From parasols and shorts to umbrellas and fleeces
The joy of an English summer. We've had as much rain in the last three days as in whole of last month and it's cool enough to need a fleece and jeans. Last week a bikini would have been plenty. And all driven along by a strong blustery wind which is giving the top-heavy runner beans and sunflowers a stiff challenge.But there's always an upside and of course the rain means a thorough watering for everything outdoors. The parched looking new prairie garden is showing signs of fresh growth and the lawn is regaining some green. But the best of it is that the meconopsis might be able to outgrow the powdery mildew and recover.
A couple of orange themed photos today - the squash is 'Uchiki Kuri' and is growing around the inside of the polytunnel roof, supported on wires. My only concern is that it might shade the tomatoes and stop them ripening. The Helenium is new, bought for the prairie garden but I've put it in the autumn border instead.
Squash 'Uchiki Kuri'
Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer'.
posted by Sue Beesley @ 6:55 pm
5 Comments:
Hi Trillium,
I've just found your blog - it's great and I shall be coming back regularly.
I have just started a gardening blog - you'll find me at http://balcony-garden.blogspot.com/
Are you interested in swapping links?
Trillium - I've been trying to post the link and have failed miserably despite following the advice in the Edit.me section. What am I doing wrong?
Hi,
The template you've chosen doesn't have a built in links section. I copied mine in from another blog and you can do the same. Try right-clicking on my blog and select 'view source'. Don't worry if it looks like gobbledegook. Scroll down until you see a section headed h2 Links h2 (it's got diagonal brackets round it but I can't type them in a comment box as it rejects them)it's quite near the bottom. Copy the list of links completely, down to and including /ul - also with diagonal brackets. If you look carefully, you'll see that the links section comes after the archive section and the end of the archive section is marked by /p.
You then need to go into your own template, find exactly the same place and paste the list section in there. Then you just change the links and description text to what you want to and delete the spare ones.
Preview it to make sure it has worked, then save and republish.
If you've never messed about with html it can seem a bit daunting, but if you stick with it you'll be OK. Let me know how you get on - good luck!
Thanks for your help. Have done it and feel ridiculously proud of myself!
Well done! Happy blogging....
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