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Post by 4wd on Jun 12, 2012 16:10:49 GMT
The spring bulbs are over but the summer plants really aren't doing much yet so it a rather inbetween time of year. At the moment Lupins are just looking nice with no dead flowers or aphids messing up the effect. This is a semi-dwarf rhododendron and though the colour is rather plain it always has masses of flowers. It was planted about 1980 and is still only about 4 feet tall, however I do recall it dying back partially and being drastically pruned so maybe it would not still be here were it not for that. The cast iron gatepost is one of a pair which used to be far too close to the tarmac along our lane. This one got broken off by a wagon so we dug the other one up too. The broken one was placed in the garden and the other one is much taller and is still sort of used in the yard to tie gates to if moving cattle between pens. Most gardens seem to have these yellow poppies and they grow so freely from seed they can be a nuisance, however they are very pretty especially backlit. They seem to have declined in numbers of late here but keep popping up in shady corners.
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Post by colliemaid on Jun 12, 2012 17:03:36 GMT
gorgous , used to love lupins ,we used to have a lot down south haven't seen poppies for ages we have loads of rhodes here a lot ,we dug ours out as we were worried about the goats and sheep when nothing else had a leaf on it did and they wanted to eat it
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Post by jackladd on Jun 13, 2012 22:12:29 GMT
Noticing your 'juniper' shrub to the right is looking very fit & healthy. Mine has been frost damaged & the tips of all the branches are brown. I've tried pruning them off but there's lots of bare patches now! I think I'll give it until next spring to tidy itself up before it gets dug out! Hope it's reading this & takes note!
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Post by stockslave on Jun 14, 2012 6:31:00 GMT
Beautiful pics 4wd I adore Lupins, unfortunately wherever we've lived the soil hasn't been right for them. I can remember when they used to be in abundance along railway tracks, don't seem to see them anymore.
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Post by 4wd on Jun 14, 2012 6:50:45 GMT
Noticing your 'juniper' shrub to the right is looking very fit & healthy. Mine has been frost damaged & the tips of all the branches are brown. I've tried pruning them off but there's lots of bare patches now! I think I'll give it until next spring to tidy itself up before it gets dug out! Hope it's reading this & takes note! That's a prostrate type which was grown from a cutting, that might be an option for yours? When it snows it seems to have a way of holding snow on the branches which protects it from keen frosts with a bit of luck, but I never saw any damage so could be a tougher type. Junipers do grow wild here on the moors but only very few spots.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2012 6:59:55 GMT
Lovely photos 4wd, can feel a few jigsaws beckoning Junipers grow wild on the Hebridean moors also, but not often there's frost there. I've bought a little one for my garden here, hope it's tough, it came from Cumbria!
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Post by jackladd on Jun 14, 2012 20:24:51 GMT
That's a prostrate type which was grown from a cutting, that might be an option for yours? When it snows it seems to have a way of holding snow on the branches which protects it from keen frosts with a bit of luck, but I never saw any damage so could be a tougher type. Junipers do grow wild here on the moors but only very few spots. It's a semi-prostrate type, but not looking pretty at the moment! ... & I'm sure I've not been near it with the weed killer either! My strawberry patch was getting overgrown & so I've dug out the new plants & put them into some trio-planters. They're an Alpine Strawberry variety - small, sweet & tasty. I've planted up another trio-tower of strawberries for my Dad's Fathers Day pressie. Hope the bunnies don't get them before he does though!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2015 19:45:28 GMT
Are such flowers are stunning and give the evidence of great harvesting. Usually Junipers grow wild on the Hebridean moors.
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