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Thank Shirley it's very pretty :-)

Fabulous Klahanie..are you able to take a close up showing the staining please?

Couldn't resist!

It’s a very popular tropical fruiting tree here in San Diego. It can grow very large to 30 ft (10 m) here. Most people keep them less than 15 ft (4.5 m). It’s easier to pick the fruit when smaller, which is produced in tremendous amounts.

My friend used to bring me bags of the fruit from his friend’s tree. It taste really good and refreshing.

Yes,Shirley!

Josie, I often wondered about the name and found this:

The name "Perennial Blue" is misleading because the rose's flowers are not true blue, but rather a purple-mauve color. While "blue rose" is often used in a metaphorical sense to represent something impossible or unattainable, the Perennial Blue rose's color is closer to purple.

A beautiful one.

Lovely rose, weird name though, doesn’t look at all blue!

It is such a gorgeous rose, a real favourite of mine.

I hope the rose from Derek will survive Linda.

Ooh, so dramatic!

That's brilliant!

Is she buried in 'Mind your own business'? I don't know the proper name for it!

Rose, I bet it won't be too long before yours are blooming.

Thanks Lindak, another one for the Bees!

Karen, I shall take cuttings in Summer, grow them on for a charity plant sale next year.

Thanks Ladies ... there are always Bees around this Rose.

The river Arun is a very fast flowing one so those little Cygnets must be paddling hard!!

Well done.

Thanks Lindak.

:o)))

Hundreds? Well, that's just greedy as I would like a few here please!

Yes, I love this one. I kept it from last year and it’s flowering now.

I love it too! It’s a beauty. Thanks for sharing! X

Wow 8! I hope they all get to adulthood. :) Water looks clean in the river…lovely!

Well, your roses are a picture…bar the one Derek gave you before he left us. That must have been a fierce gale! Hopefully you know the name and can replace it. Or….perhaps you might have to let it go to Derek. Your pond is lovely, I have always admired it. So well-crafted. We have had a lot more rain today and I am grateful as the spring was so dry. Hopefully some of my wild seeds will germinate in the wilderness across the road. So far, we only have Mustard, a few phacelia and some pretty pink vetch. The rest is all what you’d call weeds. Docks, thistles, buttercups etc. but they have their beauty as well….perhaps not the docks.

If the birds don’t hoover up all the seed Shirley! Sowed more today, including our native Verbascum.

I should move mine into tall pots, but it’s no guarantee is it…and you have to put up with bare pots all winter. I fear my Hosta phase has come to a bitter end.

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.