What's looking good in August 2016

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  1. Phil A

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    She'm purple now :doh:

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      Leaning sunflowers
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        That didn't look purple :scratch:
         
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          Fuller's name made for an interesting derivative. :heehee:
           
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            We don't have a lot of colour this time of year and are doing a lot of cutting back.

            The Morning Glory are doing well but the Cobaea Scandens that they share the 55ft fence with are suffering badly in the excessive heat.

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              The cyclamen bed is also struggling in the heat and the silver birch has gone into Autumn mode and is dropping leaves everywhere.

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              This little fellow has found shelter in the base of the birch.
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              The Hostas have been surviving Ok but the flowers didn't like the heat either. That's not any form of disease on them but just hard water marks as we water them with a hose. :noidea:

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              And just a bit of colour to cheer things up
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                :biggrin: @noisette47 was referring to the previously blond Willow

                Teasles were indeed used to card wool in cloth manufacture :spinning:
                 
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                Yep, so was I but thought you had posted that picture of her (post 106) although I couldn't recognise her from it as I haven't seen her since 2012 :). In the post it doesn't look purple. :heehee:
                 
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                She had dark hair in that one, used to be blond, now it's purple. Not got a pic of that as I left the memory card out of the camera last time I visited her :doh:
                 
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                I thought I saw the purple hair in a recent photo taken on the beach. :blue thumb:
                 
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                  Can't find that one, pics have been uploading to odd places :doh:

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                    Hedychium "tara".
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                    Albizzia still doing well, the dry is suiting it.
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                    Waterlilly doing ok.
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                    Bougainvillea just pushing through th campsis.
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                    Bit of a strange one this, Aralia elator, 15ft high.
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                        Calydorea amabilis................
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                        Desfontainia spinosa...................
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                          Good afternoon this is my Fatsia Japonica,it was cut down to 18 inches in april and is doing well:smile:

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