Goodbye!

Over the past year I have been thinking should I keep the New Zealand Flax. Or should I get rid of it! 


I decided to in the end get rid. It was a hard choice to make. But now I'm glad I decided to get rid! Has the flax got to big.. 

When I say get rid I wanted to give the NZ Flax away! A friend wanted the flax and then another was interested in having it.  But no one got back to me.. 


So today I cut the flax down. Now I have cut down the New Zealand Flax down..  Oddly enough I have new ideas and plan's the garden?

Watch this space!!! 

The picture below is how the flax look's now.... 

The cat in the picture is Maple.

Has you can see I have left a bit for me to remove at a later date!

But for now I am going to leave the flax stump (can I call it that?) and plant the pot up!

The Mystery

This year I was a lil late at sowing any tomatoes.....

I know I said I won't be growing them again.. But having to go through winter and spring on supermarket bought tomatoes. I decided I wanted to grow some.  Gosh I bought some that tasted awfully!

Anyway......

I was going to scrap the idea of growing them all together this year.. Until a friend of mine gave me six plants, that her gran has grown...

You may have noticed I am experimenting this year too.. I normally put one plant to one black pot...... But this year I have decided to put two in a pot. . . Also instead of six I'm now down to four..

It is still a mystery what happen to the other two!

Anyhow these are just taking their time , to grow. I think maybe the roots are anchoring themselves down first!

Only time will tell...

Home grown

Back in March I wrote about sowing a load of seeds..

Well this is how I got on.

Firstly I'm going to have to confess, I did a little (what I call) top up shop........

Here's my small list.

Petunia mix's x100
Stocks x8
Dahlias x6 (I'm in love with dahlias since seeing     them on Chelsea one year)
Verbena x8 (I know I'm growing some, these are just in case)
Salvia x6
And a Yellow winter Jasmine

Just a tiny shop of plants I'm a shamed to say! I only got them to fill in the blank spaces..... (You'll see what I mean in a moment)

From the list that I sowed only these grew..

Mesembryanthemum
Nasturtium
Sunflowers - moonshine and Velvet shine
Cornflower
Verbena
Malva
Portulaca (these are tiny so they are still in the greenhouse)
Lavatura
Coreppsis
Cosmos

Has you can see not a lot grew so that's my reason to go shopping..

This is how my flower boxes and garden look now..

In the next few weeks I'll be sowing the next phase..