I always thought I was useless at gardening. But it is amazing how quickly you pick things up. I soon discovered what grew best in my garden and stuck to that. 
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Yeah! Knowing your garden zoning really helps.
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Garden Photos Today…
Weigela cut back and now its paying me with more Flowers…
Himalayan Honeysuckle is long flowering and now growing everywhere so will have to prune it soon…
Real name is
Leycesteria formosa, the Himalayan honeysuckle, is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. It is considered a noxious invasive species in Australia, New Zealand, the neighbouring islands of Micronesia, and some other places. Wikipedia
I can appreciate it could take over in the perfect conditions, but it is easy to control here. the branches are like thin tubes…
This Old White Rose constantly blooms throughout the summer, and the stems look as if they cant support it…but they are…
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We have a type of tree here like an umbrella and it growns along underground and makes new unwanted trees…(that’s the ones you have to get rid of unless you want a forest)
So great for Shade which normal summer’s here you sure need it…
No idea what it is called…
This is a new tree as the one that was there took a turn for the worse one stormy night…it has yet to curve to an umbrella shape,but it will…
There is a Pest Tree in the UK that has similar leaves…Dont think it is that though…
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Yes that is just the one …I now recall the male and female fruits and one or other are ediable…
this is interesting though…
Some beekeepers use dried sumac bobs as a source of fuel for their smokers.
The fruit of sumacs are edible.[14] They can be soaked and washed in cold water, strained, sweetened and made into a pink “lemonade” sometimes called “Indian lemonade”.[15] The drink extract can also be used to make jelly. The shoots can be peeled and eaten raw. [16][14] The leaves and berries of staghorn sumac have been mixed with tobacco and other herbs and smoked by Native American tribes.[17] This practice continues to a small degree to this day.
All parts of the staghorn sumac, except the roots, can be used as both a natural dye and as a mordant. The plant is rich in tannins and can be added to other dye baths to improve light fastness. The leaves may be harvested in the summer and the bark all year round.[18]
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Remember that the furry fruit things were quite hard.
Didn’t realise it was such a versatile tree 
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pink lemonade… wow
love this song…
I see you can use the pods for dying…
and the NA smoked it…cough cough…arrhh smoke signals… 
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orignally had petunias in the wall baskets but the weather was not favourable for them to flourish so outed them and purchased some French Marigolds that need watering often but looking good…
As for my so called stone driveway…
As for my so called stone driveway…
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The tomatoes in the garden polytunnel have done well this year. We have had a plentiful supply for some weeks now. However, the time has come to pick the lot because the skins are starting to split on the ripe tomatoes. I will eat many of them as they are but Mrs mart will make a tomato sauce with the rest.
There are still plenty of green and orange tomatoes left on the plants. Some might still ripen but even if they don’t, I couldn’t grumble about the tomato crop this year.
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My Mother in law wrapped the Green Tomatoes in a paper bag then put them in a drawer till Christmas when they would be ripe
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nice to see roses at this time of year, thanks
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Wow some great photos there Di. Your new camera takes a good photo
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Yes love the new camera Dianne
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Looking forward to seeing them swimmy. 
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Next door has got one of them and we have shoots coming up in our garden, it originally was from the garden next to them, they either got rid of it or it died, but it’s a nuisance.
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