Some random garden pics, June 10th

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Some random garden pics, June 10th

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This is a great view from the kitchen window. My 11 favourite plants in a row!
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From left:
1. Phormium. Bit of a tiddler as it was from a cutting last year, but is sending up a flower spike already!

2. Olive tree, slowly thickening up. Will keep trimmed and around this height as I love that look, but realise it's a long-term project!

3.Agave, not sure of variety, but bone hardy where other agaves (ferox, americana, schotti, parryi etc) have failed.

4. A small £10 bamboo, been giving this lots of fish waste feed recently and it's sending up loads of culms. Have it contained in a large (but buried) plastic planter to try to stop it spreading.

5. A £15 market-bought chammy that was in flower when I bought it. petioles much shorter now than they were :)

6.My £75 butia , actually this got winter damage before I received it earlier this year. New spears were dead and have been trimmed off, but latest spears look alive (hooray)

7. My £5 cordyline, bought off gumtree as a tiddler, it's been there about 4 years and has grown loads. First year it has flowered. So glad it is flowering, want it to be bulkier.

8. Rheum plamatum (rhubarb), such a fast-growing herbaceous perennial. Flower spikes tower upwards from zero to 2m plus in no time!

9. Dicksonia A. Think I have it in the ideal place, no need to worry about wind damage and the surrounding plants will give a bit of winter protection. Quite a lot of croziers / fronds this year.

10. Trachycarpus f. tried to dig this up and move it a few inches further away form the fence - failed, but might try again as I will have encouraged new roots close to the trunk.

11. Finally, a musa basjoo that you can barely see in this shot, but it's there. Not looking too good this year after the largely awful March / April, but I didn't lose any psuedotrunk. Should look good by August icon_salut
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My DIY (supposed) home gym / hammock frame / swing frame. Can swap the attachments as you wish Made from some scaffold poles I bought off gumtree and allen key tube clamps. My 7 year old daughter is always on this. I use it for 10 mins a month! :lol:
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This chammy is flowering again, just noticed today. Can't see the flowers yet, only just emerging and they're obscured by campanula
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All 4 of my cordylines are flowering this year. Such a wonderful fragrance, maybe a bit overpowering, but still pleasant.
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Trachycarpus is flowering too.
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It's actually a double Trachycarpus.
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A better shot of the Rheum palmatum, Dicksonia, Trachycarpus and M basjoo :D
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I like the cool colours of the irises around the pond. Soon the agapanthus and verbena bonariensis (also cool coloured) around it will be flowering too :)



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The agave up close. So brutally tough, yet so symmetrical - perfection!


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Clematis - The President up close. Isn't Mother Nature / evolution the most brilliant designer!



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A portion of our front garden. I love green front gardens, so am trying to do my bit too. No prizes for guessing the colour scheme!! It's north-facing, so wanted to reflect the colour of the blue light. Alliums (just finishing flowering now), chives, solanum crispum, clematis, aquilegia, and soon there will be lavender, campanula and verbena in flower. Our garden never has everything in flower at the same time, more of a succession.
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All is looking really good!! icon_thumleft
Most wanted list - Any Young Trachycarpus and/or fern.
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It is Tom,

So many plants. I keep meaning to buy a verbena bonariensis they are so lovely.

Pond looks good as well. I could be tempted to a Cordyline if they smell that nice... :mrgreen:

A lovely garden Rog!!

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You've got a very nice garden Roger with a lovely selection of plants, and a good reason to keep looking out your kitchen window icon_thumleft .

The close up shots are just beautiful icon_thumleft

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Cheers for comments, I think to be fair the fence looks pretty ugly but I'm growing stuff to cover it (bamboo, passionflower, and phormiums mainly), so in a year or 2 it should look great. Been doing this lark for 15 years, but only been at this place since Dec 2007 and it's still 'getting there'. Landscaping all done, but waiting for plants to gain height to complete the look I was after. Couldn't afford to to cheat and buy them big!

Originally there was no lawn out the back! Was a network of paths with trellis in between, like a mini maze. Nice, but not so good as a play area for kids.

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I recycled all the bricks, trellis and sleepers, and some of the hardcore.


Kata, I can post you some seeds later this year, they germinate quite freely and they are great plants. Tiny stems with a square profile (!), that have loads and loads of small flowers up high and they flower for ages. Great for planting amongst other plants as they don't cast much of a shadow. Also, the bees love 'em. Could post around late August I expect :) Your own garden is really coming along too. Planting that Trachycarpus made all the difference!
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Very nice indeed......love it icon_thumleft
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Wish list - Big Palms or Dicksonia antarctica's but open to anything really.....Cash Waiting !
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Nice garden Roger icon_thumleft
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Great garden RB, love your pond and the planting around it, also your choice of plants, they go great together icon_thumleft
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Thanks Roger for the seed of the verbena bonariensis and the comment on my pride and joy,

The small Trachis are throwing new spears too.

Whats the child doing... :mrgreen:
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I wouldn't say random pics, more great pics of your garden. Good to see the kids enjoying and helping in the garden.
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It is all looking very lush and healthy, a nice selection of plants.
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