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The green fingers gardening club-Spring into Summer

 

Welcome to the green fingers gardening zone. It may be postage stamp size but it warms the heart on a cold day. Constructed in early Spring it will mirror the changes as we move to Summer, Autumn, Winter and back to Spring again.

Ethel has always loved gardens and plants, from the very tiny square terraced garden of her childhood home, that was guarded by privet and, despite its size, was a riot of colour in Summer, to the often larger gardens of her adulthood homes. Even those though will have been small by most people's standards.

Still, with many houseplants and pot plants to supplement the garden space, there has always been variety. The small garden pond has been filled recently but the frogs have still returned this year, 2010, and it is easy to feel sorry for them. However, there are neighbouring ponds for them to take over whilst they mate.

Having green fingers, like her Mum before her, whatever EtheI plants survives, and survives well, however little attention is paid to the rules. This zone will hopefully inspire readers to fill their gardens with as much flora and fauna as they can and then relax, sit back and enjoy.

So it is late May 2010 now, and time for another update.

Spring will soon be leaving us, for another year, as Summer blossoms in the UK. The weather has been cool but the 21st May has seen a red hot summer's day. It is too early for full blown summer yet, though.

Weeds are beginning to take hold and strengthen and there is much to do in the garden. Work carried out now will pay rewards later in Summer.

 

 

by The Long Island Gardener

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by Norman Green

It is important for the gardener to deadhead flowers for a variety of reasons. A spent and fading flower is visually unappealing, so removing it will always enhance the look of a plant. Decaying mater...More>
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photo by Andrew Kelsall

by Glory Lennon

Your petunias are leggy, the impatiens, scraggly, those marigolds are all going to seed and the daisies look awful. So, what's going on? They all need some pruning, that's what! So when exactly do y...More>
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by Ethel Smith

Lately I have been reading Nobbut A Lad by Alan Titchmarsh .I found it an unpretentious read which flowed along at a nice gentle pace . Throughout the book I got the feeling that each chapter was writ...More>
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by Sammy Stein

The best way to keep your lawn green is you use a simple year planner. This way, you know what jobs to do and when. Lawns mixes are utility, fine or sports and the grass mix you choose for each one is...More>
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by Ethel Smith

Having finally got a garden I must admit that I love it, but do moan about the maintenance at times. Our back garden had a small lawn, when we moved in about eight years ago, but we removed it about t...More>
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by Ethel Smith

Bearing in mind that when we had our first small lawn, and no money, we had the most basic equipment for lawn maintenance, namely a manual mower and some large scissors to trim the edge(Yes you read t...More>
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by Sammy Stein

Acid soil can be difficult when planning your plants in the garden. Soil is classed as acidic if it has a pH of below 7 (7 being neutral on the pH scale). Most plants will grow in the range of pH 7.5 ...More>
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Summer gardens


photo by Jennifer Boyer
by Wayne K. Wilkins
The summertime is one of the most sought after and looked forward to times of year for gardeners. It is the time of year when all the trees are vibrant and green, it is the time of year when the sun shines down and it is the time of the year when yo... More>
by Suzanne Rose
There are many great ways to decorate your garden for the summer.  How you decorate it will depend on your tastes as well as how much money you want to spend.  The following are some summer decorating tips. Use flowers and plants to decora... More>
by Yvonne Moore
We often fail to recognize the blossoms able to survive the hot sunny days throughout the summer solstice. Unfortunately these plants do not have the luxury of seeking relief from the heat that we humans have with indoor air conditioning. Why not pa... More>
by Wayne K. Wilkins
Summer isn’t all sunshine and daisies when it comes to the wonderful world of gardening. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Keep in mind that this is the time of year that most see as most desirable when it comes to planting a garden whether t... More>

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by Ethel Smith

Watch him, how he moves, look at her working away, both are gardeners at home, doing other jobs by day. Our gardens are a special place where toil is done for fun. The gardener will have to work&...More>
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by Ethel Smith

It is common knowledge that those old wriggly worms in your garden are like gold dust in improving your soil's quality. Similarly many insects may have been under rated by you in the past, as to their...More>
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Delicious Gardening

Comments (1 to 7 of 7)

Raven Lebeau
Apr 16, 09 at 09:51 PM
I just added a link to this lovely zone on my houseplants zone.
Raven Lebeau
Apr 05, 09 at 10:43 PM
Nice zone! I love how you've integrated it with Jim and Theresa's group!
Imogen French
Apr 05, 09 at 06:26 PM
great zone ethel, very colourful and full of really interesting and useful articles. I've just spent all weekend in my garden, and I know where i can get some inspiration now. thanks for featuring the green life forum above:)
Shaheen Darr
Mar 28, 09 at 11:33 PM
Wonderful site Ethel, full of information, great work
Effie Moore Salem
Mar 27, 09 at 02:12 PM
Ethel, Beautiful. It sure takes me back to my gardening days. Your site is an inspiration. EMoore
Sheila Watson Kraklow
Mar 26, 09 at 09:37 PM
Wow Ethel, this is great, well done... Makes me want to get out there and dig in the dirt, plant seeds, bulb etc and have lots of pretty flowers this summer! Thanks for making this zone!
Ken Bradford
Mar 26, 09 at 11:07 AM
Ethel, this is really a peaceful place. I love gardening and getting my hands in the dirt. My mother-in-law, who passed away last year, enjoyed going to every nursery in the area, mainly because she knew more about the plants than the people running the nursery.

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by Emma Jai

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on May 20, 09 at 03:16 PM

Well it has been fairly warm of late but there has been so much rain. I think the seasons in the UK are all out of sync and it seems more like April, except the rain is more than just showers. The knock on effect is that everybody's gardens are lush and green but overgrown. It is nigh on impossible to do any gardening and sit out enjoy the fruits of your labour. With a bank holiday weekend looming though the forecast looks set to change so fingers crossed. If it turns dry there will be barbecues galore and the constant sound of lawn mowers working overtime. No doubt the doctor's surgeries will end up busy with masses of patients with bad backs and the like.

by Ethel Smith

One of my favourite flowering shrubs finishes flowering in late Spring for yet another year. We had our first Forsythia plant quite few years ago, in our second home, and recently have rediscovered th...More>
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by Denise Calaman

Cottage gardens have a unique look about them; a certain wild, haphazard look, as if the gardener just threw caution and seeds to the wind and hoped for the best. The most beautiful cottage gardens ar...More>
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by Ethel Smith

My most amazing gardening experience is a bit of a strange one. It may not seem amazing to you but it did to me. When I married in 1972 my husband gave me lovely, plain, gold, band ring. However since...More>
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by Steve Christensen

Americans are "going green." They're converting their back yards to vegetable gardens; flower beds are showing off the stocky blooms of cauliflower as well as rosebushes. Not since Eleanor Roosevelt p...More>
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by Chris Ferguson

The first thing to know is what is your goal by cutting on the tree? Do you need it off the house? Do you need it out of the way for easy passage underneath? Or are you just making it look better whil...More>
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