Flowers & foliage May 2023

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 24, 2023 3:05:44 GMT Eli and balc2 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on May 24, 2023 3:05:44 GMT all your clematis are lovely Eli and love the orchid balc2

Eli Top Member Posts: 5,140	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 24, 2023 7:28:36 GMT grindle and balc2 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Eli on May 24, 2023 7:28:36 GMT Thank you grindle and balc2 The Clematises are flowering now balc2. I have more that should be out soon but are a bit slow this year. I also have later flowering ones.

geumgrower Top Member Posts: 1,159	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 24, 2023 12:56:59 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by geumgrower on May 24, 2023 12:56:59 GMT Bodnant May 2023 imgur.com/a/80xcfKZ

SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,912	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 24, 2023 16:07:56 GMT Eli and balc2 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on May 24, 2023 16:07:56 GMT Love the clematis Eli, apart from the Montana one I've only got one flower out on my others so far! 😊

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Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 24, 2023 19:41:56 GMT Eli likes this

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Post by balc2 on May 24, 2023 19:41:56 GMT

Yesterday I planted an Avocado stone in a pot in the kitchen. I seem to remember doing the same once upon a time when we lived in Spain. I think it grew for perhaps a year & became almost a mini-tree! I don't remember what happened to it but it must have died at some point. If this one germinates I'll keep a better record of it!

I'm not expecting to get any fruit from it!

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Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 24, 2023 19:50:59 GMT grindle and SueA like this

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Post by balc2 on May 24, 2023 19:50:59 GMT

Out of curiosity I did a search of the Internet & found an interesting page here:

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/avocado/growing-guide

I will have to take the stone out of the pot it's in otherwise it may take up to 8-10 weeks to germinate! It really needs to be sitting over a glass jar to make it root a lot quicker.

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Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 25, 2023 20:45:42 GMT grindle, seaburn, and 1 more like this

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Post by SueA on May 25, 2023 20:45:42 GMT

A few of the flowers etc. out now here, pics taken over the last 10days or so, lots of roses opening in this heat.
Mischief rose

Wisteria over the patio

Wisteria & clematis montana

Reported pear & Apple trees

Harry Wheatcroft rose

Blue for you rose

Catherine rose

Blue for you again

Rhapsody in Blue rose

Twice in a Blue Moon rose

Harlow Carr rose

Lady Marmalade rose

Clematis, can't remember name

Nectaroscordum & Blue Eyes roses

Ornithogalum & candelabra primulas

One of the hanging baskets just planted up at front door

Last Edit: May 25, 2023 20:55:46 GMT by SueA

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 26, 2023 3:33:13 GMT SueA and balc2 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on May 26, 2023 3:33:13 GMT looking lovely SueA

balc2 Top Member The countdown has begun! Posts: 3,378	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 26, 2023 12:51:37 GMT SueA likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by balc2 on May 26, 2023 12:51:37 GMT Your plants look really lovely, SueA!

lesley Top Member Posts: 9,376	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 26, 2023 17:33:21 GMT SueA and balc2 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by lesley on May 26, 2023 17:33:21 GMT Love all your roses Sue i've only got a few now the ones in the front went when we had the drive made wider
	The lady from the sussex coast.

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Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 26, 2023 20:04:48 GMT grindle, SueA, and 1 more like this

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Post by balc2 on May 26, 2023 20:04:48 GMT

lesley, that's a shame! I love roses but can't grow them here on the balcony, at leat not the bush varieties with their thorns! There just isn't room to turn around hardly! It's only 1.5m wide! Though i do have a rose trained on the wire outside the balcony railings. It finished flowering a week or so ago.

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SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,912	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 26, 2023 21:58:05 GMT grindle and balc2 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on May 26, 2023 21:58:05 GMT Thanks all, I couldn't live without roses even though some of them are beautiful monsters with thorns! 😊

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,745	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 27, 2023 2:41:52 GMT SueA, Eli, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on May 27, 2023 2:41:52 GMT some of my blooms and a very shy visitor

SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,912	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 27, 2023 18:14:57 GMT grindle and balc2 like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on May 27, 2023 18:14:57 GMT Gorgeous flowers grindle, is that a slow worm?

balc2 Top Member The countdown has begun! Posts: 3,378	Flowers & foliage May 2023 May 27, 2023 19:18:51 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by balc2 on May 27, 2023 19:18:51 GMT May 27, 2023 18:14:57 GMT SueA said: Gorgeous flowers grindle , is that a slow worm? I think it looks more like an earthworm.

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