Thanks Lilly 🙂. Not heard anything from Marion since the end of March, all I know is she had a fall beginning of March then had a scan, but also before Xmas she was put on new medication for her heart, but said she felt better at the time, there's been nothing posted on her forum 😕Hope she's ok fingers and toes crossed.
Thanks for that Flumpy, one of the downsides of a forum is we lose people and never find out why. I thought she was an inspiration so I too hope she is just taking a break.
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Same here Lilly, I've leant lots off her as I was a beginner nearly ten years ago. I was sure one of our members lived near Marion but can't remember who it was 🤔.
About to have another cup of tea before venturing out in the garden again .....two days in a row is a record for me this year 🎉🎊. No frost here Fairy, although I have a feeling we will see another before this strange year is out 😳
Plan is to prick out all my flower seedlings (lupins, phlox, rudbeckia, scabious, larkspur) , pot on my tomatoes and tackle a particularly overgrown corner of one of my borders - might need the loppers for that one.
This year I had decided to abstain from new plant purchases, and concentrate on looking after the ones I have already, but I noticed some gaps yesterday......so resolution went out the window. Now eagerly awaiting the arrival of thalictrum “Hewitts double”, geranium “bill wallis”, verbascum, a new phlox and some agastache.
Think Fruitcake lived close to Marion, but have not seen her around for a while either.
Morning everyone 😊 Chicky, I've got a couple of gaps too, trying to restrain myself as I know there won't be space when I've put the annuals in 😕 Just been to collect a win on freecycle....bigger than I thought, ill share with Dove 😊
Another sunny day but still quite cold. Wonky, what do you intend doing with your stone haul? Some gaps here too where I've lost some penstemon. The narrow leafed ones have all survived. I think they are hardier.
Hello everyone. Cold here but dry and none of the downpours forecast - so far. Not too good a sleep cos we didn't manage to get Minstrel in before bedtime. One mouse in the hall hiding under the sideboard after being chased round and round the tin water bowl we leave for the critters - noisy. Then, around dawn, a live one in the bedroom which OH managed to rescue. He went downstairs then to find Cosmos refusing to move from his supervision of the sideboard and both dogs joined him once they were let in from the annex. All pets now removed and the back door open for it to escape.
Wonky - we had a whole pile of stones like that after the masons bashed the hole in our back wall. OH has now barrowed them all away - some to the pond edge to make a "beach" when the water goes down a bit, some to edge a sunny bed out the front and the bigger ones to edge the drive and stop people driving on the grass we're trying to improve to be more lawn like.
I'm cold and can't work out which thermostat triggers the new downstairs heat and which the upstairs but at the moment upstairs is warmer than down and that's all wrong. We like our bedrooms cool. A technical bloke is supposed to come and explain it all but it's a public holiday on Tuesday and many take Monday to make a long weekend so probably not before Wednesday.
Going to go upstairs and sew as it's too cold to go and open the polyT. Potting on and sowing will have to wait a while.
I hope all those planning some gardening or outings get the weather for it.
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I was actually hoping for some ideas Joyce 😉 I didn't think I'd win them, Dove wants three and your very welcome to them Dove! so that leaves five for me, I already have a cluster of three smaller ones by our beloved cat Sorrow's grave. Not sure what to do with this lot! 😕 Penstemon sour grapes is a good one Joyce 😊
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About to have another cup of tea before venturing out in the garden again .....two days in a row is a record for me this year 🎉🎊. No frost here Fairy, although I have a feeling we will see another before this strange year is out 😳
Plan is to prick out all my flower seedlings (lupins, phlox, rudbeckia, scabious, larkspur) , pot on my tomatoes and tackle a particularly overgrown corner of one of my borders - might need the loppers for that one.
This year I had decided to abstain from new plant purchases, and concentrate on looking after the ones I have already, but I noticed some gaps yesterday......so resolution went out the window. Now eagerly awaiting the arrival of thalictrum “Hewitts double”, geranium “bill wallis”, verbascum, a new phlox and some agastache.
Think Fruitcake lived close to Marion, but have not seen her around for a while either.
Just been to collect a win on freecycle....bigger than I thought, ill share with Dove 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wonky, what do you intend doing with your stone haul?
Some gaps here too where I've lost some penstemon. The narrow leafed ones have all survived. I think they are hardier.
Wonky - we had a whole pile of stones like that after the masons bashed the hole in our back wall.
OH has now barrowed them all away - some to the pond edge to make a "beach" when the water goes down a bit, some to edge a sunny bed out the front and the bigger ones to edge the drive and stop people driving on the grass we're trying to improve to be more lawn like.
I'm cold and can't work out which thermostat triggers the new downstairs heat and which the upstairs but at the moment upstairs is warmer than down and that's all wrong. We like our bedrooms cool. A technical bloke is supposed to come and explain it all but it's a public holiday on Tuesday and many take Monday to make a long weekend so probably not before Wednesday.
Going to go upstairs and sew as it's too cold to go and open the polyT. Potting on and sowing will have to wait a while.
I hope all those planning some gardening or outings get the weather for it.
so that leaves five for me, I already have a cluster of three smaller ones by our beloved cat Sorrow's grave. Not sure what to do with this lot! 😕 Penstemon sour grapes is a good one Joyce 😊