🌦️Enjoying Garden Flowers and a "Debbie in the Shed " update 🌿🌧️

 Enjoying some flowers in the garden today . This Clematis caught my eye .

          It goes so well with Humulus lupulus "Areus" 🌿 The Golden Hop .

A lovely rose that I planted up in the vegetable garden .

It's getting blown about in the wind .Losing her petals ! It is still sunshine and heavy rain showers here today .

 We needed the rain though . I'm not really complaining .

I am loving these scarlet Snap Dragons . . . . me and the bees ! 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Debbie in the Shed -Update 💐🌻💐

In between the showers I am in the shed , taking and potting up cuttings and repotting an old Epiphyllum the pot of which had been standing on the greenhouse bench  right underneath a part of the roof that was leaking .

 The pot was full of water to the brim and I have no idea for how long it has been like that !

So this particular Epie is very special . It came from Helston Library ...from back in the day....when there were lots of lovely plants on top of the book shelves .

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I had noticed a huge Epiphyllum up there 🤩 and plucked up courage to ask if I might have a cutting 🙏🏼" Please ? "  ☺️

  The lovely librarian said yes of course and gave me a piece . I asked if she knew what colour the flower was ?   I was expecting her to say "red" as red is probably the most common one .....but she surprised me and said "Apricot " .

 Wow ! 🤩💛Apricot !   

So about fifteen , possibly twenty years later ....it still hasn't flowered ....grown but not flowered .

With the business of taking down the old greenhouse and putting up the new one and the plants all being moved around and some left outside over winter , somehow this one has been neglected ....and now it is in a terrible state . And I mean really terrible !

                                 Really , really terrible !

Also ,a tiny pot of now rooted cuttings that I had taken from it some time ago ....also full of water .

 .....but they look like they're just about hanging on in there !

I drained out the water , tipped them all out . Pulled apart the rooted cuttings .Cut off the rotten bits . 

The roots looked o.k.....ish  ....  😨

I think I can save them !  

                                         Finger's crossed !

I might cut the ones on the right in half .   I am going to be over-run with Apricot Epies . 

We'll see how they do and maybe I will have some to share later on .

    So I know that you have to have plants names properly registered , but just between you and me , for the time being , these will be labelled Epiphyllum "Helston Library " (Apricot maybe 💛)  

    I am really going to pamper these now , make sure they're not under the leaky greenhouse roof . 

Other cuttings I've potted up today , some I have no idea what they are !

                     But there are happy vibes going on in the shed !

 The Cosmos cuttings ( using the tops after pinching them out , to make them grow more bushy)   Still looking good . I thought they would wilt and die but no , they are surprisingly quite strong .

 Acacia -  I had to take off, quite a large branch . So rather than throw it on the compost heap I thought I'd try taking cuttings .  I would normally only do this in the Autumn , but it's worth a try ....with the help of a bit of hormone rooting powder .

               That's all fer now folks !

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                                   Love Debbie  x

Time to Plant out Musa Ensete maurelii ,

                  O.K. It's now safe to plant out my Banoonaahs  .  

                Shuffle and bump technique to get it out of the pot .

Last end of August I had a serious spine injury and I am very grateful to my lovely son-in-law who not only got the Banana plants out and under cover for the winter , but dug out nice big hole and put a large pot in it to keep it open . This has really helped me for the replanting of the beast today .  Well one of them.  I've actually got two of these . I'm just planting out one of them today .

 All I had to do was a little bit of weeding , enlarge the hole a little bit , shuffle and bump it out of the pot and roll it , until it just dropped down into the hole !

                             "Little bit of weeding "

                     Rolling and dropping !         Boomph !   

                        Straightening it up a little . Firm it in .

                                   Perfect !    

                  🌧️  And now we have rain to settle him in !  🌧️⛈️

               I am off up to the shed to pot up some cuttings .

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Epiphyllum Frosty Rose - Flower 🩷🌿

 

        Epiphyllum Frosty Rose 

Very dainty , medium size flower . Beautiful . I put my hand in to show size .  Certainly smaller than the other ones I've shown you recently . 

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Meanwhile out in the herb garden ....

Captain Cook's Tea Tree has been putting on a lovely display . 

I hope our local bees are enjoying it . This is where the Manuka Honey comes from , the bees that feed on these flowers .

The medicinal  oil is extracted from it's leaves .

I didn't think it would survive Storm Gorretti . It was really beaten up !

I think it has been very stressed by those cruel winds . I couldn't see any leaves until I climbed up to look closer . Yes , closer up , I can see some leaves .

I wonder how easy it would be to take a few cuttings .  I might try .

                 Her flowers are so pretty !

 The seed pods are interesting too , you can just see a couple on this branch .

You need to get up closer to see how lovely they are . There's the labyrinth and vegetable garden beyond .

  I must climb back down now and go and water everything .

It's actually more overcast this morning and we may get some gentle rain on Monday . 

    

             Have a beautiful Sunday ; go and make it a great day !

                                       Peace and Love 

                                                 Debbie 💐x

   

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