As suggested I thought I'd start this! 
. The season is upon us! Any good ideas etc.
So what is everyone doing in their garden, on their balcony or in the window box?
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.
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! 
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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