Good morning all ☕️ We have a bright and frosty start to the day 😊
I’ve been very loath to cut back perennials so far this year ... the sun is making my snipping fingers itch, but my head is telling me that there’s still time for a spell of real cold weather ... last year we were under a foot or more of snow right through March ... I shall try to resist the urge to snip for a bit longer ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. Tree week for us as the contractors have turned up to start on the boundary trees - 10 neglected beech trees which were pollarded 60 years ago then left to grow. One is coming down and the rest being reduced to 19 metres and crown lifted as well as spread reduced, all under an area TPO so has to be done as specified in the planning application. Should make a bit of a difference to light levels underneath. Unfortunately the spring bulbs below are likely to get hammered in the process. Just heard the first chainsaw start up!
Best wishes to Mr Pat E, hope he recovers well and gets a good prognosis. Having just gone through that process I know how stressful it all is but it is better to know and treat than ignore.
Hi all. Another gorgeous sunny day, after a heavy frost. More potting on of over wintered babies, a job I can do sitting down in the sun. Birds certainly think it is Spring, much nest building going on.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Monring all/ afties,evening Pat. Hope you've had a good day Chilly start here again, but not quite low enough for frost, much like yesterday. Sun was out earlier, but it's all cloudy and hazy now. The birds were singing which is lovely, and the little coal tits have been back, along with sparrows and goldfinches. I've not cut anything back yet Dove. It's been mild for here too, no real winter to speak of, but we regularly get snow/hail/frost/sleet well into April, so I don't really bother until much later. I don't have loads of perennials anyway, but I do have clems. I did take the dead stems of my Niobe clem the other day, just back to the new growth. If the already emerging greenery gets knocked back, it wouldn't be the end of the world anyway. It'll make more Good luck with the trees steephill. I think you're right about detection and treatment too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning all. Another extraordinarily warm and sunny day here, though quite frosty overnight. Spending most of the day on buses (on my second one of the day already) for hospital visits, but looking at the gardens I pass will keep me entertained. There are Magnolia grandiflora as street trees on one bit of the jourmey, which was surprising.
OH's company has won another Oscar. It's becoming a habit. It's good news in some ways, but frustrating in others.
So pleased about the boiler, Liri. Hope all goes well, Pat. How was Brum, Chicky? There was definitely some other news I wanted to respond to, but I'll need to read back.
Have a good day.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Nippy start here but sunny and set to get warm later. I'm making chocolate chip, peanut butter and oatmeal biscuits and doing some sewing ready for patchwork this pm. No painting today.
Not cutting perennials back yet here either but OH is going to cut the bits of wisteria trying to get up behind the gutters. The last of the foliage has dropped off now and we can see what's what.
Have a lovely day everyone. Good luck with all the trees Steephill and you too Pat with OH.
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It is cold and frosty this morning but the temperature is set to creep up into the mid-teens later.
The sun is shining and Olivia Colman has won an Oscar.
Nice way to start a Monday morning.
We have a bright and frosty start to the day 😊
I’ve been very loath to cut back perennials so far this year ... the sun is making my snipping fingers itch, but my head is telling me that there’s still time for a spell of real cold weather ... last year we were under a foot or more of snow right through March ... I shall try to resist the urge to snip for a bit longer ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Best wishes to Mr Pat E, hope he recovers well and gets a good prognosis. Having just gone through that process I know how stressful it all is but it is better to know and treat than ignore.
Another gorgeous sunny day, after a heavy frost.
More potting on of over wintered babies, a job I can do sitting down in the sun.
Birds certainly think it is Spring, much nest building going on.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Chilly start here again, but not quite low enough for frost, much like yesterday. Sun was out earlier, but it's all cloudy and hazy now.
The birds were singing which is lovely, and the little coal tits have been back, along with sparrows and goldfinches.
I've not cut anything back yet Dove. It's been mild for here too, no real winter to speak of, but we regularly get snow/hail/frost/sleet well into April, so I don't really bother until much later. I don't have loads of perennials anyway, but I do have clems. I did take the dead stems of my Niobe clem the other day, just back to the new growth. If the already emerging greenery gets knocked back, it wouldn't be the end of the world anyway. It'll make more
Good luck with the trees steephill. I think you're right about detection and treatment too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
OH's company has won another Oscar. It's becoming a habit. It's good news in some ways, but frustrating in others.
So pleased about the boiler, Liri. Hope all goes well, Pat. How was Brum, Chicky? There was definitely some other news I wanted to respond to, but I'll need to read back.
Have a good day.
Not cutting perennials back yet here either but OH is going to cut the bits of wisteria trying to get up behind the gutters. The last of the foliage has dropped off now and we can see what's what.
Have a lovely day everyone. Good luck with all the trees Steephill and you too Pat with OH.