June and All is Well....

Oh its all beautiful and the roses are amazing. The Acer looks very at home in its new pot - you were running to brain there! (Had to smile at you welding the hedge trimmer though...) Your Oxalis are lovely - mine didn't even appear this year, miserable things.
Forgive me but I wouldn't worry about the Blue Moon. Not really blue and roses shouldn't be blue anyway IMHO.

Your roses are gorgeous so much varities going well fir you you have lovely plants .

I can smell the scent from your Roses from here, delightful.

I just want a great big bunch of everything please!!!
So glad your jasmine has flowered for you, the first year of many more to come.

Your garden is lovely but I shuddered when I saw the Jasmine. It is a thug in my garden. I am desperately trying to get rid of it from the sunken patio area. It has pushed the trellis I was hoping to grow it over off the wooden supports and broken them. It is so strong for such a delicate looking climber and the scent is perfect near a seating area but it has to go. I like your new woven look plant pot.

lovely blog and flowers and glad you have some rain. It was a gentle rain all day here so at least it didn't run off into the drains.

Mum had a blue moon rose and after 6 yrs my dad binned it as it 'wasn't worth the effort'. it never performed as well as her other roses. Perhaps good flowering only happens once in 'a blue moon' ;o)

pleased you saved your beautiful acer, I wont tell its a bin if you don't.

Your garden looks amazing Sue even without the rain. Your delphiniums are spectacular ! I have just bought three today but not expecting any flowers for quite a while.
I agree with you the bin your Acer is in just looks like a big pot. When you said you had three bins, I was thinking you meant wheelie bins ! Hahaa!
I love all your roses! I have two Trachlespermum Jasminoides and have had them for two years but they are so slow growing and no sign of any flowers. I have even given them a regular dose of Miracle Grow, but that hasn't worked either so maybe I will have to be patient and wait another year!

I love your roses, Lincslass, all except that is for 'Blue Moon'! I have never liked "blue" roses & this particular variety even less!

Your garden is beautiful Sue, even if it is very dry. You have lovely roses, and I like your Delphiniums. I can never grow them.
Good idea to use the bin as a planter - saves money and it looks nice too. I don't see why you couldn't have used the drill yourself, it's just a tool.
I hope you've had some rain by now. We had a bit of drizzle here but it hasn't made much difference to the ground.

Thankyou all, pleased to say we are now getting some rain, phew, started as a drizzle which went on all day and night, when it came big time it went into the ground didn't just flatten everything and run off, we've even had hailstones, ridiculous weather, I'm celebrating though as my grass is already turning green, lol.... the flowers/shrubs are loving it.
Thankyou for the info on Blue Moon, I'll just leave it where it is but at least I know its not just mine..

What a lovely long blog Lincslass. Your roses are beautiful. I always remember that roses were one of the flowers taken by the British out to India in the days of the Empire and they loved the hot climate, so perhaps that's why they seem to be doing so well this year. I wonder if they also got plagued with greenfly?
I also have Blue Moon, but I have to confess to not being that impressed with her.
I've tried Delphiniums in the past, but unfortunately the pesky slugs and snails made short work of them.
As for your lawn, a friend of mine borrowed her husbands spiked golf shoes and walked up and down the lawn in them. It worked a treat.
We've had quite a bit of rain the last couple of days, thankfully and even as I write this comment, it's hammering down on the conservatory roof.

Did I misread welding the hedge trimmer? It doesn't say that now...

Its wielding Stera, lol, had to go up and double check to see if I had actually written the wrong word, never had a go at welding although I used to watch my dad many moons ago...

The garden looks spectacular with the Roses loving the heat, not everything else does though, including me. We too had some rain yesterday and overnight, not as much as I wanted or it showed on the weather report, but at least there was some. Light rain to start which soaked in as you say. The Jasmine can be 'a bit vigorous', more polite than Scotsgran's 'thug', perhaps it needs more time to settle in. One of mine grows with a Honeysuckle against the bungalow wall. Planted not by me, they both have to be attacked regularly, they go under the tiles and into the loft, round the gutters and cover the downpipe and water butt. You have to slash you way through to get some water!

Lovely pics Lincs, I had a few tall shrubs in pots blow over too, but happily all well. As for blue roses, I have Blue for you, lovely rose and habit and perfume, but it can't take rain, it ruins the flowers. Maybe they're not meant to be blue lol:-)

I'm sure they aren't. Leave blue to the flowers that are really good at it!
Sbg - I did realise that - just amused me very much that's all - thought it might raise a smile.

What a lovely colourful blog. A stroke of genius using your spare dustbin as a pot, it looks great. I, too am having trouble with hard baked clay soil. Tried to weed yesterday but no way could I get a fork in and that's after we've had rain here. Hoping for more and then it will become too sticky! 😊

Loved this blog. Thanks for sharing with us Linclass.