Gardening

[Tizer]

Our garden is full of flowers that shouldn't still be flowering at this time of the year. We have a big Salvia bush full of bright flowers and it started flowering in May and hasn't stopped since. At least the flowers make up for all the sunless misty days we are enduring.

[Tripps]

Well - another year has begun. .

Here's the snowdrops. I think they are a bit late this year - though that's just a hunch. I don't keep records. They look better in life than in the picture. . .

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[Stanley]

Nice reminder David that there is hope for us yet!
I haven't looked at my garden for a while..... I might brave a pic later today. It will not look as fecund as that. (Unless you count the wild flowers and grasses from last year!)

[Tripps]

I keep getting steered to this advert by youtube. I rather fancy getting one -but they say "if it looks too good to be true. . . . . "

[PanBiker]

So do I.

[Stanley]

I've seen the advert as well..... Worth a try?

[Cathy]

While washing-up ( a few minutes ago) I heard a ‘shimmering’ noise, looked up and watched hundreds and hundreds of leaves dropping onto my back garden from a large tree next door. Wow!
A few weeks of leaf loss to go and I only have a few plants left flowering after Summer.
Hopefully Autumn has arrived, even tho it is still 39C with wind gusts of 43kph.

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[Wendyf]

Everything looks remarkably green Cathy despite the heat.

[Cathy]

That’s because I water the pots every two to three days.
The sun has burnt the Agapanthus in pots, next to the fence.
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[Stanley]

That was what struck me as well Wendy....
Leaves falling off a tree. I saw that happen in Martha's garden at Northfield in Minnesota Cathy. There was a small tree, Japanese I think, was it called a Ginkgo? It was a calm day and quite suddenly the leaves started to fall from the tree and rained down on the soil underneath. In half an hour the majority of the leaves were on the floor. Never seen anything like it before or since.

[Cathy]

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I pinched some Plumbago on my wander today.
This is the last of it until our next Spring/Summer.
No scent but very pretty.

[Stanley]

Morning Cathy, that's nice!

[Wendyf]

Just to reassure Kev that his pepper plant still lives in my poly tunnel. It has a dozen baby peppers growing away.
Kev you were right about there being a separate plant in the pot, that is a chilli pepper.

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[Stanley]

The wild garden today. It appears to be fighting the drought well!

[Cathy]

What happened to the Wild Flowers Stanley, are they still to bloom?

[Stanley]

There have been far more grasses Cathy but the insects like the plants that are there. They are after things other than the flowers I think.

[Tripps]

When you get your Ash tree chopped down and leave it - sometimes you get Bracket Fungi. . .

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[Stanley]

An impressive growth David. Is it edible?

[PanBiker]

Not recommended, some variants are tolerable to humans but you need an expert to identify, majority are harmful according to Google, its also known as "Conk"

[Tripps]

I'm not at all tempted to eat it. Watched too many Midsummer Murders for that.

I even find that shop bought mushrooms don't have much taste these days - though the jury is out over whether it's the mushrooms or me.

[Stanley]

Asa child during the war, I had a very bad experience with mushrooms, and I think they were foraged. I have never touched fungus since.... I doubt if I am worse off for it.