That is a banging garden mate you weren't kidding, like looking at gardening porn. I like your style kind of informal but well maintained with lots of plant density.
The more plants you can get in the less weeding there is to do, try not to buy them though, definitely beg, STEAL or borrow
I lost loads of really well established plants last winter, some I’d had in pots over 35 years but we had - 9 for over a week and not much can withstand that low.
I had a few potted plants give up this year, especially phlox which usually flowers like a demon but this year put out one or two flowers and called it a day. All the saxifraga gone brown and stopped flowering. Oh well that's how it goes I suppose. Been fun researching replacements, going with petunias next year for the amount of flowers and how long they bloom for. I believe they self seed which is a bonus.
I've actually got some Calibrachoa in pots discovered them this year at the garden centre, really pretty aren't they although in typical fashion mine don't look as good as yours Do they come back every year? I couldn't quite figure it out. I know petunias do which they're closely related to. Got my eye on wave petunias not sure whether tidal wave or shock wave or whatever yet. All for elevated containers.
Petunias are nearly always grown as annuals in this country although if you are very careful and don’t let them have any frost they might come again next year. For the effort it takes it’s easier to buy new plants every year. That one in the photo was five years old but that -9 got him.
Was gobsmacked to hear Howard Gayle's name mentioned in the U21 final last week. I'm not certain but wasn't he the last English man to score in the final before last week?
They never counted my recycling bin mind.....that might be enough to get us above Slovakia. Edit. Unless I'm inadvertently contributing to Irelands score.......
Just like to say had a couple of drinks with RaW last night. Good company & good music. Thank you Sir.
