Hi all. Woken in the night by a rampant Badger, digging up the lawn, lovely to watch, and I really don't like the lawn much. Glad you are enjoying Holland Chicky, I loved my year living there, great country, lovely people. @LG_, I find that Ricin take a long time to become big plants. I pot them on several times and then water and feed heavily, and then by July they reach about 4 feet tall. Up here in the north, they don't get much bigger than that. Glad you enjoyed your walk Fg.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I finally have a new drive, even if we can't use it yet. (another 24 hours before we can put a car on it. ) Wednesday, very noisy, jiggapik and concrete saw to remove all the existing concrete. The whole house was vibrating. There was a hole where the soakaway was. It now has lots of lumps of concrete in it. A lorry to take it all away. Membrane put down.A lorry load of new limestone chippings for base.Several traffic jams as they blocked a main road and a bus stop. Thursday the blockwork around the edges and the new steps were done. Friday a layer of porous tarmac put down. Sunday the fine pebbles coated in resin went down. Half the neighbourhood must be high on the fumes. They finished by 1pm. It looks a lot better than it used to, and the soakaway problem has been sorted. The gutters are now diverted into drains.
I can get back to gardening instead of being chief tea maker. Of course, OH was away for the day while the noise was going on. He managed to be away for the week when we had a new kitchen.
We had rumblings of thunder last night, but no rain, and we need some. There are huge cracks in the clay under the oak tree.
The eucalyptus is sprouting where I took three of the main stems off, so the neighbour should get the lovely leaves for the wedding in September. Did anyone see the eucalyptus nursery at Chelsea? I didn't realise there were quite so many options for this country.
If it doesn't rain today, I hope to get some more gladioli in.
Fairy i assume the fires are in heather? I imagine it moves fast. Hubby had a fasting blood test this morning, so he wasn’t too happy when he got called before he got home to yet another fire. Not good being out there dragging hoses around with an empty tummy. He’s home now (5pm). I think we’ll be having an early tea tonight.
Morning all. Pat, I would have thought there would be fewer wild fires as you are going into winter. Is there no "off season" for them? FG, weather couldn't have been better for you yesterday. Painter staring to do the outside house walls this morning so I need to carefully undo a trellis complete with clematis and hope I don't cause it too much damage.
Pat. I have a Eucalyptus perriniana. (Spinning gum). I grew it from seed. I have cut it down a couple of times in 20 years, it had six strong stems, I cut out three of them in March. The compost heap smells good as it steams at the moment. The poles I kept, but the fine stuff and all the leaves went through the shredder.
I would really like a E. caesia , the Gungurru or silver princess, I saw a lot in WA, but sadly too tender for UK.
Glorious Sunshine here yay and no rain in sight today.
Pat hope your hubby is ok and getting a well earned rest 😴
Fitget im sorry you had to go through all that traumer at work, I too worked at a chemist in Blackley once and we got robbed by six men in balaclavas three times, the third time our pharasist was ready with a bass ball bat and clipped the leader over the head, sadly they where never caught as police took forty minutes to turn up 😕 What a lovely world we live in.
I've already been out on quite an expedition.Have been to Lidl, shudder.
Only about 2km from my home and I took the scenic route along the river on my bike, but I hardly ever shop at Lid or Aldi. This week though Lidl here in Holland has a special offer of what hey call "Mediterranean plants".
They are only small, but for only €2,99 each I tought I'd have a go. They only had 2 trays of 24 plants each here in the shop, so I had to get there early.
I'm now the proud owner of a fig, Ficus Carica "Napolitana", an olive, Olea europaea"Arbequina", a citrus, Citrus madurensis "Calamondin", and a lemon, Citrus meyeri Lemon.
Nice plants, but they will need some extra pampering before they can go outdoors, because I think they had been in the boxes in which they came for quite some time.
And now I'd better read back to see what I've missed here...
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Woken in the night by a rampant Badger, digging up the lawn, lovely to watch, and I really don't like the lawn much.
Glad you are enjoying Holland Chicky, I loved my year living there, great country, lovely people.
@LG_, I find that Ricin take a long time to become big plants. I pot them on several times and then water and feed heavily, and then by July they reach about 4 feet tall. Up here in the north, they don't get much bigger than that.
Glad you enjoyed your walk Fg.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Hubby had a fasting blood test this morning, so he wasn’t too happy when he got called before he got home to yet another fire. Not good being out there dragging hoses around with an empty tummy. He’s home now (5pm). I think we’ll be having an early tea tonight.
Pat, I would have thought there would be fewer wild fires as you are going into winter.
Is there no "off season" for them?
FG, weather couldn't have been better for you yesterday.
Painter staring to do the outside house walls this morning so I need to carefully undo a trellis complete with clematis and hope I don't cause it too much damage.
Fidget ... we did see that eucalyptus nursery ... as you say, so much more choice than I realised
Oh Pat, poor hubby .... an empty tum is no good for working
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Glorious Sunshine here yay and no rain in sight today.
Pat hope your hubby is ok and getting a well earned rest 😴
Fitget im sorry you had to go through all that traumer at work, I too worked at a chemist in Blackley once and we got robbed by six men in balaclavas three times, the third time our pharasist was ready with a bass ball bat and clipped the leader over the head, sadly they where never caught as police took forty minutes to turn up 😕 What a lovely world we live in.