My Kiwi is blooming, blooming marvelous

Well I have waited 3 years from buying my kiwi  plant "actinidia arguta issai" from Aldi I think and I think it is starting to bloom. it is still in an old Morrisons type flower bucket and I still dont know where I am going to put it this year but I must find some where.

I dont know how many buds there are but I reckon may be 40 plus and the plant is about 8ft tall and growing rapidly.

I have started to feed the plant with a hydroponics solution feed that I had left over from about 3years ago. At the time I tried growing tomatoes in a hydroponics set up with plant feed from the hydroponicum (this is there website) I had mixed results, generally positive but at the time I thought I could have been better. I was inspired at the time because I had been there and it was great fun.


My next plant in flower is the wisteria "prolific" again it is still in a very small plant pot (may be a 2litre pot), Again this need finding a permenent home but I think it has started flowering. Awesome. I love wisteria flowers so they will be good to see.

Both plants are about 3years old, I cannot remember exactly and both are looking healthy.  I need to find them a permanent home the trouble is though that down the side of my garage I currently have a rose, another kiwi, a passion flower, a grape vine and 2 clematis, non very big but all taking up room.

This is the rose. I have been trying to kill it off for the last 4 years with no success. I think it is a wild rose. As I seem to be a total failure on the rose murder front I accepted defeat and put a trellis up, the bird feeder has always been there and I will say the birds seem to appreciate the rose being there for extra cover.

Wakefield today has been cool compared with the last couple of weeks, a short rain shower tonight dampened the ground and over all very pleasant

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Kiwis are sprouting

Both the kiwis are sprouting new leaves which is great to see. This is the actinidia arguta I think the variety is issai. It is still in a pot but looking well

 

Growing round the door bell to

 

This is the actinidia deliciosa which was grown from a seed, this part of the plant is in shade but there are leaves breaking out much better further up on the garage roof

Wakefield today is warm and sunny and gorgeous.

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Arguta and lillies

My Acitinidia Arguta is growing quickly. this is a very hardu kiwi variety that produces small grape sized kiwis that are reputed to be very sweet and tasty. fingers crossed. It is still growing in an old flower bucket and stands at nearly 4ft now. at the start of the season to say it was a small very thin dead twig is an understatement

I have a water lily in my half barrel pond, the first flower has appeared

Weather report - rain all day, Wakefield, England, a very wet day indeed, Raining in South Kirkby, and been to Selby this evening and wet and raining there to

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Climbers every where

Here are some of my climbers and they are doing very well and I very happy with them.

This is an actinidia arguta variety "issai", otherwise known as an hairless kiwi plant. The variety issai is self fertile which is a plus

This is actinidia deliciosa "Boskoop". Self fertile and showing signs of very strong growth.

My last climber is Wisteria "Prolific", this is not fruit bearing and I still dont known if I want to keep it or not. One thing extending its stay is that it is doing very well in a 9inch pot. I cannot ask for more

All the above climbers are in pots or old supermarket flower buckets. They are all growing strongly thanks to the recent hot weather

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