Summer photos from my garden.

That Hibiscus is amazing, Hywel.

Your garden looks so colourful and beautiful. I also love your Hibiscus, it is such a strong colour.
You will soon be able to plant your bulbs and wait for Spring. Perhaps we could miss out Winter !!
All your cuttings look very healthy too.

You should have called this blog Pictures from Paradise....

Your garden looks really lovely, the hibiscus is lovely, I have a pink one, and you have some great clematis too.

I always enjoy seeing your plants Hywel, the hibiscus is very beautiful

Such a stunning Hibiscus and Abelia wonderful Clematis beauties very colour hour summer garden its beautiful Hywel can you not make up a little cold house box up with some old glass window frames to cover your cuttings you could then place bubble wrap over it.

Thank you all for looking at my plants, and your comments and helpful suggestions :) I have so many cuttings, took far too many lol :D

You're ahead of me, I was going to plant this hibiscus this year, now you've made it a standard to aim for.

Thanks ... it has become a big shrub now. I originally brought it from my parents' garden after they died and we were selling the house.

A great selection , Kaiu is a new variety to me

Gg

Hywel I especially like your fuschia and clematis pic the colours work so well together - and you can never have too many cuttings - it is very satisfying seeing them mature

Considering that you have had to put up with a very mixed and strange summer, your garden seems to have loved it! The hibiscus is so striking and what a wonderful shade of blue.
I too love emptying my containers and planting bulbs in them for the spring time. Eventhough I am not a fan of the grey winter months I am so glad that we do have the 4 seasons.

Wonderful! love every plant in your garden such a verity and gorgeous colours .

As I am now training 2 A level students as Allotment Gardeners, ( I pay them well to keep my garden tidy, which pays their allotment expenses, never thought I would end up sponsoring youngersters, ) I only want to use my greenhouse in 2018 because of my loss of balance.
Am thinking about growing Lilies in it.
Do you have any advice to offer re other flowering plants just for the summer season pleasure ?
Four Tomato plants, and six Geraniums will be quite enough.

Thanks for all your comments.

Diane I find annuals are good plants for giving a lot of summer colour. I didn't have many this year.

as usual Hywel your garden is beautiful. good photos too.

Gosh! That Hibiscus is stunning. Must like Welsh rain!
Envy you your Clematis : lovely selection.

Don't wish your time away Hywel...That Hibiscus is amazing! As for the clematis. ..how do you find room for them all...speaking of room, I'm sure you'll find somewhere for cuttings over the winter. ..we gardeners are nothing, if not resourceful.

Diane my Mum used to grow Schizanthus - they would be lovely in your greenhouse.

Lovely Hywel :-)

Thank you all :) x

That Hibiscus is amazing Hywel and the Clematis are beautiful too.

Thank you Hywel and Stera, I had forgotten Schizanthus -
my mother used to grow them, she called them
'Poor man's Orchid.' Will get some seed over the winter, and grow some annuals with them in the greenhouse.
it should be really nice.

Amazing ! I wish I could get my 2 Hibiscus to flower - one had buds last year but they didn't come to anything as they were so late & this year nothing at all !

Thank you all for your comments :)

I hope your two Hibiscus flowers next year Nanjo ...

Your garden is looking splendid again, Hywel!? Your Hibiscus is flowering magnificently! ?

Thank you .

Your hibiscus is unusual. Everything is great

Thank you :)

I'm late arriving again Hywel but wow it was worth it, I'm going to move near to you just to get some of that good growing stuff we call earth, its that or your magic touch, everything does so well for you and this year is no exception, beautiful selection of planting and I love the mingles....

Just spotted your blog, Hywel, & so glad I did too. Your plants are stunning, so many gorgeous clems & that hibiscus is a beauty.

envious of all that wonderful colour.

Thank you all :)

I have never, ever seen such photos of the clematis... How do you do it??? Wonderful blog, perfect for the first frost which I fear will be all too soon. Thanks

Thank you. We don't usually get frost before November here so they will be all right for a while yet :)

oh, lucky you, Hywel. Every day is another gift of garden, then like magic, it covers everything.. From the end of September towards October. Your plants are so wonderful to look at so I will keep looking...

Thank you :) I hope the frost keeps away for a while for you.