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We're fortunate to have a garden - "Just us" and now that we're at "Dun Roamin" for a while, I took the opportunity to take a few pictures of flowers and other plants today.    I'm not a gardener or horticulturalist, so I haven't a clue which are cultivated and which are weeds - just love the beauty of them all.  Not really a railway competition, but how many of the plants from "Travels around our Garden" can you identify?

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9 Dandelion.

I will leave some others for the time being.

Weeds? Is that still an acceptable term with no trigger warning? I call them volunteers.

11 Narcissus

Had a delivery from Sutton Seeds over the last couple of days so plan a day in the garden shortly to get them all planted (if I get time!).

I'd say 6 resembles a super coronavirus but I hope it isn't.

2.  Celandine (or pilewort !).  Strictly speaking, this is a weed.

11 daffodils and narcissus

Bit different to my trip to my 'garden' this evening.

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The differences between flowers and weeds is that flowers are the seeds and bulbs you plant, while weeds are the indestructible vegetation someone else asks you to get rid of.

A weed is a plant in the wrong place!

In my case the weeds are the things that flourish.  The seeds and bulbs I plant seem to fare less well. 

I’ve some of these in my garden. No idea what

I think 10 is a grape hyacinth. Odd name, which is probably why it sticks in my mind.

5 in an anemone

4 might be a form of primula while 6 and 7 look a bit like the same plant in different stages of flowering.
The spring flowers planted either side of the path to my front door are currently going through what could be described as their flamboyant stage.

So far ... identified are

2 Celandine (or pilewort!) Clan Line
4 A form of primula johnneyw
5 anemone bradshaw
6 & 7 Daphne Ann Stanford via Facebook
9 Dandelion eXPassenger
10 grape hyacinth Bmblbzzz
11 Narcissus bobm
11 daffodils and narcissus martyjon

Can't be sure of any of these - plants in our garden do not grow with convenient garden centre labels attached - so further comment on any of the above welcome.

You've managed to find a subject I know even less about than trains. I can only manage red flower, yellow flower, blue flower ...

Or as they say in Ghana, regarding any unfamiliar plant "If it grows prolifically or spreads everywhere, then it cant be edible"

Indeed, the joys of French-flavoured lockdown have prompted me and the dogs to spend much more time in the garden. We were particularly pleased to see this very twiggy-with-little-planty-thing-sticking-out appear at the perfect height for dogs to take care of business at.

Cue the missus with "Let me show you this rose that I'm rehabilitating..."

Am informed by higher authority that No 1 is: Japonica/Chaenomeles/flowering quince      !!!

Bananas and coconuts would seem to be exceptions to that, assuming Ghana has the appropriate climate; never been to Ghana but I'd be surprised if it hasn't.

I use weed and feed but it seems to kill the grass and feed the weeds.

No 8 

I hope it's a Triffid.

Time I ordered the Better half a nice bunch of flowers.  :D ;D :o

Perhaps you're putting it on upside down !..

As a child we had a fairly large garden and I remember my mother spending hours tending plants and growing vegetable.  My grandfather won awards for some of his horticulture - although his habit of pumping the contents of the septic tank over his plot has given a lifelong hate of tomatoes.

Moving on 50 years and while I have a small garden which faces north west it is mainly laid with concrete and paving slabs.  So I have over the last few years amassed a series of pots and troughs and got a lot of pleasure from spending a few hours in the sun.  I'm no Percy Thrower or Monty Don but I enjoy what I do.

Here are few photos taken over the last couple of days.

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A pot grown apple tree coming into blossom for the first time after I was given it last year

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A bit of colour in the front garden, although I have lost the label with the name of the plant!

I enjoy growing salad crops - and this trough saves my back!  Newly seeded with carrot and radishes.  Potatoes starting to sprout in the three bags in front.  The trough in the background will be seeded with lettuce and rocket tomorrow.
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One of the easiest fruits to grow are strawberries and I have invested in some new plants this year after having the same for the last three years and last year's yield was starting to tail off.
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The tree is a lime (fruit) tree.  It is a couple of years old and suffered this winter after I was away when we had a surprise frost.  However on closer inspection it is starting to come to life again.
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New this year are raspberries
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My local garden centres is closed with large stocks of plants liable to go to waste.  So they quickly set up a makeshift home delivery service and took 250 orders in around three days.  I ordered a number of plants for three hanging baskets, which I spent a couple of hours planting this afternoon.
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My office looks out over the garden so I can sit back while at work and see the plants flourish (or otherwise!) and watch the bees and butterflies flitting across the flowers.  I have definitely done more out there this year than in past ones.  Although it was on the cards as I had starting ordering new troughs, compost and baskets back in January - which turned out to be fortuitous given the current circumstances.

All very satisfying.   I have also sown some annual seeds in tubs to provide some colour later.   If successful I'll post the results in a few weeks!

4 could be forget me nots.

7 looks like a fruit tree of some kind. Apple or Pear?