My back yard

Posted on July 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bizzy lizzies, Flowers, Fushias, garde, Hanging baskets, n, Petunia, Sunshine, Yard2 Comments

A small space crammed with flowers. My sister and a friend helped me hang the baskets and cut back a lot of overhanging ivy that was shading the yard.

The main garden is quite overgrown with trees, but this is overgrown with an abundance of flowers. My plants have not needed to be watered too much because of all the rain, but now the sun’s arrived it’s glorious out there. No room for me. I keep tripping up on pots and the watering can, I admit I have to water with a hose as I cannot lift the weight of the can. I’m glad I’ve got a stick.

I often see mad gardens on TV shows so I like to try and emulate them.

And my apple tree which was behind me when I took these photos? It’s covered in big apples!

Fushias in November

Posted on November 21, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Central heating, Fushias, Gardening, Heat, Life, Outside, Radiator, Tee shirt, Weather, Winter2 Comments

We might get a cold snap in the next few days. At the moment though they are clinging on. Inside our house, I’ve just had to torn the heating off. We had a radiator mended in the week and now it’s pumping out warmth. I’m sitting here in a tee shirt and thinking I might turn it back off at the valve…

Let’s see what happens when the weather cools. If it gets frosty, if it snows. Then I won’t just be wearing a fushia pink tee shirt, and the flowers outside might be gone.

Reds..

Posted on June 28, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Colour, Flowers, Fushias, Gardening, Health, Pelagoniums, Poppies, RedLeave a comment

These are a few of my favourite red plants. Well petals not leaves. I love poppies and chuck in a few pelagoniums and fushias.

Photos from a couple of years ago. I’d have planted up a lot of annuals by now but I have had bigger bills to pay, and having problems with shaking and weaker muscles means I cannot shift flowerpots around like I used to. I do hope my health improves. I have to rely on (argue with) hubby to move things about. Anyway I’ll post photos once I’m satisfied with what it looks like.

Fushias

Posted on March 1, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bushes, Flowers, Fushias, Life, Nature, Petals, Portmeirion pottery, skirts, Spring, SummerLeave a comment

Six months ago these were still flowering. The bushes are outside Portmeirion pottery and always cheer me up when I see them. Now we have reached meteorological spring they should start to transform again from dry looking sticks to flowering stars.

Fushias are beautiful hanging flowers. They can be simple like these or delicate like ballerinas with swirling pink or red skirts or double flowers like flamenco dancers. You can get all sorts of varieties of them. I think they are called F1 hybrids?

December Fushias

Posted on December 5, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged cold snap, Colour, fushia bushes, Fushias, Garden, Gardening, Portmeirion pottery, Time, WeatherLeave a comment

Fushias in flower outside Portmeirion pottery. In December!

I took this photo today because I was amazed at how many flowers were blooming on the fushia bushes outside our local pottery. The leaves have wilted a little and I’m expecting it to be clobbered by the cold because we, are due freezing weather over the next few days. But its December, this is not normal. Its getting dark earlier every day and we have a chilly northerly wind blowing. It’s not proof of global warming, but it makes you think!

Vegetation

Posted on October 19, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged autumn garden, Back yard, Begonias, Flowers, Fushias, Gardening, Life, Lobelia, Nasturtiums, Plants, vegetationLeave a comment

The back yard looks very green now. The flowers are going and there is some wilting, but temperatures have stayed reasonable so there isn’t any frost damage yet. I suppose we will have to compost the plants if it gets really cold, but I’m one of those gardeners that keeps going as long as possible. Successes are the fushias which have woody stems, also the begonia that is in the shelter of the wall. A few lobelia remain and the nasturtiums hubby planted into the old brick wall are trailing everywhere!

Hidden passion flower

Posted on August 13, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back garden, Back yard, Flower, Fushias, Garden, Hidden, Passion flower, Plant, Summer, Water, Watering2 Comments

Deep in the jungle of vegetation that is our back garden are a few passion flower plants. They were coming into bud over the last few days and at last one has flowered! It’s sitting next to a fushia plant and is on the ground. Another one is trained up the downpipe to the guttering and a third is trained along the trellis fence above the wall. The only worry is the hot weather and lack of water. We have been using a hosepipe but that is likely to be banned soon. That’s part of the reason why I hang the hanging baskets one above the other.. It drops through and waters the one below too..

Remember summer

Posted on December 30, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Fushias, Garden, Gardening, Growth, Hanging baskets, Plants, Spring, Summer, WinterLeave a comment

Actually it was probably September or October when I took this. Now the leaves have withered, just a few cling on to life. But come the spring I hope to transplant some of these plants into pots. I think the fushias will have survived because they have woody stems. Then the hanging baskets will go to the local nursery to have them filled for the next season. It’s always at this time of year that I start to think about spring. That is until we get to the cold blast of January to March. That’s when hubby gets enthusiastic and plants all the seeds we bought and collected in Autumn. Sadly the plants either don’t emerge or die off because they are too cold. Or he puts a whole packet of seed in one small pot! It’s amazing we get anything to grow!

Summer flowers

Posted on January 24, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fushias, Gardening, Hot, looking forward, Memory, Photo, Picture, SummerLeave a comment

Pink summer Fushias. Looking forward six months and they will be here in June or July. A riot of colour covering our wet and soggy gardem and back yard. I can’t wait. Flowers are uplifting and cheering. They make great subjects to paint and though green has been proved to calm the mind, I think the colours of flowers add joy and happiness… .

Standard Fushias

Posted on December 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Flowers, Fushias, Gardening, Mid december, Outdoor plants, Standard Fushias, Stoke-on-Trent, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

Outside Portmeirion pottery shop in Stoke. Standard Fushias are still in flower on 23.12.20,some of the leaves are looking a bit sad, but it’s testament to how warm it has been over the few months. My hubby found a ladybird on him last night after he had come in out of the garden. I dropped it off in a flowerpot so it would have somewhere to shelter.

The crazy temperatures that global warming is causing mean that things are staying in flower longer, but there are not many insects around to pollenate them. I pray humanity does work to regulate the worlds temperatures.

Mallaband-Brown

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