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Post by geumgrower on Jun 4, 2024 15:17:29 GMT
This is an Iris sibirica, but which one?
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Post by seaburn on Jun 4, 2024 15:59:55 GMT
thats a bonny colour combo, but no idea as to which one. Have you had it a long time?
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 4, 2024 19:32:33 GMT
Less than 5 years, but there is no label with it, so it may have come from a friend who also does not know what it is.
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Post by grindle on Jun 5, 2024 1:38:31 GMT
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Post by balc2 on Jun 5, 2024 5:25:13 GMT
It's a pretty Iris, geumgrower, whatever its name! 👍😄 |
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 5, 2024 7:08:56 GMT
We thunked it might be Colonel Mustard too!
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Post by Eli on Jun 6, 2024 4:24:07 GMT
Lewisia
Argyranthemum
Dianthus
I can see you ! 
Bilbergia nutans
Heucheras starting to fill out now  
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Post by balc2 on Jun 6, 2024 5:13:19 GMT
You have so many lovely & colourful plants in your garden Eli! 👏👏👏 |
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Post by balc2 on Jun 6, 2024 5:27:53 GMT
Our balcony will need another month yet to really get going. Most of the plants have been put in very recently and are starting to settle in to their new homes. The hanging baskets were the last to be planted up and all the plants in them are still small. There are few flowers at the moment but in a few weeks time they should look good and I will post a few pictures. The Carnations I grew from seed last year are now sending up flower stems so in a few weeks they will look good, too. Some Geraniums are in flower but there are more to begin yet. There are Pelargonium cuttings which are too small yet to flower as well as Begonias, some of which are from last year's tubers & the Dragon Wings ones I bought about 3 or 4 weeks ago. So you see I havea lot of plants just they still need a few more weeks to reach flowering size.
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Post by grindle on Jun 7, 2024 3:09:02 GMT
lovely pictures Eli I think things are a bit behind this year balc2 my containers are only just starting to 'move' |
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Post by balc2 on Jun 7, 2024 5:49:56 GMT
I don't know if things are behind but in the gardens and the countryside things seem to be a couple of weeks earlier than other years.
Waaay back in the 70s I was always trying to get a rose to open in the garden in the first couple of days of June. Ideally I would have liked to get a bud to open before the Chelsea Flower Show came to an end. I never did get one to open before the end of the first week of June!
When I moved back to the UK in 2001 I was astonished to see the first roses opening by the middle of May! This year I saw the first rose blooms in April!!! Just across the road there was a yellow climber and a few days later I saw another one in another garden!
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Post by balc2 on Jun 7, 2024 20:48:40 GMT
As I was watering the pots of the balcony this afternoon I noticed that the mini-tomatoes I'd potted up a few weeks ago are growing very nicely! I've never grown them before as I've always grown the indeterminate ones in growbags on the balcony floor.
I never save seeds from my tomatoes but buy new seeds every year. But last year a self-sown tomato turned up in a pot occupied by another plant! I transplanted it to a bigger pot & it grew bigger & faster than all the other tomatoes I'd sown & planted out. I saw it had a different colour green compared to the other plants.
This year I've found 3 more tomato seedlings growing on the balcony! The only explanation must be that birds bring them in! Most of my pots have been filled with new peat-free compost this year as well. I've never let my tomatoes go to seed & I certainly don't remember having used compost that had had tomato seed in it other times. Anyway the seedling have all been potted up & they are doing well. The very first self-sown seedling is almost ready to go into a much bigger pot. I don't know whether to buy a growbag or put them into individual pots - only I don't have pots big enough for them if - as I suspect - like last year they turn out to be indeterminate toms! If I'm quick maybe I can still find a growbag downtown.
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 8, 2024 10:04:07 GMT
Serendipity. Was garden centring looking for a tall white campanula. Guess what is flowering now? Grown from seed. Lots of blue ones from the sowing and just one white one.
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 9, 2024 11:34:19 GMT
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Post by Eli on Jun 9, 2024 17:58:54 GMT
I'm sorry I can't see your photos geumgrower the page wants me to disable my adblocker and I don't want to do that.
Here are some roses from this afternoon - a cold grey day, not what one expects for June ...
Designer sunset
Rose Gaujard (from Woolworths many years ago)
Masquerade
Paul's scarlet climber
Red doesn't come out very well with a digital camera so the colours are nothing like they are in reality - very disappointing.
Francine Austin
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