A happy thread - post what you’ve picked!

I’ll be picking up poo when I walk the dog later.
Promise I’ll not post photos though ?

Hydrangeas coming into their own now, love them!

Sweet peas; perennial & annual.

My nose !

Casdon

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)

Thank you…?

Grammaretto

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/

Thank you….?

One of the neighbours at the allotment split their dahlia bulbs early in the season and gave me some. I had no idea what colour they were until they bloomed this week in a corner of my veggie plot ….surrounded by leeks, beetroot and carrots.

I took my Mum aged 82 and my granddaughter aged 5 to the local sunflower farm and they chose a bunch each. Lovely memories made ?

I picked two tomatoes. I can't take a photo because we ate the little beauties!

I’ve just picked some Tomatoes, yellow courgettes and yellow French beans for tea tonight.

What a lovely thread!

Not nearly as beautiful of those posted on here, but I do like a small bunch of stuff I pick from the garden. Even in the winter I try to find a few green bits. Right now there is also a bunch of the sweet peas from the garden - grown and picked for me by my lovely husband.

Foxglove that is a really, really beautiful photo?

I have neither picked this nor planted it (obviously) but this beauty is on the canal bank at the back of our house.

My first cherry tomatoes from the garden today - no greenhouse so pleased that they have ripened as early as this.
Courgettes are doing well too.

My sweet peas photo bombed by a poppy ?

A few “clippings” from the garden

FannyCornforth thank you

Not a photo of picked flowers this time. My neighbour's cat enjoying a drink of water from the bird bath.

And my tame blackbird waiting to be fed this morning, as is his habit. His mate died in the spring. I buried her in the garden. Father blackbird raised his young family alone, bringing them to feed in the garden as they were able to fly. He's lived in my garden for almost three years.

As I have been inspired by this thread(especially one certain lady she knows who she is) I am going to the garden centre today to get some more plants. What I really want is tough plants/shrubs that flower and don’t need a lot of maintenance!! The picture I am putting on is a plant I have had for years it has lovely yellow flowers but I am feeling very sorry for it because it has been in that pot for about 14 years!! and all the soil must have no nutrients so I was thinking can I tip it out shake off most of the soil and put some new compost in and put it back in or is that not possible? And you can see there is some other invasive plant in there but I’ve tried to pull out but it must be very deeply rooted so I really think of gentle tip out and re-potted would be of benefit but we’re about to you ladies and your superior knowledge. and please no snobby comments about Ernest my knome…?

Aldom

And my tame blackbird waiting to be fed this morning, as is his habit. His mate died in the spring. I buried her in the garden. Father blackbird raised his young family alone, bringing them to feed in the garden as they were able to fly. He's lived in my garden for almost three years.

I have a black bird as well and he is the only bigger bird that comes to my fat balls,usually it’s only small sparrows and he demolishes them ( The fat balls not the sparrows!) ???..

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Shinamae Greetings to your jolly gnome from some of my garden frogs and the stone hedgehog
Yes, definitely a good idea to repot your plant. I feed all my pot plants regularly, using the appropriate type of feed for the plants ie ericaceous feed for the camellia.

So I did venture to the garden centre and bought the plant on the right and the other one I got from Tesco but unfortunately I think my kitten has got to the one on the right!!.. I will admit to not knowing what they are and I just bought them because I like the look of them, obviously a very inexperienced gardener… anyway, the flowers that have had their heads battered in should I cut them off further down the stem?

I think the plant in the left is a begonia. The right side, a dahlia. Yes, just cut off the battered flowers low down.