Bark is great as a mulch. I don't use it on beds with perennials, mainly round shrubs. I always feel it's too heavy and wet for round perennials, but as long as it isn't right up against the crown of the plants it should be fine. It's the cold thing for tulips - if they're planted early, ground's still warm so they can get the virus [different from that one!] tulip fire. We can plant them earlier here - ground's cold from early October, but they don't do so well in our ground anyway. In pots it's not so much of a problem anyway if using fresh compost as it won't be carrying it.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ooh - thanks @punkdoc. I think that'll be later as cake maker is at work. 21 again eh? Has Charlie got any seed sowing plans too @D0rdogne_Damsel? I've done some sweet peas just in case we get another warm April and I can plant them out!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Happy Birthday @Fairygirl .....hope you get your wee hill in 🏔
Its our wedding anniversary today 👰🏼🤵🏼. Going out for something to eat tonight, in a pub that has a tent in the garden ⛺️.
Last night’s zoom lecture went well. 65 joined in, and many of those had a couple of people watching their screens. Had lots of messages afterwards so think everyone enjoyed it. Hever Castle is now on my wishlist to visit next Spring 🌷
Thank you @floralies. I can send you virtual cake if you don't get one. Hopefully - OH will at least buy you a cake though I saw that more areas were being put in that tier @punkdoc. I've not paid a lot of attention to it, as I'm just looking at what we can or can't do here for the foreseeable. They were discussing it on the radio yesterday though. There seems to be a lot of negativity about it, but I suppose that's how it currently is - every day. I sometimes think it's about doing/saying something to make it look like they know what they're doing. Smoke and mirrors. I wonder how @Obelixx and @Busy-Lizzie are too - I read that France is having a major lockdown imminently. Have you heard anything new @D0rdogne_Damsel or @floralies - if you're there?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thank you for your encouraging words @D0rdogne_Damsel. I hope it won't come to a virtual completion though as my Dutch buyers won't sign anything electronically. The papers so far have had to be sent to Holland and back.
I plant tulips here in November. Also I think we have some mild weather forecast for October.
@Fairygirl President Macron was on TV last night. I couldn't see it as my French satellite has gone wrong, but it was on English news. There will be a curfew in Paris and big cities from 9pm to 6am but he is trying to avoid a complete lockdown. Where I am there isn't much Covid. The only person I know who had it back in the Spring was our local parish priest. But I don't know masses of people.
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It's the cold thing for tulips - if they're planted early, ground's still warm so they can get the virus [different from that one!] tulip fire. We can plant them earlier here - ground's cold from early October, but they don't do so well in our ground anyway. In pots it's not so much of a problem anyway if using fresh compost as it won't be carrying it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looks like we are shortly to go into Tier 3, just to make life a little more complicated.
Happy Birthday, @Fairygirl , hope fairylets have made you a cake.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Has Charlie got any seed sowing plans too @D0rdogne_Damsel? I've done some sweet peas just in case we get another warm April and I can plant them out!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Its our wedding anniversary today 👰🏼🤵🏼. Going out for something to eat tonight, in a pub that has a tent in the garden ⛺️.
Last night’s zoom lecture went well. 65 joined in, and many of those had a couple of people watching their screens. Had lots of messages afterwards so think everyone enjoyed it. Hever Castle is now on my wishlist to visit next Spring 🌷
I saw that more areas were being put in that tier @punkdoc. I've not paid a lot of attention to it, as I'm just looking at what we can or can't do here for the foreseeable. They were discussing it on the radio yesterday though. There seems to be a lot of negativity about it, but I suppose that's how it currently is - every day. I sometimes think it's about doing/saying something to make it look like they know what they're doing. Smoke and mirrors.
I wonder how @Obelixx and @Busy-Lizzie are too - I read that France is having a major lockdown imminently.
Have you heard anything new @D0rdogne_Damsel or @floralies - if you're there?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Dove sorry you’re brother has health worries. Hope it can be sorted.
Watching Johnnie trying to sell houses in the Forest of Dean. Very interesting.
The problem is no one in the world has found the correct answer, maybe there isn't one.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Thank you for your encouraging words @D0rdogne_Damsel. I hope it won't come to a virtual completion though as my Dutch buyers won't sign anything electronically. The papers so far have had to be sent to Holland and back.
I plant tulips here in November. Also I think we have some mild weather forecast for October.
@Fairygirl President Macron was on TV last night. I couldn't see it as my French satellite has gone wrong, but it was on English news. There will be a curfew in Paris and big cities from 9pm to 6am but he is trying to avoid a complete lockdown. Where I am there isn't much Covid. The only person I know who had it back in the Spring was our local parish priest. But I don't know masses of people.