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It is a very open flower Yucca, they are usually a bit tighter I think.

You cheated, Harli! If you had shown us the leaves, we'd have known what it was!!!!

Looks like they could be D'Anjou, but I'm no expert. The best book I ever found on canning is called "Putting food by" it is very old so I don't know if still available, but maybe the library might have it.

Yes, they are surely day lilies (Hemoracalis).. We inherited some bright orange ones when we moved in 5 years ago. We put a couple in a pot and have it in the pond, they come back every year. They like damp, shady places. They put all their effort into producing beautiful, exotic looking blooms, only to have withered the next day. The have colonised very well and I've had to dig some of them up, sadly.

loganberries are thornless
Sorry, but whilst there is a thornless variety of Loganberry, they are most definitelt THORNY! Indeed there are thronless varieties of Blackberry.
In both cases they can and do produce extremely thorny shoots too.

Looks like a cane fruit of some sort, the growth it makes this year will fruit next year, the canes can get very long. Train them where you want them the leaves drop then sprout again in spring, if you cut them down again this autumn you will sacrifice next years fruit, In spring mulch with compost and keep well watered and you will have lots of lovely soft fruit next year. It could be a tayberry or a cultivated blackberry, loganberries are thornless. To make new plants pin down the tip of the cane on the soil and it will root

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/fruits/blackberry3.htm

Have a look on this webpage, very good photo's of blackberry leaves and I think they are different from your photo.

Gosh this must be unuisual, neither of us can put a name to it. Would it be possible to see a picture of the inside of the flower?

Sorry cannot help with the apple variety. There are thousands of them.
The brown spots look a little like a mild does of scab (Not sure if you get that in America). We spray ours with Copper sulphate (sulfate) which is a reasonably organic fungicide. The other thing we use is called Bordeaux mixture. This is copper sulphate with something else added, cannot remember what at present, sorry. Otherwise you need a fungicide designed specifially for fruit trees. Dithane is the one which comes to mind.

Not really. Some Sempervivums do get quite tall, especially if the rosette was a large one to begin with. Sad that the rosette dies after flowering is it not?

They could either be Blackberries or Loganberries. They flower on wood produced last year. so if you leave them alone now, they should be ok for next season. Then after fruiting, you cut off the canes which have fruited and tie in the new ones for the follwoing year.
6 months? Gosh you have done a tremedous amount. I am totally impressed.

Each flower only lasts one day- hence the name. The new buds open to give you more in a well-established clump, so they aren't really good for cutting.

Pretty - but I can't name it for you! I'm sure someone else will know. :-)

They look like Hemerocallis - Day lilies.

deffo! anemone

LOL--those green buds or whatever on the right side of the picture look like koosh balls!! :D Love it! The primroses are beautiful, also! Mustn't forget them! :)

Yay! This is honeysuckle!! You can eat them, y'know? I used to love to eat from them as a kid (heck--I still do!!). You can pluck off the ones that are fully bloomed (yellow or white), tear off the green tip on the bottom, and carefully pull out the string-looking thing from the bottom. As you come to the end of the string, a drop of honey-like goodness is there, and you can eat that! Mmm ... honeysuckle ...

This is great to teach kids, if you have any around. Any time I saw honeysuckles, I just had to go eat some! :D

I used to call this Winter Honeysuckle (Probably wrong as it's summer!!) The scent is good, but doesn't compare to the traditional yellowy ones.

The creatures inside are harmless, but the best way to get rid of them is to spray water at the 'suds' and then the birds will eat the 'critters'.

Harli - I remember identifying it for you and pointed you at my photos from last year! Did you miss my answer? Anyway, never mind, it is a Japanese Anemone and could be pink or white.

Definitely Japanese anemone.

Honeysuckle not sure which one, but it should smell fantastic.

The plant looks like a Lavender, do the leaves have the scent?

I think it's a Japanese anemone

Inside the "suds" is a little insect called a frog hopper. I believe it sucks the sap from the young shoots. The suds are known as "Cuckoo spit"

Yes they do that. They're flowering. The fls are pritty but the rosette of leaves will die after the fls fade. Don't worry though because the offsetts will keep growing.

Show a flower after they open

From the shape of the flowers it looks like a type of Lonicera ( Honeysuckle )

this campanula plant can be planted in sun or shade, you can neglect it but it wont be bothered,great ground cover too. i have the same one its called star of bethlehem. enjoy!

Good oh. My son is in the process of turning my stories into books. We will print enough of them for all the family. It is a smashing feeling though to see what you have written in 'proper book form' rather than just on the Blog or the Computer screen.
Gardening is a great way to calm down. It can be frustrating, annoying, stressful and then you find a fantastic flower or a bird or an insect to stop and watch and what else matters?