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IN OUR GARDENS 2025
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Richard Dye
master brummie
We have some flowering plants that have the same problem, I would take a picture but it is too difficult for me!
pjmburns
master brummie
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
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The other is a Campanula which flowers for ages.
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
)The other is a Campanula which flowers for ages.
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I Am Nico
master brummie
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.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
The other is a Campanula which flowers for ages.
Richard Dye
master brummie
My goodness, so much still there. Where are you located?
I Am Nico
master brummie
Did you ever see the Wicker Man? ..... Well I live in Coventry . The blooms are not in abundance apart from the hydrangea but they are all there. I forgot the hyssop. I think maybe I should take the geraniums in?
Smudger
master brummie
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 !
Richard Dye
master brummie
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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Smudger
master brummie
Richard, i`ve been to the States a few times & they were blowing the leaves willy nilly too. Seems like you community have got the right idea.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
Richard Dye
master brummie
Yes, it works quite well, but you have to get the leaves to the curb, if not you are back to Willy nilly!
Richard Dye
master brummie
The Canada geese have arrived in our pond on the way South.....We expect more over the next few weeks. Having been in a cold snap for a few days, it will be in the 60/70's f.
Richard Dye
master brummie
And now the ducks have arrived on their way to somewhere!
Richard Dye
master brummie
And now we have a lone Heron……
I Am Nico
master brummie
I almost gave myself a hernia dragging the geranium pots in to the garage,. Normally they are light at this time of year but we have had so much rain. I left one out in the chimney pot by the front door and it is still flowering after the frost even.The garage is bitterly cold but at least the frost can't get them. The elephant ears are coming out now! The petunias are still flowering and the coreopsis and a snap dragon has opened and the cosmos that I had thought was dill and the hyssop and verbena are undeterred. Bizarre. One of my bird boxes has come down, I don't know why. A stronger nail is needed maybe.