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HELLO FORKERS ⛄️🍾 JAN 21

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Happy Birthday @Dovefromabove, hope you get some nice birthday surprises.
    Lovely rose @Pat E
    Good to 'see' you again @chicky
    Not nice o have leaky waterproofs out gardening @WonkyWomble, I had high hopes of getting out there soon as we had a brief glimpse of sunshine - which has now disappeared with yet more drizzle.
    I am so excited though, found one solitary snowdrop in the verge outside our front hedge , it's only taken me 13 years and innumerable attempts to get some established!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Happy birthday @Dovefromabove. Same day as my Son 1.


    Good to hear from you @chicky, wish I could join you at Chelsea. It will be lovely to see a different selection of flowers, hope it goes ahead.

    My plants from Leaderplant arrived today @D0rdogne_Damsel. They are all alive, bit small but it is winter. Lavender "Hidcote" and "Munstead" and a Dutch one; Salvias "Mainacht", "Schneehügel" and "Blue Bouquetta"; Verbena Lollipop x3; Agastache "Beelicious Purple"; Gaura Gauriella Bicolor x3; "Caryopteris Kew Blue"; Eryngium "Pen Blue"; Nepeta "Walker's Low"; Perovskia 'Silveri Blue'; and dwarf aster "Herbstgruss v. Bresserhof".  I'm hoping they will all be plants that like hot dry summers.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Regards the programme, the couple in the Dordogne are 'our' couple, but they only filmed on their property yesterday, perhaps we'll get a fleeting look-in this afternoon. They were here filming here all morning but who knows what end up in the final cut.....

    The wallpaper, some kind of anaglypta @Obelixx is purely to try and hide the bumps in this house that Jack built. 😳

    Good luck with finding waterproofs in the sale @WonkyWomble, I would think essential wear in your case. 
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That's a good list @Dordogne_Damsel, as you say, they should all like hot dry places. I've just bought 3 more Gauras as the two I've got seem to thrive. I really like their see through wavy effect.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Exciting delivery @Busy-Lizzie, I do love some of the tempting names plant growers come up with, I've got Dahlias on order, again lots of lovely names and hopefully, colours for my hot bed. 😁
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    edited January 2021
    Lovely to “see” you too @Pat E @WonkyWomble @Lizzie27 @Busy-Lizzie 😀😀😀

    That sounds like a great haul of plants @Busy-Lizzie ..... looking forward to seeing your new garden come together .....lots of pictures please 🏡.  So pleased you finally got moved 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 for new beginnings, and hope you settle in quickly.

    Stir crazy here too @Obelixx as our heavy soil is much too wet to work on yet.  Lots of cross stitch and embroidery going on here instead.

    However, today I have kick started my gardening year by sowing chilli seeds 🌶.  But they won’t need much attention for a while, so not going to keep me out of mischief for long 🤣

    Been doing lots of garden themed zooming.  Today I have an afternoon with the lovely Mr Frost, followed by a talk on snowdrops courtesy of an online gardening club I joined a few months ago.  It was originally set up for people who have no club local to them (or find it difficult to get out in an evening due to children/babysitters etc) but it has really come into its own due to Covid restrictions.  They get some really interesting speakers, so all good fun.

    I have also been spending my time getting more involved with my own local gardening group.  We have had 3 zoom club nights so far, with excellent speakers and 100 members signed up for it.  “They” said no one would be interested in virtual lectures in our club .....”they” were very wrong 🤣🤣🤣
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thank you @chicky. The soil here looks quite a bit lighter than in my last garden, but the previous owner said it's clay. They had pet pygmy goats that wandered everywhere so there is no proper flower garden and the vegetable garden is fenced. I will make some beds, roses and the sort of plants I've just ordered, but I don't want high maintenance like I made at my last house. I was a lot younger then.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That sounds great @chicky, especially the Zoom stuff.  Well done.   Haven't heard a peep from our garden club since they cancelled the November plant swap after the latest lockdown started.   Usually there's an AGM in December or January with a guest speaker but none of that this year and no visits either.

    I spotted a few snowdrop shoots the other day as I pottered off to see the chooks and was very excited as it meant I could finally go in and weed their bed without risking disturbing hidden shoots but the weather has been horrid ever since.   I finally did the last 2 strips of my Convergence project yesterday after months of no patchwork.   Just need to work out how to do the border and edging and finishing now. 

    I hope the Chicklets and Pa are OK.  
    Vendée - 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
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    edited January 2021
    Just had a google of convergence quilting .....is it something like this?



    If so it looks amazing.  Seriously considering trying some patchwork myself, but will wait til the world gets back to normal as I think I’ll need a beginners course to get started.  There are a few options not far from here.

    Dad is doing well thanks - immunotherapy is keeping his nasties at bay, and he has no symptoms or side  effects atm.  Seems pretty content, although is looking forward to having visitors again when we are allowed.  He had his first jab a couple of weeks ago.

    Chicklets are both ok, but struggling with the tight boundaries their lives now face.  Longing for it to all get better, for both their sakes.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Good to see you @chicky.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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