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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!!! :)

Quite...sad isn't?

Gifted by Ange...do miss her humour on here.

Oh yes, this is gorgeous. May I ask how long this took from seed to flowering?

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Love these colours.

Pesky snails ... there are loads in the Kniphofia foliage.

This is lovely, with the dark centre against the pale petals.

Well done on growing this from seed ... it's lovely.

Very pretty.

Beautiful flowers.

A neighbour has one ... it is massive now!

It certainly is!

Karen, I have only ever tried growing one Fern, with no success.

Today I bought one bottle of beer, considering we are tee-total it was odd, but I'm hoping the slugs will love it. Your comment saying they are messy and unpleasant has somewhat put me off though!

Well, you can't blame them as they look delicious!

I like this very much.

It's a lovely one.

That is a lovely memory of Ange ... I fear she won't be the last to leave this site!

The American Robin is so different to the British one.

They are lovely. I had 3 pots of Astilbes for a few years, then they just stopped blooming!

Very dramatic.

One week later ... no response from Dave. :o(

That’s a very pretty one.

I second that.

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Thanks David ... shall have a look soon.

Josie, a frozen shoulder sounds quite painful so I hope it gets better for you sooner rather than later.

I agree about the Salvia, it may have to go later.

Thanks Jane ... btw did you see that 'jazzy' Daylily I found growing at the back of my garden? No idea where it came from!

Rose, could you maybe enlist the help of family to help with that task? Bribe them with food!!

Thank you Meadowland and Owdboggy. Will cut down in Feb. and plant another one to leave. Sounds like a good idea!
What rose are you growing ML? I'm very disappointed in mine.

I agree, it looks very pretty Shirley. I am in two minds whether to empty and clean out ( horrible job) my viewing pond.
While away my two fish have disappeared and it is so full of algae all round the sides.
It is a full days job.
I am like Feverfew, finding it so frustrating to do blogs now.

A trick Christopher Lloyd used was to plant 2 of the same Clematis together. One he cut down in February and the other he left. That way he got flowers both low down and higher up. Never tried it myself though.