Mmmmm yes something springs to mind when I look at it Tessa.
Yes thats it the backyard of Steptoe & Son… 
Sorry I could not resist it.
Here save your money Tessa Lavateria will grow anywhere just visit any one you know with the plant and take some cuttings. Put them in small planters with some nice compost and they will be ready for planting out after next spring.
Time for my bed goodnight everyone.
I like your rusty look bits and pieces tessa. i notice that some of the garden centres and even B&Q are selling a lot more of that stuff now, things like rusty look troughs and gates etc. I like that look.
It’s lovely Mags .
LD I love that pond how did you get a raised pond ?
Mags, your garden always looks so neat, i don’t know how you keep it up.
Some really lovely gardens and flowers everyone .
I dont seem to be able to see some though .
If you remove your picture from your photos it takes it off the thread too I think ??
Lovely gardens you all have got .
:-):-)
I was in the garden centre yesterday, they had some old, large oil cans with old names on, which seemed to be made into heaters, as they were from the previous owner’s stock a guy got one for £20.
His wife was not impressed.
Barry, I love old junk, my favourite place is the reclaimation yard! I don’t have money to spend on gardeners to have a pristine, neat garden. I can’t mow lawns or trim hedges. I would not be comfortable in that sort of garden anyway, I’m a higgledy piggledy type of person. 
I do propagate my own plants from cuttings and saved seeds, my daughter does too so we can swap plants. 
Mups, tracked down the seed I used by looking up old issues of magazine online. They are Mystic Merlin, I have those this year but so far none are blue! 
Will try again next year.
It’s very dull here, l wish the sun had been out…
Sorry, Barry I meant Longfellow!
Crikey Art…compared to my garden…yours looks like a forest…beautiful it is…just looking at the lawn would give me a head ache…at the time it must take to mow…or maybe you have a tractor type?
Your beds look well established .
You have a beautiful garden Art … so much space too
Baskets’nTubs…
Californian poppies
Hydrangea grown from a cutting…
Mags, The abundance of colour in your garden is just tremendous and lovely to look at.
It must all have been really hard work to create such a stunning display.
Thanks Art, I just love bright colours as I find them cheerful.
I think it started years ago when I was a child. We used to have a huge garden then and my Dad always packed it with veg, fruit trees and flowers. When I was about 8 he cordoned off a square of his garden, gave me a couple of packets of flower seeds, gave me and old garden spade and a small rake and told me to do whatever I wanted with it. I loved watching the seeds grow, he showed me which were weeds and which were flowers … and things progressed from there.
I bet she gets a man in. :-p
