More nice bits of my garden and some newish geraniums

Beautiful mingles Ba and lovely pictures, please keep putting the pictures on :-)
I've never heard of the Colutea it's gorgeous, I'm off to google it now :-)

Your garden is just a joy to see.

Your mingling is superb!! I need to improve my mingling I think!

I love the tiny geranium and that wonderful dahlia. We are growing dahlias for the first time and they are just about to flower.

What a beautiful garden you have. That's a lovely dahlia. We can't grow them here as the slugs and snails.find them whatever we do.where did you get the Orkney cherry? Looks like a v ery useful do-er! Your amber flower carpet is a winner too.

You have some lovely mix's there Ba. Love the roses.

Always enjoy seeing your garden. It's all looking great. Don't leave it too long before you show us more.

really enjoyed seeing your garden, everything looks great

Its lovely BA, if you've got it flaunt it lol ;)

Beautiful display,Ba,and I haven't heard of Colutea before either,it's lovely..as are all your plants,especially like your Roses,that Amber carpet is gorgeous..Keep your pics coming,it is all a credit to you..well done my dear :o) x

Wonderful! Thank you for taking the trouble to share your lovely plants and garden with us. Loved it. :-))

Bored? Not for a moment!

P.S. Colutea is a new one on me, too - off to google it.

Just gorgeous Ba, shows your artistic side with the beautiful mingles :0)
As to the hydrangea, I have a couple of questions/ suggestions, is it young, you didn't prune the flowers offdid you? Have you fed it, try a tomato feed but not after this month or its new growth can get frost damage being too soft
anything strike a chord?
I love your garden x

Hi there Ba, lovely pics, art deco is a beauty. The planting around your pond is really something to admire.

Thanks Simbad, colutea is a very old shrub, I bought this one in the eighties/nineties. It's indestructible and (famous last words) doesn't seem to be bothered by any pest or disease:-)

Thanks Chris, there are some beautiful dahlias, but I don't seem to have much luck keeping them. I did have some which are somewhat hardy and last in the ground a few years, then vanish. I look forward to seeing yours:-)

Hi Stera, I can't remember where I bought Orkney Cherry, but I'm sure it was from a Scottish nursery which I can't find now when I google. There are quite a few other places that sell it on line though if you google it:-)

Thanks Cinders, I just love roses and may end up with a garden full. The flower carpet amber, is supposed to flower for ever and has a slight fragrance, I prefer the one in the pics above though, Designer Sunset, makes me drool ... could be senility though lol:-))

Scottish .... you flatterer:-)))

Thank you Taz, very kind:-)

Lol Jane, never thought of it that way:-)

Why thank you kindly dear Sandra (curtseys) I try my best, but only show the good bits:-))

Now look here barbara, I can't believe you don't know colutea ... been around for ever, alias bladder senna? I don't use that name, sound too much like a parasite or disease:-))

Hiya Pam:-) It is young and has put on a lot of growth since I bought it (it was all flower then). I did feed it in the spring, with a granular fetiliser, I think, and I didn't decapitate it. I will try a tomato fertiliser, do you think that's the problem? I have had to get rid of some hydrangeas which, for some reason, ceased to flower, I hope this won't be one. I have a rather large hydrangea in a pot which is now far too small for it in my opinion and it's full of flowers !!! Maybe they're contrary:-))

Thank you Sarahm, I bought d. Art Deco from a local green grocers ... I wish they had them in again:-)

No, I really haven't come across Colutea before, Ba. I did check it out, and it wouldn't fit in my garden...it looks great in yours, though! :-D) (P.S. I don't like the alternative names either...)

Lol Barbara, my garden is tiny and my colutea, which is at least about 20 years old, is only about 7 feet high! It has (accidentally) been chopped down to the ground and covered with about a foot or two of soil in 2010 when the garden was made over. I thought I had lost it ...then through it came. It's tough, but no giant. Before it was chopped down it was only up to the top of the fence or so:-)

Sorry - I meant colour-wise, not its size.

Lol, I'm not too fond of the yellow flowers, but I love the pale, almost lime green of the pods:-)

I think it's fascinating. :-))