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That is very impressive Elmigo.

I have to agree with the above! You might have to sacrifice the trees to get more room? Maybe pot them on for beside the front door as they do look nice & would be pretty impressive & you could extend your topiary skills!

Hehe if only the neighbours would let me!

What a fabulous result!

Shallot Man wrote:Put some bone-meal in the soil when planting. I feed the ungrateful bugger working dog food each night.

The blighty dill digging around the newly planted roses forworms. Watered a bare patch hoping he will go there. No luck. Though last night he left me a lamb bone he had aquired somewhere as a present.

Our fox is piddling on the new shed roof every night. How do I put the man-wee on the roof?

retropants wrote:Our fox is piddling on the new shed roof every night. How do I put the man-wee on the roof?

Borrow a ladder ?

He he!

Sorry to pop back to this thread, but your neighbour's plant, Geoff, is it a type of corydalis? The photo is sideways so not so easy to see, but corydalis comes in lots of different colours.

I take back all I've thought about people posting disorientated photos - it shows upright to me - sorry!
Problem is it is a second hand question, neighbour does the garden for ex-neighbours that have moved away to a smaller house and this has come up this Spring in various colours so she took a photo on her phone to ask us. We thought corydalis from the flower shape but I can't find that colour listed anywhere and the foliage should be more feathery. It is the foliage that is bugging me as it is familiar but I can't come up with a name, a bit like my tomatillos but no physalis have flowers like that. Might have to send it to the RHS.

I had thought of re-posting in its own thread as it seems to have got lost here viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15138&start=165#p155820

RHS say:

The plant in the photograph appears to be Lathyrus aureus (perennial golden pea), a bushy, robust, non-climbing species with an upright growing habit. In early to mid summer it produces flowerheads of up to twenty five dusky yellow-orange flowers, each one 1.5 to 2cm long.

Not in any of my books.

Well, you learn something new every day ........

There they are, finally the little ones are showing!

We've had at least 36 hours of continuous rain here, it only stopped late this morning. I'm not complaining, well, I am, but just a little bit, because it burst a load of my almost-at-the-point-of-ripeness strawberries. I shall try and get a photo later, but we ate the red/almost red ones rather than waste them. I've seen it happen with apples and tomatoes where the skin splits not far from the stalk, but the strawbs looked as though they had exploded from inside, which is exactly what happened, I suppose.