Morning 😀. Patient improved slightly yesterday afternoon .....hoping today will see more baby steps forward 🤞🏻
Meanwhile, glass is in the greenhouse 🎉. They are back today to fit lights, benches and the pump that gets water out of the underground resevoir. Might have to fill it with a hose to start with......too impatient to wait for rain.
Bit more gardening for me today - some more work required on the strawberry patch that used to be a flower border 🙄. My sweet peas (sown from seed a couple of weeks ago) are going great guns too 👍🏻 Best try and get a fork in the ground they will occupy too.
I read somewhere that the flour shortage is not due to a shortage of flour, but a shortage of small packs of it. Which would explain why we can get it in plastic bags from the greengrocer, they package it up from a large sack themselves......and maybe why your farm shop had some too Dove.
Could it be a Rodgersia @D0rdogne_Damsel? I don't grow it, but it looks a bit like that too, although I thought Viburnum initially as well. Is it woody? I can't tell from the photos. I agree with you about people becoming complacent. We'll have different regs up here anyway, compared with England & Wales.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning all. Cloudy but forecast says sun will come out. Think I had better paint the 2nd coat of the guest room blue wall before the brush and roller dry out, they are wrapped in a plastic bag. But there is still the long border to weed and edge. Plenty of time though. Nearly reached the end of projects.
Feels about time we went to visit a garden and lunch in a pub. When we are released we probably won't be able to walk on a beach as poor OH is so lame.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Thanks @Fairygirl, but no. It/they are tall, as tall as me and have been cut down, big trunk like middle with the branches trailing down like a cascade with the leaves on them. I think, and I may be wrong that they have been deprived of light through neglect and what I am seeing now is a result of that, ie. a very strange form with no branches on the lower part of the shrubs. I'll take some more pictures today.
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@Fairygirl I've added more pictures: I will try and explain. One is obviously wot @Liriodendron said: Viburnum rhytidophyllum. The others, although very similar are not quite the same. On the one side they sort of look ok. ) On the other side, which I have had to dig out a jungle of weeds you can see there are no leaves or branches. I just want to know if this is 'normal' or now there is room to grow will it end up looking the same on both sides? Clear as mud I know!
Glad wee chicklet is doing well @chicky How big is the water tank?
80 gallons. Mr C doesn’t like to do things by halves so he got on to an agricultural supplier to get an aluminium tank made for the outside (like the sort you see cows drinking from in a field). Looks very smart 😀. That should add another 100 gallons, so hoping we don’t go short over there again ......its a bit of a way from the house. Will take some pics to share when all complete this afternoon 📷 📱
Sorry @D0rdogne_Damsel- I think I assumed they were all the same. I never think about enlarging the photos either, which I should have done. I must say - I did think the 2nd pic looked different! Maybe once they've grown on a bit, you'll get a clearer idea of what they all are. When shrubs get 'blocked' by other planting, they often recover quite well once they get light and air again. That'll help enormously @chicky. Your little legs would have been worn out... At our last house, when working at the other end of the garden, it would have been a real chore to go back and forth with water, but fortunately, the pond was spring fed, so you could just hoik out a few buckets of water when required
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Bit more gardening for me today - some more work required on the strawberry patch that used to be a flower border 🙄. My sweet peas (sown from seed a couple of weeks ago) are going great guns too 👍🏻 Best try and get a fork in the ground they will occupy too.
I read somewhere that the flour shortage is not due to a shortage of flour, but a shortage of small packs of it. Which would explain why we can get it in plastic bags from the greengrocer, they package it up from a large sack themselves......and maybe why your farm shop had some too Dove.
I don't grow it, but it looks a bit like that too, although I thought Viburnum initially as well. Is it woody? I can't tell from the photos.
I agree with you about people becoming complacent. We'll have different regs up here anyway, compared with England & Wales.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When do we get to see progress on the greenhouse?
Cloudy but forecast says sun will come out.
Think I had better paint the 2nd coat of the guest room blue wall before the brush and roller dry out, they are wrapped in a plastic bag. But there is still the long border to weed and edge. Plenty of time though. Nearly reached the end of projects.
Feels about time we went to visit a garden and lunch in a pub. When we are released we probably won't be able to walk on a beach as poor OH is so lame.
How big is the water tank?
Sounds like Viburnum then @D0rdogne_Damsel
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3bZZVkE6JcRagai28
Thank you all.
Maybe once they've grown on a bit, you'll get a clearer idea of what they all are. When shrubs get 'blocked' by other planting, they often recover quite well once they get light and air again.
That'll help enormously @chicky. Your little legs would have been worn out...
At our last house, when working at the other end of the garden, it would have been a real chore to go back and forth with water, but fortunately, the pond was spring fed, so you could just hoik out a few buckets of water when required
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...