Lobelialover's Outbox

Yes it's interesting catching the older series, especially seeing the trends of the day!

Thank you Davey for that link - of course these days we can watch repeats on iplayer or of course sky+, which is so handy.

Glad to see it's not just me!

Yes it's a strange pull, starting to think of the things I like about autumn and winter almost makes me feel guilty - should be still enjoying summer!

That said, I'm off to garden.

We let the wild (and thorny and invasive) blackberry go mad over one of the shrubs and now have bucketfuls of them to pick - for some reason the birds aren't keen?
At least once everything dies back it's easy to spot the blackberry and weed it out - well attempt to!

This is Shropshire Lad - they turn very apricot, still flowering now (started in june I think) and my favourite in my garden (apart from lobelia of course!). It's one of the David Austen range of roses.

Yes they are dahlias - they were the best I've ever seen - so gorgeous, lovely wine red colour!

I've just cut back a lot of blight today on some of our tomato plants - most of our fruit is almost ripe though so have just cut off the affected leaves and will hope I can ripen the fruits then bin everything!

ha! Well the dahlia nursery is eurodahlia, based in the Wirral. Their website is a bit old but they're still going and I think you can see the catalogue from there - there's an email too.

Their fields of dahlia's were beautiful - I've always loved them but seeing them at Monet's garden just took my breath away - perfect combinations and using the same variety down the border gave so much impact.

no lovegreen, absolutely true!

There are a few more photos on my profile too!

I wish! Actually these are from Monet's garden in Giverny!

Thank you for those answers!

They are all about 10" high - I will need all my veg patch space for the spring cabbage so will try the broccoli in several grow bags - 2 per bag as suggested

We tend to use the porch as our own greenhouse - our cucumbers and tomatoes worked really well so I thought it may be good for the brocolli too as we're getting later into the summer now. It does have ventilation too!

Oh I'm so glad you've got an open day in October too - I think we can make it! Will you be on gardener's world soon? I saw them hold up your photo a few weeks ago!

Gosh don't tempt me - the idea of a whole patch of lavender is brilliant!! I would love to do this. The trouble I find is that after June our row of lavender in our front yard bakes in the sun and just looks brown and a bit tired - they were planted in 2007 and I've not been brilliant at pruning etc, and it is a very very hot aspect.

Do you cut yours back once they've flowered or just dead head through the season?

These are the second year I've had these Elsanta strawberries in these old hanging baskets - they're brilliant!

Magical! We used solar powered lights and they were very touch and go! Will be good for summer nights though :)

Magical! We used solar powered lights and they were very touch and go! Will be good for summer nights though :)

Hmmm - maybe naively, I thought the right was just lots of foxes walking the same way, ha! I'm confused now!

What's worse is I was telling my colleagues about the foot prints but slip of the tounge said we'd had Wolves in the garden which got some laughs too!

Thanks!

I think it's funny that you can tell our neighbours are away - their central heating isn't on so none of the snow on their roof has shifted!

Looks lovely!

Yes, well I got a new digital camera for Christmas so here's my first attempt at using the Macro close-up function!

Wow I usually quite like getting out in the garden in any weather - even in light rain, but that sounds like dedicated work you're doing! It's been very cold here too, infact quite unusually for Wirral we had snow last night that's still on the ground now!

ha thanks Happy New Year to you too. The snow's lasted already since 11pm last night so it's doing well!!

I love the colour in your garden! It's so interesting to hear about the filming taking place too! I am hoping to co-incide a visit to your garden with visiting my mother in Birmingham in February or May - I can't wait to see what it's like, I always think it's hard to do justice to gardens in photos somehow!

They were really pretty! I will look up the details tonight!

this is the first clematis I've grown - it's looking gorgeous outside our kitchen door

The last of my allium bulbs coming into flower

These snapdragons overwintered and have just started flowering - the bees love them.

Ah, I'd missed that he was taking time off, good for him. Must admit I'm not tempted to go to Chelsea - it would be fun but all those people!!

I've been using polystyrene from packaging for appliances, broken into big shards, to do the base of our medium large planters - aids drainage too!

Brilliant thank you - I am going to relocate them tonight! Will keep you all posted :)

Oh is that rosamundi? Beautiful flower!