IN OUR GARDEN 2023

[Strawberry Hunter]

I think I have Nelly moser. It's a large flower. They are very nice. Mine are in pots growing over a bamboo frame.

 

[Dave M]

Nelly Moser likes shade

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Oh, OK, mine is on a kind of shady position, that's probably why it is flowering so well.

 

[NOTSHARP]

In the garden of a friend in Worcestershire.













Steve.

 

[NOTSHARP]

Steve.

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Not a great pic but I thought I'd post it. Sorry, pic didn't load!!!!!!

 

[NOTSHARP]

Steve.

 

[mw0njm.]

Steve.

thanks steve i love the pooch and pigeon pics

 

[NOTSHARP]

thanks steve i love the pooch and pigeon pics

Dogs were made to lie in the sun, Pete.



Steve,

 

[mw0njm.]

Dogs were made to lie in the sun, Pete.



Steve,

true mine loves the garden ......get them some sun glasses steve

 

[MWS]

Picked my first peas yesterday, not really enough but hopefully more to come.

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Did you get your bedding plants from your friend Jan?

 

[NOTSHARP]

Steve.

 

[pjmburns]

Did you get your bedding plants from your friend Jan?

No - he is supposed to be coming tomorrow or Wed. Think he got tied up at work.
So I swept path, trimmed edge of lawn, tied a few things up and topped up the bird feeders. That took care of an hour.

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Sounds like youndid a lot in an hour. I've moved a few pots around today, some tidying, that's about it. The weather was a lot cooler here today!

 

[pjmburns]

Weather started cooler. I went to water a small tree on the field - it had to be moved and is struggling - so lots of water and TLC. I only had a cardigan over my t-shirt and was cold.
By the time I got in the garden the sun was out and I was warm enough.

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Cooler here today too. I'm just about to go out in the garden. What sapling was planted Jan? I think trees are fab.

We have a deciduous pine tree at the front of our houses. It's the wrong tree really as the needles get everywhere, but I love it. I do a lot of sweeping when it sheds.

 

[Alberta]

Beautiful big purple Allium, mine have not broken open yet, bit much smaller paler ones have.

 

[pjmburns]

Cooler here today too. I'm just about to go out in the garden. What sapling was planted Jan? I think trees are fab.

We have a deciduous pine tree at the front of our houses. It's the wrong tree really as the needles get everywhere, but I love it. I do a lot of sweeping when it sheds.

Kat - I think it is a birch - self seeded in someone's garden. They wanted rid of it. So that person and another volunteer dug it up and transplanted it where we had a gap. Most of the leaves have died or are dying but we hope that the water will encourage the roots to grow. Then, fingers crossed, it will shoot next spring.

 

[pjmburns]

Yesterday I caught a glimpse of a baby blackbird.Not a good photo as sun was in the wrong direction. Today one was being fed by Mom. Unfortunately Mom flew off as I pointed the camera but I managed to get a pic of baby.

 

[pjmburns]

Also topped up bird feeder and saw a coal tit throwing onto the floor what he didn't want

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Nice to hear that people will save trees/plants and re plant them. I like that. Always interesting when people put plants in hedgerows, there's a clematis growing by our local McDonald's in a council hedgerow! I can't imagine the council planted it!

 

[bren]

Greater Spotted Woodpecker - Male. Very lucky with the variety of birds that visit

 

[Richard Dye]

After a very hard winter, our hydrangeas are almost in full bloom!

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Cooler here today. I'm staying in. I'm not a cold weather person!

 

[NOTSHARP]

Cooler here today. I'm staying in. I'm not a cold weather person!

It's only feeling 10 deg. here today. North in the wind,


Steve.

 

[MWS]

Four years ago I planted a cherry tree, a plum tree and a blackcurrant bush. Had blackcurrants previously but no cherries or plums.

Noticed cherries growing a few weeks ago but thought I'd have to wait for the plums. However, yesterday I noticed they were growing as well, not sure how I didn't see them earlier.

 

[jukebox]

Poppies and lupins

 

[Strawberry Hunter]

Good news about your fruit trees MWS. You must be thrilled, I would be.

 

[carolina]

I have had my Fatsia plant for years but yesterday there were so many yellow/brown leaves with some already fallen off. It was very surprising as I have had an occasional dead leaf but never so many as there were yesterday.