Our hanging baskets give a splash of colour but it’s funny how when we bought them they were both the same round shape. The basket at the front has kept its round shape and looks the perfect basket with a bright splash of colour to welcome you.
Front hanging basket
The back basket is completely different and has opened up into a weird shape.
Back hanging basket
At the top of the garden beside the chickens is a hibiscus that is one of the few shrubs that was already here when we moved in nine years ago. In that time it has doubled in size and also gives a splash of colour at this time of the year.
Hibiscus
Hibiscus
We prune it back after it has finished flowering but it goes on getting bigger and bigger each year.
I stepped back to show the size of this shrub/tree
Notice the girls chilling in the background.
The blooms close up
Hibiscus are like day lilies, as one bloom opens another bloom passes over. This plant is amazing with it’s giant size and many blooms.
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SOOOO pretty. We had a big heat spell last week and the garden got kind of crispy fried. And I moved a few things around this week knowing it would be much cooler. But cut them way back. So my yard is not looking nearly as pretty as yours.
But the hens don’t care. Thankfully.
It’s been hot and dry here too. Not as hot as you get but dry for us. We lost a few plants that got too dry but luckily the garden is so full that others thrive. The big things like the hibiscus can take it. One honeysuckle has quite a bit of brown on it but I am hoping it will recover.
My girls like their dandelion strip the best. Every day after dinner we take a walk up and I give them dandelion leaves through the mesh and you would think the poor darlings had been starved by the crush to get the leaves, never mind that they have spinach every single morning! If they could get out the strip would be devastated. I grow it just for the fun of giving them leaves each evening.
What a lovely show of colour.Our Hollyhocks have been amazing this year,They have been a good advert for my selling lots of Hollyhock plants.They dont mind the dry weather we have been having lately, we are getting fed up with watering every day, and beans and tomatoes two or three times a day, We have six water butts and they have nearly all run out.Just hope when it do rain it wont go on and on, and not know when to stop. your garden looks a real treat.
We used to have holly hocks but over the years they have disappeared. At the moment I water the baskets and pots and veg and the rest only very occasionally which is probably why we lost some things. I always say that we need to grow the hardy stuff than can withstand a bit of neglect hence the recent thistles. I know what you mean about the rain though. We want some for the garden but not for it to go on and on.