Passion Flower Seedlings Planted !

 

Up at 5am ish ...to dash up to the shed to see if  Epiphyllum Marilyn Monroe has bloomed yet ...It's a very foggy morning .

Also to check for snails on my beans and butternuts 🐌and my newly planted out Passion Flower plants .

Hopefully the sun will come out later on .

I had some spare bean seedlings which I thought might as well go in with the Passion Flowers .

I grew these from seed , so I feel very protective over them !

Passiflora mollissima (pink) and Passiflora manicata (red)

A couple of Scarlet Pelargoniums for a splash of colour .

Posts with a trellis would have been the ideal thing for these Passion Flowers ....but fixing up posts and trellising , hammer, nails , concrete...just not my thing ....sigh ....so some sort of a teepee made from left over bean poles and hazel branches will have to do !

It'll be fine ! It will ! Wait and see !

What do you think ? 

Anyway  

If they do grow away really well , they can always climb over and scrabble through the climbing rose bushes on the garage wall .   

I used to buy Passiflora mollissina ( the pink one ) every year from the boot fair in Truro ....I never kept them going over winter . I have not grown Passiflora manicata (the red one)  and I have never grown these from seed before .

I'm hoping that these will survive the winter, with some protection .

I got them all planted yesterday evening . This morning I picked off six snails ! 

I have sprinkled sparingly some slug pellets . Also gave the young shoots some support with these clip things that I found on Amazon .

It all looks a bit untidy at the moment. There are a couple of Pelargoniums and I think there might be a Dahlia coming up that I had put in there last year .  The bulbs that I threw in last Autumn were beautiful through the Spring , their leaves have all withered away and will come back next spring . 

I put a nice fresh layer of compost over the top of them .

The only remaining bulbs still in flower are these . I am not sure what they are ? Some type of oniony thing ?

The bees are loving them what ever they are ! 

UPDATE - Thankyou Jane 💐  These are Allium siculum  /   The Sicilian honey lily 🐝🐝

Other news -

Up in the shed -  

A fresh pot of lettuce seedlings are waiting to be pricked out and potted on . This makes me so happy !

Yes , sorry , it was still quite dark when I went up to the shed ! 

A third and very late attempt to get some Courgettes to germinate  ....

                                ...........and ...here we go !   🌱 .... almost ! 

                         ....and 🤩  we have the first little tomato !   ❤️

                           Snack size Party Time Cucumbers on the way !  💚

       The one remaining lettuce from the last batch 💚.....oh no I can see a hole ! 🐌

              And a first Strawberry ....

Safe from slugs and snails ....but Mr Blackbird is probably watching and waiting....he knows when they are at the most perfect juicy stage !

This pretty thing ,with no name , is still in full bloom this morning . 

              Epiphyllum Marylin Monroe however , is keeping us all waiting .

                                   I will update as soon as she blooms !

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