AllotmentMax

Passion Fruit Vine

Hi just noticed your post about the passion fruit vine. Do you mean passion flower? if you do then perhaps it's not the end of the world for your vine.  My mother in law gave me a plant a few years ago.  I planted it and for almost two years after there was very little growth and I never thought it would come to much.  Then the third year I went away on holiday and on our return it was huge and in full flower.  Very much depends on the weather I think as it was a good summer that year.  It hasn't liked it much this year, plenty of growth, but fewer flowers.

Flowers

I have a pretty flowerless garden right now, apart from the Pom pom Dahlias I grew from seed, which turned out well in the end.  (THe first lot got eaten by slugs) Have grown a few perennials from seed ready for early flowering next year.  Hopefully much more colour next year.

Brand New Garden - 1 Year on

I think your garden looks lovely, especially as it's only one year old.  We have lived in ours about 13 years and have always kept it neat and tidy and child play friendly.  Kids getting bigger now and we can experiment a bit more and chang things about a bit and introduce lots of new ideas.  So have started now ready for next year and have a few ideas in the memory banks helped by this forum thanks!

Growing Sweet Peas

I planted my sweet peas early spring this year, but after seeing Monty's trial and other info from this forum having decided to sow some now and then some in the spring.  Mine did ok (apart from the one's my 12 year old daughter pulled up when helping with the weeding!) but I didn't spend much time on them and didn't cut any for the vase.  After reading lots of tips etc I hope to get a better lot for cut flowers next year.

What's the weather like in your area?

Lovely day here just outside Cambridge.  Warm too.  Spent three hours at the allotment having a tidy round and generally getting as much done as I could.  Spent the afternoon in the garden.  Great tidy up, some bulbs in and new plants all in ready for next year.  Grass scarified and cut.  Just need to set some seed on the patches and hope for a good lawn next year.  Hope weather holds up for tomorrow as I still have a few jobs which need doing in the front garden and the other half of allotment is still a bit of a mess.  Always so much to do!!!!!

wildlife in the city

Never seen a slow worm, but when tidying the garden today was pleased to find a hedgehog sleeping at the back of my borders.  Was cutting back a large plant, but left it as I noticed he had made a bit of a nest.  He must be the one saving my garden from slugs!  Not had too many so he's eating well.  Kids enjoyed seeing him.  I need to enourage a few more birds to my garden, but next doors cats are always around so even with a feeder in the garden not too many venture in. 

July in the garden!!

Gardening Grandma wrote (see)

Attotment Max, I also struggled to download pictures because they took up too much memory. Eventually, I made them smaller and then they were accepted by the GW downloader.

Thanks gardening grandma will try and give that a go.

Lilylouise - your garden looks fantastic.  A true inspiration for an fairly amateur gardener like me. I need to get a bit more knowledge under my belt so I know what goes best where etc.  Mine always looks a bit higgledy piggledyI if that makes sense.  Mind you, finding time is a bit of a struggle with 3 kids, work and all the other family stuff that goes on.  Oh well, live and learn and hopefully one day, it'llget there.

What's the weather like in your area?

In a word, weather is RUBBISH!! Fed up with it now, feeling quite depressed and have cabin fever.  Did not get out once today.  Lots needs doing, but can't get out much with heavy showers!

July in the garden!!

Oh and by the way, great photos.  Tried to down load mine, but didn't work, but don't know why???

July in the garden!!

Haven't been on here for ages.  Have been busy with stuff in the house decorating etc.  Garden is loving the rain, but I am not so much.  Fed up with it now.  Everything is green, but flowers not liking the strong winds we seem to keep getting.  Ruined one of my Clematis.  

To be fair, everything is getting a bit overgrown as I have not been able to get out there much and tidy it all up.  Dahlias are still in the cool frame and need planting out desparately.

Allotment is loving the rain to a point.  Warm spells of sunshine in between and we are getting a few crops coming along now, but I think they could do with some more prolonged periods of sunshine.  On the plus point, I haven't had to water much.

Today was rubbish, lots of showers and very heavy at times.  Is this all our summer is going to be this year.  Off to Cornwall on holiday in a few weeks time, but sort of dreading that it might be just rain, rain, rain . . . . .   lets hope things improve.

Enjoyed Hampton Court Flower show on the TV, but missing GW!!

Can you give me some advice on Passion Flowers?