Gardening is so satisfying

Lovely Clematis plants Lisagran, I don't have much success with them. The only one I have is a patio dwarf one.

Thanks Shysal - it worked for me if I just did one at a time! Pouring down again here now

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The only way I can get photos to upload is to use the 'snipping tool' on my JPEGs, which gives lower resolution PNG pictures which load quickly. Does it sound like I know what I am talking about, I am a technonumpty?

Bit of respite from the rain

Lovely, Shysal - my kind of colour scheme
Well done on posting pics too - I can’t get any more to upload

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Beautiful pictures Lisagran and J52, my kind of planting! At the end of last summer after a year of failures in my veg plot, I changed it over to flowers. Gnetters advised me on the layout, sunray stepping stones effect on a circular bed (in fact it may have been your suggestion J52 but I could be wrong). It is growing well, the aim is to have no soil showing eventually and I am getting there. I have been particularly pleased with the giant Alliums, and Foxgloves, the seedlings of which I retrieved from a neighbour's bin. All plants were either given or bought cheaply from the garden centre's sick bay.

Lovely pics, J52. The clematis here seem to be doing well this year. Is the double one called Josephine?

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It’s soooo wet here! Such a shame we can’t enjoy the gardens.
I’ve just been out to rescue my Begonias. They were supposed to be a cascade of flower by now.
A couple of photos of my soggy flower beds and a clematis that flowered for the first time for years!

Are you able to get out into the garden Anniebach?
Or is this a step too far?
If you can get into the garden, you can perhaps just stand and stare at the beauty and shape each little bud.
Then take in a gulp of fresh air. You will have achieved a lot.
I know it’s difficult.

I now have a gardener and the garden looks good, but no
pleasure really because I didn’t do the planting and weeding.

I just wish it would stop raining. The greenhouse is bursting with stuff that needs planting in the veg garden.

oh how I miss gardening! due to ill health I cant do it anymore, I had my tiny front garden grassed over and sit out there when the weather lets me. 3 years ago new neighbours moved in the upstairs flat and she asked if she could take over the garden. I said yes as it would be lovely to see some flowers. About a year later she left her partner and took some of the plants in the front garden. He did make an effort with the garden but now the novelties worn off and he has let it go. Thankfully we have comunual gardens so gardeners call every week, so I have to ask them to tidy the garden up every so often.

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Your garden looks lovely, Blubelle - I like that sort of random, sprawling look. I have lots of pots, but in the borders everything is intermingled! Pageturner I can’t get pics to load now either

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I love my garden, it’s not a coiffured garden, things come up where they want so it looks fairly wild but I do look after it and I love my chair to sit and think, at one with the world in my little paradise here’s a few pics from last week the fritillary was taken earlier

Sorry, the photo option has defeated me after 20 minutes of trying?

Lisagran your flowers are beautiful. I love Iris but haven't tried growing them. I stick to hardy Roses, Hollyhocks,Petunias and Gladiolas. This photo is from last year.

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Lovely time of year in the garden - so much colour! Have a great mass of honeysuckle just flowering - it smells wonderful, especially early evening.

I enjoy tying in my plants that need supports. Heaven only knows why I enjoy that. I am stringing up my roses to the trellis. They are really growing well now.

..shysal..love the sign!!!

Absolutely love my garden...when I'm troubled it helps..when I'm out there digging/planting I just lose myself..love growing cuttings,seeds, splitting plants etc..some of which I sell on at the hospice shop where I volunteer...have a "grandkids corner" peas, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries..they just all pick&eat.. nothing makes it into the house..I garden organically...no chemicals at all...I pay a price as the end of the garden meets farmland and I get ground elder galore.. constant battle...but nevertheless..my garden is my haven ?

I used to welcome the celandines as one of the first flowers when out walking but can't say I've noticed more of them resurgam123. However now they cover my garden borders there are so many they choke the plants and are not welcome. I wonder how they first got there.
Grammaretto I love the company of the birds too, we have lots of sparrows, I've not seen so many for years.

My Camelia has kept its flowers for the longest time ever this year. Usually they open, the edges go brown and off the petals fall.

This thing about celandines. I remember them from when I was at school but its only recently I have seen them again in great numbers.

That seems very odd. Any body else noted that?