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Here's a couple of close ups! The leaves are long, thin and waxy and arranged in bunches, 3, 4 or 5 leaves growing from the same point at the end of each stem, and the flowers are in big bunches too, it has a very strong heady tropical smell but more like pollen and nectar than a floral scent. The pollinating insects are mad for it :)
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Yes, @Bill & Ted is right, it's choisya Aztec Pearl
 
This year the garden is being used to grow even more vegetables than before. I'm finding a use for every spare container as the veg patch is quite small and is mostly taken up with runner beans when they get going. The old sink has green beans planted in it. The old bath has carrots, beetroot and raddishes. Every spare pot will have tomatoes. The hanging baskets are going to have Tumbling Tom tomatoes. The pits have been dug for the pumpkins and are currently being filled with piggy poo as it's manufactured. The greenhouse is full of seedlings to be planted out next month. It's been a very busy few weeks!.

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Parsley and Corriander have come into the kitchen from the greenhouse for piggy treats.
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One bit of colour are the forgetmenots in Spike's pot. It doesn't feel like 4.5 months since he left us, I still look for him every morning.
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piggieminder said:
This year the garden is being used to grow even more vegetables than before. I'm finding a use for every spare container as the veg patch is quite small and is mostly taken up with runner beans when they get going. The old sink has green beans planted in it. The old bath has carrots, beetroot and raddishes. Every spare pot will have tomatoes. The hanging baskets are going to have Tumbling Tom tomatoes. The pits have been dug for the pumpkins and are currently being filled with piggy poo as it's manufactured. The greenhouse is full of seedlings to be planted out next month. It's been a very busy few weeks!.

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Parsley and Corriander have come into the kitchen from the greenhouse for piggy treats.
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One bit of colour are the forgetmenots in Spike's pot. It doesn't feel like 4.5 months since he left us, I still look for him every morning.
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Aw, you sound like me, I say hello to Bill every morning, Spike’s little pot looks lovely x
 
Posyrose said:
@GPTV that's a Photinia - probably the variety 'red robin'
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Thank you :D I know a few basic plants but I'm not great especially with trees & shrubs. Are u any good with apple types? I have what I believe to be a Katie eating apple tree, but I don't know, they're soft, reasonably sweet apples that don't last very long! I'll post a pic when I've got apples on there :) 📷
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Some of the things making me happiest in the garden right now
 

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Took a couple of photos of my garden tonight, I always love gardens early evening, I think it always intensifies the colours.
The shady side of the garden, “my little woodland”
The monster Montana “hedge”
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Bill & Ted said:
Took a couple of photos of my garden tonight, I always love gardens early evening, I think it always intensifies the colours.
The shady side of the garden, “my little woodland”
The monster Montana “hedge”
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Beautiful!
You’ve got all my favourite things - acer, hellebore, and dicentra!
I think one of my dicentra is starting to have a tough time/coming to its end. It used to be huge but it gradually getting smaller, it is fairly old though and they tend to only live 2-5 years. I had hoped it was just a blip when it happened last year but I’m now not so sure 😞
 
Piggies&buns said:
Beautiful!
You’ve got all my favourite things - acer, hellebore, and dicentra!
I think one of my dicentra is starting to have a tough time/coming to its end. It used to be huge but it gradually getting smaller, it is fairly old though and they tend to only live 2-5 years. I had hoped it was just a blip when it happened last year but I’m now not so sure 😞
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Aw, that’s a shame, I used to have a white Dicentra it was my favourite plant but like you say they don’t live long. I rescued this pink one, it was right under the hedge looking very sad. I moved it out into a damp corner and it’s come alive. I have some lilly of the valley in a pot that’s come up this year. My son dug it out of his garden about four years ago. I was always digging it up and disturbing it so put it in a pot and it’s flowered for the first time this year. The two Montana’s are breasts, I’m hoping to move one of them (I love the white one) not so much the pink one. I’ve never been lucky with clematis, I’ve bought loads over many years and never had any look. I’ve just planted a purple emperor this spring, it was a cheap supermarket one and amazingly it’s doing really well. One plus about this lock down is a have had chance to spend lots of time in the garden instead of rushing round with grandchildren and visiting my elderly Mum (although I do miss them)
 
One of our wisterias is in full flower now, lovely and colourful
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The other one you can see, is a bit slower. It was cut back rather hard in the autumn by the previous owners, but it looks like it will recover eventually.
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Also, my Rosa 'Talbot House' has started flowering too. It seems to be doing quite well where I put it after our house move. I bought it from Talbot House ("Toc H") in Poperinghe, Belgium in Nov 2018, and it stayed in a pot until we moved. Amazingly it still had flower buds on at Christmas/New Year!
 
All these flowers are so beautiful.:luv:
It seems that there is nothing that guinea pigs can't get in the way of/eat, so here is a list of how they can do just that to your perfect perennials and dazzling dandelions. Remember that some flowers can cause fatality in piggies, so make sure you watch which plants they consume.
 
Does anyone know what this Caterpillar is? It is on a leaf of the rose I mentioned above. I can't see any other caterpillars on the Bush, so I don't know if it got there by accident.


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I've just looked in 2 books and can't see anything like it. The closest is a mottled umber but that has black markings down the side. Will watch this thread with interest to see if anyone comes up with the answer!
 
Our garden isn’t up to scratch at all so I won’t post pics 🤣 I’m trying to reseed their lawn and have done these two patches. Let’s see if my efforts work out. 0B1FDB47-4F02-4BB1-9058-D88AB8303D82.webpA66AF98B-2E48-401B-BD3A-608A9CB7C724.webp
The soil is stony and there is some clay if you dig further down!
 
Siikibam said:
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The soil is stony and there is some clay if you dig further down!
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If you have clay below your drainage might be poor causing lots of moss. Lawns are the hardest thing to get right in a garden, our is very poor draining, some patches are even damp in a heatwave and drought 😆
 
Bill & Ted said:
If you have clay below your drainage might be poor causing lots of moss. Lawns are the hardest thing to get right in a garden, our is very poor draining, some patches are even damp in a heatwave and drought 😆
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No dampness here at all! It’s very dry af the moment and I only managed to dig it after watering the areas. It may be a case of having to re turf it. We’ll see what happens.
 
Siikibam said:
No dampness here at all! It’s very dry af the moment and I only managed to dig it after watering the areas. It may be a case of having to re turf it. We’ll see what happens.
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Good luck I hope it comes up, lawns are so difficult to get right, I’d love a perfect lawn but at least it’s green!
 
Bill & Ted said:
Good luck I hope it comes up, lawns are so difficult to get right, I’d love a perfect lawn but at least it’s green!
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Me too. If not I’ll call in those lawn people once lockdown is lifted. There is green in some places but different types of grass - long thick blades in some areas and tufts in other. But there are large places of nothing at all. I want the piggies to enjoy the grass as well.
 
Siikibam said:
Me too. If not I’ll call in those lawn people once lockdown is lifted. There is green in some places but different types of grass - long thick blades in some areas and tufts in other. But there are large places of nothing at all. I want the piggies to enjoy the grass as well.
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I have big tufted patches too, I think it’s self seeded bits of hay that come onto the lawn from their run box 🤔
 
Bill & Ted said:
I have big tufted patches too, I think it’s self seeded bits of hay that come onto the lawn from their run box 🤔
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Oh, that would be weird!
I did find some roots for something but I don’t know what. I suspect they’re weeds....
 
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