Looks bigger than it is, there is just less than an acre. Friends from Texas think it is a tiny garden. They have 7 acres of garden and 30 plus...
Very rarely do any watering, except of things under cover. That takes a couple of hours. There is just the two of us, but I retired a long time...
The Vine is one commonly known as Chocolate Vine as the flowers are supposed to smell of it. Proper name is Akebia quinata. Glad you enjoyed the tour.
Take a wander round the old place on the first. http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/May%201st%202015 And the view from above. [ATTACH]
Hope you are a member of The Sedum Society then. The Cuttings Exchange is a great way to increase the number of plants in your collection.
Modiola caroliniana - red flowered mallow. An annual or short lived perennial from warmer parts of the USA.
Annoying, but I used to grow this and for the life of me I cannot dredge up a name.
If you have the right conditions for it, it will self seed around. So, with luck you will have a fair number of babies to try elsewhere.
Am right......for once.
Iberis sempervirens aka Perennial Candytuft.
Millipede.
We went round this show on Saturday. The lighting is pretty weird (very orange Sodium flare) so the pictures have taken a fair amount of twiddling...
There are two of the guides and a third who is not quite brave enough to go that far yet.
A bit bleak at the moment, but there is a bit of colour. http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/March%202015
The first Alpine show of the year. http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/slideshow/Caerleon%202015
Our two tabbies are called Bill and Ben, no idea why, but there was a children's TV program called Bill and Ben, Flowerpot men hundreds of years...
As I said, I doubt very much that there is any point planting them out when they have finished flowering, the bulbs will be exhausted and there is...
This is a group of tulips. They will flower about now, indoors using the food built up in the bulbs last year. After that, you may either plant...
It just goes to show that in Britain at least, you can have colour in Winter. And scent, both the Viburnum and the Hamamaelis are aromatic. Not...
A wander round the garden today with friends. http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdbog ... ary%202015
