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

[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.

[opalescence.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[vegmb.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing posts like this on my FL with 30+ comments. I truely feel for you all. I am used to the heat, having lived in the southern US all of my life, and have always thought it would be amazing to live somewhere that you don't need an a/c. I guess there are drawbacks to that too in the event of the unusual heat wave. (When I read the 85ish part, I thought about how cool that would be. It has been closer to 100ish here.)

[averageshmoe.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for sharing. I used to do a bit of gardening but a run in with a landlord pretty much soured me on that.

I've wanted to comment on a couple of your previous posts, but our weather has been pretty extreme over here. Either I've been exhausted from the heat or afraid to get in front of the computer due to the lightning.

What are the dimensions of the garden anyway? How did you decide what to plant? The only thing I know about the 'English' garden comes from movies like "Hope and Glory".

pgavigan