Kedi-Gato's garden

Oh Kedi those Water Lillies are gorgeous,and so healthy looking,wish I could grow them like that.

 

more fab pictures kedigato, love them roses they are gorgeous, well done stunning garden and the colours are superb

 

Thank you roders and rosa. If you didn't live so far away roders then I would say come and get half of the water lillies as we have far too many. Hubby is going to thin out and throw no end of them away in the autumn. Or perhaps we could quietly put them into some of the nearby ponds and lakes.

 

Lovely photos KG.Your red rose looks a bit like our Dublin Bay.I do love your water lilies,they certainly look like they are thriving

Here is the photo of the leaves that are very much like yours.I will take some photos if they flower this year or will find the ones from last year





[ 09. June 2007, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: Kandyfloss ]

 

Kandyfloss, I may be wrong but I thing that those leaves are foxgloves. They are biannuals and I think that they usually flower in their second year.

 

I think mims is right Kandy, I immediately thought "foxgloves" as soon as I saw the picture and before I read mims' text.

Thanks Kandy, and I'll be posting some more pictures of the garden later on today. I think I will do a new topic in Watergardening for the pond as I have some good photos now. But how do I transfer them from this thread without breaking a link? Or is it better just to repost them?

 

Just discovered this thread KG - what a gorgeous garden you have! I love the white Clematis and I also love ferns. Thanks for sharing

 

KG I will go down the garden now and take a photo of the correct plant as I know it has yellow spidery flowers similar to an Inula...watch this space or the one above :D

 

Kandy, I put mine up side by side to compare, this doesn't seem to be it either.

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=37;t=000133

However, you saying "Inula" put me on the proper track as I found some that looked about right. I shall go into it later on in more detail. Thanks for the tip.

Marge, thank you and glad you liked my pics.

 

- - - PICS OF OUR KIDS GARDEN - - -


This is the view that they have out back -

The tulip tree -





The sweet chestnut -



Archway to the field -





The grandchildrens playhouse (on top of the garage) and swings -

 

- - - CONTINUED - - -

Here is Hubby in their pool (4 x 8 meters, 150 cm deep) -






Here is the front of the house. The wooded area to the left belongs to the city and our son & DIL have rented it for their kids to play in.

 

Our Day Lilies are starting to bloom -





A couple of others -






This one in the kids garden -




I finally managed to snap a few insects, not good enough for in the proper thread but I was pleased that for once I was able to do so.

 

A very important feature in our garden - the water butt. Hubby pumps the water up out of the cistern into this butt (actually a builders barrel) and we fill the watering cans from it. If there is a lot of watering to do, then Hubby just uses the hose, it is long enough to almost get to the other side of the garden.






And now a few flowers that looked nice today, a small pink rose and then a large one -

 

The Day Lilies are looking much prettier today -




A shady area -




Mini Cantebury Bells looks somewhat the worse after the rain -




My Calamondin both flowering and setting new fruits. Don't know why it is all at the bottom of the trunk and not up on the branches this time!