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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited May 2019
    Fingers crossed. I have been flat out in my garden and MIL's garden today in the expectation of rain. It had better turn up. I am cream crackered. 
    (Sorry, that was a bit curmudgeonly B) )
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    These are all evergreen hybrids, I planted between 30 and 40 deciduous hybrids in my new border last month.
    Devon.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    It's been raining all morning (proper rain not just drizzle) and it looks set to carry on for the rest of the day :)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Proper rain and new kitchen nearly in.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We have had proper rain since about 10am. I got drenched in Wrose car park 😊The water butts are filling up nicely 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve got a whole hedge of rugosa, never planted any of it, I try to get rid of some but it just come back. Once you’ve got it you’ll always have it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    My friend and I went to a local GC, with me saying on the way in that I didn't need to buy anything and came out (after tea and cake)  with a tray of begonias, pea netting, metal pegs, ant bait and a wedding card! Amazing what you can find when you're not looking!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Keep at it Lyn.  We got rid of a rugosa hedge that suckered like mad but didn't grow well where I planted it.

    Senior SIL took me off to a plant shop yesterday as a Thank You.  I now have a cercidiphyllum, purple cotinus, white azalea and a variegated cornus all potted on to develop their roots and grow strong ready for going out into new beds which have yet to be dug.   We'll start those next week or the week after as OH has a lot of golf coming up.
    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)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I planted a load of shrubs and perennials yesterday so they are getting watered in nicely.  Still more to do, and should be able to get them in at the weekend if we don't get too much more rain.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Isn't it amazing the difference a bit of real rain makes!
    You could hose all day, which I don't, and it wouldn't come close.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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