Showing posts with label iris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iris. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 May 2011

Flowers in the garden

The chives are always very reliable on producing flowers this time of year. I have 2 clumps at the moment, one in the garden in open soil and these in a pot. Flowers and edible. you cant beat it.


This is my blue berry bush and boy is it small sat in a 5inch red plastic pot but with this amount of flowers I might eventually get some blueberries. I have layered a stem in to another pot just to the left on the picture, I layered it back end of last year and intend to leave it this year in the hope it will root. This variety is called goldtraube and is self fertile. It is planted in ericaceous compost (acidic compost) which blueberries love. I have a second blueberry plant variety bluecrop which is also self fertile. Although they are both self fertile blueberries fruit better when 2 varieties are present.



The last flower today is a blue iris, well not quite in flower but nearly there. I have just potted this in to a larger planter and it is situated next to the half barrel pond. It looks natural in my opinion.



the weather is Wakefield today is warm and sunny

Monday, 7 June 2010

Plenty of plums

the Victoria plum has lots of plums developing, however the Dennistons superb doesnt have nearly as many plums on


I have an iris in a 9inch pot that my father in law gave me and it is surviving very well even though it is pot bound. It gets a little bone, fish and blood now and then


the Boskoop Kiwi plant is now nearly 5ft, it started off as an 18inch woody stem at the start of the growing season



Weather report - mixed weather, sunny and raining on and off all day, Wakefield, England