Annuals as cut flowers, and update on gardening jobs!

Wow! Monsoon downpour here! Rain pouring off the roof as the guttering cant cope, straight onto my summer bedding pots!
My poor Busy Lizzie plants.

Yes still cold here too. But the wind isnt!
Re grass, well I haven't got a dog, so that helps me I suppose. But if I did I would have less of a problem with the local cats, so its swings and roundabouts.

Hello Maw nice to see you

Just went out to feed the birds. It is very cold for June!

Going to prune the winter honeysuckle and tidy the shrub border today. Bit late to prune I think, but it has gone mad.

That’s interesting Whitewave we used to have 2 ornamental grasses and both the late lovely Gracie and now Hattie have the same idea. Both plants had a permanent “short back and sides”
I think one may have survived - plant that is.

Aren’t the colours lovely though, and the brightness of the sun. That is what I long for in the depth of winter.

I have a grass in a pot , Japanese something or other, but the dog sees it as his personal medicine cabinet and it is only ever in tatters.

It's been so cold and very wet at times!

Spent today inside painting some old pots.

This photo was taken a couple of days ago, in really bright sun shine.
Aquilegia, Heuchera, Japanese Maple, and Carex.

Actually out trying to weed and clear today. But rain is forecast later.

Hardly flaming June!

Just come in for a cup of coffee.

Sounds like a good plan *Wwmk2 same for me today I think!

Chilly raining here, so my garden plan has come to nothing. Fire on watching television.

Yes, that’s it WWM. It fills any gaps in borders!

Thanks Wwmk2 ...another one fir the plant wish list
Sounds like you've been hard at work.
Dry warm coming on to rain now through here

Yes, I think it is a hardy Geranium WWM2

Geranium Macrorrhizum! I think that’s how you spell it

Isn’t it a geranium? A very attractive one that comes well with shade. I’ll look up it’s name and get back

Yes that's the one Lisagran, something about it reminds me of Japan!
Perhaps it's the flower shape and delicate colour that looks a little like cherry blossom?

It is amazing what affect living just a few hundred miles apart has on the garden.

Some of my roses have now finished their first flush and are ready for feeding and a dead heading, the rhododendrons have finished, and the sweet peas are about 5 ft tall and have been flowering for a month.

This winter we had very little frost and like everyone else buckets of rain. I have never seen so much flower in the garden, everything is flowering it’s socks off, the delphiniums are fantastic this year and the clematis are absolutely smothered, so maybe that is the reason?

The downside will be for me that when my sweatpeas etc have exhausted themselves, you will all be still enjoying yours.

I’m going to feed like mad to try and prolong the season though. Did the pots yesterday in the garden, will do the front pots today and water like mad to try to build up the flowers for next year on the rhododendron.

Do you mean the pink flower, Namsnanny? I don’t remember the name - it’s just a scrappy weed really in the borders, but it fills gaps!

Coolgran65 … My pea plants are about a couple of feet tall now (I did take a chance and put them out early).
I lost a few plants because the soil I planted some in was too compacted, and then the weather became cold and windy so they gave up the ghost.

Is the rose repeat flowering, or are you letting the sweet peas provide the flowers whilst using the rose for support?

Grandmafrench … your description is so apt Lisagrans sweet peas do look luminescent.

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Coolgran I agree with you your poppies are stunning. They make a good contrast with the yellow/green conifirs.
Your garden sounds magical. You must put lots of work into it.

Lisagran … Clematis, Love in the mist, roses pink and white, but what are the tall stems in your collection of glass bottles?

In the multi photo is the blue ground cover plant Campanula or perhaps a blue Geranium? But all the plants look so healthy.
My Geraniums were moved last autumn and this spring the leaves looked a bit yellow. I think the soil is too thin at the foot of the wall where they are relocated. I thought they could cope there but not so. I shall mulch and feed now, after I cut them down.
Your clematis have really done well in this weather haven't they?

lemongrove … Our grass is brown and dead looking too!
Also lost a plant or two. Well, the Camellia might make it after a severe prune and water, but it's looking quite sorry for its self!

I've (lots of help ) cut back the Ceanothus and pruned out some of the lower branches yesterday and today.
It might help me to get to the blessed bindweed that is a nuisance behind it.

I keep thinking the poppies are coming to an end, and up pops another bud!
So, some more photos of them and Dutch Iris.

My 4" sweet pea seedlings were only planted out yesterday to climb through the red climbing roses on the side of the garage.
I'm up North so cooler and rather behind.

I shall look out for those when/IF we're ever allowed to get to the UK again, and maybe try them out here next year. Thanks for the info.

I think the variety was “Cupani”

Oh what fabulous Sweet Peas - they're luminous, rather like the colours in Morning Glory. I so love Sweet Peas!

These were my sweet peas last year. I kept the seed, so I hope this year’s are the same colour and scent; they were lovely. No flowers this year yet.