That’s one way to get a notification of a Tweet.
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I was given an automated watering system for my birthday last year, and I’ve finally got around to installing it:
Very helpful for someone who often forgets to water their plants!
An unusual shrub has also appeared in between my honeyberry bushes:
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View from my office window right now. Last rose season with my favorite plant… I sometimes go out to pet it.
First thing I planted in the garden almost 16 years ago.
edit: moved from the “wrong” thread.
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The honeysuckle on my back fence looks especially good at the moment:
Plus bonus clematis that I didn’t plant:
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Some good progress on the courgettes. I’ve never had any success with them before and wasn’t sure if they’d like my greenhouse, which doesn’t get as much sun as I’d like.
The berry harvest is also looking good. This was my homegrown breakfast today:
Lastly, I’ve been experimenting with biological control of aphids this year. There are literally thousands of them all over my garden. Far more than usual. I’ve introduced some ladybird larvae (which you can buy online) and some of them are getting quite fat!
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what is that?
A cocoon. I can’t tell exactly what kind, but the caterpillar is green.
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I have a bunch of hornets in my lilac bush which is not blooming. I found out that hornets like to nibble on the lilac to get at the sugary sap. It’s specific lilac and a few related trees. The bush is fine, they’ve been in there for the past few years and they might even hunt a few flies. Also these seem to be the rare European kind not the Asian Hornets.
I am kind of happy to see them. Too few insects about. Though my little wilderness has more than most of the tiny gardens around here. Though fewer bees since my lavender froze to death 2 winters ago.
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I’ve since lost the main plant and one of the bigger pups. Wanted to move them into bigger pots but neither got on particularly well after that. I still have some of the smaller pups so fingers crossed I can keep them going.
I just found another aloe (unrelated) completely rotted despite never really watering it. I guess that was still too much. It had some small pups so with some luck I can get one of those to take.
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built #2 this weekend. first one still needs the handrail but it’s half filled with garden leftovers already
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My 4yo has been hard at work buying, potting, hanging, and watering her first “flower garden”.
Edit:
A few days later in the sunshine and her flowers are blooming nicely:
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A nice selection!
I finally got around to tidying up the garden this weekend:
I need some plants for the border on the right, but I think that’s next weekend’s job!
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I am just back in from planting the herbs I got at the garden center the other day. New thyme, tarragon, rosemary, savory, lemon verbena, “bay” ? and oregano. Distributed in various spots that needed some fresh planting. My dad’s garden is nicely kept but he has his herbs in front of the house but I prefer them back with my soon-to-be-filled veggie beds.
Mint and basil will live in pots. (for wildly different reasons)
There is some lovage that we replanted after removing it to make space for the veggie beds. There are chives and persil in various places and lemon balm that threatens to overwhelm its neighbors.
I am lucky that my dad turned into a tomato farmer in the last 10 or so years and so that’s something I’ll just be profiting from 
Maybe ocassionally having to water them when he is visiting my sister
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Yesterday’s raspberry harvest
Some nice flowers in the garden. Bottom right is what you get when you forget to harvest your leeks.
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Did not anticipate having to re-pot two of my succulents today but a strong gust of wind managed to blow a curtain into them earlier.
The upside is that these are two cuttings I planted earlier in the year and I got to see that their roots have developed nicely.
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