Summer at last !!

Summer seems to have arrived at last ! the last two days have been fantastic, I planted several of these Ganzania plants in the garden and the first one opened today , it was well worth the wait , its beautiful

July

Thought I would add more photos today , the garden is starting to look good

Hanging basket with Petunias

I love this colour

Windy Weather

Its very windy here just now and I think the wind often does more damage to plants than anything , still they are managing to survive and looking good .


These are the Begonia's I rescued from a neighbours bin last year , the colours are wonderful and they never fail to make me smile .

The Lilies below I bought from the reduced corner at B&Q 3 years ago the keep coming up and they look and smell lovely .

Jolly June !

Well the weather has been quite nice , everything is growing well , ive just added lots of pics to let you see how everything is doing , im well chuffed !!


The Salad stuff is all in Growbags , the come and cut again Salad leaves are brill !
Tomato and Cucumber Plants

My Honeysuckle is only 9 months old and already just about covering the Rose arch , the flower smells beautiful !

This was a packet of ORANGE Lupin seeds I was given , they dont look Orange to me , lol , but they are lovely dont you think ?

My Strawberry Tower is great , no probs with slugs ( so far ! )

A little Bee visiting the Foxglove

Sweet William , it has a lovely smell

Delphinium and Grannies Bonnet

Woodpecker and Baby

I had 2 lovely visitors to my garden today , the Woodpecker and its baby , what a privilege to be able to watch them in my own garden

June

Well, May was lovely , what a diff it made to the wee plants , ive got most of them out in the garden now and ive got room to start off all my Salad stuff , Radish , Spring Onions, Garlic Chives and mixed Lettuce leaves , the Tomatoes and Cucumber plants are growing well .


The Hanging Baskets are looking really full now and starting to flower .

In Between Stage

This in between stage does my head in ! It gets too warm in the Greenhouse during the day and yet its too cold to leave the plants outside all night , so , out they come in the morning and in they all go at night again , my hubby thinks im mad ! still another couple of weeks and I should be able to get them out ready for the garden ….......I hope !

Bea keeps looking for Strawberries , she loves them !

Greenhouse Staging

My lovely hubby gave me money at Christmas to buy things I needed for the Garden / Greenhouse , I still had a few pounds left so I decided to change from the old pasting table and get nice new staging from Argos , here are the before and after pictures , Im quite pleased with the change


Before ( the old pasting table )

After ( nice new staging from Argos )

My son James went and collected it for me and built it up and thank you Natalie for going and buying it for me !

Dahlia , Disco Dancer

Potted on my Dahlia this morning , ive got 101 of them !
Im not worried though the ones I cant manage to squeeze into the garden will go to neighbours

Everything is growing well

Although the weather is awful most of the time everything in the Greenhouse is growing well

Sweetpeas


Antirrhinum

Morning Glory

Lavatera , Loveliness

Datura , Angels Trumpets

Dahlia , Disco Dancer

Spring ?? Crazy weather !

Well Ive had a great day , the weather is crazy , sun is shining and the snow is falling ! it was 80 in the Greenhouse and I was loving it , infact it was warmer in the Greenhouse than it was in the house !

Im growing Non Stop Begonia's for the first time , my neighbour was putting these tubers in the bin and asked me if I would like them , I put them in an old container , covered them with compost and put them at the back of the Greenhouse , I put them in pots last week and put them in the central heating cupboard , as you can see they are starting to grow , pipping is the correct term im told .
The Tomatoes are also coming on well , the ones here in the picture are Minibell , I grew them last year and loved them .

In fact everything is growing well , im so happy , I love getting up every morning and going into the Greenhouse to check on all my little babies , how privileged I am to be able to watch all this beauty growing , its my little patch of heaven on earth .

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Homemade Compost

My lovely hubby kindly emptied the compost bin for me this morning and Im well chuffed with it , I spread it around my Fucshia bed and it looks great , time to start refilling the bin again for next year ! lol

Crazy Weather

Its quite a nice day , I worked in the Greenhouse most of the day ,really enjoyed it , gave the place a bit of a tidy up its surprising how quickly it gets untidy , all the seeds are coming on well and I made a start on the Hanging Baskets . Britain is to be battered by storms tonight so dont know what we will wake up to tomorrow

Begonia Seeds

Remember the little tube of Begonia seeds , all 750 of them ?

here they are , who wants to count them ?

Greenhouse and Seeds

3rd of Feb

Quite cold today but the sun was shining in the afternoon just long enough for me to go and tidy up the Greenhouse , its was nearly 60 in the Greenhouse so okay for working in .Not sure how many Fucshia have survived over the winter .
I started off some Rudbeckia seeds this afternoon ( Prairie Sun ) , grew them in 2006 and they were really nice , think there were roughly 20 seeds in the pkt which will just be fine for along the back of the fence . I want the border really bright hot colours this year .
6th of Feb
Lovely sunny day
I bought bulbs out of Poundland a couple of weeks ago and left them hanging in a bag in the kitchen , big mistake !! the heat of the kitchen had started them growing , I took them out to the Greenhouse today and put them into polystyrene disposable cups ive covered them really well with compost so im hoping the cold Greenhouse will slow down the growth without killing them .
I got a bit of tidying up done in the back and front garden , looks so much better , the ground is so wet .

Begonia seeds

I shouldnt be let out alone ! I had to go to see the Doctor this morning or believe me I would not have been out ,I was happily waddling through the High Street on the way home with the sleet pounding down when I stupidly looked into Poundstretchers shop window and there was a man setting up all this years garden stuff , did I continue walking by ? no ! in I went for a wee look and out I came several minutes later with a pkt of Geranium seeds , now my hubby doesnt know so dont go telling him or im in big trouble ! if there is one thing I dont need its another packet of seeds , ive just sown them and got them on top of the fish tank to germinate , ive also sown Begonia seeds , they are SO small ! there is 750 seeds in the small tube ,ive never grown them before so plz wish me luck .

Wind Damage

As you probably know Scotland suffered some every strong winds last night , I spent most of the night praying no-one would get hurt , the only casualty we had was my Strawberry Tower , you can probably see from the photo the garden is flooded , but that will soon drain away . I will try and get out this afternoon , weather permitting , and see what I can salvage , oh the joys of gardening !

Happy New Year , Lang may yer Lum Reek !

Well here we are another year has begun , what are we in for this year I ask myself ? One thing for sure, it will not be boring in the Garden ! what a year 2007 was eh ? One tomato I got ! lol, the only consolation I have is I was not alone , I do feel sorry for first timers , all I can say to you is ....give it another go ! I was determind I was not going to go near Tomato plants ever again ..but.. there is nothing to beat walking into your Greenhouse and picking your own fresh Tomatoes and Salad stuff so maybe il just grow a couple of plants , also im going back to the " old faithfulls " for plants . I love Dhalias they never let me down , Marigolds , Lobelia , Rudbeckia and of course Fuchsia .

Ive joined a site called Grows On You ( http://www.growsonyou.com/ ) please take a look at it , its great everyone is so friendly , ive met some fantastic people I would never have met without joining this site , there is a guy called David , he created a Yellow Brick Road theme in his garden for his children , its amazing , I loved following his story all year and cant wait to see what he is going to get up to this year

Well hope you all had a good Christmas and I wish you all Good Health and much Happiness in 2008 , Lang may yer lum reek! (A salutation wishing long life and prosperity. Literally, long may your chimney smoke. )
And of course .......Happy Gardening !!