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No where near as much as Georgie in her gorgeous colourful garden, or Eric in his rolling estate of fab plants, but I am quite pleased with just how much colour there is at the moment.


White cyclamen hiding under a shrub


Tiny glads that I grew from seeds that Deeds gave me a few years back.  Last year one flower, this year there is going to be about 8!


For the life of me, I can't remember what this one is called!


Asters or are they michelmas daisies?


Fuschias from cuttings that Rosebud sent me last year.


Chinese anemone


Perennial sunflower (which is a bit of an invasive thug - good job he is pretty!)


Fuschia fruits


Another one I can't remember....ggrr....see, old age is creeping up!


bog standard budliea (sp?) but I love the orange throats to the little flowers!


A super dooper double fuschia - again from Rosebud


an almost double fuschia....yes, from Rosebud!

oh wow! what fantastic pictures. very well photographed!

i love the cyclamen. they are absolutely beautiful! and the daisies! what a pretty picture.

Is it a typew of coreopsis, EJ?--That yellow one.
p.s. luv those swan gourds...  ;-)

lovely pics ej. just off night shift and they're a sight to cheer tired eyes.

the one you can't remember - pheasant's berry  :)

Emma I have enjoyed catching up on what has been posted over the past few days and wow, wow ,wow, absolutely beautiful..You haven't by any chance got a fuschia named Dawn Star have you? It was the last one that Charlie bought me and I have lost it., have been looking out for a replacement.
Lorna.

Some fabulous colour there, EJ, and super pics too.  But I wish you hadn't posted the cyclamen.  I love them so much but somehow I can never keep them for more than a few months before they rot.   :'(

G x

what species have you grown? I once had a manager who bought some indoor ones (persicum) and then expected me to keep them alive in a centrally heated office. They died as soon as I was away for a few days, and of course I was the one who got moaned at. But hederifolium (the commonest outdoor one) is pretty tough; the odd tuber might rot, but no more than that unless there's something badly wrong.

No, the yellow one isn't coreopsis - I wish it was!  I shall go hunt out a label tomorrow.  And yes, pheasants berry of course.  Grows like a weed in my garden, but I adore it!  The cyclamen was given to me by my mum when we first moved in and I stuck it under a lonicera and forgot about it.  it is dry, and shady there, and yet the cyclamen thrive and have doubled in size every year!  They absolutely glow out from under the plant!

Thanks for kind words peeps!

lovely pics