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

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I'm not going either. We could cook up all sorts of trouble over the weekend.

It is supposed to be around 106F this saturday. OI! I have to be outside at a demo with my Medival group.

Have a good rest of the week

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Gosh - that might be a bit hot - although I guess you could skip the normal underwear for a layer of loose cotton and stand over one of those little battery driven fans!

[rincaro.livejournal.com]

How lovely. Thanks for sharing.

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Your flowers are gorgeous! The colors are so amazing. What do you feed them?

[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*

[elsaf]

I love your nasturtiums! I used to grow them. I just keep forgetting to plant them in the early spring.

Did you know they're edible? They taste sort of peppery. A few nasturtium blooms will dress up a salad.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

My pleasure!

[opalescence.livejournal.com]

Oh, how lovely. The stone behind your flowers really adds a certain charm to them!!!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - and not a lot! I put one of those slow release pellets into each pot in the spring, then wander around with a 2litre jug pouring water on them every day!

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Very nice Stargazer lilies and I love Sweet Peas but they really don't do well in this climate, it's too hot too early for them.

[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!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I have had them in salads a couple of times - but the husband and the daughter gave them very funny looks, and left them in the serving dish!

They are so good for colour though - there are some plain orange ones in another pot, and a dark red one lurking in one of the troughs with the blue and white things - if I was an American, or straight UK rather than Manx, they would make it very patriotic!

They come up a bit randomly, as I save the seeds from year to year, but I throw them all into a bag together!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

The stone is the original garden walls built, when the house was, about 100 years ago. Only the neighbours have extended them up on both sides, so we have the stone up to about 3'6" and plain concrete above! I keep thinking about painting the concrete - maybe in the autumn when the plants are dieing down...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I bought the lilies in a kit from the local supermarket - the bulbs complete with pot and compost cost about $6. I am very plaesed with them.

I had never tried sweetpeas until last summer, and they did well - it didn't really get hot here until mid May, and then we have a few hot days followed by a cooler one or two, so they grow well without much more than regularly reminding them to grow up the canes. A couple of them are in a pot under the pear tree, and they have caught hold of a few leaves of the tree and the clematis which also grows up it and are heading up that way - which is rather fun!

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

I got 37 degrees on my weatherstation today (and that was after I took the sensor out of the sun).

[jerusha]

Beautiful flowers, as always.

And it's good to know that there will still be some folks hanging about here this weekend!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

The flowers are lovely -- colors are popping right out. Keep watering!

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

We're being threatened with the 105F weather here in Oregon as well, though it has stayed below 90 so far this week.

*crosses fingers*

The bugs are unseasonably earlier, and the frogs that normally eat them are suffering. So we all suffer.

Meanwhile, though, I saw on another post that you got some awards for the last Fang Fetish round. Congratulations!

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I'm in Oregon. Where abouts are you?

Meanwhile, though, I saw on another post that you got some awards for the last Fang Fetish round. Congratulations!

Is that directed at me? If so where are those located.

[myfeetshowit.livejournal.com]

Is that directed at me? If so where are those located.

I'm so sorry. I'm having problems with my mouse and trying to use the keyboard to navigate. I thought I had replied directly to CuriousWombat.

I live in Fairview—work in downtown Portland. Where are you at?

*Hopes this goes to right thread since I can't figure out how to scroll*

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

That be ok. I didn't really think I had been nominated.


I'm in Newberg.

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

Lovely! My garden is suffering as we have a hose pipe ban, but hubby invested in a water butt, so we do have some water to spread around. I love your lilies!

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

The flowers are beautiful ... pretty pretty colors!

[bearfacedcheek.livejournal.com]

My my what green paws has the wombat. Hmm makes me feel guilty about th eovergrown mass of weeds i call a garden.

[syderia]

Your flowers are really pretty.

Thanks for sharing.