Gardening diaries - friendly discussions (part 2)

That's brilliant news @Logan.... you've done so well putting up with it all, especially in that heat we had a few weeks back

 

Good news everyone.........still got my teeth


:glad: well top set anyway!! ( joke!)

 

Right what is this all about?....We have this evergreen tall tree thingy...had it years now, but all of a sudden it has sprouted a new branch...but it's of a totally different species...

 

.....it has had the chop now

 

Oh, no, please! It look better than the parent. Please, spare the chop!

 

@alp & @Upsydaisy thanks.yes the dogs miss me.
@Upsydaisy great about your teeth.
:bigthumb:

 

@Upsydaisy sure it's not a seed that has sprouted
:confused:

 

I love all these animated gifs.. Make me laugh.. Where did you lot get them? Last time copied a heart shape, not even an animated gif, the whole page was filled with codes .. I would dare to try any more!

 

@alp when i click on the smiling face and they all come up.Over the top of them come up 2 bars saying
Smiles. Testing smiles Weather
Garden & Animals. Miscellaneous

 

No it doesn't @alp, the parent is soooo tall and elegant!.... anyway it's gone to the compost heap in the sky!


No @Logan , it was definitely not a seedling it was sprouting out of the tree itself!

 

Hope everyone has had a pleasant day. I certainly did at Wisley, the echinacea & wildflower areas of the trial fields were incredible, as were the big double borders (much to be expected). Took your advice Alp by going in high summer & it paid off by the bucket load. Here are a few snaps.

 

Glorious Mark.
Some of the combinations are lovely

 

@Mark56 You must have had a lovely day at Wisley... Echinaceas and heleniums are my favorites. I saw some double echinaceas at a roundabout and I took tons of seed heads and spent ages sorting them out. In the end, none of them sprouted... but they were lovely..

Amazing how enchanting lobelias are. I saw a man buying a pot of lobelias and I was so touched. Big man buying lobelias.. I know I can be very mad.. But look how beautiful they are.. I think there was a robot like topiary there as well. We couldn't go on Saturday as I misplaced the charger for my camera..

And Mark, you were quite right, I now have a mass of Rudbeckias and they do like striking. In fact, it is now the most striking thing on the patch ..