Gardening is so satisfying

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.

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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!

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

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

Bit of respite from the rain

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?

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

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

I chopped all of mine back like mad last year and it seems to have given them a boost this year

Lisagran thanks, I don’t know the name of the clematis, I’ve had it so long!
There’s 3 in the large planter, one is a large whitish pink, I think is Miss Bates. It has already flowered, but might come back later. There are two in the photo, a light and darker mauve.
Other clematis around the garden are also doing well, despite the rain.
Shysal, yes it was my suggestion, I’m so pleased it’s worked out for you. The planting looks lovely, it’s so satisfying when rescue plants do well.
I’m jealous of your large poppies, they won’t grown in my garden, despite the neighbour having them! I must try again.
More rain here now, ugh!

The poppies are a pale lilac, not very striking. They came into the bed when it was my veg plot, but I always left a few to flower. I have scattered seeds elsewhere many times without success.

I'm trying again to post a photo of my garden from last year. I just finished planting on June 10th due a cold rainy spring. Seeds are sprouting but today we had a severe thunderstorm with lots of rain again.
I'm not going to expect much so I won't be disappointed if I have a failure this year.
Hopefully this photo posts today, otherwise I'm giving up.?

Yay, it worked. Here's another one.

Could you have a raised bed made so you can sit to do some planting and weeding Anniebach I can’t even wear gloves I love to feel the soil and weeds and plants in my fingers I d miss that so much if I couldn’t do it

My gardening is somewhat hit and miss – even empirical –but I am good at weeding. I have quite nimble fingers and, as I go with the dandelions, buffalo grass and chickweed, my mind wanders in all sorts of interesting directions so the process is almost Zen. Then my neighbour starts playing Black Sabbath – at high volume.

Wonderful hollyhocks, PageTurner - they won’t grow here

The bloomin’ weather driving me mad, if it’s not rain it’s high winds. My poor roses are getting bruised, the good thing is that I staked the Delphs really well and they are fine.

If I can I’m going out into the garden today and cutting back and tying in ( must get more garden string)
Mind you going into the garden itself is a minefield as I’ve parent seagulls to contend with?

Lovely photos everyone ?

Some “trimmings” from the garden......

Lovely pictures PageTurner. Looks like you have a slope to contend with as I do. I have one lonely Hollyhock, pinched from the roadside, but hope they will spread. I did scatter thousands of seeds last year but they failed to germinate.

My Pansises have gone all 'leggy' should i just cut them all back even though they have flowers still or just leave them. Anyone ever done this???

Pansies are reaching the end of their season at this time of year, doubt whether they would come back if you cut them hard, just keep dead heading and enjoy what you have.

Gardening would be satisfying if the blessed rain would stop long enough for me to get out there and do anything!!!