Good morning everyone. We have proper native primroses and cowslips in the hedgerows and along the roadside ditches and the asphodèle leaves are getting large in the damper ditches and should be opening soon along with proper bluebells. It's lovely.
Your stream will definitely enjoy having primroses Liri. Good work with the dog therapy LP. Never heard of reading dogs but I'll look it up. Our dance teacher likes the Latin dances best whereas in Belgium Paso and Samba tended to be an afterthought at the end of the season. We love a tango and a proper English waltz.
Busy - good deal on those plugs tho I would give away the euphorbias.
We're just off to France Rurale to see if they have any cell trays for seeds and I shall have a sneaky look for pelargoniums for our front door pots and try and persuade OH to fill the boot full of compost so I can plant out my new cornus and conifers on the pond bank.
Coffee first tho. Anyone fancy a cuppa?
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I've got some clumps of G. Rozanne that need splitting and I don't have anywhere else for them. Wonky had promised them to the people she used to work for, but they're not getting them now ... not after having made her work outside in the snow and the cold when there was work in the glasshouses and potting sheds that could've been done ........ So, what do you think about putting them in decent sized terracotta pots for the front porch ... instead of the usual trailing petunia type display ... a group of three pots would look good don't you think? Maybe accompanied by some trailing nasturtiums?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for the best wishes. Am starting to work through my options, aided by some gentle pottering in the garden. If I can relax enough, I hope I will be able to formulate a plan.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Good to hear from you Pdoc ((hugs)) ... don't forget to include us in the plan gentle pottering is good. Fingers still crossed for Mrs Pdoc.
OH has announced a need to visit B&Q type place ... this may well be done on Sunday ... it will be an opportunity to get some sort of support for C. montana grandiflora which was the only real casualty in the winter storms and needs more support very soon or it will become 'a mound' at the back of the garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That planting scheme sounds ace, Dove! Rozanne is my current favourite hardy geranium. Never stops flowering...
Hosta's late Mother speaks sense, Punkdoc. Hope the gardening helps you sort things out.
Those Indian step wells look absolutely stunning, Hosta. I'm a sucker for geometric patterns. I think I'll be looking at the photos though, cos I can't cope with that amount of heat these days.
Good luck sneaking lots of compost past your OH, Obelixx... pelargoniums by the front door is so French. Lovely.
More gardening here today too, while hubby plays golf.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hi all....apologies for my absence but have not been well......lost my appetite completely ......losing weight too......does anyone have a requirement for 34-36 trousers?.....as I am now down to my old 32 waist .....losing weight really hurts as I love my food so much......especially all those lovely goodies from Dove
Such sad news from Chicky. I hope his family will be OK.
I think the orange of nasturtiums will go beautifully with the blue of Rozanne. Go for it, Dove!
I saw that Michael Portillo episode, Hosta, the step well was amazing.
Variations (choir OH sings with) are having their big Easter Concert this evening, Faure's Requiem and Haydn's Nelson Mass, in a church in Périgueux. Repeating it tomorrow in Riberac. I'm helping with teas for the orchestra, have made a big fruit cake. But it's a glorious day, not a cloud in sight. Must do some gardening first. After today it's rain for a week, but, hopefully not heavy. On the rare occasions it's a nice day there is always something else on.
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Your stream will definitely enjoy having primroses Liri. Good work with the dog therapy LP. Never heard of reading dogs but I'll look it up. Our dance teacher likes the Latin dances best whereas in Belgium Paso and Samba tended to be an afterthought at the end of the season. We love a tango and a proper English waltz.
Busy - good deal on those plugs tho I would give away the euphorbias.
We're just off to France Rurale to see if they have any cell trays for seeds and I shall have a sneaky look for pelargoniums for our front door pots and try and persuade OH to fill the boot full of compost so I can plant out my new cornus and conifers on the pond bank.
Coffee first tho. Anyone fancy a cuppa?
Just waiting to hear that both kids have arrived safely at their destinations, then let the potting commence!
I've got some clumps of G. Rozanne that need splitting and I don't have anywhere else for them. Wonky had promised them to the people she used to work for, but they're not getting them now ... not after having made her work outside in the snow and the cold when there was work in the glasshouses and potting sheds that could've been done
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for the best wishes.
Am starting to work through my options, aided by some gentle pottering in the garden. If I can relax enough, I hope I will be able to formulate a plan.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
"Act in haste; repent at leisure"
Take your time and work out the way forward.
OH has announced a need to visit B&Q type place ... this may well be done on Sunday ... it will be an opportunity to get some sort of support for C. montana grandiflora which was the only real casualty in the winter storms and needs more support very soon or it will become 'a mound' at the back of the garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That planting scheme sounds ace, Dove! Rozanne is my current favourite hardy geranium. Never stops flowering...
Hosta's late Mother speaks sense, Punkdoc. Hope the gardening helps you sort things out.
Those Indian step wells look absolutely stunning, Hosta. I'm a sucker for geometric patterns.
Good luck sneaking lots of compost past your OH, Obelixx... pelargoniums by the front door is so French.
More gardening here today too, while hubby plays golf.
Chicky, such a shock for your Hubbys work mate’s family.
Hello to everyone else. I haven’t read back properly. Might get a chance later. 😏
Morning all.
Such sad news from Chicky. I hope his family will be OK.
I think the orange of nasturtiums will go beautifully with the blue of Rozanne. Go for it, Dove!
I saw that Michael Portillo episode, Hosta, the step well was amazing.
Variations (choir OH sings with) are having their big Easter Concert this evening, Faure's Requiem and Haydn's Nelson Mass, in a church in Périgueux. Repeating it tomorrow in Riberac. I'm helping with teas for the orchestra, have made a big fruit cake. But it's a glorious day, not a cloud in sight. Must do some gardening first. After today it's rain for a week, but, hopefully not heavy. On the rare occasions it's a nice day there is always something else on.