The photo doesn't do the colour justice. A mad day of watering, potting on , grass cutting and having my hair cut. Coal face tomorrow then a very early start on Friday to head "up country" for a few days. I'm petrified about stuff needing watered. This is why I never like going away in summer.
Evening. I was chuffed to see two Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers on the apple tree ‘stump’ this morning...and this evening there was a green Woodpecker! Gorgeous! Hope all the forkers are ok.
I can divert some later on, dove - we're to get more overnight rain. It's good to share Canna looks good. I never got round to buying another one. If I lived nearer you Hosta, I'd gladly do a bit of watering. I know I travel a fair way for hills, but I think Devon's a mile or two too far.... I don't think the woodpeckers ever have need to come in gardens round here, which is a pity. I hear them now and again over in the woodland. Ditto the painted lady butterflies. We used to get them in the old garden round the corner, but I see loads when I'm out walking along the [very narrow] farm tracks. It's lovely just now - cowparsley giving way to hogweed and meadowsweet, and all the thistles and buttercups full of bees and insects. The bracken and willowherb is taller than me, so it's a bit damp after the rain.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No rain here for some weeks. Even the potatoes are starting to look parched. The only watering I do is toms and cucumbers in the GH (no hosepipe) so I'll lose my beans if we don't get some rain soon
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Just come home from a garden club talk by Ann Marie Powell ......so exuberant and bubbly and totally infectious 😂. Her motto is “positivity breeds contentment” ......will have to remember that one 👍🏻 She took us through the way she built the Countryfile garden at Hampton Court last year .......fascinating and entertaining. Great evening 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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A mad day of watering, potting on , grass cutting and having my hair cut.
Coal face tomorrow then a very early start on Friday to head "up country" for a few days. I'm petrified about stuff needing watered. This is why I never like going away in summer.
@Fairygirl can you wave your wand for Hosta? ... he needs a gentle but steady shower or three 🌧
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was chuffed to see two Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers on the apple tree ‘stump’ this morning...and this evening there was a green Woodpecker! Gorgeous!
Hope all the forkers are ok.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Work have just called to ask if I can stay on and do an extra route in the afternoon and I've said yes!!
Canna looks good. I never got round to buying another one.
If I lived nearer you Hosta, I'd gladly do a bit of watering. I know I travel a fair way for hills, but I think Devon's a mile or two too far....
I don't think the woodpeckers ever have need to come in gardens round here, which is a pity. I hear them now and again over in the woodland.
Ditto the painted lady butterflies. We used to get them in the old garden round the corner, but I see loads when I'm out walking along the [very narrow] farm tracks. It's lovely just now - cowparsley giving way to hogweed and meadowsweet, and all the thistles and buttercups full of bees and insects. The bracken and willowherb is taller than me, so it's a bit damp after the rain.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@chicky 😊
Im under the duvet now ... night night all ... sweet dreams 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.