Lets have some cheery garden pics

[bev]

greg, looks great. you'll be crawling up those stairs soon when the fronds grow, just what a jungle garden needs

chris, looks very relaxing and private, great work

cheers

lee

[Dave Brown]

Not been too good on the weather front recently butmeant to add these a while back and didn't get round to it, so while it is wet and chilly remember this....... Blue Sky

[themes]

Hope we see more of that Blue sky this summer.

[stephenprudence]

Just a few pictures of colourful flowers, not all of them are exotics, and a few are just plants in their natural surrounding that looks nice and colourful.

[plan b]

hope this works, a few pics taken this morning..

[Chalk Brow]

stephenprudence ~ the plant in your second picture is Vallerian, it grows everywhere around here too. I'm not sure which plant you mean in the third picture, it looks like an Antirrhinum in flower, I don't recognise the other plant unless it is a Vinca.

[bobbyd44]

can see you have been fooling us plan b, novice yes yes!!! looks like a great garden some nice plants!! and well established for a beginner

[bev]

hi plan b, looking good there. did you wrap those bananas or did you get away with terrible winter we had down south?

cheers

lee

[jezza]

stephenprudence, the wirral must be a warmer place than buckinghamshire, there were a handful of Phoenix canariensis_CIDP in chesham but they have all croaked it. Only one i have surviving were indoors over winter.

[plan b]

hi plan b, looking good there. did you wrap those bananas or did you get away with terrible winter we had down south?

cheers

lee

hi lee, yes i had to protect the bananas over winters up here, but ive not wrapped them as er the norm, i used cardboard carpet rolls when the worst of the weather was here, which seemed to do the trick

can see you have been fooling us plan b, novice yes yes!!! looks like a great garden some nice plants!! and well established for a beginner

hi bobbyd44 i still see my self as a beginner, just found this site which i think could help me out alot

[Chalk Brow]

Hi plan b

Missed your post while replying to another!

For a "beginner" you're doing well - good variety of leaf texture there - and already, like most of us I suspect, running out of space.

[Petefree]

Hi Plan B
Your garden looks great. Very nice and wellgrown bananas and bamboos and a nice enclosed jungly look.

Stephen: I'd agree with Grenville re the ID of plants in your pics
I think the first one (Pink daisy-like flowers) is Erigeron.
The second is Centranthus rubra (Red Valerian - you often also see a white flowered form) often growing out of walls.
The flowering plant in the other 2 pics really does seem to be Antirrhinum as Grenville says - otherwise known as Snapdragon and widely grown as an annual bedding plant but quite often capable of overwintering and self-seeding.

All nice cheery pictures!

Pete

[bobbyd44]

hope so!! has for me plan b, i got all my plants from the end of september last year and still buying.. heheheh which i will be for a while yet i think

[stephenprudence]

Thanks Pete, and Grenville for the ID's.

I have to admit I have a soft spot for the Antirrhinum majus, and when they stop flower I'm going to go seed collecting! It's a bonus that they are not hardy too, I couldn't imagine finding them away from the coast (or them surviving, given what I've read about them!)

Pete you're right the first one is Erigeron, it's also 'wallplant' that I like but unfortunately they don't produce seeds (or at least I don't know where seeds form)

It certainly shows you that its not just exotic flowers that can look colourful and nice

Watch out for a colourful snapdragon border next summer

[themes]

Hi Plan B
Your garden looks great. Very nice and wellgrown bananas and bamboos and a nice enclosed jungly look.

Stephen: I'd agree with Grenville re the ID of plants in your pics
I think the first one (Pink daisy-like flowers) is Erigeron.
The second is Centranthus rubra (Red Valerian - you often also see a white flowered form) often growing out of walls.
The flowering plant in the other 2 pics really does seem to be Antirrhinum as Grenville says - otherwise known as Snapdragon and widely grown as an annual bedding plant but quite often capable of overwintering and self-seeding.

All nice cheery pictures!

Pete

Are we just get to see a solitary orange flower?