Oh my goodness, what a nightmare! I hope you get a bit of respite in the weather soon 🌨️

@@GardeningatDouentza Thanks for your well wishes Rachel! Well actually, after two months of this nightmare, we are forecast for heavy rain tonight and tomorrow. The best part is the heat is finally letting up starting tomorrow. We are going back to our normal 78-85 degrees days! No more 95-100 degrees days at least for the next ten days! I can finally get back out in my garden and get some work done. Hoping you get some sunny, drier, and warmer weather in Ireland, James

You are always so kind, Wanda. Yes, I hope so for the geraniums but they're looking good so far.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, it has been slow. I finally allowed then to climb up this year, always winding them around the base when they tried to go up

Thank you so much for such positive comments and wishing you a great day.

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Couldn't agree more! Do you mean thalictrums? Yes, I always look forward to those too.

I think you might be right. Bought mislabelled 🙄

That's great to hear. I love when I get food perennials from seed ❤️

Glad you enjoyed it

We all do our best for pollinators

@@GardeningatDouentza We garden in the east midlands of Ireland and we had plenty of bees, hoover flies and bumble bees in our garden up to three weeks ago. Now there are very few and we have not seen any butterflies so far this year. We have a lot of pollinator plants in our garden and we don't know what is wrong. A garden is not a garden without pollinators.

@@nicholasryan5401 Very sorry to hear that.

Well, lots of rain can be good for growth but it does splatter flowers something terrible 😔

Thanks for visiting

Thank you! 😊

Thank you for your kind comments. I think we all need reminders in winter of how lovely summer can be ☺️

@@GardeningatDouentza Although the very thought of winter being on the distant horizon , is in itself a rather daunting prospect , you being a knowledgeable gardener , know full well each season has it's own part to play , in the growth cycle of a beautiful garden such as yours . A time to sow seeds , a time plant those seeds , and then a time to sit back to enjoy all your hard work . Plus that of mother nature of course . Yes each season has it's own part to play in making our gardens what they are . A God given sanctuary from what's going on in the world around us . And for that alone , we must be thankful .

Well, it's very wet here this year so far. The climate is all over the place.

Thank you, Fernanda, you are really kind. No, I haven't found that geraniums drop leaves in summer. I do cut some of them back after flowering, like 'Johnston's Blue'. By the way, the geranium I propagated for the stony bank in this video was the unidentified one I sent you a few years back. Did those geraniums survive in the end, I wonder?

@@GardeningatDouentza Very sorry to say that the ones you've sent me did not do well after the second year, they got weaker and weaker 😥😥That is why I asked if yours lose the leaves during summer. Mine did. Although my climate is not very warm and not as sunny as it used to be, the light is still too high for them, as it seems. Hence the reason why the large variety of wild geranium we can see in the fields around here only grow in the spring. One cannot fool nature 😏😏 However, I still have the no Id you've sent me and that is because it is hiding in the gap between two bushes that are touching, creating a sort of a cave. I treasure it 🥰🥰😍😍

@@FernandaNascimentoOrchids Well, thank goodness for that gap between the bushes. I hope you can actually see the geranium in there and it's not just a secret plant. I guess the lesson is to be happy about your lovely, balmy climate 😊😊

I feed my garden, including the alstroemeria beds, with seaweed fertiliser from Ocean Leaves once in spring. That is all. The link to the Ocean Leaves website is in the video description.

@@GardeningatDouentza Thank you very much and most esp to show us your most lovely garden.