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MY GARDEN AUGUST 2012

sheilar

By sheilar

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Just random snaps around my garden

… and finally … not a garden photo, Banger my daughter’s greyound, in his usual ‘kipping’ position!!

Thanks for looking.

Sheila

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Love your blog, you have some great plants.

6 Aug, 2012

 

I agree, some lovely flowers there.

6 Aug, 2012

amy
Amy
 

Lots of interest and colour there Shelia .. thanks for showing :o)

6 Aug, 2012

 

Lots of colour in your garden.
Love it when doggies sleep like that :-)

6 Aug, 2012

 

Lots of lovely plants there :o) I've got one of those containers like in the first photo. Must get round to planting it up.
Nice looking houses in your road :o)

6 Aug, 2012

 

likes your beautiful garden Sheilar, especially your dog ,cute :-))))

6 Aug, 2012

 

Your garden is looking beautiful! Lovely really lovely :)

6 Aug, 2012

 

Lovely...

6 Aug, 2012

 

lovely blog Sheilar - quite a few I also have in there - the astilbes, one Hywel gave me that begins with P , hypercium and berberis, we only had one crocosmia this year :(( nice to see your garden Sheilar

7 Aug, 2012

 

love that lush bed with the daisies in and Banger of course. Is that a poorly paw he is showing off?

7 Aug, 2012

 

lovely garden shielar ,is that lucifer showing his face at last ha ha

7 Aug, 2012

 

Lots of work gone into that lovely garden , Shiel .

7 Aug, 2012

 

Thank you all for your nice comments.
Hywel, I never got round to planting that pot in the first pic - it's just plants in pots dumped in it!! We think they're nice looking houses in our street, it's a 3 bed pre-war semi so it's quite big with four big bay windows.
Pimp - Banger is indeed sporting a poorly paw - he's ripped his dew claw, looks like the Vet will have to remove it (£200!!!)
Yes Pete - my one and only lucifer this year eventually flowered! lol
Does anyone know what the blue flowers are in pics 5 and 6? - they were in a £ shop 'shake and rake' box.

7 Aug, 2012

 

Thought I had it then..Its gone

7 Aug, 2012

 

I don't think it is Pimp, it's sort of soft and furry round the tiny little flowers and has like a ferny type leaf (could be some sort of wild flower??)

7 Aug, 2012

 

See I realised before you said Lol...I put my Magnifyer on :)

7 Aug, 2012

 

It's Phacelia Sheilar...a green manure plant

7 Aug, 2012

 

What's a green manure plant please?

7 Aug, 2012

 

It is one of the quick growing plants used for ground cover then you dig them in before flowering to improve the soil.

In the mix you bought it in it is for attracting bees. Good cut flowers and they are scented Sheilar

7 Aug, 2012

 

There are always bees round them. I've only used half the box - is it too late to chuck the rest in??lol

7 Aug, 2012

 

Can sow them right up to September Sheilar...Greedy guts!

7 Aug, 2012

 

The £ shop had a selection of 'shake and rake' in different colours earlier in the year so I bought the blue selection. When I shook them out of the box, it just looked like a load of porridge oats, so I was not expecting them to flower. I was quite pleasantly surprised when these grew!!

7 Aug, 2012

 

You have some lovely shrubs and plants in your garden, Sheila ... strange to be read about green manure as I've just been reading up about it for the allotment ... and I thought the blue flower was a type of Verbena ... oh well ... what do I know! ... :o)

7 Aug, 2012

 

Hello Shirley,

Phacelia is good to bring pollinators to the allotment, and hoverfly too feed on aphid.

7 Aug, 2012

 

Oh thanks, Pimpernel, I shall investigate it as there is such a lot of confusing information re. green manures! ...

7 Aug, 2012

 

Just gorgeous! Alot of work but, the results are incredible! Hope the pup is getting better...

7 Aug, 2012

 

Ah Sheilar really gorgeous thsnk yoy for sharing adding to my favourites:) x

7 Aug, 2012

 

Lovely Sheila....Banger is so funny...lol

7 Aug, 2012

 

Wonderful blog :o)))

14 Aug, 2012

 

Thanks everyone:-))

14 Aug, 2012

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