The garden in early July

Looking good Suzzane and love your tipsy pots too.

They have turned out great.

Lovely trip round your garden, love all the containers. My pelargoniums are only just showing one flower now, very slow this year, they're not keen on all this damp, cool weather. Best spot for Fuchsia swingtime - you're treated to its full beauty at eye level like that...

Your plants are looking perky and happy.
Lots of interest going on
Fuchsia Swingtime is fab :o)))

Lovely plants and garden....

You`ve got plenty of colour to keep you cheery despite the rain. Only leaves on my pelargoniums too.

Thanks everyone, for your nice comments! I think I'll be doing tipsy pots every year now, Kath - I've really enjoyed them. I am hoping there will be enough sun to enable the pelargoniums to flower properly, Bamboo. It's made me realise how well worth it is overwintering them - the large one in the pot is only in its second year, but it is doing really well (mind you, I think it benefited greatly from all the sun in March). I think a lot of plants are really enjoying some aspects of the weather, Terratoonie. I've actually got three of those fuchsias, one of which I overwintered. I get them from a local nursery that reduces them considerably in late June! Thanks , Michaella - just wish I had a bit more of a chance to bask in it!!! I love the colour the containers provide, Stroller. I stick pots in the borders if I want to jazz up any areas, and I can always move them somewhere sheltered if they have any problems.

Yes Suzzane I am going to do the tipsy pots again next year.

Looking very colourful Susanne . . . plenty there to keep you smiling! I particularly love your trough full of pretty Lobelia :)

Thank you , Sheila. I love the multi-coloured lobelia. I got even more of it this year because I decided not even to try impatiens, which I usually pepper the containers with! I have missed them, though.

It's nice to see a garden enjoying the rain, and doing it's own thing. I love to see plants growing through cracks etc ... it looks natural. It's all very colourful with you :o)

Thank you , Hywel!

Your garden is looking wonderful. I do like your tipsy pots and might have a place to stick a similar tower. Thank you for the idea. With the blue and white tumbling down like that it looks like a waterfall. I start off regimenting my garden then allow plants to grow in places where maybe I should not but I find I have some real treasures amongst the self sown seedlings around the garden.

Your garden looks lovely Melchi. I am going to try the tipsy pots next year, you can never have too many pots :o))

I got the idea from someone on a different site, Scotsgran. I think that probably the idea is to drill a new hole in the pot right at the edge. The ones I have seen tip a lot more than mine - so you need quite big pots to allow for enough compost. But I am more than happy with mine, and it's nice to experiment!
I quite agree, Annella - the more the merrier! I've still got an empty half-basket languishing in the shed, and I keep trying to find somewhere to put it so I have an excuse to plant it up!

I like pots because they get so full that the weeds don't get a chance to establish themselves. No back breaking stooping to get at them either.

No, it's nice to feel in control as well! When I first started gardening, the borders were in a pickle, and I felt a bit overwhelmed by them. So I put pots and baskets around for colour and variety, and gradually gained the confidence to take control of the borders. And now, of course, even though I am growing plenty in the borders, I can't give up my containers! They are a very good way of having flowers at different heights, as well.

Very nice Melchi, I do like a full garden and yours certainly is that, lots of lovely colours to cheer you up, my hubby accuses me every year of putting the baskets in his way, the thing is it was him who put the brackets up for me, lol...

! I know - I get "Where did that come from?" every May!