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Betsy said:
Thought I'd share my beautiful Buddleia with you all. It is gorgeous this year. Loads of bees and butterflies.

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Wow, that's a big one! Mine hasn't flowered yet, but it's getting there. Mine's a tricolour. Basically three together - purple, lilac and white. They all flower at slightly different times. I have to cut it right back every year, as it grows across my neighbour's window, so it will never get to be the size of yours.
 
Reenie said:
Wow, that's a big one! Mine hasn't flowered yet, but it's getting there. Mine's a tricolour. Basically three together - purple, lilac and white. They all flower at slightly different times. I have to cut it right back every year, as it grows across my neighbour's window, so it will never get to be the size of yours.
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It does get a good haircut once a year but it grows right back again. I will miss it when we move. Our new garden is glorious too with lots of rhodies and camelias.
 
That's why I'm pleased there's an underground spring runs past the bottom of my garden, it keeps my lawn watered all year round. ;)
 
Yes we desperately need rain too. 3 out of 4 water butts are empty, the tomatoes in the greenhouse need watering twice a day with all this hot sunshine. I love the sun but it's time we had some night time rain to water the piggies grass!
 
I love echiums @Sonnet , I don't think they'd survive outside here. Falmouth has a wonderful micro climate. I had relatives who lived there years ago, they had a lovely magnolia tree.
 
We had one of those a few years back and it grew to about 15 ft, then had a strong wind just as it was flowering and it keeled over, but it carried on. The following year three little plants appeared, I assume they had seeded, these grew really nicely, not too big and gave out lots of flowers but we’ve had no more plants since.
 
The aphids are still around so a little bit of apple tree pruning is needed. I have brought a little bubbling solar powered disc fountain for the ponds. It’s keeping the water moving so no scum on the surface.
 
piggieminder said:
I love echiums @Sonnet , I don't think they'd survive outside here. Falmouth has a wonderful micro climate. I had relatives who lived there years ago, they had a lovely magnolia tree.
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Yeah, echiums don’t like the cold. When the Beast from the East blew through a few years ago, most of them died off. Only a few small ones survived. The ones in the photo aren’t ready to flower yet, but the bees like them when they do.
 
Well I've managed to catch the little thief of my bird food in the act! No wonder it was disappearing so fast-this squirrel virtually drinks it from the feeder! I'd only filled it up about 2hrs before.
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Naughty, naughty little monkey. We don’t get squirrels here, so in that sense we are lucky! Good looking apples on that tree @GPTV
 
Just been to pick the remainder of my gooseberries at the allotment and they have disappeared? Blackbirds or has someone helped themselves 🤔 That’s two bushes for me and three bushes for some lucky blighter!
 
Bill & Ted said:
Naughty, naughty little monkey. We don’t get squirrels here, so in that sense we are lucky! Good looking apples on that tree @GPTV
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Its totally diggered with apples this year, last year I had about 12 apples if that! The tree is an old Bramley apple tree, they make wonderful cooking apples :D

I also have an eating apple tree possibly 'Katie' that's got a lot of apples too, theyre quite a soft apple & go over very quickly.

This little tike of a squirrel will probably help eat some of them!

@Bill & Ted are your gooseberries the sharp green ones or the sweeter more orange'y coloured ones? I could help you out with another Bush if they're the sweeter ones, we used to eat them raw at my grans when she had a load of fruit bushes & we were supposed to be picking them for her (not eating them). :))
 
I have to fill my bird seeders only 2 inches at a time as a...possibly more than one....squirrel empties them completely if he's passing. So two feeders have to be filled at least once, often twice, a day. Lovely to get so many birds, though. I'm not complaining.

I don't mind the squirrels too much....would prefer red ones!
 
GPTV said:
Its totally diggered with apples this year, last year I had about 12 apples if that! The tree is an old Bramley apple tree, they make wonderful cooking apples :D

I also have an eating apple tree possibly 'Katie' that's got a lot of apples too, theyre quite a soft apple & go over very quickly.

This little tike of a squirrel will probably help eat some of them!

@Bill & Ted are your gooseberries the sharp green ones or the sweeter more orange'y coloured ones? I could help you out with another Bush if they're the sweeter ones, we used to eat them raw at my grans when she had a load of fruit bushes & we were supposed to be picking them for her (not eating them). :))
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They are the wine coloured desert gooseberries, we have picked the green one and one red one with three left, they have disappeared over the last couple of days. Luckily my neighbour has a couple of bushes in her garden which she cannot not eat (ulcer) so offered me hers. We have struck another couple of bushes from cuttings for next year (we’ll transplant into our garden) but thank you for the offer 😁
 
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