They’re gorgeous Curmudgeon, so is the photo
Beautiful pictures, as others have said could look at garden pictures all day long.
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Nom, so is mine but like you we get lots of insects.
Sorry TessA, I couldn’t tell you.
That is an unusual Cactus, Susie.
Yes, I don’t know what type, but all the bits on the side are babies, and you pick them off and plant them and they just grow again and this is the first time its flowered. I have baby one’s in pots everywhere.
Once I accidentally put my chin on it as I was looking out of the window and I had all pin holes of blood on my chin, then the Cat when and did the same thing, so we were both bleeding.
It does look rather spikey.
When my Uncle was alive he used to breed, is that the right word? Cacti. He had a greenhouse/conservatiory full of them, some so big they looked like the plant in The Little Shop of Horrors. Scared me silly they did, well I was only little.
I hope yours isn’t keen on blood.
We have loads of Rosemary in our front garden, and one year my Neighbour Leisa asked if she could have some as she was cooking Lamb, so I went and cut her a bundle and gave it to her, went back indoors, all of a sudden I heard a scream coming from my Neighbour, a Grasshopper jumped out of the Rosemary onto her, I didn’t see it as its the same colour as the leaves.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Dpr9RT_LxGs/Vaav3nOjwvI/AAAAAAAAgoI/JaB0eA9hobE/w393-h523-no/P1020172.JPG Although they don’t show up very well my pear tree is laden down with fruit this year.
I can see them Alan.
http://www.over50sforum.com/picture.php?albumid=436&pictureid=6414
This is the next stage of my Cactus Plant, never had a flower growing on it before, and have had this plant for ages.
Awww! That is really pretty.
Does anyone know what kind of Cactus this is?
Lovely - freshly picked pears, mmm. We have a 3yr old apple tree and hope to have around a dozen apples this year, after thinning and aphids and other bits and bobs, still better than last year when most of 'em fell off! 
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AS you can se photographing flowers is not my stong point
lol
I used to have Rosemary in the back garden but a local tom cat took a liking to it and would scent spray it every time he visited :shock:
My sweet peas did well to start with but have ended prematurely I think .
The Phlox ,Veronica, and wild flowers have done well , the Nastursions have been attacked by Aphids Black ones .
http://www.over50sforum.com/picture.php?albumid=834&pictureid=6431.
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It’s been too dry for my plants this year and we’ve also had a problem with the black fly and green fly - the lawn doesn’t look so good either.