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Post by geumgrower on Jun 18, 2024 10:36:38 GMT
They are hungry plants and the buds need cold ripening to turn from leaf buds to flower buds.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 19, 2024 5:09:56 GMT
Thanks, geumgrower,for the info đź‘Ť They get all the weather going at any moment as they are in a pot on the balcony with no more protection than yours in your garden! (except it's not generally as wet or cold as yours). They also get a weekly feed, like all the rest of the plants on the balcony and inside the flat. |
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Post by jellibeans on Jun 19, 2024 7:07:45 GMT
Great pics everyone ,so lovely to be able to see that all your hard work is paying off now with stunning displays of blooms.  |
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Post by Eli on Jun 22, 2024 20:57:46 GMT
Campanulas growing through a wall -
C. isophylla -
C. portenschlagiana -
Diascia in a tub -
Leucanthemum vulgare (Ox eye daisy)
It's a wild flower that grows in a corner of my garden, and I leave it alone
Heucheras filling out in my little patch by the back road -
Views of the little garden along the road that passes the back of my garden -
Bella controlling the traffic on the back road - it's a good job not much comes along there, and I know lots of them anyway 
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Post by grindle on Jun 23, 2024 3:37:06 GMT
your little garden is looking lovely Eli love the campanulas in the little wall |
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Post by jellibeans on Jun 23, 2024 7:29:32 GMT
Beautiful Eli.......and Bella too.  |
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 23, 2024 12:40:09 GMT
Grew some Penstemon from seed off our plants and this is one of the results.  |
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Post by seaburn on Jun 23, 2024 15:49:14 GMT
That's a pretty one GG. What variety was the parent? I rarely get seed forming on mine: Garnet and George V.
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 23, 2024 19:32:18 GMT
I think it was Apple blossom. Certainly one with pale pink/white flowers. We do have a fair number of them and seed is often produced, but this was the first time I tried sowing it. There ought to be a lot more of the seed grown ones around the garden, but finding the labels is not easy.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 23, 2024 19:59:54 GMT
Eli , it's a nice little garden you've made there! All those Campanulas growing out of the wall look fantastic!
Has anybody noticed the millions of Ox Eye daisies around this year? I was first struck at the beginning of the month when my wife & I had to go to the eye clinic appointment she had in another town. They were blooming everywhere! Even here in Huntingdon we have 1,000s of them! I've never seen so many of them in all my life! Perhaps I should get some seeds & sown a pot or two of them on the balcony!
geumgrower, your Penstemon looks really great! I have only ever grown one plant that was given to me some years ago. Unfortunately it didn't last more than a few months with me before dying.  I should try again, perhaps from seed this time, I might have more luck.
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Post by Eli on Jun 24, 2024 19:07:58 GMT
Has anybody noticed the millions of Ox Eye daisies around this year? I was first struck at the beginning of the month when my wife & I had to go to the eye clinic appointment she had in another town. They were blooming everywhere! Even here in Huntingdon we have 1,000s of them! I've never seen so many of them in all my life! Perhaps I should get some seeds & sown a pot or two of them on the balcony!
There's a pot of them in my garden (shown above), that have come from the hedgerows out and about. They flower every year.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 25, 2024 4:35:27 GMT
The Ox Eye daisies are indeed common here as well but I've never seen the hedgerows and untended places to be so full of them. I noticed some fields were white from a considerable distance from the bus on our way back from the hospital appointment and wondered what they might be until we got close enough to see they were Ox Eye daisies!
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Post by Eli on Jun 26, 2024 15:18:57 GMT
Fuchsia 'Anne Hoogendam'
Heuchera flowers ...
Tradescantia virginiana ...
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Post by balc2 on Jun 27, 2024 4:40:51 GMT
All looking good, Eli! This week the first bud on one of my Fuchsias has opened for the first time this year! It's called 'Beacon' and I've had it for many years. The original plant died years ago but its descendants live on! I have several plants of it. I also have a couple of plants of Fuchsia 'Garden News' one of which I'm growing as a standard. There is a bud that will open in a couple of days. I have several rooted cuttings of both & one of them has lots of buds! |
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Post by seaburn on Jul 1, 2024 12:24:24 GMT
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I should try again, perhaps from seed this time, I might have more luck.
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