The wind is howling,and the rain which has been teeming down is now a dr...

Phyllis Bides is a beauty. After all the wet weather the roses seem to be thriving! Your garden looks really gorgeous now the arch with the help of|Phyllis has blended in really well. I wish you luck with your wisteria, your green fingers seem to have worked on everything else

it all looks very lush. Mine just looks very wet. lol Jx

Beautiful garden as always, hold on to the rain your way for a few minutes!! I need to plant 2 pots to put in the front porch! :)))))

Okay, but am sending it away as soon as I get back from the garden centre lol!

What a mass of flowers on the Rose, Stroller ... and the Honeysuckle has done well since the move ... did you ever read the Wisteria blog that Bonkersbon posted? ... Worth looking at for the information ... wet and windy down here too ... :o(

Thanks Poppy I need all the luck I can get.
Jane ... I`m fearing the worst if this rain keeps on coming I`ve roughly forty or more roses and whilst a good rainfall now and then is good the poor beggers don`t need drowning.
Michaella ... hope your plantings done, cos I`m sending this rain anywhere but here.lol.

a lovely blog with beautiful photo's, your garden is a picture

Ta Yorkshire.
Shirley ... Looks as if this horrible weather is all over the country.
I have just read Bbons blog and I must have bought a pup with this wisteria 4 yrs and not a sign of a flower, it grew very tall and leafy and I pruned it twice a year as per instructions to no avail.
It had to go, so instead of throwing it out I thought I would try making it into a stand alone specimen, will give it a couple of years before it gets the big heave ho.

Agree lovely blog and lovely photos

What a beautiful and prolific flowerer Phyliss is and she looks lovely on your archway, whatever you are doing it is certainly working look how well your Honeysuckle is flowering after its move and I have faith that your Wisteria will reward you with some flower next year. Just bring out the sun now and we will all be happy;0)

Love the Phyllis Bede Stroller, had a good read about it last year in David Austens catalogue, couldn't make up my mind (as usual) and plumped for Bobby James, which is full of it's first buds this year...:))

What a lovely garden. You did well moving the honeysuckle. I move things around, but always worry about them! I have a beautiful wisteria that didn't flower for years. Eventually, it had a real butchering as part of a big clearout and has flowered ever since, so best of luck. Perhaps the move will shock it into flowering for you!

Stroller I'm with you on the rain. Some of my roses have just opened and are already a soggy mess. I have just planted a poppy, freesia and an alstroemeria, as well as some little annuals. Just hope they don't wash away. Jx

Clarice and Carole ... glad you liked.
Mel your comment has given me a little hope that mine will do the same as yours.
Jane ... will keep fingers crossed for you planting, hope the rain doesn`t damage too much.

Its good having the roses to admire even if it is through the windows and in your pics, I honestly don`t know how they are looking so good in this lot Stroller, I`m gazing out at mine as well, lol.
Your honeysuckle is flowering well so it obviously didn`t mind the move , I love the perfume of an evening but think I`ll give it a miss tonight, lets hope you do get some flowers on your wisteria, just ask nicely and I feel it will surprise you, they do say patience is a virtue, love the weathervane plynth.
Always a treat to see your garden Stroller, even though not in sunshine....

garden look slovely stroller and great idea with the shed and trailing plants, lovely :o))

What a lovely garden you have Stroller, and I'm the same as you, I move anything, anytime and usually get away with it.

What a great idea to have the trellis above the shed - it will be fantastic when the honeysuckel has grown. Lovely garden.

Lincs ... can only dream of balmy evenings to sit and enjoy the smell of the honeysuckle.
Sandra and Stera ... can`t wait for the honeysuckle and the Albertine rose to meet in the middle of the shed.
Rose ... we seem to like the same kind of garden and how we deal with them.
Thank you all for your encouragement.

Isn't the weather awful? I can't get over how different your garden looks now in such a short time! What a fantastic rose Phyllis Bides is...how's your Mortimer Sackler? mines got lots of buds, but its first flower got blasted. You two never stop working do you, love the weather vane and honeysuckle, I bet it smells lovely. Don't forget the meet in sunny Walsall when the weather picks up, you could get to see my neighbours garden too;-) Not too sure about Gardeners World live this year, but I'll probably go if weather's ok...hope I get to see everything if I do lol:-)

You DO have a beautiful garden :o)
Love the honeysuckle on that trellis ... and pleased it's settled in for you.
Love Phylis Bides ... she looks wonderful :o)
Love the weather vane .... I want one lol

I have Phyllis Bide growing up a trellis and over an archway in a large tub by the front door of our casa. One of the best garden buys I ever made! She puts a smile on my face with her exorbitant flush of flowers. Yours is lovely in its position - your whole garden is lovely too - love the little quirky touches of the clock and the weather vane. :o)

Hywel, I waited a long time for the weather vane had seen them in the big GC`s but at £29.99 they look very weak specimens .. bought mine from Black Country Metals its cast iron and very sturdy but it was £55.
Nariz Glad you have one too never thought it would work out in a pot - bet it needs a lot of feeding. Thank you for the compliments.

BA, Mortimer is looking a little better this morning, fingers crossed.
If I go to Gardeners World it would be on the Thursday, although the forecast does say rain.
Will phone you on Tuesday.

Thursday looks the best weatherwise on the forecast I saw, only 30% chance of rain. I've printed the £2 off voucher lol. Unbelievably the sun is shining, I'll take the girls out:-)

I have a huge Wisteria outside my back door....it is pink and I love it. On the other hand I have two Honey Suckles and they have never flowered......what am I doing wrong?
One is quite old but rampant.

Was thinking of buying Phyllis Bide such a lbeautiful colour, but went for Malvern Hills instead which has performed beautifully this year despite the weather....your garden looks lovely do like the weather vane.

Linda now that is a puzzle I have never known honeysuckle not to flower - do you ever give it a feed?.
DD... great minds think alike I planted Malvern hills last year and its doing a great job and the perfume is beautiful.
Ba, Thursday sounds good - if its as good as today we shall be ok -Hooray !!!!!!! been in the garden from 8 till about 3 o`clock.

Stroller 8 - 3 lucky you we had more rain today, not so heavy this time, OH got a bucket of dead heads from Malvern Hills this morning!! we bought it to remind us of the hills, we have also planted Worcestershire to remind us again of a beautiful county, would like Shropshire Lad, but, we do not know where to site it!!

Good grief Dd you had me very worried there for a moment...thought you were married to an axe murderer with a Worcestershire fixation...kept re-reading that first part, then wondered if it was a confession to grave robbing on behalf of your OH. So relieved... phew. Should have read the whole comment first:-)

It covers a large area climbing up other plants. It is very vigorous but no flowers. I cut it back this year which may prevent it from flowering but there are all the other years. We have been here for 35 years. ;o/