The garden's green, but.......

All my annuals are well under way in beds and pots, the garden's green but where's the colour? With spring not making up it's mind this year whether it was coming or going, the plant's are just sitting and waiting to flower. Ohhhh, for some sun, in fact plenty of sun to help them burst into flower.

Even tomato plants in my greenhouse are showing unwillingness to crop with few flowers. I don't think it's going to be a good year this year in all respects.

What's happening for everyone else, are you all finding it the same in your gardens?

 

Yep,

Just had a look, put some of the beans back round the poles as the latest storm has blown them off. The slugs have had all but one growing point off.

Tobacco is just sitting there, looking more like net curtains. Nothing else is moving.

 

YES Sheal. Everything has grown tall, soft and lanky. And that horrid gale lashed it within an inch of its life. Even the lawn looks "strawy" and in shock. My outdoor toms in the window boxes were forced to dance "jigs" they hated it and slumped by eventide. There are many shrivelling flowers on them and I hardly saw a bee for a week. A cherry tree has gone into Autumn red leaf mode as I think it reckons it must be time to do this. Very unbalanced at the moment isn't it....

 

Hi All

Fern corner is looking good , perenial border looking ok , grass very green, baskets I am keeping in the greenhouse MIDDLE OF JUNE !!! and with the weather looking bad over the next 5 days they will be staying put.

So all looks ok only downside so blooming cold wet and windy doing all of this out of the kitchen window
YES with me Sheal , plus must be windy stuck in the middle of the Irish Sea.

Spruce

 

Same as you you Sheal, everything just sitting and waiting. Although my Gertrude Jekyll rose is brill and my ' Bo Jangles' marigolds are thinking about opening and my sweet peas are starting to get flowers on. Loads of flowers on my toms but only 6 tons between 3 plants. Grass looking quite green too.

Rusty

 

Spruce, right now my garden is being battered by torrential rain and winds are picking up to gale force, unusually it's coming from the east, it's all gone crazy out there! Surprisingly temperatures are holding up, we've had 17C today and promised 11C over night. We need sun though!

It seems everyone has the same issues at the moment and along with the rain comes the slugs and snails, oh joy!

Whoever is doing the rain dance out there, stop now please! It's not funny anymore.

 

Same here - lots of buds but they seem to be waiting for a spell of sunshine to open up - roses and campanula are two that spring to mind. My lupins have been lovely though and I do have geraniums, centranthus, salvias and sisyrinchium in flower.

 

On the bright side! I do have a few deciduous Azalea's, Camelia's and Magnolia's that I'm growing on outside in big pots that are thriving in this coolish wet weather. New lawn is thriving too I was dreading hot weather! But yes everything is green but there's on promise of better weather in a week or so, fingers crossed!

 

Yeah poppies are loving it as the ferns are plus valerian!ive got a few flowers on my tumbling toms,i did notice calendula,black penny,geraniums n cape daisies are flowering now so im getting a bit more colour,pansies n bellis are in full swing still i think its ants that are eating my dahlias and asters have been munched to death by slugs but i have back up also gazanias are budded up yet the lobelia are only just showing up x

 

Up to press i think my ferns are my plant of the year...they are looking lovely...by now i've normally cut back my H.Geraniums but they are only just coming into flower....everything else in the garden seems to be struggleing....

 

your really not having a good time

 

I too seem to have grown a lot of green this year . Except for my Begonias which have decided to develop glacial growth- like Spruce baskets still in the GH . Feels like I got to the first week of May and stopped . Possibly we are in a space and time continuum loop. I am sure the conspiracy theory members can explain this...........

 

Good thinking Armandii , best not to open the conspiracy beasts cage , because its a devils own job to close it again