Before the rain comes

Thanks to Mike & Julia from near Coventry for a couple of pictures from their garden. Plant ID is giving the above as clustered bellflower (Campanula glomerata). Looks brilliant!

Below is a flowering corner complete with their lovely dog and great to see that their Ceanothus is doing well. Hope all’s well Mike & Julia!

 

Feeling dire and expecting rain overnight

We’re not feeling too hot here at Weeds HQ but hopefully it’s something some antibiotics can sort out. Talking of hot, it’s supposdly going to be 18°C overnight with some crazy rain (which the garden needs at the moment to be honest).

To cheer things up here’s something we haven’t heard in ages, first heard on one of Mikey Dread’s JBC Radio shows many many years ago. Quality tune!

Pelargoniums on platform one

A big shout to the staff at Honor Oak Park train station for maintaining the wonderful display of pelargoniums there. They get a good daily watering and when we have some comfrey liquid ready, we pop some in. We think they’re serious on the annual stations in bloom competition and with that display they should be!

We’ve taken some cutting from said plants (above) and they seem to root very quickly and now flowering after not many weeks.

While we’re looking at flowers here’s a new poppy from this morning!