A happy thread - post what you’ve picked!

You have a very inviting patio Aldom and the flowers are vibrant. You must have green fingers. ?

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It partly depends where you live Shinamae - north / south, by the coast / inland, if the garden is sheltered, and what sort of a ‘look’ you prefer (formal / cottage garden, etc.) and whether you want to grow from seed or buy plants. Have a look in nearby gardens as to what is doing well. Our local small independent garden centre is very helpful.

This is a lovely thread, thanks for all your photos, especially those of the veg and fruit. I like all my house plants, but would love to have some outdoor growing space.

So many beautiful pictures and beautiful gardens. Absolutely lovely to see.

Sadly my garden is a desert after a few years of hardly any rain, no flowers to be seen since about April and even then very sparse ? A guest who has been with us for the last eight months is a bit bewildered at how brown and droopy everything is in a country known for it's green fields and rain.

What beautiful gardens, I agree
Mine suits me but some things grow better than others
Here is a vase of roses, sweet william and honeysuckle - a bit droopy now.

Three lovely ripe figs.

Can't post a picture as they got eaten rather quickly.

I am keeping an eye on my daughter’s garden whilst she is away and I picked some runner beans which we have just eaten.

Grammaretto What a sweet picture of your granddaughter.
I wish her a happy life.

Shirley48

It partly depends where you live Shinamae - north / south, by the coast / inland, if the garden is sheltered, and what sort of a ‘look’ you prefer (formal / cottage garden, etc.) and whether you want to grow from seed or buy plants. Have a look in nearby gardens as to what is doing well. Our local small independent garden centre is very helpful.

Thank you for your reply, I am in North Devon and I’m posting a picture of what my garden is like at the moment. The tiles need re-grouting and cleaning!!

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Flowers for DH funeral a couple of weeks ago, and plums from my little tree about to be picked.

I prefer to see flowers growing...I never pick them. I smile when I water all my pots ?

I don't pick the flowers but I picked these to photograph

Love flowers but rarely pick them for the house. ?

Dahlias are beautiful right now.

Thank you Aldom.
I don't pick all the flowers, just a couple from each clump so that I can enjoy them indoors and close up as well as outside.
I have the job of putting fresh flowers on the tables every Saturday at our community cafe and love the changing seasons in the garden.
Today it was everlasting pea, lavender, poppy heads, one or two roses but they are mostly over now, geraniums, (pelargoniums) marigolds, honeysuckle, phlox (as photo), and white campion. I was spoiled for choice.

Shinamae if your garden is particularly dry it might be a good idea to grown drought loving plants. I was at the botanic gardens in Cambridge not long ago and there they have embraced the lack of water and extreme heat by avoiding plants which require much water. They have a truly beautiful display.
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/high-temperature-recordings-and-the-impact-of-hot-weather-at-cambridge-university-botanic-garden/

Not me but my grandaughter picked and ate these strawberries ?

I love your flowers for DH's funeral grandMattie. So very special.
My DH died at the end of November so we used a Florist!

Strawberries Raspberries runner beans parsley chives so far. I don't pick garden flowers just buy from the shop.

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Mine are in the garden too for the butterflies & bees. Unfortunately hardly any this year.

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For*Shinamae*. These are all easy to grow perennials, great for cutting and are drought tolerant and hardy.
In order of the photos:
Verbena bonariensis
Alchemilla mollis (holds the rain on the leaves, so pretty even when it’s not flowerings)
Scabious (two colours here)

And here’s my everlasting sweet peas, no effort at all except to tie them in as they are rampant, and chop them back to ground level late autumn,
I also highly recommend achillea, there are lots of different colours and also pretty ferny leaves and good for cutting.

I don’t have much flowering other than courgettes and peas at the moment but for the jubilee street party we were asked to bring a jam jar of garden flowers and this was my offering. At the end of the day I went out to bring mine back in to the house and someone had walked off with it. Happily I had taken a picture.

I picked these two up today from a friend of a friend of a friend.

Not flowers and not picked in the garden, I admit, but they are certainly making us happy, after a year without any cats.

Don't pick many flowers from the garden. Prefer to see them outside. Front garden full of colour at the moment