Gardening: Hints and Help!

Good Idea Motorhomer, I did a similar thing with peas for the pea shoots tasted good. Left some to grow on and I got quite a few pea pods that tasted like peas used to..

Was given an Orchid last year, flowered well, died off in autumn and was chucked outside into the garden, in a tub of compost.

We never watered it, fed it, but to our amazement it has now flowered again and has a few more buds that look viable. Must be the current heat wave, I guess.

Well done that orchid! 😁

Had a nice afternoon outside yesterday, mainly tidying, dead heading, cutting back. Things are on the turn a bit now, at that “blowsy” stage, some things finished for the year, others doing well. We have enjoyed lots of crocosmia and montbretia this year, and lovely Japanese anemones, both these still going strong, and some lovely dahlias adding late colour. Roses still doing their thing, although over that huge first flush. 

I am thinking about bulbs now. Got lots of daffodils in, many varieties, shades and shapes, plus tulips and alliums. Fancy something a bit different, so any ideas welcome. I don’t like muscari, too much leaf for me, but other suggestions very welcome. We have been adding to our crocus numbers as well.........😁

Agree about the Crocosmia ours have been a pleasure also, But now the green stalks of Lucifer have suddenly gone brown and seem to have died off. Never known this happen as early, could be the hot temperatures we have had. .Unfortunately the Montbretia have not flowered plenty of leaf though.

Yes, my Lucifer has gone brown very quickly. The Montbretia might need lifting and thinning HH, I did this with some of mine in the Spring, and where I have it’s flowered lovely. Blinking heavy rain downpours yesterday battered one of two things flat yesterday though☹️

We've got lots of little cyclamen coming up just now, white and shades of pink. They're nice easy little things to plant in the bulb/corm line of thought. My favourite bulbs have been  the Dog's Tooth Violet bulbs that OH planted (amongst others .) Nice to look at the bulb catalogues now but I'm hanging on to Summer for as long as I can!

Planted a few Spring flowering Leucojum in a clump a couple of years back which are doing OK so far.  Flowers are a bit like Lily of the Valley but much taller.

Ordered a few spring plants today and then went outside to see how autumn is progressing. We have a Cornelian Cherry (cornus mas) and it's covered in "cherries" this year, decided to try one putting my faith in the book details that they are edible. Strange taste, slightly tomato like, I haven't gone wobbly yet...🐰

Nice👍🏻, with variegated foliage you get a bonus, I try to buy a variegated type whenever I can. You can see they’ve had the elements required over the growing season in their health👏🏻👏🏻