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[alp]

Oooops! I must hide your answer! My son is after the latest iphone camera - with all the complicated jargons ..Sh... You haven't said anything! LOL!

I was thinking of buying a Nikon direct from a company from China and he was very enthusiastic at first. Now, he is going on and on about the latest iphone camera technology. I'm dreading iphone stuff. Their built-in obsolescence has been very predictable ...

Have to say, looking at the photos using MacBook Pro at the moment just really makes me want to say, "Life is too short and the difference and distinction are just worth it!"

 

[Zenj]

Very warm here today but some cloud 28c here’s a few more flowers from today.

 

[alp]

What is the last flower, Zenj ? Love the cross. Thalictrum already in bloom. Mine is still in bud form.

I had several attempts at Astrantia and I don't even know where the plant is now. I bought a fairly big one and planted it out. The SS sneered at me and I had to retire it to the lean to as it was looking so miserable and besieged. I saw two leaves trying to recover their shapes, but after taking cuttings of various and sundries, I can't quite remember where I put the pot.

I so want to have some astrantias and have tried for 3 years and no joy. I so want some of your and Perki's rain! Funny thing is that even I can tell FROM THE PHOTOS that what your weather is like up in NE! Fine weather makes photo especially stunning and cheerful.

Have been looking at properties again. Very fed up. Estate agents texted me, reminding me that my house has an offer pending. All the houses that I want have been sold. One sold yesterday.

 

[Zenj]

Mesembryanthemum don’t usually have them but a neighbour had a load of seedlings to spare so took some off her.my yellow thalictum is just starting to open will take a photo when it does

 

[Perki]

Been a nice warm / hot day , unpleasantly humid this morning at work. Its still manged to rain for a bit though it started raining about half and hour ago which I am not complaining about for once .

 

[DrCase]

Oooops! I must hide your answer! My son is after the latest iphone camera - with all the complicated jargons ..Sh... You haven't said anything! LOL!

I was thinking of buying a Nikon direct from a company from China and he was very enthusiastic at first. Now, he is going on and on about the latest iphone camera technology. I'm dreading iphone stuff. Their built-in obsolescence has been very predictable ...

Have to say, looking at the photos using MacBook Pro at the moment just really makes me want to say, "Life is too short and the difference and distinction are just worth it!"

He might not follow every flower

 

[DrCase]

 

[alp]

This pile of Junk is asking for £1m! Can't believe it had been put forward for RIBA award. Wait till you see what's inside.

Emperor's new clothes spring to mind!

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Zenj I saw your pink with white edged flowers in the previous upload in Christine Walkden's Gardens from above and wonder what it is called. It's so prolific and very showy. Looks more like a shrub than a tree. It's not lilac and the flowers seem to be bigger.

Perki: I would die for some rain. Already, it's hot in the house. Outside was OK and I had done an hour's watering. This heat is awful. Last night I did some, but the heat in the air rendered the exercise futile, so I stopped and carried on this morning. Hard work and I have to water the turf all the times.

DrCase: Your garden is like a garden in Italy, more leafy and architectural. You see, we all love flowers. You iPhone comes in handy! You must have some BIG Kois ... Would love to see them. My waterlily flowers keep being hidden by the leaves. I did see 4 or more buds, but I had to remove the leaves just to see them. It's starting to hot up.

Zenj Yes to the thalictrum. I bought a double thalictrum and it died on me. Very small one from flea.. I saw a plant long the road side which has the same leaf pattern and clusters of tiny flowers like our thalictrum. Just down the road, next to the utility box full of wires.

 

[Zenj]

alp it is Deutzia Strawberry Fields it likes full sun and grows to around 5 ft

 

[alp]

alp it is Deutzia Strawberry Fields it likes full sun and grows to around 5 ft

Love the flowers. Just what I need to hide the fence. You must be raining now and I am being saunaed here!

 

[Zenj]

Ha ha not raining sun and cloud but breezy.

 

[alp]

Ha ha not raining sun and cloud but breezy.

Would love some clouds. Was thinking of putting over my lawn where I can put my newly painted teak furniture. Glad that you're not raining.

 

[alp]

A bit of breeze, very pleasant; but no rain is predicted for the next 2 weeks. I'm dead!

Going to be a lovely day! If the sun is willing to hide a bit.

Some girls took selfies with my flowers yesterday

Friend's hollyhock - delicate beauties. Went to allotment yesterday after 6 and came back 9pm.

I am so scared of hollyhocks as they self seed everywhere, especially where you DON'T want them to, and they get this messy looks in no time, too much composting material too.

My discovery along the road - I'm pretty sure that it's a meadow rue

The flowers are so tiny!

My own thalictrum delavayi

Sorry about it - the flowers are just soooooo small! I prefer to snap these!

 

[alp]

A very lovely morning and I have watered for an hour, using metered water. Yesterday, I cleared a bag of bind weed and today I will soldier on whenever the sun is clement.

Nothing much going on -

Some of my beloved Petunia pirouettes!

Wimbledon 2019 but no rain! I am dead!

 

[Zenj]

Cloud and sun but less breezy here’s the yellow thalictum out now