Not really, Sandra. Our roses (two!) are rather poor. It has been so dry, here, in East Anglia that I am surprised anything has survived to be honest.
We planted a Weeping Willow to replace the one that was a casualty of the diggers and it has been a worry to keep it watered. It is right beside the pond but is too new to have deep roots yet.
The cornus florida have very few blooms (brackts) this year, loaded last year with fuits exactly like strawberries. The gooseberries have been a failure, but a prolific crop of red and black currents, rubarb was so so. First sowing of runner beans rooted in the ground, but the courgettes are going bonkers in this hot humid weather. Roes have been so so although the dog ones in the hedgerows have never been better. Every year is different thank goodness. What suits one genus doesn't suit another. I suppose it's the same with people,:smile2:
Our gooseberries have no fruit although looking very healthy
I think that last year they had some infestation
Our cucumbers have wilted and died
Raspberries and strawberries seem to have plenty although not yet ripe
Tomatoes are just beginning to fruit
Apple trees loaded, cherries are good but the birds always get there first, not ripe yet but I already see the birds eying them up, not a single plum so far the year
Fig tree is well well loaded in the greenhouse, as is the vine
Apart from the trees our veg are grown in pots
As are all our fushisas, hostas and geraniums
Every year we say we must cut back as they are heavy to move into the greenhouse in winter and out in spring as we get older
If anything we just seem to get more
I could start a small garden centre with miniature hostas, loads of varieties and this year we really need to split both them and the large hostas
It will be like the Sorcerers Apprentice when we start
East Anglia had the driest May on record and that is saying something for this region. Then we get to June and it rains. Didn't last long though. A local farmer told us that all the crops were really stressed before the rain so hope it helped him out.
I think wild orchids are amazing plants. The first I can remember seeing was in a Dordogne wood in the 80s. When I moved to Shropshire in 2001 I was delighted to find several varieties come up in my garden. I used to count and photograph them each year. There was a bee orchid in a nearby field and it was my favourite. I looked out for them every year when taking my dog for a walk. Just before moving away from Shropshire a nearby farmer sprayed his long fallow fields killing everything growing in them.
My orchids are online - https://orchids.pastcaring.com/bee-orchid.html
We have a domestic water tank in the greenhouse and Albert puts any potatoes that have begun to shoot in my potato cupboard into it
Different varieties of salad potatoes etc,
Can’t call it a potato crop when we harvest , but it’s fun taking enough potatoes for a meal
We’ve been enjoying the jersey season, bought not grown , I love it when the first jersey royals hit the shops and they are tiny
I remember the fields of wild flowers including orchids when I was a child Paul, spent hours pressing and labelling them into books ,I Spy book firmly clutched in hand
Well I’m not having that much joy with posting photos but I’ll try again
This clematis is the only one to be profuse this year, although the Montana wasn’t too bad
On a gardening programme they said the poor clematis performance was due to the cold wet winter followed by the hot spell early summer
I’ve just enjoyed my first home grown figs, the vine is full of grape clusters, strawberries have been good ,
Blueberries are loaded as are the tomatoes, neither as yet ripe enough to eat
Yay! You did it Beautiful photos. I feel quite humble that I cannot do it. I must try to access mhf from my ipad as that is where the few photos that I have are located.
Well we would normally be away until the end of this month and off again come Sept Jean
So the gardens are better tended this year, and I guess we will actually get to eat the tomatoes this year
Every cloud and all that :grin2:
More or less all the pot plants are maintained from year to year, taken into the greenhouse to over winter which is why our promise to cut back on the number of pots never seems to materialise
Hosta are brilliant choice for ease of care, no need to overwinter inside, they just flourish
although this year some of the large troughs will need to be rebuilt come Autumn
Since we introduced frogs to the top pond we no longer seem to have any slugs or snails
I guess when it comes to plants in pots Albert just seems to be able to keep them flourishing year on year
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