Lovely sunflower, Abitbarmy - one of ours had snapped off, so just brought it in, with a few other scraps
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Fed up of all the doom and gloom, I’ve picked myself a bunch of flowers from the garden - between phase 1 and phase 2 of the summer, so my last rose of the main season, and my first dahlias. Cheer us all up and show us your pickings today!
My first of the sunflowers picked for the house. Sunrich Lime, it’s a beauty but I’ve had to do a lot of watering to keep them going.
I love cosmos Shirley48, your dark red ones are beautiful. Here’s my flowers picked this morning, a few cosmos included. I seem to have a surfeit of verbena and bright orange dahlias at the moment.
Our red rose bush is still going strong
I have a friend coming round tomorrow at 11 to help me repot some of my plants, I think she is a little more knowledgeable than me which wouldn’t be hard!!I have just bought multipurpose compost do I have to get special compost for different plants? I am repotting 2 corderlines tomorrow and I think they will be okay in ordinary compost… And I do have some general plant food…. Smaller corderlinesis at the back of the garden by the small fence I’m going to report them into quite big pots… Not a very clear photo I know but you get the general idea and I have been out scrubbing those slates today..????
Sweet peas - I was going to ditch them since they’ve gone so straggly, not to mention white mildew that doesn’t respond to spray, and so many brown leaves. But they’re still producing a lot of flowers, so there’s been a stay of execution.
I think the plant in the left is a begonia. The right side, a dahlia. Yes, just cut off the battered flowers low down. 
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?
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…?
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.
Not a photo of picked flowers this time. My neighbour's cat enjoying a drink of water from the bird bath.
FannyCornforth thank you
A few “clippings” from the garden
My sweet peas photo bombed by a poppy ?
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.
I have neither picked this nor planted it (obviously) but this beauty is on the canal bank at the back of our house.
I’ve just picked some Tomatoes, yellow courgettes and yellow French beans for tea tonight.
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