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IN OUR GARDENS 2025

Took these a few days ago when I got leaves up from the small front patch.
The rose was originally one of those miniature ones you buy for indoors. When it stopped flowering I put it in the front garden and it took off - hardly stops flowering except when I prune it.
The yellow is a winter jasmine. (I keep being asked by passers by if it is forsythia :D )
The other is a Campanula which flowers for ages.
 

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pjmburns said:
Took these a few days ago when I got leaves up from the small front patch.
The rose was originally one of those miniature ones you buy for indoors. When it stopped flowering I put it in the front garden and it took off - hardly stops flowering except when I prune it.
The yellow is a winter jasmine. (I keep being asked by passers by if it is forsythia :D )
The other is a Campanula which flowers for ages.
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Our winter flowering jasmine has been out a month, still have geraniums Canterbury bells, Japanese anemones, hydrangeas, spiked speedwell. mimulous, verbena yarrow, coreopsis petunias , but that dill I was asking the forum about, is in fact Cosmos now I have pulled them out, they were massive higher than the windows, but smaller ones appeared along the drive. Friends gave me a nyger seed feeder for my birthday it is to attracts siskin, we have never had those, chaffinches and greenfinches, who don;t come anynmore we will se what the robin and sparrows make of it.
 
I Am Nico said:
Our winter flowering jasmine has been out a month, still have geraniums Canterbury bells, Japanese anemones, hydrangeas, spiked speedwell. mimulous, verbena yarrow, coreopsis petunias , but that dill I was asking the forum about, is in fact Cosmos now I have pulled them out, they were massive higher than the windows, but smaller ones appeared along the drive. Friends gave me a nyger seed feeder for my birthday it is to attracts siskin, we have never had those, chaffinches and greenfinches, who don;t come anynmore we will se what the robin and sparrows make of it.
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My goodness, so much still there. Where are you located?
 
Can some dear soul explain to me the purpose of leaf blowers? There`s a guy going round my village blowing leaves from one place to another. It might make sense if he was blowing the leaves into a pile for someone to pick them up but he`s just blowing them anywhere he fancies. Maybe he`s been a naughty boy & that`s his punishment !
 
Smudger said:
Can some dear soul explain to me the purpose of leaf blowers? There`s a guy going round my village blowing leaves from one place to another. It might make sense if he was blowing the leaves into a pile for someone to pick them up but he`s just blowing them anywhere he fancies. Maybe he`s been a naughty boy & that`s his punishment !
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We have leaf blowers and a lots of leaves. We or someone blows the leaves to the curb and our community picks them up 4 or so times during leaf dropping season using a big vacuum truck. We also blow the dust out of our garage, keeps everything clean :).
 
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