2009.....

Cheerypeabrain
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2009..... Dec 15, 2009 19:20:41 GMT

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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Dec 15, 2009 19:20:41 GMT

It's been a funny old year in the garden....but I was wondering...if you could pick 4 of your favourite pics taken this year in your garden...which ones would they be? just four....ooOOoooOooo..

The 4 plants or veg that you are most happy with. They don't have to be fantastic photographs or anything...but give a 'flavour' of 2009 in your garden ;D (and it might cheer us up whilst the rain's lashing down outside...)

I'll start....

I was dazzled by this little beauty in Spring.

and was delighted with this TRIUMPH! 4 years from seedling to flower!

our best carrot crop ever....

and it was the summer of the bumble bee, we had a nest in the compost bin and the garden was alive with their buzzing all summer...

just a snapshot....

lets see your 4 favourite pics then...go on...you know you want to...

Tig Admin Garden Sage Posts: 42,359	2009..... Dec 15, 2009 19:34:24 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tig on Dec 15, 2009 19:34:24 GMT Lovely cheery idea Cheery - now can I pick just 4!! ;D I'll be back too ...
	Twixt optimist and pessimist the difference is droll, the optimist sees the doughnut whilst the pessimist sees the hole

carolann Head Gardener Posts: 8,950	2009..... Dec 16, 2009 18:47:27 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by carolann on Dec 16, 2009 18:47:27 GMT Nice choice of pic's Cheery I will have to look through all my pics and see what I can come up with, watch this space.
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Jasmine Garden Sage Posts: 62,049	2009..... Dec 16, 2009 19:30:15 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jasmine on Dec 16, 2009 19:30:15 GMT Love the bumble bee piccie Cheery. I'll be back too!
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Rosefriend Admin Friendship is the Finest Rose in the Garden of Life Posts: 30,234	2009..... Dec 16, 2009 19:32:25 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rosefriend on Dec 16, 2009 19:32:25 GMT Well done Cheery - what a marvellous idea for a thread....totally unfair of course, but what a great idea!!!! Right, I'll be back as well..... RF
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Dutchy Garden Celebrity back at intervals Posts: 14,910	2009..... Dec 16, 2009 19:45:43 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dutchy on Dec 16, 2009 19:45:43 GMT ;D Good thinking Cheery! Hm I'll be back but it will take a time or can I post 4 per garden that gives me 8
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Ladygardener Garden Sage Posts: 58,025	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 6:43:28 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Ladygardener on Dec 17, 2009 6:43:28 GMT Great idea for a thread CPB, I'll have to look through photobucket and see what I can come up with. ;D
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Barbara Garden Sage Posts: 35,382	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 8:02:11 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Barbara on Dec 17, 2009 8:02:11 GMT Erm only 4.
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farmersboy Garden Sage Posts: 28,854	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 10:22:58 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by farmersboy on Dec 17, 2009 10:22:58 GMT Its a job to stick to four CPB,with sooo many to choose from,but i will try
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2009..... Dec 17, 2009 11:17:46 GMT

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Post by Tig on Dec 17, 2009 11:17:46 GMT

What lovely reminders of warmer days FB

I have struggled, but come up with these four ..

One of the best performers for me Gaillardia Goblin ..

Maybe the purchase I have been most pleased with is the brunnera 'Jack Frost' - I took this today and some folk will probably remember my previous photos of this marvellous plant - although I noticed that when we had a really hard frost last week the white veins disappear and they leaves are just green!

My veg tray - with my lovely cauli which I was so proud of (thanks to CPB for the seed

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and finally the garden would not be so enjoyable without all the beautiful visitors that add so much more - hard to pick one, but this cheers me up with a good dose of sunshine ...

x Tig

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Dutchy Garden Celebrity back at intervals Posts: 14,910	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 11:21:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Dutchy on Dec 17, 2009 11:21:35 GMT Ooo all lovely, snow outside and summer indoors. Love it.
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2009..... Dec 17, 2009 11:54:58 GMT

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Post by Rosefriend on Dec 17, 2009 11:54:58 GMT

Well it was really difficult just to choose 4 but here goes...

The first has got to the Mystery Rose that later became " Engelsgesicht". I am really proud that such a world famous rose breeder such as Kordes chose a name that was suggested by one of GWD's members. Plus the fact that there is only one rose in the UK at the moment and that is with Chuckles.

One of the most surprising things for me and I will definitely do one next year is the Muscatel Sage Santorini - it is a dream... it has so many stages of flowering... and flowers for such a long time, bees love it as well.

Christoph Columbus - the change of light is incredible...

and I think the last one has to be my favourite Rose Augusta Luise which also has a magnificent scent.

RF

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2009..... Dec 17, 2009 13:46:18 GMT

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Post by Jasmine on Dec 17, 2009 13:46:18 GMT

What lovely reminders of months gone by...warm weather and summery stuff i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif

These are my 4 favourites...

Winchester Cathedral which still has a couple of flowers on it. I wonder if I didn't prune it if it would just keep on going.

My favourite pot of the summer.

Stewartia Malacodendron...will find a real one one day. i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/cheesy.gif

...and I absolutely love this one of my dear old Jessie dog in the front garden.

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Barbara Garden Sage Posts: 35,382	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 15:26:47 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Barbara on Dec 17, 2009 15:26:47 GMT Sooooooo hard to choose, but these are among my faves.,
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Tig Admin Garden Sage Posts: 42,359	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 15:59:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tig on Dec 17, 2009 15:59:19 GMT It is a lovely idea this thread - makes you go back and look through the sunnier times Can't wait for next 'summer' now
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Deleted Posts: 0	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 16:03:37 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 16:03:37 GMT I only took a couple of pics this year so im out, but nice pics everyone keep them coming

torontotrini Deputy Head Gardener Morning has broken; like the first morning. Posts: 850	2009..... Dec 17, 2009 19:12:19 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by torontotrini on Dec 17, 2009 19:12:19 GMT I don't do veggies; just a few toms that didn't do much this year. Does that mean I can do 8 plants/blooms? ;D I'll be back.
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2009..... Dec 17, 2009 20:26:58 GMT

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Post by Ladygardener on Dec 17, 2009 20:26:58 GMT

These pics are making me quite weepy somehow, it's seeing a little bit of people's souls somehow. Just lovely 'tho and they are beautiful reminders of this past year i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif
My wonderful Eryngium which I've watched grow from a little baby this year.
(baby plant from Tig)

Lavender which my little Grandaughters just adore below the window box of little plants grown from cuttings or seeds.

Cerinthe which I will never again be without, grown from seed.

Part of my packed bottom border which was so colourful, including the Dahalia which I overwintered from last year.

Gosh it was difficult to pick just 4. i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/smiley.gif

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2009..... Dec 18, 2009 15:58:21 GMT

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Post by torontotrini on Dec 18, 2009 15:58:21 GMT

I guess for me this past season the thing about my garden that was more special than other years was that I took quite a bit of time to sit back and enjoy the garden as a whole, and watch the birds flit around. This was the fourth full season we've been in the house so the garden has just started to look mature, and rounding off into what I would like it to be/look like. Don't take that to mean that I won't be doing any more tinkering and moving things around; far from it. I expect and hope that I will always be looking to tinker here and adding something new there just for the fun of it. So having said that, my first two choices are more along the line of the garden view I enjoyed so much. There were also some plants/blooms that I particularly liked of course; like my cleomes because it was the first time I've had them and they did so well; my monkshood, the name of the variety I've forgotten; my special dahlia, since dahlias are always one of my favourites; and a litle extra one whose name I've also forgotten, but it is in the onion family. I wish I could add more; like one my clems since they did really well over the season, and my phlox, and a lily and .... ;D

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Cheerypeabrain
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2009..... Dec 19, 2009 18:24:42 GMT

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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Dec 19, 2009 18:24:42 GMT

Absolutely lovely photographs....well done for sticking to 4! it's difficult isn't it ? ;D TT....you were sposed to just post 4....but those are so gorgeous I'll let you off *just this once)

I am now completely cheered up....soon it will be Spring and it can all start all over again...YAY!