That seems like a heavy toll Pat. Too much for the scavengers even.
LG - Pond not full anymore. OH may be back this weekend. Not sure about Possum as she's having hissy fits again. Very wearing. Pond in April looking towards neighbours.. We carried on having rain up until 10 days ago but now the sun has come out with a vengeance and it's full of blanket weed and evaporating too.
I've given up outside for today and am heading for a shower and some sewing and, maybe, a bit of sunbathing later to get my legs brown.
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)."
Yes Pat, surely it woild be worth someone setting up a roadkill restaurant with that number of casualties . Do they get cleared up or just rot / get eaten by scavengers? I had no idea it was so commonplace.
Thanks for the pond pic, Ob - lovely. Sorry that Possum's being moody, hopefully it won't last long.
Also meant to say before - lovely photos, Hosta. I too approve of the house colour.
Off to IKEA to get some frames for some prints we've bought OH for his birthday. They were bought for style and subject matter but have arrived and the artist turns out to have OH's surname - how brilliant is that?
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
They’re just left to rot. Not many scavengers left. Farmers put out bates to kill feral dogs which then get eaten by eagles etc. that seems to settle that issue!!! It all gets to me. Sorry to rant.
Good luck LG. I hate IKEA but they do good cotton bedding so I brave it occasionally.
The pond is not a thing of beauty but is much better than it was before when full of bullrushes, brambles, goat willows and all sorts of other nasties. We need to plant stuff around the edges now to disguise it when it's emptying and looking horrid and I want to try and do some marginal planting at one end when it's gone down enough to see which end will be best.
Possum is having 2 year old tantrums. She didn't have any when she was little and it's snot a good look on a 6' tall 23 year old who wants us to fund 2 more years of studies!
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)."
Well, Hubby doesn't often do " spontaneous" but when he got back from the Barbers I suggested, as he's finished the house, we go to Rosemoor, he agreed.
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LG - Pond not full anymore. OH may be back this weekend. Not sure about Possum as she's having hissy fits again. Very wearing. Pond in April looking towards neighbours..
We carried on having rain up until 10 days ago but now the sun has come out with a vengeance and it's full of blanket weed and evaporating too.
I've given up outside for today and am heading for a shower and some sewing and, maybe, a bit of sunbathing later to get my legs brown.
Thanks for the pond pic, Ob - lovely. Sorry that Possum's being moody, hopefully it won't last long.
Also meant to say before - lovely photos, Hosta. I too approve of the house colour.
Off to IKEA to get some frames for some prints we've bought OH for his birthday. They were bought for style and subject matter but have arrived and the artist turns out to have OH's surname - how brilliant is that?
The pond is not a thing of beauty but is much better than it was before when full of bullrushes, brambles, goat willows and all sorts of other nasties. We need to plant stuff around the edges now to disguise it when it's emptying and looking horrid and I want to try and do some marginal planting at one end when it's gone down enough to see which end will be best.
Possum is having 2 year old tantrums. She didn't have any when she was little and it's snot a good look on a 6' tall 23 year old who wants us to fund 2 more years of studies!
Actually very dark purple, not the blue it looks.
I have a need for another yellow/golden-ish sort of one to balance my group
Maybe one with upright-ish pointy sort of leaves ... if there is such a thing?
Something bigger than the little June Fever at the right, and not as buxum as Stained Glass.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There are some variegated forms, Regal Spendour springs to mind
To-day's
Shade Fanfare ( which I might already have , oops )
and Island Breeze
The garden is fully of teenage blackbirds squeaking like a wheelbarrow that needs oiling
Edited to add: Just found another pic of Paradise Island http://www.perennialnursery.com/hosta-paradise-island.html ... love those red stems
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.