Anyone else notice a change in their garden

........compared to last year?

I mean everything seems to have flowered earlier (except for the lillies)

Even the Montbretia is about to flower, now thats usually august/september
The fuchsia is in flower and thats usually later
the red hot pokers have been and gone

I notice that the bedding plants seem to be looking a bit past their best too

whats your garden like compared to last year?

 

Yes I have
Tomatoes seem to be taking their time ripening.
I have the same conversation with Celia next door and see is 101 years old and so has seen a few summers to quote about
robert

 

Keep a diary ...
.... mine is Digital Photos, taken every week, so that I can compare back over the years.

Trouble is ... I've only been doing it for a couple of years

 

Dont think anything down this end of the country is any earlier than normal.

Last year and the year before were particularly bad weather wise, I think.

This one, although not great, has been warmer and dryer than the last two up to now, down this way.

 

Am doing the same, taking lots of photos weekly .... only started this year though!

 

Good idea to take pics in terms of a garden diary - great suggestion. This is our first year in this house - so have basically left the garden areas alone to see what comes up as perennials etc. The people here before apparently had a gardener, so was expecting some nice perennial borders - but...not to be - just the odd thing here and there. Will remember tomorrow to go take pics though so I know what to plant where for next year!

 

It is a very good idea to leave a new garden a year for this reason, the only trouble with that is, if they were keen on having a nice garden there is more than a distinct possibility that they took the good stuff with them. If I were to move, I am afraid there are many plants I couldn't part with.



Perhaps it was the very warm May we had that is showing itself, as far as earlier flowering is concerned-I am seeing it a little.

 

Yep, I'd take a lot of stuff with me if we were moving...to another house in this country!:wink:

But yes, I've been taking pics every month for the last two years, as a compare and contrast. I do think our seasons have shifted though - May and June seem to be hot and sunny and have been for the last couple of years. July for the last three years (here anyway) has been damp and showery.

 

When my mum sold her house, she told all the people viewing that the plants in the garden were not included in the sale and even had them moved off the property listing ..... she took pretty much everything she could from her garden as she had spent a lifetime collecting everything and was moving to a property with a very bare blank garden.

Its quite likely, like the others have said, that they took all the good stuff with them.

 

I spose they're your property so u can do what u like with them lol I would wanna take some of mine too. As long as u explain that they won't be there when the people buy the house it's fair enough.

I've noticed the tomatoes taking ages to ripen and a few things flowering early

 

You do need to stipulate whether plants will be left or taken.

A colleague at work was very clever though. They moved house several years ago and had a massive and well developed herbaceous border. As they were selling their house in Spring, they dug up each herbaceous perennial as it appeared, divided it, put half back in the border and half in a pot. By the time the house was sold, the border looked just as it was before and they had a patio covered in pots of plants, ready to be moved to their new house.

 

yes CUMBERLAND, i have noticed this year up here in SCOTLAND, that some of the bedding plants
are looking a bit past there sell by dates earlier this year .in saying that they have been in bloom earlier this year,especially the petunias,as i have many many petunia plants. music.

 

I should notice a change, because I'm the one that does it. :rotfl: