Old Photos from my Cretan garden
Munstead Wood
Teasing Georgia
Perle d'Azur
Pat Austin in her pot and under her sunshade.
A miscellany of pots, with Golden Celebration and Augusta Louisa.
The view from the door.
Augusta Louisa
Who am I? My brain is having a memory block!
Sorry, you have probably seen all of these before, but although I did take some photos last year, in spite of spending most of the year in and out of hospital, my new computer, new camera and old brain haven't yet managed to download them.
These are from 2019 and are untouched, 'cos I haven't worked out how to tart up the photos on the new computer.
Daisy (in Crete}
Comments (52)
Related Discussions
Some pics from my young garden( Photo heavy)
Comments (9)Thank you all for your compliments! The Cl.Pinkie is also one of my favorites and I love how she has done in that corner. Very easy to train rose. Juliet- Thank you for such a beautiful description. Yes, Summerville is a beautiful place to live. It is also called Flower Town as it if full of flowers all year and had loads of gorgeous old plantation houses. Just 20-30 min from historic Charleston. Just yesterday I went for a walk downtown and admired the courtyard gardens full of roses, lovely little flower boxes bursting with color and lots of other flowers. Must come and visit sometime! Masha- Ducher was stunning this year. IN the pic of the driveway border its the one not blooming. She was the first to come into her spring flush. Ingrid- Thank you, yes I do put a lot of thought into flower choices and combination. Cottage gardening is my style and I try to keep the eye flowing through the garden with repeating colors and heights. I do still have a lot of grass and I am working on it. I do have another large rose/perennial bed with several other roses and plants but they are not in the photos. I have the whole side yard planned out but due to the hard terrible clay soil I have started doing the lasagna bed method of laying down cardboard and layering like a compost pile. It worked fantastic last year! I love this method, saves my back, the plants I planted this spring have taken off in it. I'll show some pic's soon. ~Meghan...See MorePhotos from my cottagey garden today....
Comments (22)Thonotorose, I use a large area of my screen-greenhouse for the propagation of plants. I sometimes start seeds, buy seedlings, buy starter plants and grow them up in there. When I put in my pool I did it all myself and also made it into a large enough area for growing plants. The screened area is 50' by 40' and 15 feet high so it gives me plenty of room for my plants. If I get hot when working on the plants I take a dip, cool off, and go back to working on my plants. This picture shows the rows of tiered shelving of pots. It's my own little garden center. Lou...See MoreFrom my old garden
Comments (7)Henrik, I looked up your Kamata Nishiki, and all the U.S. versions of Kamata Nishiki have a pale lavender pink, fringed with white, and not that rich gorgeously unique formation and color like yours does! No comparison! And a bee-loving plant, that is like heaven to me! Here is an accumulative link of tree peonies, and none, in my feeling is anywhere as exquisite as yours...so BEAUTIFUL! U.S. tree peony link I could only find Kokamon (mispelled, should be Koukamon), and the other more purple types sort of miss the mark for me! Too bad I didn't live in Slovenia or else I'd be buying from you one of those beautiful peonies...(sigh!)...See MorePhotos from my garden
Comments (5)Looks great. IF I had the room? I like those mixed plantings of Bougs. Right now,I get by on a potted Boug. My old in ground one I had to remove...too much shade had reduced blooms ( ash tree got tall) and those thorns were wicked near stairs....See More
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoDaisyinCrete thanked sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
DaisyinCrete
3 years agoThank-you Bart. Yes, that is the true colour of Harlow Carr. It also smells delicious.
It is Canna/ Durban/Tropicana/Phasion with Augusta Louise. It has so many names, because there was a quarrel about who raised it first!
It does very well here, whether it is in a large pot or in the ground.
Daisy
Tammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA
3 years agoDaisyinCrete thanked Tammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDAK S 7b Little Rock (formerly of Seattle)
3 years agoDaisyinCrete thanked K S 7b Little Rock (formerly of Seattle)
Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
3 years agosultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
3 years agoDaisyinCrete thanked sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)DaisyinCrete
3 years ago
summersrhythm_z6a
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoThank you so much for the tips Daisy! We have escaped to the country a couple months ago, left crowed college town behind. My daughter graduated from college and went to a medical school last year, we are no longer needed to live near her Univ. She started college at age 16, became a motorcycle rider at 16 (within a week after she got her driver's license). Yes, she is a biker girl. :-) We didn't want to move far away from the Univ to create longer commute for her. Now we are living at this historical place on acres, half of the land is open field under the sun, half is wooded. I am mapping out a garden and a small orchard like starting an oil painting on a blank canvas. I have some ideas now after reading your garden experience. Thanks again for the great tips, I really appreciate your help! :-) Here are a coupe pics of the blank canvas.
Summer
DaisyinCrete thanked summersrhythm_z6asultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
3 years agoDaisyinCrete thanked sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)DaisyinCrete
3 years ago
joeywyomingzone4
3 years agosultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoDaisyinCrete
3 years agoThanks to NHBabs, I have been able to change my name back to me.
Thank-you Babs.
And thank-you Sultry for your help.
After some hard pruning of the roses this year, only a few of them are flowering so far, but I have been enjoying my gorgeous tulips whilst waiting for them.I will take some photos to share, when they turn up.
Until then, here is Desdemona from last year.
Daisy
mustbnuts zone 9 sunset 9
3 years ago
DaisyinCreteOriginal Author