Plants and flowers you like/you’d like

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  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Spike and his friends in the morning sun. Dahlias.

  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    What could be better than pelargoniums and lobelia in a hanging basket, this one survived last winter and grew really well this year!

  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Such a colourful thread!  <3
  • serenity2
    serenity2 Online Community Member Posts: 248 Empowering
    I just love Spanish flowers....maybe because they remind me of hot days in Spain.....

  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @serenity2 What an unusual picture, lovely.
  • serenity2
    serenity2 Online Community Member Posts: 248 Empowering
    yes @leeCal it’s fab ...I love it ! ?
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited July 2020
    Geraniums, I don’t usually like geraniums much but these had such dark leaves and dark red  flowers that I couldn’t resist them.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Lavender with flying bee! (Relative took the picture)

  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Stunning picture @leeCal! I love all the colours in it!
  • serenity2
    serenity2 Online Community Member Posts: 248 Empowering
    @leeCal Your photo reminded me of one a relative of mine took recently too, with a bee in it ?

    I thought I’d share it 
  • jindy0909
    jindy0909 Online Community Member Posts: 3 Listener
    edited July 2020
    Hi there
    meet my two Monstera or Swiss cheese plants.
    bought as 45cm plant from Tesco in 2017...
    ps...I’m not nude...I’m wearing flip flops?

  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    At the weekend we've started a herb garden! Anyone else have one? :)
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited August 2020
    Glad you’ve started a herb garden, good fun and practical too @Chloe_Scope
    i don’t grow herbs but I have these Gazania today.

  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    The colour of those flowers is beautiful @leeCal!! Such a lovely contrast from the green leaves.
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    @leeCal
    I have come across this thread. What beautiful flowers?
  • Richard_Scope
    Richard_Scope Posts: 3,693 Cerebral Palsy Network
    edited August 2020
    What a great thread!
    Here is my effort

  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    edited August 2020
    Lovely thread, great pictures.

    I'm actually about to move into my first home and we have a bit of a garden out the front. What plants or flowers would you say are must haves? Any recommendations, it's all new to me :D 
  • Richard_Scope
    Richard_Scope Posts: 3,693 Cerebral Palsy Network
    Get some Lavender plants. Look nice and will help the bees out.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited August 2020
    @Ross_Scope It does depend on space available and wether your into pots, if you see what I mean, or tubs and how much maintenance you’re prepared to do. Also which direction the garden predominantly faces, south facing is hot usually and plants etc need watering at least in the evening once a day. 

    Eg, if you don’t like weeding you could use a large pot or two, very little weeding that way. If you like green in the winter then use small evergreens, ie low cover evergreens and keep them trimmed. It all depends also on how often you want to spend money on say flowers which may only flower one year and then die etc. 

    so which direction are you facing, some plants like shade you see, greenery in winter? Weeding or not so much? And I’m sure others will think of some more criteria, some plants don’t even need much watering. These are some things to think about when planning. 

    @Richard_Scope lavender also doesn’t need much watering at all if planted in the ground, if in a pot I’d give it a little every three days in really hot weather. I had several lavender bushes two feet high in a south facing garden and I never watered them at all!
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    edited August 2020
    @leeCal

    That's fantastic thanks for the advice.

    We are getting a southern facing house and we will be renting, so only planning to be there for two or three years before buying somewhere. 

    So if anything, we will get something that's suitable for a southern facing house that doesn't require much maintenance. 

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