General Chat

Ann, your Buddleia won't flower quite yet. July, August and even into October is the best time for them, you should have lots of butterflies.

Keep deadheading.

Prune it fairly hard in early spring but don't cut into old wood.

Windy here north Exmoor coast and that sun just will not stay out.

M

Thanks Maryanna for that advice. I shall look forward to it.

Still windy here too. sun is also in and out because the wind is blowing the clouds over, but it is very warm.

Lovely part of the country you live in! :-)

Certainly do Ann, Exmoor one side of us the sea the other, Devon within ten miles and The Quantocks the other way. M

I have an Arthur Bell floribunda rose that I planted last year,and it is so full of beautiful creamy yellow delicate smelling flowers...so pleased with it.
Bought a Lili Marlene red rosé a couple of weeks ago from Morrisons and that is now flowering .
Have a peachy coloured one that comes every year,don't know the name,but my OH loved it.that now has some flowers on.
My hebes are looking particularly good this year.
Isn't it nice to see all the colour after a long winter!

Yes it is good to see colour in the garden. Sadly we lost our hebe to the frost, well it was frosted, not sure if it will recover. :-(

Back to Roses, I have the most beautiful red climber going up the front if the house. It us about ten years old now, flowers for a good ten months of the year, more if mild. It blew down in the high winds this time last year and was laying across the lane.

We chopped it off half way up tied it back up and straight away it started flowering right up until the New Year, it was in flower again by Easter. It is now around twelve foot high again and ten feet across.

Anyone who walks past comments on it and I have recently planted another in the back.

It is called Dublin Bay. M