . if you go picasa on ur computer it takes 5 mins to do a collarge( really) lol i am no wiz kid on here at all. if i can ,you can . go on b brave lol lets c wot u got haha . i,ll b cking !!! ;o)

A real joy to see so many picts of the different areas of your garden, your plants look amazing, Cristina! I really wish I lived closer, I envy Heron his walk around your little piece of paradise! Your blogs always interesting and colourful! :~))xxx

Wow Cristina, your garden is so full of colour, and with so many beautiful plants. It must be such a joy to you both to sit and admire it at the end of a long day. Hope the animals behave themselves when they're in there, I know mine wouldn't and I've had to fence them out. :-o

flori am so glad u like it and i wish u live closer as well thanlyou. mary u do live closer and can bob round wen u are in the area lol do have to watch roses as she chases garfiled in the beds. she broke sum flowers and so had a gud telling of haha. but she needs the space to run. so she will have to learn . xx

I keep saying I'll have to take you up on that offer, and one day I will............I just need to find the time.haha

just beautiful... Cristina your garden is stunning & so full of colour...

thankyou to every 1 whos comented and am glad u all like my pics ,the way i do them think it makes them a bit more interesting to look at. and i love arty stuff ,gud fun doing it .

you have a beautiful garden Cristina :-))))

everything looks so pretty cristina, lovely pics and so full of colour, love your garden ;o)))

thankyou grindle, glad u enjoyed it. sandra thankyou allso , its hard work as oh has made it bigger but i can, and often do get lost in it . your garden is really comeing on now as well isent it . x

yes thanx cristina its comming along great, wish it was bigger though lol ;o)) x

how big is it hun ?

did u watch beth chatos garden on countryfile 2 nite brathtaking

its about 60ft by about 20ft cristina, didnt see it i never know whats on tv ;o(( may go on catch up

from your pics san, it looks a lot bigger , and very claverly planted, so well dun you . i love ur patio area. very nice and ur pond. u have quite a bit going on there. if you want more to do come and help me wth mine lol. i never seem to fin. xxbeth chatos garden was just lovely i never herd of her till i jioned this site .

Have just had a look at your garden pics wow your garden is looking a picture Cristina -it will be looking even better when we can see your new paved area ;-)

lol and you will richard ;o)))))))

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thanx cristina i would help you with pleasure if i were closer, im waiting for catch up to show that episode, would like to see it and like you i hadnt heard of her till on here ;o))

That's what I call flowers. I'm trying to fill in space with a bee/butterfly 'friendly' plot and yours looks as if it will attract both. Congrats....

thanks xpats, wot flowers are you useing , are you growing them or buying , think theres more choice if u grow. i did lots of cornflowers this year ,so they will self seed i think. sandra it said that her ideas was to get more planting form in the arden so therewas itreast all year . i am just geting into that sort of garden now as just used to like flowers. now the garden is bigger i have realized that u carnt do every thing ,hance more shrubery.

Lovely garden Cristina and Fab pix,well done!

thanks hun , have read ur pm , but need more time to mul it over again lol. will get bak 2 you .

Have pm'd you Cris.... :~))

Great collection of photos from what looks like an absolutely super garden Cristina.

arhh thankyou ponty glad u think so ;0)

I really like your collages of flowers, Cristina! I remember some months ago I did a collage of autumn trees with the red leaves. I'll have to have a go again. I must have missed this blog of yours but now I'm very glad I found it.

yes u will balconey that wud b nice ermm auttum color ,s have to have a go wth that 1 lol

Was going to do a collage a couple of days ago but when I went to make a start Picasa froze on me & I had to terminate the programme. :-(

o no balcony. hope you will try again hun x

As I may have some extra time on my hands during the next couple of weeks (wife's going away!) I'll give it a go once again & see what we end up with!

Balcony think that happened to me when I used Picasa, then our computer collapsed due to something or other !! Now cannot find any photos at all `-0((

Picasa doesn't change the location of your photos - it just makes a note of its location - usually the folder "My Pictures".

If you use Picasa to make any changes, like putting captions or dates on photos like I do, you should click on the FILE menu at the top of the page when you have finished making any changes & click on SAVE. That way Picasa will create a new folder where it will save your original photo without the changes you may have made while you will see the photo with any changes you made when you open the "My Pictures" folder.

Picasa will not remove the pictures from your computer nor will it save them anywhere else - unless you have instructed it to before hand. You can't even delete them by accident as a warning asking you if you are sure you want to do that appers before a photo is removed. You even have two options when you want to delete anything; one asks if you want to remove it from Picasa only, the other asks you if you want to delete it from your hard drive. Even if you select the 2nd option it is deleted to the Recyle Bin where it will remain till you either delete it from there, when you will lose it forever, or until the Bin is so full that it deletes the oldest files to make way for the newest.

thort urs had collasped as well balconey

Mine's perfectly OK. I use it almost daily to put titles on my photos & to change the lighting.

thats gud then ,just futher up u said u had to terminate the program as it froze on you . glad u fixed it , i use piccasa all the time as well. its brill isent it. i find i dont have to save as it just does it any way. all my collarages put them selves in to a file . and my pics stay were they are in there own file .so they are easy to find. u shud get some of yours up . lets have a look . ;0P

It does occasionally "freeze" on me. When that happens I have to open Task Manager & "kill" it in the process tab. Then I go back, open it again & everything seems to be OK.

Yesterday while I was using it it seemed to be going very slow so, after a particularly slow moment, I closed the programme, normally, not using Task Manager, then I opened it again & it "whizzed" along!

I learn something new on here everyday thanks Christina and Balcony, never used Picasa but now have to give it a try.
Your garden is fabulous Christina !

thanks val. and you must try it its gud fun

Valadel, Picasa is quite good as you can do quite a few things with it. I use it just to put titles on my photos & to darken/lighten the photos. Today I've been using for those things & also to "crop" (reduce the size of the photo, remove something you don't want in it, etc.)

I've been using it for several years now. I once used it to make a couple of collages as well. In fact I posted one on here of Autumn Colours.

You can use it to upload your photos to the internet, you get 1GB of free space, give your friends/family the album address. You can use it to send photos in emails, I'm not sure but you may need a Google account to do that. I'm not sure if it works with Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.