What's Looking Good in June .....

pete, trust you to come up with a beautiful unpronouncable beauty. I just love it. So it may do well here? I'll have to look it up.

I've had no luck with my pink Hebe here ... not dead but no flowers after three years.

 

Hebes as far as I know like a bit of moisture not too hot not too cold.
Dont think I would bother if I was you. :D
Now caesalpinia would be great, guess what its other name is,..... Bird of paradise. :D

 

Don't think I can just chuck my Hebe out ... :eek:

:D :D :D Just what I need ... another hole in the head .. sorry, ground! :D

 

I love that caesalpinia gilliesii Pete. It looks as though fireworks are coming out of the flowers. I've never seen anything like that. Wish I had one.

Just had time to snap this miniture Gladioli - I think that's what it is.




I'm afraid the wind and rain today has done a lot of damage but when it finally stopped I realised that I simply MUST get myself a new washing machine.





If that wasn't all, my little watering can was blocked - but I soon discovered why.





So much to do - so little time.

 

I'm sure I have some Caesalpinia seed LoL if you want any, they germinate fast and grow fast.

Kryssy, I used to keep all kinds of snakes in my younger days but now I just have my Oriental Fire Bellied toads. Tree frogs are my favourite.

 

I wouldn't mind trying, strongy, thank you.

On the snake subject, my friend gave me a snakeskin yesterday, a naturally shedded one, I hasten to add, so I can make something for my hair with it. Do you know if you have to do anything in particular with them? It's surprising thin.

 

Hi pete and strongy, bit of threadnapping, sorry- My caesalpinias are now about 2-3' high. I don't expect them to flower this year as I keep pinching them out to try to get them bushier, but only 2 out of the 6 have made new branches [2each], they keep trying to go up. I have them in al arge pot in the greenhouse at the moment as it has been so wet. Any more advice?

 

Cosmos!

 

Even though snails are evil plant eaters, that fella looks quite cute coming out the watering can! My mum had a frog in hers once :eek:

 

Something else crossed off my "would like" list Pete.

Love your mini glads Kryssy, and yes, I do think it is time that you bought a new washing machine!

I love your Cosmos too GP. We had them years ago and I fancy trying to grow them again, I had no luck a few years ago.

 

Hi everyone. It's a bit late for me tonight - gone 2am - but had a busy old day and little time to myself. Firstly, thank you all for your kind comments. I'm trying hard to make a garden from nothing and sometimes the elements, weeds and time beat me, but when I see all your wonderful gardens, flowers and vegetables I just feel so inspired. So, enough rambling. Just had time this evening to get some photos - hope you like them.

First, a boring old Marigold, but aren't the colours wonderful? Such an underestimated plant. We rely on them to keep the flies at bay.



This is a bit of a mixed bag but I like the way the plants intermingle.




This is not particularly right for this topic but one of my sons made this for me from one of our oak trees which had sadly died. It sits in my wild area and I look towards the Blond Hills over beautiful countryside.
He made two arms on the chair and then looked at my rear end and sawed one side off.......



The Day Lilies and pears sit happily together.




I wandered around my wild area and thought how clever Mother Nature is at sorting out her beds.




This is one of the new beds I have created this year but there is still lots of bare earth. Sorry, must cut the grass tomorrow!




As the sun was getting low I watched these little beauties get ready for sleep.......



Time for me to sleep too............ nite all.

 

Just beautiful Kryssy!

You seem to have a huge garden with all these various areas, how big is it please? Love the tree-seat, with armrest no less! We had a fir felled March-April last year and a tree-seat made, but no armrests.

I love marigolds too, especially the dark ones with orange and brown. It's just a pity that the slugs love them too and eat the leaves down to the ribs. Do you have that problem too?

 

You are both very kind. Thank you. I'm hoping to get it finished before I shuffle off. I reckon I've about another 3 years work on it and then I can just keep it tidy.

I don't know how big it is K-G. I suppose in this instance size matters! I think it's about an acre. I would like to say we own up to the horizon but I can't. I can't fit it all into the camera lens though so have to take it in bits. This is where the front/side garden (gravelled) meets the back garden and the oak tree is on the boundary. Most plants are in their infancy still.




This is sort of diagonally across and the oak trees are ours. The camera compresses the length some. Please excuse hubby being comic. He was indicating that not only could he insert a broom and sweep up as he went - he could do it with two. The dog just wants to play.........




He'll shoot me for putting this on. Everyone keep quiet about it !!

 

Really nice Kryssy and an acre is a lot of land to work on! Now, if you could get Hubby to push a lawn mower at the same time .........!!!

 

Looks lovely Kryssy set in great surroundings.