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Post by SueA on May 25, 2022 7:38:20 GMT
Love those irises seaburn! All looking very pretty Eli, my weigela has gone mad as well this year after being cut back quite a lot, it's about 7ft tall!
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Post by seaburn on May 25, 2022 8:41:49 GMT
My Weigela has also gone crazy after a good prune last year. More photos. Ladies Mantle with rain drop. I have an Edwardian brooch with a pearl for the rain drop. Astrantia Gill Richardson Astrantia un-named form Corydalis flexuosa 'Spinners' Eremurus, meant to be a pale pink but it is white. So no idea which one it actually is. This came with Geum Mrs Bradshaw but is more orange and less double. Wonder if it is Queen of Orange. Geum Mrs Bradshaw One of 2 Poppies, this is a seedling from Karina and I had hoped it would be a bit more pink as it is in the blue/pink/white bed.
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Post by balc2 on May 25, 2022 19:59:17 GMT
Eli I once grew a climbing 'Masquerade' rose on a fence at the bottom of the garden that could be seen from the house - that was wayyy back in 1980! I trained it like an espalier & flowers grew vertically from the horizontal main branches!
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Post by Eli on May 25, 2022 21:09:01 GMT
It must have looked nice balc2 I train the branches along the trellis and the flowers seem to grow from the horizontal stems. The one in the photo is the first to open this year. Thank you SueA and grindle , it seems a drastic cut is beneficial to a Weigela
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Post by grindle on May 26, 2022 3:50:51 GMT
more lovely plants seaburn I did have Gill Richardson at one time but it disappeared, I think maybe my 4 legged friend might have had something to do with it
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Post by balc2 on May 26, 2022 20:11:43 GMT
Some Fuchsias on the balcony. The first two are new plants I got a couple of weeks ago when I went with my son to a plant nursery.
It's funny how our local council gardening dept. & I think alike! Once again this year we both have some of the very same plants! The summer bedding plants hadn't been put out when we went to the nursery. So I bought this Fuchsia with no idea that the council gardeners were going to use this Fuchsia in their summer bedding displays!
Many years ago I bought a small Fuchsia 'Genii' for a friend who looked after our balcony while we were away in Spain visiting my wife's family & our 2 sons. Since then I have bought a couple more for myself. The first time I did so I bought a fairly big plant & it's golden leaves really shone in the sun on the balcony! Unfortunately I didn't leave it in a pot but planted it directly into one of the 3 big troughs I have on the balcony floor, right underneath the railing. Again, unfortunately, we happened to have a heatwave that summer & day after day of high temps, & non-stop sunshine. This ended up killing all 3 plants I had bought as permanent fixtures in the 3 troughs.
I've had plants of Fuchsia 'Beacon' for very many years on the balcony. This is a descendent of a descendent, etc! I've started to make a standard plant this year as it's been some years now since the last of my 'Beacon' standards died. I make them with a 1m (3ft) stem before creating the head. At present I have perhaps a half dozen plants of this variety!
I think I got this one last year or perhaps the year before, I'm no longer sure!
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Post by Eli on May 27, 2022 19:35:38 GMT
It's nice to see your Fuchsias balc2, they don't like too much heat do they ... I would like to make some standards so maybe I'll try this year. I started some off several years ago and they were coming along nicely but the shelf they were on collapsed and they all snapped and then I gave up !
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Post by Eli on May 29, 2022 17:52:07 GMT
Rhodohypoxis ... Rosa 'Gentle Hermione' ... Rosa 'Eyes for You' ... Clematis 'Multi Blue' ... Poppy ... Diarama ... Stephanandra ... Parahebe 'Snow Cloud' ... Loropetalum 'Fire Dance' ... Lychnis floss-cuculi ... Oxalis articulata ... Dianthus ...
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Post by SueA on May 30, 2022 7:05:07 GMT
All sparkling beautifully in the sunshine there Eli!
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Post by balc2 on May 30, 2022 20:04:16 GMT
It's nice to see your Fuchsias balc2 , they don't like too much heat do they ... I would like to make some standards so maybe I'll try this year. I started some off several years ago and they were coming along nicely but the shelf they were on collapsed and they all snapped and then I gave up ! Sorry, Eli to hear about what happened to you standard Fuchsias! Hope you have better luck next time you try!
I nearly lost this one as well! I had it growing in the small kitchen window & I went to take it down one day & I dropped it! I was lucky in that it only lost a few leaves & the stem remained intact!
Back in the beginning of the 1980s I made up a lot of standard Fuchsias! I also had 3 or 4 on the balcony here until a few years ago when we had a rather nastier winter than the previous ones & they well killed by frost. I couldn't take them inside the flat as there simply isn't anywhere I could have put them.
Here is a picture from 2009 of one of the 4 I had about that time:
I have more photos from the same time of standard Fuchsias - only they are close ups of the heads & the stem can't be seen.
I have lots of photos of Fuchsias from 2009! I think that was the year I grew most as it was the winter of 2009-10 that killed off nearly all my Fuchsias.
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Post by Eli on May 30, 2022 22:28:38 GMT
I remember that winter balc2 it was a particularly cold one with lots of snow.
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Post by grindle on May 31, 2022 3:06:10 GMT
lovely photos Eli
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Post by balc2 on May 31, 2022 20:36:24 GMT
I remember that winter balc2 it was a particularly cold one with lots of snow. You are quite right, Eli. The element that neither of us particularly likes!
That Christmas (2009) was the first time we had spent a Christmas with our sons & my wife's family in Spain in 10 years (also the last! ) We were very lucky to get back home before the really hard spell of cold & snow hit us! It started the very next day after arriving home!
It was that winter that I lost a lot of my rather more tender plants, even though other years they had survived perfectly. I think a small plant of Fuchsia 'Beacon' was possibly the only Fuchsia to survive that winter. I don't remember if it spent the winter outside on the balcony inside the plastic mini-greenhouse or it it was a cutting living in the window of our kitchen. As the windows of our flat are double glazed whatever plants spent the winter there are unaffected by the cold temps outside.
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