No, it’s not tuberose.
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Annuals as cut flowers, and update on gardening jobs!
(344 Posts)I've just received my Creeping Phlox plug plants from T&M, a bit earlier than expected.
There are 60 of them in pink, red and white strip, blue, and lilac. All in good nick, so I've just spent the evening potting them up. In a day or two's time I'll put them into the conservatory which has no heat.
Then outside for a short while.
They are on the way to a raised bed, that I hope they will spread and fill.
I've never grown them before, but I am looking forward to the colour and scent in the garden!
Next I will plant some seeds, probably Cosmos, which I also haven't grown before, but I want something reliable for cutting for the house.
Anyone advise annuals for that purpose?
The year is skipping along!
Still lots of different Iris!
I don't know the name of this rose, it was in my MIL's garden and we were given it as a keepsake.
It's leaves are bronze when young, and the colour is more deep dark and velvety red in real life.
This photo was taken at midday in the sun, so it looks more lipstick or crimson.
Sorry Lisagran I don't know what that is either! Can you show another photo of it in flower more?
Such beautiful flowers in everyone's garden, and so healthy looking. No greenfly or blackspot.
My red rose has some blackspot on the old leaves. I've sprayed and picked off as many as I can, but no greenfly as yet!
It’s so blowy here today Namsnanny, it’s hard to take pics, but I’ll try!
Gosh it is windy isn't it?
I've been chasing around after any rubbish, and there seems to be quite a bit in the garden.
The gate's banging because the latch isn't too good, and that's making me jump each time I hear it!
The formation of the buds on your mystery plant is ringing a bell with me....it's rather different to other tall plants. 
It looks a little bit like a Camassia in the arrangement of the buds on the stem, and the grassy strap like leaves are also similar. But the flowers are often blue shades and look more star like.
Sorry not too helpful!
Thanks for trying Namsnanny - it’s not Camassia - we had those at a previous house. Oh well, they’re quite pretty!
They look like Peacock Orchid. A member of the gladioli family.
Sorry not those. Wrong flower cluster.
Ahh! Thanks for the update Lisagran
I think these Oriental Poppies are glorious, if short lived!
I like poppies of all kinds, Iceland, Californian or Welsh Poppies. Funny they have places for their names.
Iris still going strong. Even through the windy days we've just had.
Seem as if everything is drying out now. The sun is getting stronger, and quite a few areas of the garden are suddenly looking a bit wilted.
I've planted the Buzy lizzie plants out.
To be honest now that I've managed to buy some bedding lizzies from Lidl the two just don't compare.
The shop ones, are sturdy, fuller and all round looking a lot stronger than mine.
Never mind, at the beginning of Covid we couldn't get anything could we?
So if that had carried on, I would have been very glad of those I grew myself!
I'll put up a photo of mine against Lidl's so you can see what I mean!
Sweet peas are off at last. They seemed to have sat in the garden doing nothing for weeks!
They are getting to be around 1 - 2ft high now.
I took some Hypericum cuttings a couple of weeks ago, and yey! I was excited to see they had taken! 
I’ll put up some photos this morning as well. Just got up! Must get a cup of tea.
First things first!,
Beat you by an hour Whitewave ( on the getting up front)?
Such a beautiful morning thought I would potter about in the garden and deadhead the poppies etc and have a cup of tea out there.DH still snoring away happily, so have come inside now to look at news, GN etc before I go off and do breakfast and a shower.
First thing in the morning and late evening, on these hot days, the cool garden is a joy to sit out in, watching bees and listening to birdsong.
Am loving all the pics on here, keep them coming.?
Yesterday I planted out my zinnias, grown from seed. A few are in a huge pot, with a palisade of bamboo barbecue skewers around to stop marauding squirrels digging them all up, and the rest in the sunniest spot in the front garden.
I’m short of space, esp. sunny-enough space, so ?.
Watered the garden for the first time last night. I’ve held out as long as I could but it is like dust out there.
Had mixed success with my cutting garden. The trouble is I try to garden organically but seedlings simply disappear overnight and so I won’t have quite as many Flowers as I planned. Still I have plenty of gladioli coming up.
The roses this year are as floriferous as they have ever been I think. I wonder if it was the rain we had early on? The peony I bought new has had one flower this year, but it has come and gone before I had the chance to photo it. It isn’t one of the big blousy one but a cup one - for the bees.
I’ll put the photos up later.
Namsnanny there are Shirley and opium poppies too...
Sprinkled some mixed poppy seeds into a tub, they are quite pretty ( small because there are too many)
Another poppy of unknown origin which has seeded itself happily, and a pink climbing rose only planted the other year, a David Austin rose called Strawberry Hill ( named after Walpole’s house.)It has a lovely delicate scent.
Beautiful arrangement Lisagran what are the tubular white flowers hanging down? They look a bit like weigelia.
I was saying earlier about the difference in my home grown plants and the shop bought ones. This photo shows a pot of mine which has no flowers (because I keep pinching out to bush the plant out) and two (2) plants in it. The other is a large plug plant I potted on.
What a difference!
The other photo is of rose Compassion. I think someone else mentioned they had it.
Last year it had medium sized flower with clusters of new buds below. So when I cut the flowers I would loose any chance of future flowers.
This year there haven't been any buds alongside the main flower. Which seems to be bigger.
Strange!
It's lovely all the same.
GrandMattie Yes your right, and they come in such lovely colours don't they?
It's the best time of the day in the garden isn't it lemongrove? Your rose seems well at home, and such a pretty clear pink.
Thanks, yes, I am surprised it’s done so well, given that it was only planted as a bare root rose a year and a few months ago.
We used to have the rose Compassion, such a nice pink/ apricot rose, but it died off fairly quickly.Maybe our sandy soil doesn’t suit roses, even though we add nutrients to it.
The honeysuckle is lovely just now, and foxgloves popping up all over the place.
Can anyone tell me what the yellow flowers are, it’s the one thing only that was already planted here years ago when we moved in.It was just lawns here, but with loads of these (tubers) which have gradually died off.Probably planted well over 50 years ago.
Oh wow that is a long lasting tuber! Isn’t it the same as the one Lisa was asking about.
Hot today. Will have to sit in the shade as skin high risk. Too hot to garden during the day.
Rose creamy coloured one is Wollerton Old Hall.
The clematis is Lady Diana and flowers until the autumn
The three pink roses are Harlow Carr
Are they Sisyrinchium lemongrove?
Gorgeous roses and clematis Whitewavemark2. Yes, clippings from Weigela Namsnanny
Roasting hot here ???
Yes roasting is the word today!
MrNams bought some turf to fill in the patches left from laying a path across the lawn, (his job at the beginning of CV) but my oh my, he hasn't chosen a very good time to do it!
I've put some shading over it and water it regularly, but the patch is smack bang in the middle. just where it gets the sun for at least 3/4 of the day!! He swears it'll be ok.
Perhaps we should have a bet on it, as was a bit brown when he laid it, so the odds are with me I think! 
Lovely shots of the garden pots Lisagran 
Can you find a spot for your new rose do you think? Or do you have a grateful recipient in mind (after a suitable passage of time, of course!) to re gift it?
Honeysuckle is one of my most favourite plants. The scent is delicious.
I have little routes around the neighbourhood that I take at different times of the year, just to see certain plants in other peoples gardens.
There is a Honeysuckle growing through a tree of around 15ft+ high. It is a glorious sight with purple pink and yellow tubular flowers.
The scent billowing up and down the street is such a pleasure.
Another climber I try not to miss in my area, is a purple blue Wisteria, which I'm told (because I was cheeky enough to knock on the front door of the owner, and complemented them on it!) is over 100 years old.
It's so beautiful I don't have the words to describe it properly.
On this one the racemes are around 1ft or more long, and new buds are purple which fade to blue, then whiteish as they age. Again the scent is overpowering.
Of course I've missed it for this year as they flowered when we couldn't go out and about.
Anyway, back to our gardens, and this is the Red Rose with No Name that I posted earlier on. I've just put another photo up to try to show it's true colour. Although it does look a bit flat now!
Lemongrove … I love the orange poppy next to the purple/brown Cordyline (is it?). The foxgloves too.
That Honeysuckle looks so healthy, is it very old?
I don't know the 3rd plant but I think Lisagran might be on the right track.
Wwmark2 … Lady Diana looks very unusual, the flower resembles a cyclamen only larger to me!
Puck looks content …….. for now!
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