Buzzbee's Outbox

Oh yes oh yes oh yes - we love Shelties! My mum and dad have always had Shelties - yappy wee beauties - and sad person that I am my best friend for years for our Sheltie called "Clova". Lovely picture of the best dogs in the world!

Thanks Lyd and Spritzhenry.

Yes, if last year was a good year for slugs and snails, this year has to have been a bumper year!

Hi Spritzhenry - good to hear your Sweet Peas have done well. How did you Ipomeoa do? I tried again this year, and they grew so far, but again I suspect they succumbed to our cold wet summer.

I had the same problem last year, but they have flowered beautifully this year. Hmm, can't be more helpful about what I actually did though that was different from last year.

I do both of what Tussiemussie and Chrispook say. I DON'T recycle it by using straight away to pot up something else.

Speaking as someone who is still too cowardly to take proper cuttings, I wonder if you are pinching out the growing tips at an appropriate time? This is supposed to make things grow bushier.

Hi Ellieh - glad to hear your peppers are doing well - I've been getting a great crop - not hugely hot but very pretty. They've been a great success.

hallo Ourbilly - look forward to hearing how you get on next year with sweet peas - the newspaper worked a treat for me - our sweet peas are still flwoering even though I haven't been caring for them as well as I should - so I can only conclude that that I gave them a good start.

Ours were like that last year - one I cut back hard, and one I left - both have given good flowers this year. Don't know if that's helpful but maybe patience is the key?

I found Growmore compost activator helpful and I believe chicken manure is good too - yes, it should speed up the process.

Hi sid - the Bunny Tail grass is Lagurus ovatus - an annual, but easily sown from seed - if I can do it, then anyone can!

Thanks for this David.

Just like my wife Tammielee! Thank you.

Thank you for everyone for all your kind words. The sunflower started to bloom just before Sue died -so she did see it - and when the weather has been so vilely wet and grey for most of the days since, this flower has been shining like a glowing beacon in the garden - so I wanted to post these pictures. All your comments just confirm for me that gardeners really are a special breed of people.
Thank you,
Buzzbee

It's possible that as soon as your seeds in the ground sprouted they were eaten by something.

I don't know Flcray - it's common name in the UK is Feather Grass - Stipa tenuissima.

What a beautiful picture - you have captured perfectly the promise that these buds hold.

Hi Xela - as far as I know it's still there - I'm just a few miles across the water from Edinburgh but haven't been for some time - but it was there the last time I looked.

I do like it Irish, I think I just get dissatisfied when I see all those amazing gardens in the gardening comics or on the tele, and i get carried away thinking - oh I could do that - but then reality is quite different. But yes, I do like it.

Thanks Irish.

This is a stunning phygelius - the dark red and dark green leaves go so well together. Welcome to GoY from a fellow Fifer - this is a great site.

Yes Mikec - I think some of the Buddlejas are miracle plants - the way they grow back so vigorously from almost nothing.

This makes me want to rush out and take a picture of my morning glories - just to let you see how puny they are compared to this - but I think I shall spare everyone. I know someone here in Scotland who has had great success growing it in his greenhouse - maybe that is the best way in this part of the world.

Hi Spritzhenry - sounds like you have grown these for the first time - as have I this year. I like the flowers, but my plants are quite untidy looking - - don't know if I maybe planted them in too rich soil - just a bit straggly. How are yours? They look neat in this picture?

Pretty startlingly spectacular.

Brilliant - thinking about next year already - looking good.

I think it's great how you keep finding plants of the right theme that seem to go together so well together. Lovely.

Very very cute - but is he/she garden friendly?

What a gorgeous deep red. I think I'll favourite this to help me remember to look out for it for next year. I do like the Bishop series of dahlias.