Woos Garden

Good afternoon @"M" and thank you my friend for all your kind and friendly posts

 

Here is the top of the garden early this morning(The wildlife and wild flowers area)

 

It's looking lovely, Woo

 

Good morning @shiney and @"M" thank you for your kind words my friends,very much appreciated

I can never get a seat there Mrs Woo and my daughter are always sitting there

 

Hi @"M" they must have got their wise ways from yours truly

To day one of my Aquilegia collection





Think of aquilegias and what springs to mind? Cottage garden favourites happily self-seeding in beds, borders and gaps in the paving, blooming from May to July without a care in the world. Granny’s bonnets, columbines - call aquilegias what you will, but they are now under threat.

Carrie Thomas is the Plant Heritage National Collection holder of Aquilegia vulgaris cultivars and hybrids. It was in her small cottage garden in Wales, overflowing with aquilegias, that she first spotted something unusual and troubling. “Two years ago I noticed some of the leaves on the aquilegias were yellowing, and like a lot of gardeners I put this down to the weather. Mild and wet conditions can make aquilegias look unhappy. I turned a blind eye but that, in retrospect, was the worse thing I could have done. But at the time I didn’t know what was wrong”.

As symptoms worsened Carrie got in touch with the Royal Horticultural Society who diagnosed the disease to be a hitherto unknown downy mildew, specific to aquilegia.

“I cannot begin to describe what my heart felt like when I read this news,” says Carrie. “I was devastated”. It also turned out to be a particularly virulent mildew, wiping out a third of Carrie’s plants in 2014 with a depressing prognosis of decimation of the collection in the coming year.

“At this time of year I usually see the new growth, we all do, but I can only see labels where the plants should be. If only I had known earlier or quarantined the diseased plants I may have reduced the damage”.

 

Good evening @"M" and @Sheal thank you my friends,here's two of my Cape Daisies,I always plant these two colours together