Morning all. Still no rain here but some forecast for later. I think I should start another "kitty" ..... £1 for every time when rain is forecast , but doesn't arrive. @Lyn gets all our share.
A nice woman, English, has come to do a morning's work in the garden. She's tackling a wall which should have growing up it a hydrangea petiolaris, a honeysuckle, a Felicité et Perpetué rose and a wisteria. The whole lot is covered with Virginia Creeper which I didn't plant and have been trying to remove for years. I've pulled it out, dug it up and sprayed it with Glyphosate and it's still there, but not all in the original place. It's growing in the forest, up the veg garden fence and on this wall as well. When we moved here it was growing all over the swimming pool. Hedgehogs had fallen in and drowned, don't have any hedgehogs now We had the pool professionally cleared and cleaned. I hate Virginia Creeper!
OH is back on Thursday May have said.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Busy-Lizzie Hope she can get it cleared for you. I love to see it in autumn when it's a glorious rich red - as long as it's someone else's wall.
@Hostafan1 Good luck with your fund. My non-appearing rain kitty is full to bursting but not my water butts.
I'm off to plant some lavender while the soil is still soft in the rose bed. OH has weeded all round the roses and clems since the rain and, true to form, has weeded my sacrificial nasturtium planted to attract the aphids. Doh!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I don't know whose rain we got yesterday... 66mm, apparently, in 24 hours. A bit too much of a good thing... my raspberries have suffered a bit of a battering! The rest of the garden is looking remarkably perky, though.
Domestic flooding in the town was mainly limited to basements this time. Residents with the benefit of experience keep anything in their basement on high shelves - and most definitely don't install shiny new kitchens in them... incomers sometimes cross their fingers and hope for the best.
All roads now open, trains running slowly through the section of track flooded last night. Not as bad as it might have been... we all hate the sound of the "maroon" flood siren though.
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Still no rain here but some forecast for later.
I think I should start another "kitty" ..... £1 for every time when rain is forecast , but doesn't arrive.
@Lyn gets all our share.
slept like a log ... there’s little patches of blue sky ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Belatedly, hugs for Punkdoc. Such sad news.
The rain has stopped, maybe temporarily, but it's a lot brighter and the water has receded...
Morning all.
A nice woman, English, has come to do a morning's work in the garden. She's tackling a wall which should have growing up it a hydrangea petiolaris, a honeysuckle, a Felicité et Perpetué rose and a wisteria. The whole lot is covered with Virginia Creeper which I didn't plant and have been trying to remove for years. I've pulled it out, dug it up and sprayed it with Glyphosate and it's still there, but not all in the original place. It's growing in the forest, up the veg garden fence and on this wall as well. When we moved here it was growing all over the swimming pool. Hedgehogs had fallen in and drowned, don't have any hedgehogs now
We had the pool professionally cleared and cleaned. I hate Virginia Creeper!
OH is back on Thursday
May have said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49146480#comp-comments-button
@Hostafan1 Good luck with your fund. My non-appearing rain kitty is full to bursting but not my water butts.
I'm off to plant some lavender while the soil is still soft in the rose bed. OH has weeded all round the roses and clems since the rain and, true to form, has weeded my sacrificial nasturtium planted to attract the aphids. Doh!
Domestic flooding in the town was mainly limited to basements this time. Residents with the benefit of experience keep anything in their basement on high shelves - and most definitely don't install shiny new kitchens in them... incomers sometimes cross their fingers and hope for the best.
All roads now open, trains running slowly through the section of track flooded last night. Not as bad as it might have been... we all hate the sound of the "maroon" flood siren though.