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How does your garden grow?

TheCatWoman

Mines doing well, rampant dandelions, I've been dea heading them so I hopefully dont' get more.

The blossom is out on the trees and my currants have loads of flowers, so do the strawberries and raspberries. The rhubarb has bolted, I'm not sure why, maybe the shock of going from winter to spring in a few days?

I planted 5 hyssop plants and a verbascum, the hyssop is good, all the creatures love it, it's perrenial and it can be used as part of a zataar herb mix and it's good for chest problems like COPD. I love plants that serve so many purposes.

I have buds on the hydrangeas already, maybe I'll have two lots of flowering?

I planted some romanesco cauliflowers and they've just started coming up, but I'm still waiting for the kallets I planted at the same time.

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    What a beautiful rose, I need to get out and dead head mine and do some serious work out there, I've got some huge lavender flowers too.

    The other things that are huge are the raspberries, enormous great things half the size of my thumb! When I pick them I can wear one on each finger nail. I've got quite a few black currants too, which is good for bushes that only went in last year and were small. I gave my DiL a blackcurrant to taste a couple of days ago, she didn't know what it was and her face turned inside out when she tried it, so I gave her a raspberry to take the taste away.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Thank you - it’s my favourite. Many of the blooms are coming off and leaving bare patches, but new buds will burst forth shortly clothing the shrub in pink. 

    Your raspberries sound delicious. I don’t grow them but the last raspberries I bought in the supermarket came from Portugal. We don’t get Scottish raspberries anymore, such a shame, and there aren’t enough Irish raspberry growers to supply the shops. It is really concerning how growers have been affected. 

    The redcurrants are ripening and I have some wild strawberries which planted themselves in the border a few years ago. I have moved it to a more suitable location and it is supplying me with a few delicious berries.

    Your DiL’s face sounds a picture and I can understand her expression, not being keen on them myself. I was wondering what whitecurrants taste like as I don’t recall having eaten them. I might try growing those next year.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    The whitecurrants, between your description and Cinnabar’s, sound promising. I might try raspberries too. It’s difficult to do everything I want to do because sometimes my interest in the garden drifts to other places and energy is lacking. 

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