piggy and babs 544 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 ONLY A FEW WEEKS AGO I WAS TALKING TO SOMEONE IT MAY HAVE BEEN KAT ABOUT FLOWER THAT GREW WILD WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER THAT YOU DONT SEE VERY OFTEN NOW DOG DAISIES AND LUPINS WERE JUST TOO OF THEM THEN BLOW ME OUT WE GO THOUGH DERBYSHIRE LAST WEEK END WHAT DO I SEE LOADS AND LOADS OF DOG DAISIES AND ON THE BYEPASS BETWEEN CHESTERFIELD AND MANSFIELD LOADS OF DEEP PURPLE AND LGHT AND DARK PINK LUPINS WE TRAVEL THIS RD REGULARLY AND I CARNT EVER REMEMBER SEEING THEM THERE BEFORE LOVED LUPINS AS A CHILD BUT MUM WHOULD NEVER HAVE WILD FLOWERS IN THE HOUSE AND MY FAVORITE WERE THE PURPLE AND THE PINK ONES. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 * I saw a lovely sight whilst on a bus journey the other day: at the side of the busy by-pass was growing a profusion of blood red poppies, their fragile petals fluttering in the wind; by their sides grew daisys, their tiny heads the brightest white .......... * A beautiful moment captured, retained within my memory and brought back to 'live again' through my imagination ........ There are places in Loughborough like that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Just cut the grass and trimmed the borders like a good-un!. Just going to get the clubs and go for a round when I get an e-mail telling me they are delivering a new blind the wife ordered anytime between 0. 7.30 and 17.30. GITS!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 did it arrive at 5 pm in the end they usually do when you want or need to be elsewere Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Came at 16.30 a whole day wasted doing more gardening and like. Still!! England won and I had a good bottle of wine through the game. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted June 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 I've brought this topic back and it was so touching to find that under the first posting I made was Carltongal's. How enthusiastic she was for growing things; not having a garden didn't stop her ............she loved to see things growing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted June 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 June 26th, 2012 In My Garden today I took some photographs - promise I will have a go at downloading them within the next few days. The constant rain has ceased awhile ........ A soft, warm wind was blowing, brushing tenderly against my face, I loved it .......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Share Posted June 26, 2012 I took some photos of some of my wild flowers and shrubby bits today. Will upload and post in the morning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 I love the colour of these Californian Poppies: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Some of the June flowering wildflowers in the garden: Sweet Rocket Cow parsley Borage (flowers make an ideal ice cube insert. simply add to water in cube and freeze) Dog daisy (Ox eye) Fox and cubs hawkweed (orange flowers not yet fully opened), growing with perennial caornflowers Jacob's ladder Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Different coloured lupins in the garden: Tree lupin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 I've just come in after another hours digging....I'm getting there slooooooowly... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Some of the shady and shrubby sections of the garden: The "back of the potting shed" garden: In the Well garden (not much in flower this month) The beer garden - needing some attention! Another section of the well garden: And a third corner The pond and Junipers The sundial/compass By the big shed The former chicken shed 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 A much bigger open plot than your previous picture Poohbear - keep up the good work. Just a thought but you could speed up the clearance process by hiring a turf cutter for a day. Cut the turf off and stack it upside down to make good topsoil for next year. I can't get into the garden just now, it's pelting down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 lovely garden compo lots of different plots with different things in them but still very natural looking . its nice and warm down here at the moment hope it stays like this for next few days. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Like Kat I would love a lilac tree but I don't think they would survive the north Scotland winters. My mother planted a lilac at her house on Gladehill Road, Arnold when she first moved in in 1955. When she died in 2008 the neighbours (I assume) dashed around and cut it down - Bast*rds! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 A much bigger open plot than your previous picture Poohbear - keep up the good work. Just a thought but you could speed up the clearance process by hiring a turf cutter for a day. Cut the turf off and stack it upside down to make good topsoil for next year. Same plot mate...not Wollaton park like yours... As I said before...turf cutter ok...but I want to shake the soil out of each sod.I'm getting there.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted June 27, 2012 Report Share Posted June 27, 2012 Some great photos Compo. Taken with your new camera no doubt? What was it again? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 i had forgoten what kat said about liking lilac bushthis could be great idead for a memorial bush for hergoing to go up garden ceentres to look at prices of different bushes and see if i can get some anvice on best time to plant different bushes trees this week weather permiting.otherwise its on the net for best info Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 You can plant pot grown bushes and trees all throughout the year but bare root ones have to be done between November and March. You wont find any bare root trees at this time of year so you will have to buy a pot grown one. The advantage of pot grown is that they are more-or-less guaranteed to take root and grow but with bare root the weather could kill the roots. Pot grown are more expensive but it would probably be worth paying the extra. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Some great photos Compo. Taken with your new camera no doubt? What was it again? Canon 550D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Garden is looking half-decent this morning, despite the foul weather of late: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 2, 2012 Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Compo I have some of these orange daisy like flowers on a stalk. Come back every year and I see they have spread to several front gardens down the street. Any idea what they are? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 Photo @ #172 Hi Compo, a lovely photo you've put on: the bright, pastel, complimentary colours of the flowers - love the soft orange lupins - and the rhythms they create with their arrangement; love the contrasting texture of the monkey tree. In fact the photograph is full of texture. PS: I've been having a go at downloading; you'd think with three people giving advice I'd have some luck! My only success so far is downloading from 'You Tube' onto 'Facebook'! Still I'll keep trying .......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted July 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2012 photo @ #173 Mick, I just love those flowers - they've taken root in some houses near to me - I'm rather betting they're weeds! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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