Garden Snap Shots!

This is the best one at the moment, Princess Anne, always excellent! 

Wow again Brue….

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Now the Clementis is starting to die back the roses are starting to show through.

David

We are enjoying a lovely warm sunny spell at the moment, and roses are out very early here. White is Winchester Cathedral, Orange climber is Lady of Shalot, pinky/blue is a climbing Blue Moon, and the yellow one remains a mystery!

OH has been renovating our big laundry sink pond up by the house today. It had sprung a slow leak from the plug hole, which had been bunged full of sealant when we first got it. (Staff from my first Leisure Centre rang me to say it was being taken out, and was just going to be dumped into a skip some twenty odd years ago, so the sealant we put in has lasted well.) Off to Wickes tomorrow for some new, once it has cured, it’s just a matter of new gravel, then replace all rocks I have collected from up and down the country, clean all plants up, refit fountain and hopefully it’s back to full working order. I like the sound of water up near the house, but it does drive some visitors mad😁

Very envious of the above roses, waiting patiently for flowers now the Wisteria is fading.

Speaking of Wisteria, I notice at Swiss Farm on of the toilet blocks had a nice display on the outside. It seems that there is a lot of it about in Henley on Thames.

David

It's been good this year unfortunately OH bought a white one a couple of years ago and as it wasn't flowering at the time it was a bit of a punt. Unfortunately it still hasn't flowered so I'm wondering if it ever will? Anyone else experienced this non event? 

Yes Brue, I have. I bought a wisteria years ago, kept it in a large pot, never let it get pot bound, but while it was healthy with leaves, never a single flower. In despair I planted it into only bit of ground I had free at the time, back of house, quite protected, and it did really well! Until our blinking Council came down one breezy day spraying weeds on adjacent cul de sac and killed it dead😡 I wasn’t best pleased. Perhaps I hadn’t got the pruning right when it was in a pot, not sure🤔

I think we'll give it another year? It's planted and it's climbing up a pergola, just leaves though...last chance saloon!