How does your garden grow?

[sister herb]

Few days ago I planted basils to old pans, pots and baskets for keeping them in the garden at summer:

Hopely this old pan is not needed during the summer... :embarrass

 

[Lady A]

Sister Herb, you have quite a collection of old pots and pans ;D. Your plants are growing beautifully.

 

[sister herb]

This is the biggest old pan (iron cauldron) in my garden. Its now home for the marigolds.

My mother´s mother used it before as the laundry cauldron, but it was about 60 years ago.

Perennial herbs grow well.

 

[sister herb]

I planted 2 squash and 2 shark fin melons to my compost bed. I started that one last autumn with compost soil, grass, leaves and fertilizer like composted horse manure and continued to build it at the spring.

Shark fin melon is an Asian squash. I got its seeds from Thailand from my gardener friend. :shade:

 

[sister herb]

Lettuce is ready for the plate.

The latest basil seedlings.

Own area for the flowers only.

Lilac is flowering.

The first rose is open.

Rhododendron

 

[Lady A]

Very nice Sister Herb!

 

[Lady A]

Nice growing, Sister Herb!

 

[sister herb]

^^ Thanks. Now all my tiny garden smells for the peppermint, specially at the warm evenings - it´s like being in the candy shop.

;D

Soon I need to cook some peppermint syrup - and then also my all home smells the candy.

 

[sister herb]

Wild flowers in my garden - Campanula patula or spreading bellflower (we call its as the bell of magpie):

I let the chamomile seeds to spread all over my garden at the last year, these grow with the lettuces:

I have read that chamomile is one of those plants which by its strong frangrance deport pests. True or not but no pests in the lettuces at this year.


Kale:

Yummy in salads.


One of my special herbs - chili oregano:

Lavender. Not sure if it will flower at this year. I might have to keep it indoors at the next winter. Lavender doesn´t usually survive our winter.

As I had a bird feeder in my garden at the winter, birds didn´t eat all seeds. Some random sunflowers are growing in my garden.

 

[sister herb]

Supporters for the peas:

The peas found them in minutes:

 

[colinberry1]

Well my garden is like a jungle now, had to give it up to care for my wife, it is amazing how much you can get out of a grow bag, as long as you keep feeding it and keep it well watered.

I use to love gardening, had a 15 poll allotment once, grew everything, the only mad man that used to be digging in a foot of snow in the winter.

 

[sister herb]

A bee in the flower of chives:

Roses:

Time of daisies:

 

[Lady A]

Sister Herb,
Do you recommend any houseplants?

 

[sister herb]

Sister Herb,
Do you recommend any houseplants?

It depends what kind of houseplants you like - and how often you remember to water them. ;D

Here are some of my favourites in my home (sorry, some picture have too much light - its sunny day here):

Dragon fruit - I growed few of them from the seeds.

Thats some palm - not sure about its name. Its very tall - from the floor to the ceiling.

Ivy is one of my favourites.

A little jungle (Ficus benjamina).

Saintpaulia.

We call this as the donkey´s ear. It helps to clean indoor air.

Spider plant - these I have everywhere. Despite of its name, spiders don´t specially like it. It is often called also the airplane plant or hen-and-chickens. Very easy to care.

 

[sister herb]

I have also some old leaf cactus which aren´t very charming - but they make sometimes marvelous flowers:

 

[Lady A]

I like the flowering sort of house plants

Is saintpaulia and African violet the same?

 

[sister herb]

^^ Yes they are same.

 

[sister herb]

The June was colder than usually at here and it made onions to make flowers. That´s not they usually are doing.

Beside and behind of them sunflowers, nasturtiums and rhubarb leaf.

 

[sister herb]

This kind of "fluffy head" also lives in my garden:

(Anise hyssop starts to flower soon. ;D )

 

[sister herb]

White foxglove:

Pink ones are open too:

Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William):

Chamomile for the evening teas:

Shark fin melons are flowering. They are smaller than they should to be but its because cold period at the June. Well, they are still alive.

Squash also flowers:

I bought 3 squash seedlings:

That one is in the frame, others with shark fin melons in the compost bed.