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Post by balc2 on Jul 9, 2024 5:29:41 GMT
As I use the buttons in the browser that never happens to me, I don't use the keyboard for anything else other than typing. I always use the buttons if I want to make some changes to the writing.
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Post by Eli on Jul 9, 2024 18:36:01 GMT
I only use the keyboard for typing too but my fingers are clumsy and sometimes I hit a wrong key by mistake.
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Post by balc2 on Jul 9, 2024 18:39:09 GMT
My Peruvian Lily is now flowering once again. My son bought me it for my birthday last year & it flowered beautifully all summer. This will be its 2nd year with me.
This is the first Begonia in the hanging basket to start flowering this year. There is one other plant in another basket that's flowering as well. There are several more plants with buds at different stages but all will open soon.
This is a macro (very close up photo) of a Dragon Wings Begonia flower. I will have to get some more photos as lots more flowers have opened since I took this one. The plants are getting bigger too.
I have a couple of self-sown Bacopa plants on the balcony. In fact I discovered a new seedling in a hanging basket just this evening! I now recognize the leaves since the first one started to flower a couple of weeks ago. Doing a search on the internet I discovered this is called ''Snowstorm Blue''
My son gave me some 'Morning Glory' seedlings a couple of months ago (in May) when he also gave me this Zinnia:
He also gave me this lovely white Mallow. It's only been flowering for a few days at present but I have them in 2 pots.The other pot is a bit behind owing to the flowers getting caught under a pot of Petunias which I didn't notice till a couple of days ago.
The 'Morning Glory' seedlings have begun to flower:
This one is one of them from my son:
This photo is of my own self-sown seedlings beginning to flower just this week:
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Post by Eli on Jul 12, 2024 7:50:32 GMT
You have so many plants on your balcony balc2 and wonderful to have self sown Bacopas !
A few from my garden ...
Fuchsia magellanica
Clematis 'Madam Julia Corivon'
Roses:-
New Dawn
Dorothy Perkins
Crown Princess Margaretta
Unknown Fuchsia
Veronica
Malva sylvestris
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Post by balc2 on Jul 12, 2024 20:47:59 GMT
Eli, thanks! Just today I discovered another self-sown Bacopa, though it isn't flowering at the moment.
My Peruvian Lilies are flowering once more! My son bought them for my birthday last year.
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Post by grindle on Jul 13, 2024 0:31:54 GMT
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Post by balc2 on Jul 13, 2024 20:07:06 GMT
Here are a few pictures of the only 2 Fuchsias I have on the balcony this year. The standard is one I'm still in the process of creating. I have left it to flower now & the first buds are just about to open. This Fuchsia is 'Garden News".
This Fuchsia "Beacon" is flowering much better this year than last year. I've had plants of this Fuchsia for most of the 24years I've gardened on this balcony! I take a few cuttings every year & many years ago now I made 4 standards that lived on the balcony for several years until the terrible winter of 2009/10. They were killed by the terrible frosts we had that year - up to -10C! Most years we don't get more than -2 or -3C, which I can protect my plants against, but that year I lost I think almost everything I kept over winter in a small plastic greenhouse on the balcony. I even lost all my beautiful Fuchsias that were being kept over the winter in the (glass) greenhouse on the allotment!
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Post by Eli on Jul 14, 2024 20:16:28 GMT
Sedum album (Stonecrop)
Lysimachia 'Alexander'
Flowers on Calicarpa
Pelargoniums
Hardy Diascia 'Denim Blue'
Self-sown Violas
Astrantia
Some flowers accidentally cut when I was pruning some shrubs. I stuck them in an old teapot.
Pink Astilbe .
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Post by Cherry on Jul 15, 2024 10:02:38 GMT
Annabelle Hydrangea which flopped with the rain.
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Post by lesley on Jul 15, 2024 13:10:45 GMT
Lovely pictures everyone
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Post by Eli on Jul 17, 2024 17:54:39 GMT
Francoa growing in a tub with Loropetalum, its seeds get everywhere
Oxalis tetraphylla
Pilosella aurantiaca, a weed in my garden but it is pretty so I leave it alone
Anagallis arvensis, another weed that can stay
Prunella vulgaris, yet another acceptable weed
Fuchais 'Cecile'
Fuchsia 'Celia Smedley'
Lewisias in a hanging basket
A rose I can't remember the name of
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Post by grindle on Jul 18, 2024 3:09:31 GMT
lovely photos Eli I like the combination of Loropetalum and francoa
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Post by balc2 on Jul 18, 2024 5:14:08 GMT
I see you have a "weedy" garden, Eli! 😂
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Post by Eli on Jul 18, 2024 6:35:10 GMT
Thank you grindle and balc2
The Francoa gets everywhere, sometimes it can be as bad as the weeds themselves but I leave it alone, it seems to mingle well I think weeds can attract beneficial insects, they're only wild flowers really, and come from the hedgerows, so they're more natural than cultivated plants. Mind you they try to take over sometimes.
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Post by geumgrower on Jul 18, 2024 7:18:45 GMT
Funny, I have been trying to grow Francoa from seed for ages and had no success at all. We do have it in the garden, but it does not self seed.
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