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HELLO FORKERS 😊 July 2019

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    eek, a van has just come up "our" laneĀ  with " artificial grass" written on the side!!!!! EEK!!!
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Eek indeed.Ā  Horrid stuff.

    Off shopping with Possum this morning as I need to move the car or get a fine.Ā  That's the trouble with living in the centre.Ā  Ā Have done a bit of gardening - tending to the house plants.Ā  3 ferns parked on a windo in full sun from 1pm to sunset so frying.Ā  Now watered, trimmed and on a north facing windowsill along with th eivy that needed a bit more light after being hidden in a dark corner.

    Hope your cat turns up Busy-Lizzie.Ā  Ā Enjoy your day out Dove.

    Ā 
    VendƩe - 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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Day out cancelled ... combination of road works and diversion on the way plus the fact that OHs painting is at a good stage. I’m going to pull the peas up and get ready to plant out the brassicas then watch tennis ... suits me just fine 😊 

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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Well my friendly tree surgeon is no longer my friend. He has been sorting out the huge limb that fell off the Beech tree and my beautiful woodland garden is no more, third world problem I know, but I am devastated. 25 years in the making, 5 hours in the destroying.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Oh punkdoc, how heartbreaking for you. Did he know it was your woodland garden? Was anyone at home when he came? Is anything saveable?
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I do find it hard to imagine how one broken limb can do so much damage.Ā  Is nothing recoverable or is it a whole new planting opportunity?
    VendƩe - 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
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Evening folks.
    Gutted for you Punk - I’m still sad about my fallen Apple tree but I was lucky it didn’t destroy anything else.Ā 
    It feels muggy and overcast but rain is not forecast so the hose will be out later.Ā 
    Having a feet-up moment post work - my back is in half tonight! Simple tea of omelettes I think.
    Hope you all ok.Ā 
    My garden and I live in South Wales.Ā 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @punkdoc ((hugs)) šŸ˜”Ā 
    Did the whole tree turn out to be rotten? 😢 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @AuntyRach 😊 hows the job?

    im tucked up in bed with my book, so night night all ... sweet dreams 😓 

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





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I loved the pic of the Liriodendron. There was one next door , it would probably have flowered but the morons with the chainsaws got to it first. The remaining rose running up the hawthorn next to my patio got threatened last week. I stopped the lad with loppers just as he was about to cut through one of the minor stems. I was told, it's got to come down, they are going to put houses here. They haven't even applied for planning permission yet, the rose is in full bloom. Why? Why? Can't they see how gorgeous it is and let it live for a few more months?
    I had to put the soaker hose on the raspberries, the ones under the oak are not swelling as much as the ones by the shed.Ā  T'other half is getting bored with them. Raspberries with melon, raspberrries with cream, smoothies, I froze a load, and there are still loads.
    Ā The birds have just about finished the second kilo of live mealworms, so I went to reorder. Disaster, apparently there is a shortageĀ  and we are being rationed. Tell that to the blackbird who can get 12 in his beak.Ā  I have ordered waxworms as well.Ā  Have to keep the babies happy.Ā  I don't know what the postman thinks when he hands over a parcel with "live food" emblazoned across it.Ā  "Oh good, more worms ", I said last time. He gave me a funny look.
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