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Care to hoy a picture up? I'm always looking at people's gardens as I go about to get ideas and see what they've done with it.

I'd say this is the first year I've really taken an interest in gardening beyond just a rudimentary approach. Got loads of plants researched for planting next spring.
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There’s a few mate, others if you want them
 
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.
 
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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.
Go for Surfina mate, are they for ground or pots, if pots Calibrachoa are beautiful
 
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Go for Surfina mate, are they for ground or pots, if pots Calibrachoa are beautiful

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 <laugh>

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.
 
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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 <laugh>

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.
 
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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?
 
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