A hot Summer's Afternoon.

What a great blog gorgeous flowers and those Fuchsia s and veg your potatoes look great Hywel I had to smile at Bella and the paint brush.
Stunning your Cacti especially the striped one they look so exotic . Lovely to hear Beryl can sit outside and you are ennoying the weather and garden hope you are ok in yourself Hywel xx

Beautiful,Hywel. I love that blue and white striped petunia and the fuchsias are lovely - I'm beginning to prefer the dainty singles to the big fancy ones.

You will have extra watering to do leaving the tender ones in their pots! But they'll look great.

Bella has the right idea - Ro has been creeping under bushes too - it must be so hot under all that fur...

The petunias are lovely - I can never resist them. Nice to see the cacti. I love roses, but agree about the thorns. I have a couple of really vicious ones. It is very hot today. I am in the garden, but with my feet up! I think the only job done today will be container watering later in the evening. Fortunately, we have some nice shade to which we can retreat with our books (and, in my case, iPad!). Enjoy your garden, too.

Everything's looking good Hywel. The potatoes are coming on a treat, I bet they will taste delicious. I think Bella and Beryl have the right idea, sit and enjoy the garden, in the shade while you work lol! It's hard work watering all those baskets and containers though...time for a sit down with a cuppa...or maybe something cooler?

Your Fuschias are beautiful Hywel and the Petunia that comes after the red Diascia is stunning. Today is unbearably hot here too, too much for me anyway. It makes watering all those pots and baskets so much harder as you'll know, even though my baskets have water retaining gel it's still time consuming and summer's only just started!

Thank you all for reading my blog :)

I can't sit still in the garden - I can't sit still anyway ! I get fed up when I sit still ... I find it boring,
and I fall asleep when I read lol

Yes, we have hot here now Hywell but had our heating on last Thurs and Friday!
I noticed as I sat and ate dinner this evening, how tall my potatoes have grown too....maybe all the rain has caused growth but I hope there is growth under the ground too.
You have lots of colour.

beautiful blossoms, Hywel..i'm like you..can't sit still..makes life tricky, since i can't walk more than a few steps..thank goodness for raised bed gardening..

Everything looks wonderful Hywel. It shows that it is a well loved garden.

Thank you all :)

As always a visit to your garden is a real joy. Each photo seems to capture how hot it was that day! Your cacti and fuchsias are gorgeous as are the colourful tubs.

Thank you.

You have such a wonderful display of colour there Hywel - I have found the colours of the striped petunia amazing this year!

I'm late arriving Hywel, been so busy lately that I've hardly been on here, decorating, a job I hate but needs must, lol, today is the first one for over a week that it has'nt rained all day, seeing yours in glorious sunshine really cheered me up, must have been an omen as well because I actually managed to get my lawns cut and did a bit of deadheading of all my soggy ruined roses, sod the painting was my thought, good job as well because its been bucketing it down again tonight....
Its good to hear Beryl was sitting out with you, I take it she was feeling better when you wrote this blog, hope thats still the case, they are lovely photo's and isn't your front garden looking nice, you must be pleased with it...Like you I guess I will eventually catch up on here but not whilst the flipping decorating is still ongoing, I pinch my moments when everyone else has gone bed....

Thanks for all your comments :)

Decorating Sue ! that's something that needs doing badly here too :( but will have to wait, the same as most other things lately ...
I'm glad you were able to have a break from it. It isn't something that should be done in nice weather lol
but we have had lots of rain here too, since I wrote that blog.
Beryl is more or less the same, thanks for asking, but we are hoping for a little improvement soon. I hope you are well :)