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HELLO FORKERS ... May 2019

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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Just noticed my spelling mistake. Liege is what I meant.😳
    S. E. NSW
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043

    Love the newt names, Wonky.

    I've been doing HW and making beds as OH's family are coming. How on earth do you clean the outside of upstairs English windows? Impossible here even with a long ladder as there is an extension with a sloping roof at each end of the house. Can you buy a microfibre on a stick? French windows open inwards.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    @Busy-Lizzie I’ve always considered French windows opening onwards to be the height of elegance and good sense. On the other hand it would put our very good window cleaner out of business 😆 
    He uses a long pole and ionised water to clean ours ... maybe there’s someone with a similar set up near you. It works like this https://www.warrenpointwindowcleaning.com/pure-water-window-cleaning/
    and he only charges £9 for 10 large windows (some of them over 6’ wide) a glass door and the glass wall along one side of our studio. 

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





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thank you Dove. Is that your window cleaner? Website says he's stopped cleaning windows.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    No it’s not our chap
    ... ours doesn’t seem to have a website 🤷‍♀️
    I wonder if these cover your area? http://www.pureflowh2o.co.uk/

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





  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Have had a lovely couple of hours in the greenhouse.  Probably far to late and nothing
    will germinate but who knows. A magnolia that was a gift has been in its pot since Nov will it be too late to pot out in the wood? Flowers are still buds
    one other question.  Has anyone been successful growing peony from seed.   I collected mine last year and I have a huge amount, like melon seeds

    absolutely shattered but a wee sense of achievement 

    thanks

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Every journey begins with a single step, @Lily Pilly
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Have had a lovely couple of hours in the greenhouse.  Probably far to late and nothing
    will germinate but who knows. A magnolia that was a gift has been in its pot since Nov will it be too late to pot out in the wood? Flowers are still buds
    one other question.  Has anyone been successful growing peony from seed.   I collected mine last year and I have a huge amount, like melon seeds

    absolutely shattered but a wee sense of achievement 

    thanks

    @nutcutlet has grown peonies from seed ... I have one of them 😊 hopefully she’ll see this and offer some encouragement. 
    Glad you’re beginning to feel well enough to do a little light pottering 😊 

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





  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Thank you, I feel a bit more like myself today. The birds are busy and Talla was able to take up her usual place in the greenhouse
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Obviously a good team 👍 

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





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