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  1. JR

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    Early morning birds singing in the Spring.. Lovely :)
     
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    • Sheal

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      11 years! I've got a way to go then. :) I took on my current garden three years ago and have spent a good part of that time retrieving it from nature.
       
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      • KittyHound

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        It goes quickly! I think thats what the previous owners had to do a year before we bought it. I believe it was held onto as potential building land but they could never get permission, so I imagine it was pretty wild. Certainly still get loads of brambles everywhere! That sounds kind of satisfying but also hard work. Do you have photos? I’ll take a look later at your profile - is that where I’d find them? Forgive me, I’m new to all this!
         
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          Salvias are great, aren't they? :) My Salvia 'African Sky' and uliginosa are still going strong into November here in Nottinghamshire, it's lovely to have something flowering before the winter-flowering shrubs come into their own, although the latter are a tad disappointing recently due to the milder winters we've been having, the deciduous ones don't lose all their leaves and the flowering period is briefer.

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          • KittyHound

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            They are! My Salvia ‘Amistad’ are still going strong albeit a bit leggy at the base! The seasons have all gone a bit ‘Pete Tong’ lately haven’t they!
             
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              Yes, clearing a garden and keeping it that way does take time, but it's worth the effort. :doh::)

              I'm sorry @KittyHound you won't find any information on my profile as I don't bother with it. My garden is rural surrounded by fields and livestock. Although the lawns had been reasonably maintained, there was nothing in the garden apart from trees and a bamboo. The bamboo has gone plus three of the trees. The boundaries were overgrown with 'scrub' and bracken, which are now clear. I've also just started to deal with the through growth from my neighbour's overgrown garden, battling with brambles, suckers from various trees/shrubs and ground elder etc. I've also spent quite a bit of time removing rocks from the lawns (still not completed) as the whole plot sits on bedrock.

              I had started a thread on the garden which hasn't been updated, so I will do that and then post the link here for you. :)
               
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              • KittyHound

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                It is definitely worth it! It sounds like you've done a lot of work - I love looking at transformations so it would be great to see your garden thread.
                 
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                  I wouldn't call it a transformation just yet. :biggrin:
                   
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                    Welcome to the forum :dbgrtmb:

                    We had to start from an overgrown jungle and it took us three years to find the bottom of the garden :rolleyespink:. Forty eight years later it looks good but everything has grown well and gets a bit out of hand :old:

                    Our garden is better in the Spring as well. Up until coronavirus we opened our garden for charity every late Spring Bank holiday. By the summer there is nowhere near as much colour but we had more time :sad: this year to work on growing annuals.

                    We also grew Salvia turkestanica (perennial) and it was amazingly successful. A bit unusual for Salvias as the leaves (have a bit of a furry effect) are rather on the big side and the flowers are big.

                    As an annual we tried Cleome this year and it flowered right through the summer and is just finishing now. I'll post some of the photos on here but they're on the other computer, so shall do it later.

                    We collected the seeds, amongst some of the other annuals, and an ebay seed merchant is buying them from us and giving a donation to the charity :blue thumb:

                    Hope to see you around the forum a lot. :thumbsup:
                     
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                      Got them now :) and they, amongst others, helped to brighten the summer look.

                      The turkestanica look good through all their stages of growth and they grew up to 5ft

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                      Cleome were quite striking
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                      We planted a number of different annuals around the garden and were pleased with them.
                       
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                      • KittyHound

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                        I like seeing works in progress too!
                         
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                          Hi Shiney! Thanks for the welcome. Wow! Those turkestanica look amazing. They look great in those drifts. The Cleome look very interesting as well, I don’t think I’ve seen them before so will have a look online and find out more. Had a little cutting patch the other year with Nicotiana, Cosmos and Zinnias but the rest of the garden looked pants in comparison. So something had to be done. Sad that you weren’t able to open your garden this year - fingers crossed for 2021!
                           
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                            @KittyHound ,..welcome to the Forum,..lovely image of your garden and i see you have Lupins :),..i am slowly increasing my stock of them along with Delphiniums,..mine is a small Cottage Garden,..as seen in 'Members Gallery'.
                            My Garden in June.

                             
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                              Shiney. You are very fortunate. Having Mrs. S to share the workload. My beloved Valerie would check out the garden. WE! could do this, and we can change that. Then sometime later. Have you changed that er???????.
                              Happy memories.
                               
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                                Hi glengarry, thank you for the welcome! Enjoyed your video very much, what a beautiful garden. I’ll take a look in the gallery. Yes, I love Lupins - Lupin Aphids? Not so much. :nonofinger: I thought I’d finally managed to get them under control, but not quite - I’m hoping next year I won’t see any!
                                 
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