Flowering now August 2007

[mark smyth]

The Dianthus is most likely Dianthus Malmaison 'Leslie Rennison'

[annew]

Solidaster is bigger, and a herbaceous plant. Your Euryops will be shrubby, Susan?

[David Nicholson]

Here is Gladiolus callianthus in a pot outdoors which always flowers about two weeks before the garden based plants. Apart from a sprinkle of 'Ian's magic powder' when the plant is just going over it gets ignored with great regularity and still flowers every year.

[mark smyth]

I havent grown those for years. I used to know them as something else but the name evades me just now - Acidanthera

[David Nicholson]

In  private I still call them Acidanthera

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark,

A faint light in my distant memory - I wonder if your beautiful dianthus is D. 'Chomley Farren'. I have made a stab at the spelling and hope it is close enough to remind you of the name.

Paddy

[ChrisB]

This one takes the cake.  I've had loads of unseasonal bloomings, but this is the last thing I expected - Enkianthus campanulatus in flower in August.  It has flowered normally this Spring and is now producing a mass of single flowers from new growth.  Also, one of my Epimediums is in flower again too.  What a mad crazy summer it is!

[mark smyth]

Chris you forgot to edit the size of your images!

This is my Daphne pet. 'Garnet', own roots, flowering for the first time. Do the flowers always look down?

[gote]

Mark,
The tank attack is probably meant to be attack by corrosion. If there is water in the oil in a steel tank, it might rust through from the inside and when it starts leaking itis too late to plug it. You do not want that on your premises regardless of what theneighbours say. In Sweden tanks must be inspected every five years or so. Someone comes with a tanker. pumps out your oil, goes inside, inspects, says OK, pumps the oil back and puts a sticker on the tank.
In some places (basement in a town house) we had to have the tank inside a concrete trough. That is much more hideous.
I am trying to move over to heat pumps instead. The electric power consumption costs about a third of the corresponding cost for oil.
In my professional life I often encounter a trio that causes disaster: Mr They, Ms Somebody and Mr Murphy.
It seems that you were visited by Mr They. What did he look like??
Göte

[mark smyth]

I think most if not all UK and Irish oil tanks are now plastic

[PaulM]

Here are some species flowering in the garden now

Salvia castanea, which is a long lived and reliable plant, which I have been growing since 1996.

Aconitum heterophyllum

Campanula verticillata

Delphinium vestitum

[PaulM]

...and a few more


Dianthus giganteus which grows 1 m +

Iliamna remota

Lobelia cardinalis and

Lobelia cardinalis white form ( var. album ? )

Asclepias incarnata

[ChrisB]

I know I have not been putting my pix up right because when I click on them they are far too large.  I have adobe photoshop elements, if anyone can give me a couple of tips on how to resize them for this site I'd be most grateful.
TIA

[Carlo]

Elements should have a "resize for web" function--probably either in the export menu or sharing photo section (if it's got one).

[mark smyth]

very easy
click on image on the top tool bar
click on resizewidth anywhere between 600 and 700 is ok
click OK
click file on the top tool bar
save for web
OK
chhose your folder and rename as what the plant is
save

quicker to do than write it