Gardening: Hints and Help!

GBG. Good luck with the allotment and the bindweed! 🌿

I have now snipped the offending sucker, which had turned into 4 shoots since I looked earlier in the week. 

The allotment will be fine. I have most things planted out now, having had the plot since the lockdown, and spent the time weedi g, digging over and weeding...! I have investigated my non appearing runner bean seedlings today ( having sown 3 separate lots). I think I have overwatered them, they have turned to mush. I have sown more, donated by a friend to try a different variety... 

Bindweed is awful stuff. I have the odd shoot of the minor variety spring up in one bed, deal with it ruthlessly, otherwise it will just get worse. Next door’s garden is full of the major, white flowering stuff, and it’s taken over everything, starting to get into our hedges now. ☹️ It’s going to be a big task to keep it at bay.

Another day, Another Rose here. This time a stunning Alberic Barbiere climber. It rambles through our fencing, and is better than razor wire for deterring unwanted visitors. Looks and smells fabulous. Got a President Clematis growing in there as well....

The roses love this hot dry weather don't they, I think our old style roses will be over much earlier than usual but the scent in the air is really good just now. 

I've previously grown the rose in your photo TDA, a lovely rose. 

Took a couple of photos of our Echiums this morning, the bumble bees love them. We've started to grow them in recent years, these two are well over 10 feet tall and the hot weather is good for them. Hoping they'll seed this year as they don't last long. 

They look fabulous brue. Never tried them up here, although we have seen them thriving in the wonderful walled garden at Burton Agnes. They are in a very sheltered spot mind😂.

I lost all our more tender stuff, Musa’s, Dracaenas, Etc.... back in 2010 Winter. Toughest Winter in decades round here. I had brought back lots of stuff over the years from our Cornish holidays, and had some really nice stuff, but some had got too big for house and greenhouse, so I had planted out, well wrapped up. Six solid weeks of frost decimated most gardens up here☹️

Buying a new Musa is high on my list of things to do ASAP. I know just the nursery as well, not far from Ludgven near Penzance!

I wonder if that is Hardy Exotics?! 

A couple of years ago we were on a CL near Gara Rock (Salcombe area, must go back!) and the walk down to the estuary was full of interesting plants, near the ferry there was a huge bank of Echiums, never seen so many, a great feature of warmer SW climes. 

It is indeed Hardy Exotics😁 Have you ever been round St Michaels Mount gardens? Very interesting, most of the seafacing side is terraced gardens, full of echiums and lots of other wonderful plants you can’t see from Marazion shore. Needs nimble walking and climbing skills though👍

Looking for some advice from rose growers. I'm not keen myself but I have a few for sentimental reasons in pots at the mo.

Are these new shoots ok to keep? They appear to be coming from above the ground not from under the soil. 

The rose is to my mind too tall so I'll be looking to cut it back hard so more shoots would be good.

Not easy to photograph it either 😲

Oh brue I'm so jealous if they see did love some.