Hope your hydrangea listens to you @Obelixx ....it’s very pretty in the first pic. Talking of hydrangeas, don’t know if you remember the story of my “blue” ones that I planted in a bed of imported top soil that was obviously alkaline. So I have been living with pink ones for about 6 years. Last year one started to change colour - think it’s roots have reached our real soil below. This year it is trying even harder .....
All the same plant 😂
Well I had plenty of pots, but ran out of compost, so only half the foxgloves are potted on. Just been to get more compost, so the rest can be done next week.
Afternoon all, I've got 330 3 in pots. I counted them to check if I had enough for seedlings and plug plants this summer. I had about half a dozen spare. There are also quite a few 1 litre pots and about 20 huge ones that I plant up and put inside the ceramic/terracotta pots each year. It's a lot of plastic but I use them every year.
I've been taking antihistamines over the last 2 days to combat the bites that I have, had only just said how I was bite free this year, that'll teach me. The brand I have been using has made me so tired and miserable that I had to go back to bed this afternoon for a nap. Hubby has been out and bought me a different brand so hopefully I wont bite his head off quite as often tomorrow Have a good evening everyone.
Evening all, no thunderstorms here but a hot sticky night. It rained hard just as we went out this morning but not for long and it's been warm and sunny since. OH watched the Grand Prix warm up at Silverstone on TV whilst I tackled yet more ivy infestation, this time in the rockery we inherited. I've got 2 bins full of pots but not as many as Chicky's impressive haul or Yviestevies.
Been having a similar problem with antihistamines. I have been taking cetirizine which has been knocking me for six despite it being described as non-drowsy. OH had to come up and wake me at 10am yesterday or I would have slept till noon!
@chicky I hope it listens too but if not I can always plant another Japanese maple once I've pulled it out.
I take non drowsy anti-histamines in the biting season. Boots One-a-Day are good but the same thing is available from Lidl for less. Can't get them here so friends bring me them when they come to visit.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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We had a lovely late anniversary lunch, little things to nibble such as tiny cornets of salmon mousse and prawn rissoles with cherry tomatoes, then salad with marinaded slices of fish and various fashionable shoots, then guinea fowl breasts with fried potatoes and baby artichokes with a yummy sauce, then lemon mousse with fresh apricots simmered in syrup and a white chocolate tuile. And white wine.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Had a busy day... yesterday the builder came to plaster up some holes where the oil boiler had been removed in the kitchen, and to cut some nearly-matching floor tiles to fill the gap in the floor where the boiler used to sit. He's a nice man and does a good job, but makes a terrible mess... the floor has now been scrubbed with detergent and a scrubbing brush, rinsed, and then wiped over with vinegar cleaner to try to kill the plaster dust. I'm looking forward to the day when I can just use the steam cleaner on the floors.
I ran out of pots this year for the first time ever. Never grown so much from seed before, but it was worth the effort. @WonkyWomble - presumably if you sell your plants to your customers, you can plant them for them and reclaim the pots?
Tomorrow is our 45th wedding anniversary, and our daughter and family are coming from Galway to camp in the garden for 3 nights. The kitchen is big enough for us to have a table each for socially-distanced meals, if it's too wet to eat outside. It'll be lovely but I do wish we could cuddle the girls...
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Well I had plenty of pots, but ran out of compost, so only half the foxgloves are potted on. Just been to get more compost, so the rest can be done next week.
I've got 2 bins full of pots but not as many as Chicky's impressive haul or Yviestevies.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I take non drowsy anti-histamines in the biting season. Boots One-a-Day are good but the same thing is available from Lidl for less. Can't get them here so friends bring me them when they come to visit.
Night night all 😴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Had a busy day... yesterday the builder came to plaster up some holes where the oil boiler had been removed in the kitchen, and to cut some nearly-matching floor tiles to fill the gap in the floor where the boiler used to sit. He's a nice man and does a good job, but makes a terrible mess... the floor has now been scrubbed with detergent and a scrubbing brush, rinsed, and then wiped over with vinegar cleaner to try to kill the plaster dust. I'm looking forward to the day when I can just use the steam cleaner on the floors.
I ran out of pots this year for the first time ever. Never grown so much from seed before, but it was worth the effort. @WonkyWomble - presumably if you sell your plants to your customers, you can plant them for them and reclaim the pots?
Tomorrow is our 45th wedding anniversary, and our daughter and family are coming from Galway to camp in the garden for 3 nights. The kitchen is big enough for us to have a table each for socially-distanced meals, if it's too wet to eat outside. It'll be lovely but I do wish we could cuddle the girls...