Triumph And Disaster (In The Garden)

The Rose Lady Emma Hamilton has grown multiple new flower buds on new growth. I hope next year it will be festooned in flowers. The apricot flowers are beautifully scented and light up the garden.
I have a mystery plant growing with raggedy pale blue flowers, near to where I planted the Cornflowers.I will blog it to see if anyone can recognise it.
In spring I took out the weeds quickly, but as the summer came I became more relaxed, leaving things to see what they turned into.
I am going to the allotment soon, to harvest some vegetables and to do some tidying. I am thinking about what can grow where after the winter. The beds all need digging over and more compost mixed into the soil.
Having the allotment has been fun, but very hard work to try and juggle life and two gardens! As the poem by Rudyard Kipling goes you have to meet triumph and disaster head on, and treat the two imposters the same way.
Gardening is a lot like that. Some things work really well, and some things fail spectacularly.The combination of both these make each garden unique.
My worst casualties have been the black Hollyhocks which were diseased and never got off the ground.The Clematis Reubens that died suddenly for no apparent reason.The Tomatos in the grow bag also failed after developing masses of fruit, but that just started to rot...
My highlights have been all the Roses I planted flowered, even with endemic blackspot. The Dahlias and Lillys have also been beautiful flowers. I have grown vegetables for the first time with good results.
Even as you look back to earlier in the year, you also think about next year. I have a small pile of flower catalogues from the seed companys. Eye candy for the darks of winter to keep your gardening flame burning when the dark inclement days keep you inside.

Late Monday Musing

I am back in the land of the living after falling asleep for twelve hours Zzzzz.

The Flower is a Streptocarpus Happy Snappy. My plants have grown on well, or keeled over on my week of nights.

I need to prepare for moving,if the estate agents ring up. It was wet and cold this morning

not good gardening weather,as the soil is waterlogged and sticks to your tools.

This week I will photograph Pats Garden, and Help Fran plant her 140 Spring bulbs.I want some Hyacinth Bulbs to force indoors so I can smell them over xmas.

I finally read the First unit of the RHS course. will sit down and try to send off the questions for that. might just answer them as I best can and post it. hope the units get easier. it might be my academic lay off, six years has made my studying rusty.

Just need to blow the cobwebs and dust off. I enjoyed the more in depth knowledge of Seeds, and Taking Cuttings. Ideally I want some real life plants to propagate so the Academic knowledge is applied in real Horticultural practise. I must look for some placement somewhere like a Nursery to see these techniques in use..

A house with no DAMP will be more conducive to growing plants and seeds. Fungal infections have wiped out a lot of my plants. I guess Cleanliness is next to Godliness when you want to grow beautiful disease free plants that are not stressed!

I need to take some more photos this week, for the Blog mainly. David Austin Rose's have extended their judging until the end of October. I guess the Popularity meant they have been swamped with photos of their roses. If they don't Pick any of my entry's I will blog the photos I sent off to them. Fifteen Rose Pictures!

I can catch up on the Gardening Blogosphere, and see whats been growing and what people are writing about. I love the creativity of people, and the shared passion between gardeners of all ages, sexes, and nationality.

I am Happy the week of Nights are over. Now the Snappy gardener is Happy :)