Gran/Grandads Gardening Corner

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Just had breakfast outside and took these pics.The orange poppies attract so many bees, they roll around inside them collecting pollen.
The clematis is The President, I like the way the flowers hold themselves upright like a water lily.
The climber on the wall is a hydrangea petiolaris, very good for a shady site, although we have more in the garden and they are on a west facing wall, and they do well too.

Been busy for the last few days so couldn't vote in time, but if I had voted , it would have been clematis, so many types in the last fifty years, but also what about bamboos?

Having an hour at the local garden centre this morning with a friend, she is looking for a patio rose, and guess what, I have a spare pot waiting for something, so I think I will get one too!

Spectacular, Roses! Your garden is just the type I would like.
My garden is a little neglected at the moment, I can't face working in it in this heat. Lawn is a lush bright green but badly needs a cut.
I have had to apologise to my neighbours for attracting a flock of starlings with their young to my bird feeder. They make such a din and it is so raucous, starting at 4am and continuing for most of the day! They will disappear in a couple of weeks. Just as well because they are costing me a fortune in Chunky Dumplings, filled coconut shells, Flutter Butter and mealworms. I am turning into my mother!

Were those photos taken this year roses?

Our Mr President is just climbing up the arch - not a flower to be seen yet although a white clematis on the other side has three saucer-sized flowers.
We do have a lovely salmon coloured poppy which opened yesterday!

Yesterday afternoon I was hacking back a couple of misplaced rockery plants which seemed to have taken over - they have had lovely yellow flowers but now reduced to stumps. It was too hot for a job like that. I can't remember what they're called (like many of the plants in the garden).

The slugs seem to be enjoying our garden this year too.

shysal we were very happy to see two starlings in the garden the other day as we haven't seen any here for years.

Lovely garden Roses
We spent the morning at the garden centre yesterday and came home with loads of plants, mostly for planters. Mixed lobelia, petunia, nasturtium. No reds this year.
The summer climate here is very hot and dry, the soil is almost solid clay, so very few plants survive in open beds.
Santolina is my favourite, just coming into flower now. Roses do well too, but the deer ate ours, so only in large pots next to the house.

ps I forgot to mention that last year I exchanged some runner beans with someone on here - Alima? Hers are purple, mine are Tarbes.
Have now put them in compost in little pots to start them off - fingers crossed.

Lady Di is a good runner bean - they don't get stringy and freeze well which many runner beans do not.

If I plant this Begonia in a tub outside will it continue to thrive or will it be instant death?
It has flowered consistently since Easter and has been very happy. Thought it might extend the flowering life outside but really not sure, any advice would be lovely.

I have a starling amongst many coming into the garden for a couple of months now - it has brought its chicks the last week or two. But, what is interesting is that it has a beak that is at least twice if not three times as long as normal - it is absolutely distinctive.

Wow roses your garden looks amazing.

I'm so jealous.

I have just put Begonias outside Juliette and I live on the windy North sea coast.

I took the pics this morning about 8.45 Jalima as we were having breakfast outside.The President clematis has been in flower for a fortnight! The garden is very sheltered and has plenty of sun.
Thanks all, we really enjoy gardening and the soil is very easy to work and plant in, being sandy soil.
Today bought two patio roses, one is a marbled red and white ( interesting) and the other one a bright orange.
Also bought two different coloured coleus plants for a shady spot.I heard Monty Don say they like sun, but I buy them for a shady corner every year and they always do really well.

ww that starling should do well in life, it can collect more insects and worms with a long beak!
We used to have a distinctive male blackbird with a white streak, but it didn't manage to find a mate.

Just having another little peep at your lovely garden roses what are those lovely orange flowers that look like buttercups?

Poppies gillybob they flower for the day then drop ( when hot) but more come out the next day.We collect the seed and scatter all over the place.They go all Summer long, so really good value and bees love them.

It would be nice if others shared garden pics ( I know you have done gilly)

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Some more taken today.
The belgian honeysuckle on the trellis has really taken over, flowers will be out any day now.
Aubretia still going well, and the orange spreading plant I think is Helioanthus, and is a fast grower.

Jalima. I always plant Lady Di runner beans too, they are very successful. I do not seem to manage to collect many seeds though, so start afresh each year. I remember my father's used to dry on the plant and rattle in the pods before we picked them and stored for the following year.

whitewave, I can identify some of my starlings, a few of which also have very long beaks. The babies line up along the 4 arms on top of the feeding station waiting to be fed. It will only be a short while before they are able to help themselves. They make a terrible mess, flicking the seed onto the ground, but sparrows, robins and blackbirds clear some of it up.

Serious garden envy roses

Oh they don't look like poppies.

My North East garden must be miles behind yours roses I have some of the same plants (nowhere near as good as yours though) that have yet to flower.

On one positive note, my grass is looking good after we took advice (can't remember who suggested it but thank you a million times over) and patched the places with turf, where the seed wouldn't germinate following moss treatment. Its now almost back to its former glory although trying to keep it a little longer than usual to let the turf patches take properly.

rose that's exactly what I think. I would also echo the others and say what a lovely garden. I have a President but it is only just winding its way up a Golden Showers rose. I do have other clematis out though. We live at about 2 miles from the Devils Dyke on the Sussex Downs so quite high, and it is amazing how much later stuff in the garden is compared to say my sister who lives on the coastal plain.

This pic is of a piece of waste ground in the communal car park for the row of terraced houses where I live. It is full of builders' rubble and concrete making planting difficult, but two or three years ago I made the mistake of introducing a few moon daisies grown from seed. They have now taken over and are just coming into flower this year. It will only take a few rain storms and they will be flattened and look an absolute mess. The neighbours and I have thrown 1000s of seeds and plants at the plot in the past but nothing much takes and anything that did establish like border geraniums is now choked out. We had envisioned a wonderful wildish look including poppies. It is wild, but not wonderful!

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Lovely garden Roses. Things seem to be a bit further forward than us, but thank goodness the sun is here now!
Shysal, it is difficult trying to establish a meadow garden, isn't it!
I've just bought some wild meadow plantlets from our NT garden, so I'll see if they work. Sowing seed has come to nothing!
Meanwhile my rockery by the raised pond is looking good and the Rhododendrons and azealia are beautiful, many have been flowering since January. Also included a woodland bed, under a larch, that I reclaimed from some old bushes!

I'm hopeless at posting pictures, but you can see what the gardening conditions are like here from this thread, if you have time to read it:
www.thefranceforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=19896
The physallis bit is mine, (Patf), the person who replied is an expert, as you can see.

Thanks gillybob
I always put the bedding begonias in the garden, the slugs don't like them, just wasn't sure about the house plant variety.
All your gardens are lovely, I have a serious case of garden envy.