What' growing on your windowsill?

African Violet in flower but with several brown leaves! A lily of some sort my aunt gave me ..she says it will flower next year! A M&S orchid..no flowers and a small succulent with oval 'leaves'..growing well not sure if/when it will flower!

Basil. The other herbs are outside.

Christmas cactus still in bud it keeps promising to flower but then has second thoughts it still looks good and healthy though,mr.g. has a strawberry plant bought for his birthday at beginning of May and it needs to be replanted at the end of June,a mixed pot of herbs that give out a nice fragrance to the kitchen.

Basil, Christmas cactus just finished flowering, three miniature cacti and a kalanchoe (sp?).
Oh, and dust!

Lots of little Aloe Vera plants [I think they're called 'pups' ]that have, unfortunately died. I bought a job lot of aloe vera's at a village fete last year and thought I'd set up a little cottage industry [they're not cheap to buy from garden centres]. Drawing board back to, methinks. Never did have green fingers ....

Jess - leggy courgettes need to get planted out now. I've grown some in a growbag in Uk very successfully. Not more than two to a bag , water, water, water and feed regularly. Cut off the larger leaves once the plant matures. They can go a bit mouldy otherwise.

The wedding was brilliant! Great party of all ages, the sun shone from a blue sky, my son and his wife looked fab. and the food was good, too. (Importantly, NO FLIES, which was something that was concerning me - it being all so rural here). It has gone a long way in providing roots for me in this foreign land, and for my son in America, too. He said it 'smelt' like home.

Well done Butty that must have made you very happy. You worked so hard to make it a success, and I'm sure the guests will remember it with a smile on their faces
Congratulations to you and your son and his new wife.

My Cosmos have now gone into my garden. And mostly disappeared.

Slugs?

nanaej just pull off the brown leaves, the flowers should flourish. They do better if there are not too many leaves anyway, you want the goodness to go I to the flowers not the leaves. I keep pulling off the larger outside leaves of mine and they seem to flower for ages

indoors?

that slugs, to clarify. Thanks butter re grow bags and glad you had a lovely day

I was querying the fate of jingl's cosmos.

No slugs on my windowsill - maybe a couple of dead flies....

Mould on the upstairs window sills where I can't reach and the window cleaner "doesn't do sills"

Anagram I don't know. I can't find them! I'm as as you are!

I don't think slugs eat cosmos.

That Grannynet probably put a curse on them.

jO4 My slugs definitely eat cosmos - they chomped them all last year whilst they were still little!

I have put the courgettes in their grow bags in the rain. I fear an instant slug attack. I have not been patrolling diligently after dark. On your head be it butter
But if they do get eaten i will try something else in the grow bags.

I am willing those little courgettes to survive! Lay a few rose stems with good thorns criss-crossed on the soil or make a tepee around them - that might deter those hungry critters.

Isn't it crushed egg shells or ash that deter slugs? Something gritty and uncomfortable for them to slither on

parsley, Chives and Basil in lovely Duck Egg pots to match my new kitchen decor..but window boxes of newly planted Busy Lizzies & petunias on all my ledges.
Hope the Impatiens are ok this year. The Garden centre didn't have any but a friend gave me some he had grown in his greenhouse.
Always love to have Tulips on my kitchen window ledge when in season.
I am not a keen gardener as we have just fairly large areas of grass which I pay someone to cut...but love all my tubs, baskets and boxes.

A pink orchid and a white orchid. On the kitchen windowsill, a pot of basil.

Oh shite Butternut!!!!

I'd better get out there with the pellets. I know I've got two spindly plants left.