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I love the way he just leans on that shovel - just so laid back! He must be on an hourly rate...

This colour is lovely!

I just started seeds for this vine in a hanging basket. Hope it comes up and looks this nice.

Nice! What a great little bird! You get quite a variety, whereas we only have the Ruby Throated up here. Is this an Anna's?

Nice photo - great detail!

These are just gorgeous!

Wow! That is awesome!

lol Tasteyg... There is always room for one more :)

My Christmas cactus spend the summer on my front porch.

Absolutely gorgeous! Fairy Tale beautiful. Kudos.

Next time someone gives me a bad time about having so many plants I'm going to direst them to your page! My goodness you have a lot of plants, but to me that's a good thing.

Wow, I bet this puts on quite the show when it blooms! Does this stay indoors? It looks so healthy.

Beautiful picture. Sorry about Fluffy.

I have planted some Stargazers in the garden this year, cant wait to see them flower.

Oh dear, it does look a bit fed up. Speaking from experience of my pampass which I have had for 3 years, I "prune it" by setting fire to it at the base which burns off all the dead foliage which works well. This spring mine was so huge we set light to it, dug it up, divided it, replanted the two halves & because we had halved it I cut the foliage down to about 12" to give the roots a chance to recover. It is now about 2' high with new green foliage coming. So all in all I would say that Pampass is pretty hardy to stand up to that.
I would be tempted to lift it to have a look at the roots, I'm sure it is worth saving. Re-plant it with lots of feed. Clear the dead foliage if you can & watch for the the new growth. Good luck with it.

I only visited the show, the view of the hills is lovely. I would think it a lovely walk, but hard work.

Probably not long, i have a friend with a pond and it doesn't take long to go green after having it cleaned.

Yes it is a spinning wheel, or a model of one anyway. I would think a real one would be bigger.

thanks for the advice! my garden is quite shady, so maybe thats why its growing so tall. its not in a hedge, but there were a lot of plants and weeds crowding round the base, and there was a rose bush growing through it. i've cut all that away now, so hopefully it'll start looking good!

HI Matt welcome to goy .Typically Wisteria pruned twice a year summer pruning after flowering finished(if lucky enough to have some) and winter prune.
In summer cut back those long whispy tendrils to about a finger length from main stem.In winter they can be given a hard prune if required.branches that have grown to desired length can be stopped by pruning ends Ideally Wisteria should have one main trunk with branches faning off this.If plant neglected or badly pruned now (winter) is time to remove excess basal growth.Wisteria should flower before leaves appear if flowers and leaves appear together sign of missed or incorrect pruning.