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RE: Garden this morning

Tuppence — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:11:56 GMT

Oh, OK, Kath. I'll do that now. Thanks for the advice.

Very wet over the past three days so it should make the fuschia happy!

:)

RE: Garden this morning

Kath — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:45:43 GMT

Looking very lush Penny, cut any old growth of the fuchsia down to soil level now, it will soon come back :)

RE: Garden this morning

Tuppence — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:37:50 GMT

Update on the front garden. The daisies are now flowering. :) In the brown plastic pot you can just make out what I thought was the reamins of a fuschia, dead! I notice there is growth just beginning at the base of one of the pieces.

Penny

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment191.aspx[/img]

RE: Garden this morning

Tuppence — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:16:33 GMT

Thanks, Nick. Your garden sounds as though it's coming along nicely. Fritillaries are pretty. Saw some for sale at the garden centre the other day. Very wet and windy today after a bright start, but it will water in the new seeds I sowed the other day - night-scented stock and sunflowers. I was given nasturtium seeds today and have those and marigolds and Linum campanulatum still to sow.

:)

RE: Garden this morning

Albero — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:31:01 GMT

You're garden is looking good Penny, a lot more advanced than mine.

I've got primroses, periwinkle, spring snowflake and daffodils in flower plus my solitary pulmonaria, also blue.

The fritillaries are in bud and should be out in a couple of weeks.

RE: Garden this morning

Tuppence — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:55:49 GMT

Thanks, Jinny. I found information about it as the flame willow, Salix "Flame". On this site, there's a photo - scroll down the page and you'll see it.

[url]http://www.cdr3.com/growers/gr00002.htm[/url]

and here:

[url]http://static.naturehills.com/flamewillow/[/url]

Hope you enjoyed your walk and your little girl was tired! I'm just off to walk the three dogs beside the river. Where I walk in a new wood, sometimes, there are rows of willow planted for basket-making, etc., and there are ones with red stems.

The day started sunny but it's overcast now at nearly 10 a.m. Looks like rain is coming in.

:)

RE: Garden this morning

Jinny — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:40:13 GMT

Hello

Apperently the flaming willow does have red leaves in the autum...Trying to do a red white and pink colour theme in the parent part of the garden...After i got the willow i tried to look it up on the web...no luck....just think the garden centre saw a garden newbie and thought ahhhh someone we can con...it looks like it's going to be a nice day here(yeah)...think i'm going to take the little girl for a nice walk to tire her out...lol

RE: Garden this morning

Tuppence — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:32:55 GMT

I'm pleased you enjoyed seeing the garden, Jinny. I don't know flaming willows and will look them up. I presume they have red-coloured stems, or is that the colour of their leaves in the autumn? What a pity yours died. The Kilmarnock willow in the photo is a hardy thing.

I walked the dogs by the river this morning in the rain. Wish I'd taken my camera as I passed a beautiful willow covered in catkins.

:)

RE: Garden this morning

Jinny — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:06:02 GMT

Hello

Very nice slideshow.....love the willows and daff's...I've given up with the garden till it warms up...i got a flaming willow for my garden...but i think it's died....thinking about getting the same willow...i'll decide when the weather is better...already got wet twice today...:unsure:...lol

RE: Garden this morning

Tuppence — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:42:29 GMT

Hello Keith. I wondered whether some of you would still be in the "ice age". :)

Hope your weather improves soon and you can begin gardening.

RE: Garden this morning

keithmart — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:17:35 GMT

Hi Penny

Very good slide show. Your garden is a lot more adavanced than ours here in 'The frozen north!!!!'

Garden this morning

Tuppence — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:38:11 GMT

I took a few photos early this morning. :)

[url]http://good-times.webshots.com/slideshow/562911809WBDYnO[/url]

I notice that the pulmonria is predominantly blue this year, last year it was more pink.

Fed the roses for the first time this year, this morning.