@Purplerain your pots look just fine to me ! MIL's pots of begonias are looking really colourful (though I say it myself). They might be bog standard as it were but they keep flowering and are pretty tough. Always a good excuse to visit the garden centre though !
@Fran IOM Mr B is on his second serving of breakfast, and yes, he did whistle ! Had to go out with my hair in a towel and my dressing gown as I had been in the shower, don't think the neighbours saw !
Right, time to finish the tea and back out to deadhead etc. Whisper it quietly, but there is a bit of sunshine about, at least for this morning.......
I keep thinking every day like this is a day of summer lost,and I feel as if we're already speeding towards Autumn,without even a sniff of good weather. Thank you for the link @Purplerain
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Good morning all OH had tea made just after 6 am, then admitted he thought it was 7am ! Still the sun is shining (shock !) and the wind has dropped . I suggested he did some hedge cutting before breakfast but funnily enough, he didn't agree. @Valley Gardener, l know exactly how you feel, although hopefully we still have 2 or 3 months of summery weather to come, there's something about June that usually lifts the spirits, and that hasn't happened this year. Still, fingers crossed it will improve. Not a lot to say apart from the fact that this looks like the best day for getting the bedding plants in as soon as OH finishes, he reckons about an hour's work left. Hope so, l am sick of looking at those marigolds and trying to keep them going until l can plant them. Hope all have as good a day as possible. Laters x
Good morning all. Glad that you are getting some sun @AnniD and that you get your bedding plants done at last. We have grey, dull wettish weather again. @Valley Gardener I know exactly how you feel when you say that's another day of Summer gone. We look forward to it so much and then when it doesn't happen we feel cheated. Winter is such a long season that every day of Summer counts.
I have lots to organise today and have my time taken up right until 10pm tonight with one thing or another. I am not really in the mood, but once I have woken up properly I am sure it will be fine.
@nultyphilip224 I loved the photos of the signets and isn't it amazing how they go from tiny round balls to elegant fluffy young swans in such a short time?
@Fran IOM how is your weather? Is there any sign of grass yet? I bet you are itching to get that new lawnmower out. Are you disappointed that the dragons blood isn't as red as you hoped? It seems to be certain times of the year that they glow with colour. I bought two heuchera fire chief and was a bit miffed to find that they lose their colour too.
Anyway, I had better get a move on, and hope you manage to make the most of your day.
Good Morning all. Promises to be a nice sunny day. Hope it's the same for all of you.
@Valley Gardener. Like you I feel as though we have had summer and waiting for Autumn. Haven't worn a T-shirt this year yet! Maybe you could fleece your semi hardy and put it in the shed? Would that be allowed? I think we are all suffering from lack of colour in our gardens at the moment.
@Purplerain. I didn't realise you had posted the wrong foxglove photo! Admittedly I couldn't see the side shoots. I only bought one Begonia recently and it's doing well but wish I had bought several more as it could do with some company. Sounds as though you are going to be busy today. The grass is taking a long time to appear. Don't know where I can practise using the mower. Must admit I expected the Dragon's blood to be all red but at least I can see a little bit and once I get it potted up hopefully it will gradually change. Found lots of pots in the "rubbish corner" which I didn't know I had so hosed them out and they are ready to be filled. One suitable for Dragon's blood. Looks like I may just need to buy some more plants for the others.... Haven't seen the Heuchera Fire Chief. Do the leave change colour in the winter? (Just googled it and it's a lovely colour. Don't encourage me...)
@AnniD. Mr B now ordering second helpings. You were up early this morning thanks to OH. Gives you extra time to get your plants out. Garden scissors missing yesterday and found them in the same place as the secateurs were. I have been very lucky with the weather in as much as when the time comes in the afternoon it seems to stop raining to enable me to do something and then starts again when I am finished. Unlike you it seems to be the opposite. Hopefully the sun will stay out for you today.
Good morning all, another bad day here,I think it's just Wales today,we have thick heavy drizzle,even more plants flattened.I'm glad I mixed a lot of grit in the compost for the rock plants so the wet can get through. @AnnID you will be glad to get those Marigolds in at last 😊 @Purplerain I hope your day goes well,even though you don't feel much like it! @Fran IOM I must look back at your posts as I can't remember if your Sedum is out,or you've just seen a pic of the colour. Nothing looks a good colour at the moment....... Except for Philips Delphs!!😁
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I think so @Valley Gardener. I looked up semi hardy but it all comes up as half hardy. Why not google that plant that I can't spell and see what the uk sites say about it.
Have to admit l am cream crackered, but all the marigolds and begonias are in !! Also dug out a geum which is now in the back garden, and replaced it with a rose, also planted 2 dahlias and moved a campanula and small lavender. Plus cutting back pyracantha and cotoneaster that were starting to come over the windows. I still have a kniphofia to plant that came out of the front bed, but that involves digging out comfrey, so l think tomorrow will be soon enough for that ! Mr B was not impressed that l was a. Working in the front garden and b. He had to wait for a new tub of suet to be opened. Have you ever tried getting into one of those ? What a palaver. Still he got them in the end, so l was forgiven. Hope you are all having a good day and that @nultyphilip224 enjoyed the reminiscing last night !
Visitors are en route to London where they live,..they have stayed overnight before and on this occasion it was just a formality that they would,..they spent three weeks in Ireland checking out Neolithic Tombs,..Ancient Burial Stones,..New Grange,..Ogham Stones and Ogham writing,..Ogham writing is the Medieval alphabet of the 6th and 9th Centuries primarily to write the early Irish Language,..all very interesting especially as that is their main interest,..many of the places they visited were off road,..so they would hike,..or go by Bicycle,..camping out as well,..not the best weather for that i must say.
I drove them to the bus station where the bus will take them direct to the Airport,..came home and decided to have a quiet tea break,..lo and behold i had another visitor,..she came right into the Sitting Room,..little B.
Feeling she would be trapped if ''Whisper'' appeared i stepped outside with her and gave her some grub,..not a bit shy at all.
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@Fran IOM Mr B is on his second serving of breakfast, and yes, he did whistle ! Had to go out with my hair in a towel and my dressing gown as I had been in the shower, don't think the neighbours saw !
Right, time to finish the tea and back out to deadhead etc. Whisper it quietly, but there is a bit of sunshine about, at least for this morning.......
Thank you for the link @Purplerain
OH had tea made just after 6 am, then admitted he thought it was 7am ! Still the sun is shining (shock !) and the wind has dropped . I suggested he did some hedge cutting before breakfast but funnily enough, he didn't agree.
@Valley Gardener, l know exactly how you feel, although hopefully we still have 2 or 3 months of summery weather to come, there's something about June that usually lifts the spirits, and that hasn't happened this year. Still, fingers crossed it will improve.
Not a lot to say apart from the fact that this looks like the best day for getting the bedding plants in as soon as OH finishes, he reckons about an hour's work left. Hope so, l am sick of looking at those marigolds and trying to keep them going until l can plant them.
Hope all have as good a day as possible.
Laters x
I have lots to organise today and have my time taken up right until 10pm tonight with one thing or another. I am not really in the mood, but once I have woken up properly I am sure it will be fine.
@nultyphilip224 I loved the photos of the signets and isn't it amazing how they go from tiny round balls to elegant fluffy young swans in such a short time?
@Fran IOM how is your weather? Is there any sign of grass yet? I bet you are itching to get that new lawnmower out. Are you disappointed that the dragons blood isn't as red as you hoped? It seems to be certain times of the year that they glow with colour. I bought two heuchera fire chief and was a bit miffed to find that they lose their colour too.
Anyway, I had better get a move on, and hope you manage to make the most of your day.
Promises to be a nice sunny day. Hope it's the same for all of you.
@Valley Gardener. Like you I feel as though we have had summer and waiting for Autumn. Haven't worn a T-shirt this year yet! Maybe you could fleece your semi hardy and put it in the shed? Would that be allowed? I think we are all suffering from lack of colour in our gardens at the moment.
@Purplerain. I didn't realise you had posted the wrong foxglove photo! Admittedly I couldn't see the side shoots. I only bought one Begonia recently and it's doing well but wish I had bought several more as it could do with some company. Sounds as though you are going to be busy today. The grass is taking a long time to appear. Don't know where I can practise using the mower. Must admit I expected the Dragon's blood to be all red but at least I can see a little bit and once I get it potted up hopefully it will gradually change. Found lots of pots in the "rubbish corner" which I didn't know I had so hosed them out and they are ready to be filled. One suitable for Dragon's blood. Looks like I may just need to buy some more plants for the others.... Haven't seen the Heuchera Fire Chief. Do the leave change colour in the winter? (Just googled it and it's a lovely colour. Don't encourage me...)
@AnniD. Mr B now ordering second helpings. You were up early this morning thanks to OH. Gives you extra time to get your plants out. Garden scissors missing yesterday and found them in the same place as the secateurs were.
Enjoy your day all.
@AnnID you will be glad to get those Marigolds in at last 😊
@Purplerain I hope your day goes well,even though you don't feel much like it!
@Fran IOM I must look back at your posts as I can't remember if your Sedum is out,or you've just seen a pic of the colour. Nothing looks a good colour at the moment.......
Except for Philips Delphs!!😁
Mr B was not impressed that l was a. Working in the front garden and b. He had to wait for a new tub of suet to be opened. Have you ever tried getting into one of those ? What a palaver. Still he got them in the end, so l was forgiven.
Hope you are all having a good day and that @nultyphilip224 enjoyed the reminiscing last night !
Visitors are en route to London where they live,..they have stayed overnight before and on this occasion it was just a formality that they would,..they spent three weeks in Ireland checking out Neolithic Tombs,..Ancient Burial Stones,..New Grange,..Ogham Stones and Ogham writing,..Ogham writing is the Medieval alphabet of the 6th and 9th Centuries primarily to write the early Irish Language,..all very interesting especially as that is their main interest,..many of the places they visited were off road,..so they would hike,..or go by Bicycle,..camping out as well,..not the best weather for that i must say.
I drove them to the bus station where the bus will take them direct to the Airport,..came home and decided to have a quiet tea break,..lo and behold i had another visitor,..she came right into the Sitting Room,..little B.
Feeling she would be trapped if ''Whisper'' appeared i stepped outside with her and gave her some grub,..not a bit shy at all.