Gardening diaries - friendly discussions (part 2)

Ah........thanks so much @alp, that's very nice of you!

Dare I say ....the rain has stopped!

For you especially @alp....have Trouble Free Tiling Tuesday......there , I only say that to special friends!!
And here is a cuppa to get you going...

 

Morning all cloudy but no rain as yet Lilly's out

 

Gorgeous pics @zenj ........is that what happens when you get ....rain?

 

@zenj How can't I tear myself away from this thread?? Such lovely flowers. I saw the first ones quite a few time, but nothing as prolific as yours and please don't laugh, what are they called?

Love that lilies - such delicate beauty! Love especially the pink fringe.. I smelt something gorgeous in my front garden, but the horrible colours have put me off photographing them. My blooms are absolutely tacky .. but the fragrance is out of this world. The bud in the last photo is gorgeous!

 

@alp yes it was a short power cut. Everything is ok. But i wandered why i didn't get any posts on here. Just got a load. So lovely pics every one.

 

PROGRAMMES TO WATCH
TONIGHT
BBC 1 9pm. New series.In the Dark
Crime Drama adapted from novels by Mark Billingham.Two girls have been abducted in a rural Darbyshire town in the midst of the Media storm, pregnant police detective Helen Weeks returns after years away to discover that the man arrested for the crime is married to her child hood best friend. But is he guilty.


BBC 4 9pm
The British Garden: Life and Death on your lawn.
Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlocking back gardens.

 

Too much rain Upsydaisy started again now have to dash out to take photos in between rain ,please some one send a photo of that round thing in the sky that gives heat ,thanks everyone on the lovely comments on my flowers

 

So much rain.......supposed to ease soon but it will be great for the garden. Sunny tomorrow
However, rain suited me as I got new tyres for the car..........haggled, as always, and got £20 off per tyre so £40.
Ordered items from gardening express.....bad reviews about them so we will see what happens. Not one of my usual online suppliers. Fingers crossed

 

Rain has just started, but not a lot and the air is still very humid and has now stopped. How miserable. @zenj I had to use numerous cardboards to cover my lean-to or everything will be toasted here.

@Verdun Surprised that you need to buy something as I thought your garden had everything.

Can't compete with @Logan, here are some of my blueberries


A dahlia that must be called piccasso as it resembles the brushstrokes of an oil painting


A very plain zinnia, not a patch on @Upsydaisy 's


Sunflower Teddybear? Sunflower from bird seeds


These lilies look shocking .. but the fragrance is out of this world, as usual



Glorious and a bit vulgar Rudbeckias, but very cheerful


Now I remember why I like Streptocarpus - please welcome Dracula

 

@alp your blueberries look great. You'll probably get more next year. It's started to rain well now. It's taken all morning to do your flowers always look amazing.
:bigthumb:

 

Lovely flowers alp Teddy bear sunflower love it my sunflowers all ways get eaten by earwigs but I grow some from seed every year as it seems to keep them off other plants

 

Love the rudbeckia and sunflowers Alp, bright sunshine on a rainy day? Hoping you are getting some like the rest of the country are? You too Upsy, you're much closer to me. Apparently forecast heavier this evening through till 4am.

The absence of rain for so long must have sent me mad, I went into a spending spree this afternoon. 3 Lavender Ashdown Forest, 3 Kniphofia Mango Popsicle, 3 Salvia Ostfriesland & a rare siting of Agastache Kudos Mandarin in the GC. I just couldn't help myself

 

Try upturned pots with some newspaper, etc in them for earwigs zenj......very effective
Mark, knip mango is brilliant. Several clumps have been in flower here for 4 or more weeks. I have the other Popsickles too and would not now be without them

 

It's still raining, heavy at times. What we should have had this morning.

 

Verdun if the south got more rain the earwigs wouldn't pack there bags and move north east they love wet damp and moist