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Post by balc2 on Jun 16, 2024 16:16:52 GMT
Would be nice if it was ever dry, still or warm enough to go outside. You may get your wish next week as that's more or less the forecast! (Don't know about the "still" bit though!)
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Post by balc2 on Jun 16, 2024 16:18:29 GMT
Other than replacing the pots of Petunias back in their rings on top of the balcony railings I haven't done anything else.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 16, 2024 16:24:49 GMT
Though I didn't do anything on the balcony I did, however, divide & repot a Peace Lily given to me by my son & daughter-in-law for my birthday a month ago! I divided it up into 4 new plants! Three went into decorative pots & put on the living room table & the 4th stayed in the kitchen as it was the smallest piece. I'll post a picture tomorrow. Here are some pictures of the plants now divided & repotted & put back on the living room table:
![](https://i.ibb.co/fFhmttW/Peace-Lily-Spathiphyllum-in-kitchen-window-14th-June-2024.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/sbLBPhp/Peace-Lily-Spathiphyllum-on-living-room-table-14th-June-2024-003.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/Lxty9Jm/Peace-Lily-Spathiphyllum-on-living-room-table-14th-June-2024-002.jpg)
Our son came this morning to wish me happy Father's Day with his wife & their daughter. They were most surprised to see my handiwork! (They gave me the plant for my birthday a month ago)
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Post by grindle on Jun 17, 2024 3:19:50 GMT
looking great balc2 ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) weeded and swept front garden cut back ivy on wall and moved most of the things off the driveway apart from one bag of compost. Put 4 bags of gravel behind the greenhouse now looking much cleaner and tidy and topped up the new path with the remaining half bag where it had dipped a bit from settling.
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Post by seaburn on Jun 17, 2024 17:20:59 GMT
Nothing for ages now. Today would have been a possible but I was at the eye clinic this morning and couldn't focus/see a blinking thing until 4pm. 6hrs for the drops to wear off.
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Post by SueA on Jun 17, 2024 20:11:21 GMT
Managed to get out in the garden this afternoon & mowed the lawn, pruned the variegated weigela which has just finished flowering, deadheaded some of the roses in the front garden & pulled out some of the rampant Japanese anemones.
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Post by grindle on Jun 18, 2024 2:46:57 GMT
swept and cleaned the gazebo and put new seats in, fixed greenhouse door and washed the outside down did some watering of pots
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Post by balc2 on Jun 18, 2024 5:17:24 GMT
All I did was to water the Petunias on the balcony railings. I also watered the mini-tomatoes which, although look to be healthy and strong, show no signs yet of needing bigger pots than the 9cm (3in) ones they are in at the moment.
I also have 3 selfsown baby tomato plants. Where they are from I've no idea. I haven't sown any normal size toms this year, for the first time in the last 20, so where they originally came from I don't know. They can't have come from my plants last year as I never let my tomatoes ripen enough on the balcony to make viable seed. I always buy new seeds every year.
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Post by SueA on Jun 18, 2024 20:16:31 GMT
Carried on pulling out Japanese anemones in the front garden & deadheading the roses.
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Post by grindle on Jun 19, 2024 1:37:19 GMT
only time to water pots and containers
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Post by balc2 on Jun 19, 2024 5:29:04 GMT
Yesterday I split another plant! This time it was the Anthurium (Flamingo Lily) that my son gave me for a Father's day present a few years ago. I've never repotted it so it's always been in the same pot it came in. For sometime I'd been thinking of doing it & yesterday I finally got around to doing it. I got just 2 plants with several shoots on each. As it is quite a slow growing plant I thought that dividing it any further might be a bit too much. Of the 2 new plants only 1 has "flowers" but the other one will grow some more.
I also have a "cutting", really an offshoot I pulled out of the mother plant more than 6 months ago, that is growing but making very little progress.
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Post by SueA on Jun 19, 2024 20:01:16 GMT
More deadheading & tying in roses, pulling Japanese anemones out & watering all the pots & baskets.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 19, 2024 20:14:51 GMT
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Post by grindle on Jun 20, 2024 3:56:34 GMT
lovely colour balc2 My compost bin now has a new lid, made a new frame and used a corrugated bitumen roof panel which won't rot the other lid had gone well past it's best and bits kept falling off now I can lift it without having to worry ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) it did take most of the day to get it sorted I had watered all the pots and newly planted thing before I started
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Post by balc2 on Jun 20, 2024 5:10:24 GMT
You've given your compost bin a new lease of life, grindle, well done! 👍
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