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Interesting plant, Never heard of it before.

When we planted two lavenders close to our seating area, we had no idea that they’d be so popular with butterflies as well as bees. They’re so entertaining to watch - a treat 🙂

Fantastic. A kerbside strip like this was sown in my local area. It too looked beautiful but they do tend to look messy when they go to seed. It is nice though that our Council make the effort to help wild life.

That's good Balcony. Butterflies are not the easiest of insects to take photos of.

Wow! What a bargain. It used to be hard to get anything other than p. Caerulea or the white form. Now there are a few purple ones claiming hardiness. I used to have a collection of the smaller ones in my conservatory. I bought them online. But in the end they bled too much nectar all over the place. Very sticky! I love them though.

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Thanks Karen. I'm not sure if it's got a name but the label on the pot at the time said mixed passion flower. The other had a label Eynsford Gem. Reduced from £30 each to £5 each was just too good to resist

Thanks Rose!

It is beautiful! I had a wildflower garden when I lived in Willow Cottage and went on to a wild life site for seeds and with a little patience the following year was amazing.
I will try to find the photo Julia.

The desert southwest deserts are the hottest in the world. Death Valley, California still holds the record for the hottest official temp ever recorded on earth, 56.7°C (134 F) at Furnace Creek.

Thanks to all of you for your comments:) Whew! It has been so hot and humid these past couple of months at my location.There are definite climatic changes going on causes of which are known and unknown none of which should be blamed or politicized. Getting on in years is hard but there is still fun and satisfaction to be had doing the things that I had little time for or avoided because I had to do things and utilize precious time to fulfill the more practical and responsible aspects of my life. What I considered nonsense in my younger years is really what I should have been paying more attention to for as Cottagekaren related..." it feeds our souls".

Ty both, the pic has gone on at last. The Lilies have finished now & the Catmint has had the spent flowers trimmed off. It will flower again.

Balcony, you asked what this was. I didn’t know it had even gone on, as it wouldn’t for ages. I have just found it. It is made with 2 of those plastic things that are used to hold bags open. These are held in place with wire netting, now completely covered by Ivy. It is a neat place to throw all my compostable plant material, nothing goes in my council bin.

Sent you a PM!

Julia, I am happy to hear that Rich is feeling the improvement .

You are right Julia , thank you for your comment.

well I'd leave it as you may get some female flowers as it ages.

Me too Callie!xx

It is beautiful Meadowland. I would love that in my garden also, I can only dream xx

Just to let you know that the one with dead leaves has now been 'harvested' to reveal that the tubers must have died at some point. I got six small potatoes, lovely of course and which I can use in a potato salad. The other three are very green and will hopefully harvest as usual. I wonder why these things happen.

It's a shame they last such a short time in the heat. My rose, 'Golden Wedding' had produce 3 flowers in the same week, (this is it's first year), but in another week they had all gone! Waiting 9 months for a few flowers that were over in a week! I'm looking forward to seeing more after I cut the branches back a little.

You are very observant, FF! You are right on both counts! The rose does have brilliant green leaves & the flowers are very nice.

The tomato plant you saw is in a tub alongside the rose, it's not in the same tub as the rose. I had a few plants that nobody from our church wanted & as I hate to throw away perfectly good plants I ended planting them in a couple of tubs alongside the rose. I doubt I will get much fruit from them but a few tomatoes on each plant would be OK.

That's a tremendous amount of heat! I experienced temps of up to 40+C in Madrid when I worked there for a couple of years & then I was 50 years younger than I am now.

A day or two ago I was watering the pots in my son's garden while he is away & I saw a butterfly that reminded me of yours! In fact I saw a couple even before reaching his house though in his street. I took a photos but as it wouldn't stay still the photo came out bad & I deleted it. He has a Buddleia in his garden, (not in flower at the moment), & one stopped there which gave me the chance to get up close & take a decent photo.

That is lovely. I thought it was a watercolour painting!

Thank you so much Lindak..it's about 15 years old.

That looks like mealy bug but if you put this on questions, someone is sure to know.

The other one I’m not sure about is Gabriel Oak. The big pink one on the left. It’s very similar to its neighbour. It’s very healthy and robust, but I don’t love it at the moment. Will see how I feel at the end of the season. I might remove it and replace it with a more purple rose or maybe something a little more drought resistant.

No, I get it though Shirley. The ground cover reds are already out. I took them Out when I trimmed the early lavender a couple of days ago. They hardly had any roots. The border is much better without them. The other red rose is staying for now because it’s doing so well and is so healthy in the shady corner. However, it’s not my favourite, and it isn’t the right red. But it’s Almost thornless and just looks great where it is planted. For now!

Aw, Linda, that’s so lovely! Doesn’t it make you feel grand?

Would it be a Magnolia?

It will improve slowly..Rich is only now feeling the improvement since he was referred to F for Life post operatively.

Non gateaux Lindak..travaux de jardinage!!

I am still not very mobile Shirley but not as much painful as before the operation.
I hope that the weather will settle down soon for you. Our weather on South V. Island is just perfect at this moment.

So pretty ... I just said on your previous photo that I picked my first ones today.

Lovely one. This morning I bought some Alstroes in the supermarket, then got home to find there were two stems of 'Indian Summer' in flower at home.

Feeling chuffed as they are the first I have ever grown.

Very attractive in that setting.

Karen, you have some very pretty Roses in your collection but I'm afraid both of the reds would have to go.

I have no idea why I dislike red Roses, always have done, so I'm not going to keep one of the J. Parker triple offer ones as it is just too vivid for me.

Rose, that did make me smile! You shall have to get in there and find them ... :o))

Thanks Eileen. We have been away for five days and I'm annoyed to find a workman had knocked over a pot of Mint, then brushed all the gravel top dressing over the slate. Grrr!

Eileen, it's really just an area alongside a footpath but is attractive with the plants now. I just hope they are being watered regularly.

Klahanie, how are you feeling now? A little more mobile?

It is far too hot here in the UK for me to do any gardening and there may well be a garden hosepipe ban in force soon.

It was, David, all gone courtesy of the heat :o(

Sheila, we have just had a short break away, I didn't look in to GoY at all and am not at all surprised this afternoon to find it is taking ages to access the site, let alone put a photo on!

Your Acer looks fantastic.

Une tasse de caffe.......non gateaux?

Lovely garden. I’m in the same place as you, I can’t do any heavy lifting. I will have to make a few changes for next year, especially if these heat waves are going to persist. The watering is a pain & some plants have shrivelled up, but not the Lavender or Sage, so will have to grow Mediterranean plants from now on. I keep the bird’s water dishes topped up. Nice that you have such exotic birds in your garden.

Very majestic .one of my favourite plants.They seem to 'instinctly' know where to appear artistically.

Lovely to see so many. I recued a little Woodland Brown yesterday. It was suffering from the heat, so I put it in my hand and gave it a Local honey and water mix on a spoon and it revived and flew off. Did the same to a Bumblebee too.

It’s a lovely rose Balcony, the leaves are nice & glossy too. You seem to have a tomato plant coming up there too. :-)