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Oh wow yes it is jazzy ;-)

I will look now 😄

Thanks Shirley its a lovely one :-)

Karen, my one and only Butterfly candy one has the horrible damage from aphids on it ... I wonder if it will even flower!

Seems the Hoverflies like it too!

They are, I've noticed a few more on H. Canadian Border Patrol now too, although they are usually in the foliage but not normally the flowers, havent seen them on the kniphofias yet :-(

I second that.

Such a lovely colour.

Thank you both :-)

I like all of those ... mine are nowhere near blooming yet.

Thanks David ... :o)

Yes Balcony and I collect the seedheads and dry them off and just sprinkle them on the ground each spring. The Bumblebees love them.

It's about 2.5ft. tall and wide.

I hope you have a successful move.

Lovely Lilies, FF! :)

I quite agree, it is indeed a lovely shade of pink! :)

Lovely flowers, Wylie! :)

Are these flowers Poppies?

Gorgeous colour Karen.

The local town hall has shown no interest in these planters since they put them in place about 3 years ago! I even wrote to them last year & told them I was doing the planters but I never got a reply.

As we are expecting to move somewhere else sometime this year I wasn't sure if I would be able to plant out the flowers I was growing on the balcony to put in the planters. Eventually I decided that was the only thing I could do otherwise they would die on the balcony. I'm watering them twice a week while this heatwave lasts but when temps go back to the more normal June/July temps I will stop. They will have to adapt to the planters as we may not be here all summer.

We don't know yet where we will end up but it's likely to be a fair way from here & I won't be able to bring bottles of water to water them.

I do love the Hakonechloa grasses 🙂.

I'm glad you like our balcony! :)

Certainly their favourite place...it seems quite a big Hebe.

I think they bought it as a 4ft tall plant, maybe 4 years ago ... it's very tall now ... just about to post photo for you.

I did leave it until after my breakfast! While I was sitting outside, in the shade of the vine, a brown insect/beetle landed on the table, I knocked it off and a male Blackbird, beak full of worms, managed to fit it into his beak!

The food chain was definitely in action there ...

Julia, this is planted quite close to the rotary clothes line and the buzzing from the Bees was so loud when I pegged the laundry out this morning.

Fabulous!

Cottagekaren is right in saying that plants are ready to be potted on at the point of purchase. They sell them when they are at their best. She has given you some good advice, it will grow like billio when it gets some more room & fresh compost.

Love your roses. I have a similar Geranium but pink flowered. Unfortunately it doesn’t stay in flower for very long &in this drought the flowers soon went brown. Your lavender border is looking nice too. We will have to concentrate on all the Mediterranean plants if this global warming persists.

Nice that you do these planters tho’ I think your local council should do them.Ours in Godalming are lovely again this year. I can’t put any photos on here at present, perhaps by Christmas, we’ll see!!

Well done Shirley. I’m afraid I don’t do it every day, and that’s where my problems begin!

Great! I look forward to seeing it! Of course mine is potted, so restricted.

It’s hard to see the compost in this pic, but It looks like the pot is way too small for the plant. When you buy a houseplant it will likely already be needing a bigger pot. The best way is to repot with fresh house
Plant compost in a pot that is about 2” bigger at the rim than the one it is in, and then do that every couple of years. But yours looks like it has skipped about 3 repotting already, so if it were me I’d get a pot double that size now as it’s clearly dying to grow (literally) but has no space or food. Give it a good feed as well. Good luck!

Notice that the colors are reversed from the band (it isn't an eye because the pattern isn't on the sepals [your No.6 has an eye because it is on the petals and sepals]) in comparison to the edge. I wonder if it is trying to grow teeth.

I can get a flower from seed in the first year if I start the whole process Jan 1. Then late August or September, many will flower for the first time. It is really nice, but there might be changes over the next couple of years. It takes around 4 years for the flower to settle in to what it will actually look like.

I agree ... she sent me a white Phlox last October and I had hoped to show her a photo of it when it's flowering.

Yes, it certainly is. This site needs some maintenance methinks!

I will photo the neighbour's one in a while ... it was planted to block the folk opposite looking in on them!

Thanks Josee, yes, it’s a new situation for most of us.

Definitely worth waiting for.

Karen, last night I placed three small containers filled with the beer ... this morning two are empty but one had six slugs in it. Easy to empty them into a plastic flowerpot over a bucket ... then they went into the brown bin. Job done!

I have one of these but the unrepentant sun this last few weeks has crisped it up nicely. Leaves on my acers are going the same way. Hottest day this year yesterday here at Heathrow. I'm hoping they'll all come back as they did last year after the forty degrees we had in September 23. In the last ten years I've lost more plants from the heat than in winter from the cold.

Thank you Shirley tulip.

It took three years to flower but I have one that flowered a couple of weeks ago after being sown eighteen months ago. Still in a five inch pot. I wasn't expecting that! Like everything, the luck of the draw. Right place right time? Who knows.

The rose is Warm Welcome...a bright orange colour with small flowers...a really good doer each year.

Thanks for the updates, a nice bit of colour to what could be just drab boxes

Will you leave the pot marigolds to self seed?

They grow surprisingly fast!

You’re about to discover the ‘joys’ for yourself! I gave up and bought pellets. Then I removed all my Hostas.

That is a special one.

I've had a rather pleasant surprise with GoY today! :) after a good deal of trouble & time to log in when I finally got in I thought I would make up a quick blog. I found a site that talked about the uses of Baking Soda in the garden. I thought it would be something that might be of interest for others so I posted a link to the page in the blog.

Then I saw that in my anterior blogs I had written a blog (or various!) about the planters around the cash machine that I have been tending to these last couple of years. I thought I could do a new blog today & include some photos but at the same time I dreaded the waiting times for uploading the photos - here comes the surprise: they uploaded very quickly! :) It was most surprising!!! :)