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Quite Simply..a miserable failure!

17/7/2015

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Today's photo of my sweet peas!
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PA-THETIC!
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I've never failed with sweet peas before....
Not even a poppy! They germinated then disappeared. And two sowings of night-scented stock failed to even germinate.

Woe, woe.

Here are last year's sweet peas. And here the poppies.

The front garden is looking beautiful thankfully, or I would be weeping into my wine, but the Met Office have issued weather warnings for heavy rain and winds gusting up to 47mph for tonight, so whether it still looks beautiful tomorrow?

We've battend down the hatches and wired the greenhouse door shut...

Ah, summer!
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Sarah link
17/7/2015 03:17:31 pm

Oh dear you never know what's going to happen in the garden or with the weather! Thank goodness that you didn't have your garden open this year. Your sweet peas and poppies have always been so lovely. Hope you weren't battered to much with those winds! Sarah x

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Freda
18/7/2015 03:30:15 am

This would have been a hard year to do the Open Gardens! Not too much damage last night thanks Sarah. I hope you are having kinder weather.

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elaine link
17/7/2015 03:36:01 pm

I have to say that my sweet peas aren't as good as last year either, although not so quite so pathetic as yours. Do you think it is just weather conditions that have affected them. Such a shame after all the effort that we put in - all the waiting and planning - all to no avail. Who'd be a gardener eh.

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Freda
18/7/2015 03:31:41 am

A long, cold and wet spring and a not very sunny summer! Ah well, there's always next year! But I do miss the sweet peas!

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Lotta link
17/7/2015 03:37:32 pm

It's a shame about the sweet peas but the colourful canes are a lovely idea!
This is why it's so important to spend a LOT of time sitting and looking at the lovely bits of garden when it's sunny because you never know what the weather will bring... That's my excuse anyway!

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Freda
18/7/2015 03:32:24 am

I do agree about sitting looking!

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rusty duck link
17/7/2015 11:13:44 pm

Eeeek! Keep safe in that weather. I hate wind in summer, all those beautiful stems bending..

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Freda
18/7/2015 03:33:18 am

No real damage but it finished off the lupins!

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cath
18/7/2015 12:58:05 am

You know, when I close my eyes I still can see your beautiful sweet peas of last year ánd the vase you filled (and photographed) with a soft coloured variety, just for me.

Thinking of you in the storm out there. Hopefully no damage will be done.

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Freda
18/7/2015 03:34:44 am

Oh that was a very good year and those pale ones were exceptionally pretty Cath.

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