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Beautiful flowers.

How sweet. We haven't seen any of the Swans here with their babies. There are two from last year that we feed when we go down the road.

What a super show of flowers.

Lovely combination.

So far it's still intact Rose...

That's a good idea putting it on a table away from snails Julia.

I love it!

Beautiful colour Shirley. My Penstamons aren't even in flower yet!

Lovely plant.

Lovely Hosta....without holes. My Hostas have lace patterns in the leaves.....My Hedgehogs are keeping the slugs and snails down though.

What a sweet little bird.

Lovely flower Klahanie. I have two different ones in the front garden and they are in full sun. I moved them from the back where they were in the shade and they have done a lot better where they are now.

How lovely that the leaves change into all those colours Klahanie.

Thanks Balcony. We distribute about 250 or more booklets, and the local children love them.

Thank you Owdboggy.

It’s often like that Balcony, I rarely post these days as it annoys me when I try only to find half my comments are disappearing….

All shrubs do better in a loam based compost which holds more moisture and nutrients than MPC.

We had one here that seemed to have no scent to it.
Could be the weird weather we are having.

A lovely plant, Shirley! I confused it for a moment with a Foxglove somebody was growing last year! It also was a white spike!

I'd never heard of this so I did a search & saw lots of images of it! The fruits look like mini red peppers! I saw a picture of the fruit cut open & the interior looks mostly solid & not mostly empty like peppers.

The flowers alone would make growing this plant worth the while! I saw white flowers with a "starburst" of stamens. Really attractive. :)

That IS small! Unfortunately age catches up with us all! My wife was talking to her sister on the phone & was telling her how we are all getting older & have less energy than we used to have & how I often get the bus back home from town now when I always used to walk to & from town & refuse to use the bus. So you are not alone!!! :D :D :D

A day after I wrote the comment above my son sent me a photo of a larvae but he didn't know what it was. I told him it's the larvae of the Ladybird! He had never seen one before but he said he had hundreds in his garden!!! So now I know where they have all gone!!! :D :D :D

That's a fantastic idea, Lindak! I hope it becomes popular once it's out! :)

Thanks Rose.

Karen, this little wheelbarrow lives beneath the shade of the Grapevine most years.

Thanks Rose, it really is a lovely shade.

Sounds like the makings of a very attractive wildflower area.

:o)

Great colour for a shady spot. :)

That’s true…not nearly as many weeds this year!

Yes, we call it Thorn apple. l quite like it, find it interesting.

I think it will recover from its sun scorch. I’m sure it prefers to be left where it usually is indoors. Plants are adapted to their normal spot, also Monstera would not want to be in the sun. Hope I am right about this.I’m not an expert!

I love the brilliant blue colour Shirley.

Very pretty.

Good idea Karen. I shall do that.

Rose, I deadhead them by picking stems for my vase! Then late summer I deadhead the whole lot once they are fading.

Thank you Linda and Sheila for your comments.

Thanks Shirley. It’s cute!

Rose, I will when it gets a bit better. Yes Shirley, loads of mixes. I have been buying some and also mixing my own!

It is Shirley. I got it from Tesco and I’m pretty sure it is ‘June’ my favourite Hosta.

:o)))

Ooh yes slate backdrop would be excellent!

It is a very attractive Hosta though ... :o)

Karen, have you seen the incredible amount of wild flower seed mixes now available? I was looking at them recently, packets of seeds, balls of seeds, all different mixes.

Today we were waiting at traffic lights, the grass verges have been left to grow and there were lovely tall plants with blue flowers, no idea what they were though.

I prefer this to the red ...

The Bees will thank you for planting those Lavenders!

Definitely!

Julia, it has spread to a really good size now.
With hindsight it would look better against dark slate or stones rather than the light stones it currently is planted by!

Thanks Rose, I bought this in memory of my dear Mum who would have loved it too.

As the saying goes......consideration is the key to fruitful conversation.......which I find that this site gives me the time to do that...more so recently::)

I love all the mix of colours!