Around the garden

That looks really good. The area where I am now have a lot of these: Myer lemon tree an bougainvillea.  I need to have a lemon tree in my back yard.

I do have one lemon tree in my yard. 

I checked the cucumber and sunflower seeds I planted the other day. They appear to have germinated well

They have shot up some more too. They were in the heated propogator, although at this time of year I don't turn it on. It was on last night though as I received my order of some more carniverous plants yesterday. One of them is a Nepenthales and is a semi tropical species (cross between rainforest and mountain rainforest I think) so needs temperatures above 10 deg C. As it got chilled in transit (the temperatures is slightly below 10 degrees C outside at the moment at times) I put the pot in the propogator and turned it on. The other seedlings benefited.

We have a desert garden of succulents in our greenhouse.

Our apple tree has fabulous blossom this year.

My tree seems much better this year too.

We are similar. Half of our garden is woodland, currently, apart from young trees and holly bushes all we really have is bluebells, which I love. 

Cherry, because we have St Augustine grass which actually is more like a weed which grows on "runners" It would be great to do but the cutting and maintenance would be hard but not impossible to do after. It would take a lot of work to get it looking well shain. 

So true, my gardeners start to come in once a week now instead of twice a month. It takes them three hours each time to mow, trim, tidy up.

Earlier this week, due to the weather being better, I finally got my cucumber seedlings into a planter in the greenhouse and my sunflowers into planters outside. They are growing well. During the cold weather the fgrowth of the peppers and tomatoes in the greenhouse appeared to have virtually stopped but they are now moving again.

I have also noticed some growth in my indoor tropical pitcher plant as well. It has been very cool lately so I was a bit worried about how it would cope as the house heating is not on and the window on the large sill it is on is occasionally open so I covered it with a large bell cloche. In the past couple of days it seems to have really burst into growth though as the sun has beamed through the window. It's climate is maybe ideal with that as I give it a misting and with the greenhouse effect from the cloche it's microclimate of hot and very humid must be very jungle like. I will have to be careful of mould growth.

The only plant which has come on a bit is the pepper plant I have on an upstairs windowsill (hydroponically grown). It has several peppers now growing.

I forgot to say that I did that on Tuesday too. It was not the first time this year though

Our azaleas, and Boo with his cigar.

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