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The weather has been traditional Bank Holiday sunshine and showers today and yesterday, so not a great deal of work has been done outdoors.
I have been to the allotment each day though, to water the indoor green babies and to pot up the sweetcorn seedlings from the bedroom windowsill. Some of them seem to have fallen victim to "damping off" and have rotted off at the stem/root interface, which is disheartening, but the ones that are still alive seem pretty strong, so I've planted another tray of them just in case. Today I also potted on two Lavatera seedlings, which should be ready to plant out soon.
Later this week I shall have to plant out many of the bigger seedlings to give them a chance to get established.
And now for some flowers...
These pink ones aren't mine and I don't know what they are - I spotted them on the way into the village the other day and thought how pretty they were.
This one isn't mine either, but I think it's a berberis - I like the way the flowers look like really tiny roses.
The forget-me-nots we bought at the plant sale have flowered beautifully :-
And they look nice with the cowslips that were already in residence.
Some of them are pink!
Euphorbia griffithii "Fireglow"
Ajuga reptans (Bugle) "Burgundy Glow"
Bluebells!
Yellow thing that's trying valiantly to take over the pond.
View of the bed.
I have been to the allotment each day though, to water the indoor green babies and to pot up the sweetcorn seedlings from the bedroom windowsill. Some of them seem to have fallen victim to "damping off" and have rotted off at the stem/root interface, which is disheartening, but the ones that are still alive seem pretty strong, so I've planted another tray of them just in case. Today I also potted on two Lavatera seedlings, which should be ready to plant out soon.
Later this week I shall have to plant out many of the bigger seedlings to give them a chance to get established.
And now for some flowers...
These pink ones aren't mine and I don't know what they are - I spotted them on the way into the village the other day and thought how pretty they were.
This one isn't mine either, but I think it's a berberis - I like the way the flowers look like really tiny roses.
The forget-me-nots we bought at the plant sale have flowered beautifully :-
And they look nice with the cowslips that were already in residence.
Some of them are pink!
Euphorbia griffithii "Fireglow"
Ajuga reptans (Bugle) "Burgundy Glow"
Bluebells!
Yellow thing that's trying valiantly to take over the pond.
View of the bed.
calm
The flowers in the second picture have leaves which look very like those on a plant that grows in several places in our garden, and which I've been told is a Mahonia. The flowers on ours are very different, though - bright yellow and very tiny, in very tight clusters of anything up to a couple of hundred blooms. I don't know whether they are a type of, or similar to, a Berberis.
Thank you! How's the new camera coming along?
I'm familiar with Mahonias and I can see the resemblance - what probably isn't apparent from the photo is that the leaves on the plant in the picture are very small - where a mahonia leaf is perhaps an inch and a half across, these are barely half a centimetre, if that.
Wiki does say they're closely related to the berberis family though - well-spotted! apparently some botanists even argue that they should be conflated into one genus.
My pleasure. Not bad, thanks; the Rushden pictures were its first real job of work, and it's proving easier to use as I get familiar with it. I tried to get some pictures of a little bird that's nesting in our north front hedge, and I've done only moderately well - I need to investigate the fast shutter speed settings and try again. I'll post them anyway, and see what people think of them.
Ah; I didn't realise the leaves were that small - the ones on what I believe is a Mahonia in our garden are indeed mostly about an inch or more across.
Those plants have grown in our garden ever since I was a youngster; Dad always used to call them Berberis, but later Mum told us that she'd found out that they were Mahonia, and that's what we called them from then on. Perhaps the experts started to call them that...
There really isn't much indication of scale in the picture, so there's no reason why you should've really :-)
They're always changing their minds about that sort of thing, the dithery wossnames :-) Chrysanhemums are officially called something else now, I believe and even the noble brontosaurus has had a name change and is now an apatosaurus or something. I like brontosaurus better.
That's what confused me. I thought at first that there might be varieties of mahonia with widely-differing flowers; they're certainly very different from those on our mahonia (which are in full bloom at the moment, and buzzing with bumble bees).
I very much like the cowslip picture, pure prettiness :)
Not at all - that made oi larf :-)
Eek! You've been possessed by Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres! :-)
Rob is a big euphorbia fan - we've got several of them here and there. We used to have a particularly large one (oo-er missus!) when we lived in Somerset, and on a hot day the seed pods would burst and shoot seeds across the garden...oh FSM, you've got me doing it now...I mean...oh never mind... :-)
[puts shovel down and stops digging]