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Lovely blog, Kate! :)

Yesterday our son took me to a GC for a coffee, not to buy plants! :( (As we are expecting to move sometime in the near future (?) I'm not buying any more plants, (though he did buy me a lovely red Begonia for Father's Day!), in fact I'm trying to give what I have away! While we had a look around I saw several Lupins in pots. In fact they looked very much like your beautiful Lupins! I had never considered growing them in pots on the balcony before. :(

It would be, yes! :( I'd need a much more powerful motive to go to a tropical or subtropical country than just to eat Papayas! :D :D :D

I'm glad it worked alright for you, Lincs, but it's soooo s-l-o-w!

Thanks for the mention Daylily! X I love Nick’s garden and his own one too. He is like us I think. He loves colour.

I hope this one will soon grow as big as the red one.

It’s sad Kate. I’m leaving them for now, but I think they will have to go sooner or later.

Thank you, it’s delicious.

I haven’t seen the Duchess. This is new to my current garden. I had it in my Carnoustie garden though. It’s a smasher. Pink with peach at the base of every petal giving it a lovely warmth.

Exactly Kate. One in sun, the other in shade.

Yeah..it’s so pretty. Me too.

Thank you both. Xx

Kate, it flowers for months! It’s a brilliant plant.

Is it a new one Arbuthnot? Or has it had scent in past years? I have heard of varieties that don’t have scent. I mean…what’s the point of that?! If it had scent in previous years it could be that your nose is deceiving you.

Thank you Meadowland for looking in, it's a good day out :-))

I was tempted to go this year DL...saw the coverage on GW programme and the show gardens were more appealing. Thank you for persevering with the blog.

Hi Kate, Thanks, the bees are working so hard now in all the flowers. I watered the garden yesterday as the ground was so dry. It looks like we'll be getting a week of hot weather and no rain for a while.

Lovely :-)

Ours has many tiny fruits forming ... I shall have to thin them out soon!

Beautiful :-)

Ah beautiful would love to get mine to flower, I have Canary Brilliants but only planted in the ground this year and think it needs more sun :-)

Absolutely gorgeous.

I love this one.

Saw this in Nick Bailey's garden at Gardeners World Live yesterday, I mentioned it in my blog that I saw your plant 😀 I didn't get a photo though

It is beautiful.

Lovely Kate, gardens are looking good now aren't they :-)

Ah lovely to get a flower though, my Itoh peony hasn't done anything in about 4 years but was in a pot and I've put in the ground this year, but think it needs more sun :-)

Kate, it flowers and flowers so I keep deadheading the spent blooms to encourage more ... :o)

:o))

Indeed it is Kate, but I'm cross to find holes in the Hostas that are in pots. The pots are on the patio, up against the house wall in the shade, yet the slimy critters still manage to get into the them ... grrr!

Kate, they took a while to germinate but definitely worth the wait. One bonus is the slugs and snails leave them alone, perhaps because the foliage is a bit 'hairy'!

Me too ... :o)

Thanks Kate, I have to admit it's a favourite of mine.

Thanks Klahanie, I guess I will see how it fairs next year 😀 It keeps clinging on but may be moved again probably and divided, it's pretty big:-)

Kate, this is the best it has bloomed in the five years since I bought it.

Thank you Klahanie :-)

Kate, I do love your description of this Rose ... :o)) x

Thanks Kate, the charity is linked to our GP surgery and is a patient transport service for folk who would struggle with public transport to get to appointments, either to the surgery or a hospital.

They have a stall twice a year at the village fete/carnival.

:o)))

Kate, I must read up on these fruits as I really don't know anything about them!

Thanks Kate, I wouldn't normally go for such a bright colour in the garden but now that's it's flowering I really love it!

Thanks Kate, watch this space! :o)

Thanks Kate, it had grown outwards quite a lot! The heavy rain never did come, just a little rain shower.

Not me Josie, but I think it may have been Dottydaisy who planted the lid of a water butt ... as you do!

Love it! I have this one too, relatively new as purchased last year.

Gosh this one is a beauty, Klahanie.

Sumptuous blooms!

Simply gorgeous!

That’s a gorgeous one, Klahanie, I love sunset colours.. (or sunrise 😉)

I absolutely agree with you Linda. We eat most of dinners outside and is a pleasure to have all these birds around.

Thank you for your comment Karen.

Lovely.