Greetings and pic spam.

[curiouswombat]

Firstly - to everyone going to WriterCon - have a wonderful time - safe travel there and safe travel home.

For those of you staying at home like me - never mind - there will still be some of us around on LJ!

I hope everyone is coping well with whatever weather you currently have - here it is hot, for us, around 28-29C, 85F ish - although my car's external thermometer got up to 31C (90F) over lunch time, when the sun was shining on it. But we have the tiniest of breezes, which has kept it reasonably pleasant.

I have been out with my jug, watering all my plants at least once a day, because they don't last long without water, being all in pots. So under the cut are some pictures of how my plants are enjoying the weather -



My lilies have opened - they just sat there as buds for about six weeks, and I thought they would never open, but look -



The sweetpeas that I bought as one little tray of seedlings have provided height and colour in four different areas of the yard, and smell wonderful. They remind me of childhood holidays at my aunt and uncle's in a village about six miles from home - I must write about Lily and Nelson sometime - maybe later in the week!





Frog looks happier than he did last time I put a picture of him onto my journal, as he is now surrounded in colour - nasturtiums, cream marigolds, and snapdragons -



And our climate just seems to suit fuchsias - this one is in a tub in a fairly shady spot - the colours of this are really this bright -






Tonight we may well have thunderstorms, and so some of these may not look quite so good tomorrow!

Comments

[hobbituk.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try sweet peas next year. I bought a nice metal obilisk and everything... I love the scent of lilies, but the flowers don't last very long in my garden for some reason. Yours look really good!

I'm not a writer (do they do such a thing as readercon???) so I'm not going either. And as the temperature here in London is hitting the thirties, I am definitely wilting. It clouded over a bit tonight so I hoped for rain...but it has cleared again now. *sigh*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of sweetpeas as a tub plant, until I bought some miniature ones last year. This year I didn't see any miniature ones, but I decided to go with full sized ones, and they seem to have coped really well. The flowers are managing not to wilt muck more effectively than me at the moment!