Busy-Lizzie

Good Evening FORKERS

Spent morning in GH and veggie garden, sowed seeds, put lots of snapdragons and nasturtiums in cold frames to harden off. This afternoon planted, weeded and moved heleniums and a tall pink campanula that were in the wrong places.

Spring sweethearts

Salino, I've now found on another thread that if you click on "edit" the photos disappear when you "save changes". You have to re-do them.

MOB rants

Gosh, Jeannie, you sound a really generous person.

I hate it when delivery men say they'll come in the morning so you wait in, then they come in the afternoon, when you've gone out. I always wonder what people who go out to work do? I'm retired now.

Our own A to Z of our Gardening

Are we allowed to start G yet? I don't think there are many Fs!

Geranium, there are so many beautiful perennial ones. Psilostemon is one of my favourites.

 If Verdun is around I'm sure he has lots of suggestions in this family.

For whom do we garden .............

A couple of years ago I would have said for the deer! They stripped my veg garden and nipped off all the flower heads and ate all the roses. For the last 12 years or so they had been getting bolder. They ate the pansies in the pots on the terrace right by the house. I was getting frantic! Then OH put up a high fence around the veg garden and fenced the main bit of the flower garden. It's made a huge difference. He couldn't do the whole thing as it's around an acre and an irregular shape.

Plant id and rescue plans

It's a real shame about the small photos problem because I can't quite see them, but the 4th looks like thyme as well. What does it smell like if you crush a leaf?

Plant id and rescue plans

There only seem to be 3 photos so far. There's something funny going on with the photos on the site as when you click on them to enlarge them they don't enlarge and they have white bands top and bottom.

First one is cinquefoil, which is a creeping potentilla and a pain in the neck. It sends down really deep tap roots at intervals and is fairly resistant to weedkiller. Got it in my garden!

Ex. C looks like a half dead thyme.

Today I feel so happy....

I'm happy to be back in my own garden today, but I was happy on my trip to England too. I was happy looking at Sissinghurst woodland blue flowers.

 and my own garden

Spring sweethearts

Is it just my computer or is there a problem with photos? They all have a white band above and below them and when you click on the photo it doesn't do the enlargement it did before.

What's the weather like in your area?

Full sun this morning, now sun and cloud, 14° in shade but was warm enough for lunch outside in the sun. I've been away (in England) and house sitter told me it was 25° on Wednesday.

Trouble typing on some of the threads

Gardens we have visited 2013

no emails as well as small text

Cleaning greenhouses

Rose pruning and frost

reviews

Why did you all start gardening?

uploading photos