Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Lots of new flowers in the garden
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Jan Higgins
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What a sign of Summer, I love nasturtiums pretty to look at also edible the leaves have a nice peppery taste and are good in salads.
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Lovely pictures Kath, I've just spent the last couple of hours chopping down and cutting up a sycamore tree, glad its gone I need a nice glass of red wine now
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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great set of pictures kath, a bit worried about jan's post.
we know that brian would eat anything that can walk swim or fly locally, now jan wants to dine on our flowers.
this could be the real reason why the town council went back on the hanging baskets idea.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What a lovely burst of colour, I like the wisteria
What an absolute treat that was Kath, thank you. It cheered me up as soon as I opened the thread!
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Lovely photos of summer. Thank You Kath.
I too love the Wisteria, but I can't get it to grow - not in my garden or a pot.
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Jeane and Roger - the Wisteria has crept round the corner of the house, now trained in several branches to the walls, and doing well, petals now dropping with the warmer weather.
There are a lot of flowers you can eat - pansies and nasturtiums for two, and make a splash of colour on a salad !
The lupin is a new one, from some I grew from seed and is a lovely colour, they do make a good show at this time of year. The clematis montana is creeping over an unsightly conifer which had to be lopped.
In the greenhouse the cacti are starting to flower:
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Barry - if you have got rid of a sycamore tree, you well deserve a glass of wine ! They are a darned nuisance and the seeds drop and grow everywhere.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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A gardener I knew used to call the sycamore a tree weed and it should be removed as soon as it is seen.
There is a lovely wisteria growing over the south facing front of a house in Albert Road was only planted about 3 or 4 years ago.
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Once they start growing, wisterias are generally difficult to kill. They like plenty of sunshine - ours faces south.
Sycamores are definitely a WEED!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a problem up the western heights too.
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# 10 & #11.Agree about Sycamores,they are a pain.Our Wisteria must be 50 to 100 years old and although lovely is very
sparse.....any suggestions please...but don`t suggest cut it down I would be hung,drawn and quartered.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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It might need a good feed and a pruning but I have never had one so am only going by the gardening programmes on TV, Kath will know more.
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Thanks,we have pruned it for the last three years and it has improved but we have not fed it .Wendy is collecting our
pumpkin plants from Kath tomorrow so will pick her brains. Thanks.
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Gorgeous flowers Kath, a feast for ones eyes
I strolled around the the beautiful gardens of Roehampton University last weekend when we were up there visiting Daughter Saskia so here are a few to add to this lovely Summer thread.
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Beautiful Colette.
Here's a few from Dulwich Park last weekend.
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WOW!!! Enchanting Jeane
