Super day in the garden, not cooked one meal or served one customer, paid people so I could garden all day, very pleased with result. Whole pile of friends helped, but we now have a flowerbed or two, complete with flowers.
Obviously looks a bit like they are all lined up like soldiers at the moment, but I'm sure it won't be long and they will spread and merge. The colour combination is fabulous, especially in the long bed, hot reds run into a bluey yellow section which picks up a hot pink section and then runs into yellows and oranges, with white daisies and blue nepata and Erysimum 'Bowles' Mauve' edging it all in. I've put pictures on the Open Garden thread, dying to write a list of all the plants my friend has squeezed into the car but mustn't show off.
So very pleased, feel I have a 'real' garden now.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
You've got a nice tan Dove.... Hope you've had a great time. You certainly seem to have had fab weather. Lovely here again today, although it took a while to reach double figures. Spent the evening outdoors, cutting grass and doing a few odd jobs. Watched the sparrows and blue tits using the pond and stuffing their little beaks. A little coal tit sneaked in for a bath later too. Lovely jubbly LP - I wish we all could do something to help. It's really sad, and you must feel so helpless. Lovely to hear you getting a bit of a garden now DD. I hope you have some time to enjoy it! Could we charter a plane/rocket/hot air ballon [how appropriate] chartered for Bo Jo and Tango Man - and give them a couple of one way tickets to Mars? I'll donate to that Just watched the third Mountain programme - Mont Blanc. B****y stunning. The photography is superb. I forgot about Chelsea. I saw a bit with Monty talking to Alison Steadman and had to turn it off. No offence to her [ great actress] but he might as well have asked my youngest daughter the same questions for all the info she supplied....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The celebs are utterly pointless aren't they? How hard could it be to do a bit of research and find one or two that do know which way is up in a garden.
Bitsy day here waiting for assorted chappies and having to stay in and stay clean so I didn't get my toms planted and was very late escaping to go and buy paint rollers and picnic basket bits but I did get a first coat on the alcove by 8:30.
Thundery and wet on the way home but dry now. Have you been sunning yourselves Dove or doing some painting and sketching too? Have a safe trip home.
I hope your garden grows well DD - and everyone else too of course. Feeling quietly pleased as I have redrawn the potager plans to cope with new wood lengths and have included a water feature big enough to house a water lily and some marginals so lots of lovely toads and frogs will come and eat all the slugs and snails. Nothing fancy, just the biggest builders' tub I can find or some sort of farm trough. OH says yes but hasn't realised how much digging there will be........ I shall have to put a solar powered pump/fountain on the birthday and Xmas list.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Glad your garden is coming on well DD. Did you see my answer that I'm not doing a Strawberry Tea this year? Too much on and not enough helpers. My garden Open Day is 17th June, there will be tea and cake then instead.
Another gardening day, also 3 machine loads of sheets, towels, tea towels. Last load went out after lunch but it still dried on the line.
Have planted up 16 pots and troughs. Need more compost, only 1 sack left. Also repotted 2 large pots of mint, it was very congested, so cut it up into smaller pieces.
We had dinner under the pergola then a sudden storm arrived and it absolutely tipped down. Good thing OH had put a solid roof on. Used to be a vine, but bits and insects kept dropping on us and it wasn't waterproof. Glad the garden was watered.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Liro so glad your mum is content, helps you to be too. Look after your finger even tho it looks as if it’s healing, we don’t realise how much we use our hands Fairy, yes it’s hard not being able to fix this. I am a control freak! Busy as always you sound busy, sorry your dinner got interrupted, roof was a good idea DD you are flying! Glorious evening here the sky is azure and the North Star stunning night all, thanks again for all today’s support, I have certainly stirred a hornets nest in the village, no one I spoke to knew about proposal. Says it all really.
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
One more day at work before we set off for Holland. Forecast is looking good, looking forward to a long weekend on the bikes 🚲. Be good whilst I’m away
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Super day in the garden, not cooked one meal or served one customer, paid people so I could garden all day, very pleased with result. Whole pile of friends helped, but we now have a flowerbed or two, complete with flowers.
Obviously looks a bit like they are all lined up like soldiers at the moment, but I'm sure it won't be long and they will spread and merge. The colour combination is fabulous, especially in the long bed, hot reds run into a bluey yellow section which picks up a hot pink section and then runs into yellows and oranges, with white daisies and blue nepata and Erysimum 'Bowles' Mauve' edging it all in. I've put pictures on the Open Garden thread, dying to write a list of all the plants my friend has squeezed into the car but mustn't show off.
So very pleased, feel I have a 'real' garden now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Enjoy your last full day tomorrow.
Hope you've had a great time. You certainly seem to have had fab weather.
Lovely here again today, although it took a while to reach double figures. Spent the evening outdoors, cutting grass and doing a few odd jobs. Watched the sparrows and blue tits using the pond and stuffing their little beaks. A little coal tit sneaked in for a bath later too. Lovely jubbly
LP - I wish we all could do something to help. It's really sad, and you must feel so helpless.
Lovely to hear you getting a bit of a garden now DD. I hope you have some time to enjoy it!
Could we charter a plane/rocket/hot air ballon [how appropriate] chartered for Bo Jo and Tango Man - and give them a couple of one way tickets to Mars? I'll donate to that
Just watched the third Mountain programme - Mont Blanc. B****y stunning. The photography is superb.
I forgot about Chelsea. I saw a bit with Monty talking to Alison Steadman and had to turn it off. No offence to her [ great actress] but he might as well have asked my youngest daughter the same questions for all the info she supplied....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sounds like a good plan for transporting Bo Jo and Tango Man, Fairy. Maybe unfair on the Martians though.
Hope things are going well on the building front, Obelixx.
Hooray! Back to proper typing - released my finger from its huge bandage and most of its steri strips this evening.
Bitsy day here waiting for assorted chappies and having to stay in and stay clean so I didn't get my toms planted and was very late escaping to go and buy paint rollers and picnic basket bits but I did get a first coat on the alcove by 8:30.
Thundery and wet on the way home but dry now. Have you been sunning yourselves Dove or doing some painting and sketching too? Have a safe trip home.
I hope your garden grows well DD - and everyone else too of course. Feeling quietly pleased as I have redrawn the potager plans to cope with new wood lengths and have included a water feature big enough to house a water lily and some marginals so lots of lovely toads and frogs will come and eat all the slugs and snails. Nothing fancy, just the biggest builders' tub I can find or some sort of farm trough. OH says yes but hasn't realised how much digging there will be........ I shall have to put a solar powered pump/fountain on the birthday and Xmas list.
Glad your garden is coming on well DD. Did you see my answer that I'm not doing a Strawberry Tea this year? Too much on and not enough helpers. My garden Open Day is 17th June, there will be tea and cake then instead.
Another gardening day, also 3 machine loads of sheets, towels, tea towels. Last load went out after lunch but it still dried on the line.
Have planted up 16 pots and troughs. Need more compost, only 1 sack left. Also repotted 2 large pots of mint, it was very congested, so cut it up into smaller pieces.
We had dinner under the pergola then a sudden storm arrived and it absolutely tipped down. Good thing OH had put a solid roof on. Used to be a vine, but bits and insects kept dropping on us and it wasn't waterproof. Glad the garden was watered.
Fairy, yes it’s hard not being able to fix this. I am a control freak!
Busy as always you sound busy, sorry your dinner got interrupted, roof was a good idea
DD you are flying!
Glorious evening here the sky is azure and the North Star stunning
night all, thanks again for all today’s support, I have certainly stirred a hornets nest in the village, no one I spoke to knew about proposal. Says it all really.
A A Milne
One more day at work before we set off for Holland. Forecast is looking good, looking forward to a long weekend on the bikes 🚲. Be good whilst I’m away