My garden - a few pix

[Ed]

I wanted to share some pics of my garden - it's looking so pretty. 3- 4 years ago I spent a fortune on plants and they have grown nice and big, so much so that they're all merging into each other.

Here's the flower border in the front, between us and our neighbour:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_1121.jpg

You're looking at lambs' tongue, blue geraniums, sweet rocket, japanese anemones, foxgloves, and a white wisteria creeping up my neighbour's garage:flower: And a few weeds. Irritatingly, my neighbour complains because the blue geranium tends to 'flop' over an edge, rather than grow upright, so she gets out the scissors to it as 'it invades my airspace'. How petty.

This next shot is as it turns round a corner in front of the house. The triffid is a giant scabious. I like architectural plants that give structure and an interesting shape. I wish the buds would open, it's a beautiful pale yellow. The plant is about 2m tall, quite a bit taller than me.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_1123.jpg

The catmint in front of the garage has had a bad hair day. All the neighbouring cats love to sit in it.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_1124.jpg

The climbing rose has - well - climbed:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_1125.jpg

These next few plants are my absolute faves in the garden. Nearly in flower, they're giant thistles called cirsiums. They tower over a 2m fence. When I bought them, 3 or 4 years ago, there were each in a three inch pot. They survive drought and severe frost. The only thing they don't like is heavy rain as it breaks the huge but brittle leaves.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_1126.jpg

Here's another pic of another one. This one is simply enormous, it takes over everything else, but I haven't the heart to chop it.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/Sythree/IMG_1127.jpg

Ed

[kwak zzr]

nice plants Ed:) i like my garden but its not as organized as yours lol.

[dizzyblonde]

NIce pics. I found a couple of old pics of my garden.....beautiful....then came Bob the dog who digs up my prize flower beds, eats my clematis and generally stamps all over my Iris's.....sigh.

Tis so nice to admire someone elses lovely sunny flowers

[Bluepete]

That's superb mate!

Love those thistles, I want some cardoons, but don't ahave a field to fit it in!

I'll take some pics of mine tommoz. My scabious is deep red, about 18 inches high.

As for the blue geranium, get a bit of bendy steel, bend it into a loop at the top of a stick an it'll support it well.

My wisteria had very few fowers this year, last year it was a Chelsea flower show winner! This time, the wind literally blew the buds off the plant!

Pete

[b_1_rd]

Grass needs cut! ;)

Just kiddin! Looks awesome.

[melody]

The roses are gorgeous. :flower::flower:

I dislike gardening, but I might be persuaded otherwise if my garden looked that good.

[timwilky]

http://www.twsoft.co.uk/sv/garden1.jpg

Mine as seen from my study, AKA the loft.

You cannot see the plants at the from this angle. But the small tree produces the most glorious colours

http://www.twsoft.co.uk/sv/poppy.jpg
A lonely poppy waiting for her friends to bloom


See what I mean about the wonderful colour
http://www.twsoft.co.uk/sv/tree.jpg

[vfrcauv]

I wanted to share some pics of my garden - it's looking so pretty. 3- 4 years ago I spent a fortune on plants and they have grown nice and big, so much so that they're all merging into each other.

Here's the flower border in the front, between us and our neighbour:

You're looking at lambs' tongue, blue geraniums, sweet rocket, japanese anemones, foxgloves, and a white wisteria creeping up my neighbour's garage:flower: And a few weeds. Irritatingly, my neighbour complains because the blue geranium tends to 'flop' over an edge, rather than grow upright, so she gets out the scissors to it as 'it invades my airspace'. How petty.

This next shot is as it turns round a corner in front of the house. The triffid is a giant scabious. I like architectural plants that give structure and an interesting shape. I wish the buds would open, it's a beautiful pale yellow. The plant is about 2m tall, quite a bit taller than me.

The catmint in front of the garage has had a bad hair day. All the neighbouring cats love to sit in it.

The climbing rose has - well - climbed:

These next few plants are my absolute faves in the garden. Nearly in flower, they're giant thistles called cirsiums. They tower over a 2m fence. When I bought them, 3 or 4 years ago, there were each in a three inch pot. They survive drought and severe frost. The only thing they don't like is heavy rain as it breaks the huge but brittle leaves.

Here's another pic of another one. This one is simply enormous, it takes over everything else, but I haven't the heart to chop it.

Ed

Ed,

Beautiful shots & gardens! Just gave me an idea to take some SV shots in a garden. Will see what I can come up with! :D

[Bluepete]

This is from the back door, faces west so we get all the evening sunshine :sunny:
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/DSC_0163.jpg

Canna lilly and colius

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/DSC_0157.jpg

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/DSC_0158.jpg

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/DSC_0160.jpg

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/DSC_0159.jpg

baby tree fern fronds!

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk24/conker51/DSC_0164.jpg

Pete

[G]

I havea postage stamp sized entirely grass (which hasnt been cut for two week) garden.

Wish I had the time to do something with it.

[Ed]

Pete, your garden is looking beautiful!! I love the blue moon rose!! Did I spy a banana plant?

[Bluepete]

You do indeed spy banana plants. The triffids in the pot are about 5 years old and as I type, I am sitting in the shade of the 5 foot long leaves! The main stem is about 8 feet high so far and will end up around 10 feet by the end of summer. The scabby ones at the bottom of the deck are babies I took off the potted one and stuck in the ground. They were shredded by the wind last week.

All are Musa Basjoo, the pot goes in the greenhouse wrapped in fleece over winter, the others are wrapped in a chicken wire cage and stuffed with straw with an old compost bag over the top to stop rain getting in. Every year, without fail, I get mice nesting in the straw which then becomes bedding material for nesting birds! I get plants from http://www.junglegardens.co.uk/ who are really good plantsmen. You will be able to grow some really excellent bananas in Salop, it's warmer that up here!

As Tim suggested, I will have a BBQ over the summer, so general invites will be issued on the Border Patrol and Pennine Massive sections for anyone who wants to come up and chill in a tropical oasis in Wigan! Bed space will be available for long distance visitors.

Pete