@Mr. Vine Eye I don't blame you feeling aggrieved at all, it would taint my feelngs about the allotment too. As an observer from here though I find your pictures, tales and, like Marlorena, your pond development realy interesting.
I thought of you in the rain last night @newbie77, you can imagine I am watching the rain weather radar closely. My garden is emerging from the water, the level is down 16cm so far .
Alexandre Girault was totally underwater for 4 days I wonder how it will fare? We put waders on and checked the beehive regularly, ready to close the
opening and lift the whole thing to safety, it was close but luckily we
just got away with leaving them (chicken wire is to keep marauding woodpeckers off in winter).
Wow, glad your beehive is on stilts @Tack; I didn't realise the standing water was so deep when I saw your photos on the other thread. Hope everything is ok.
Please don't be concerned about your posts @Mr. Vine Eye, we are all on your side!
Sorry, no to the Snow Goose @Marlorena, but I have a question about white climbers/ramblers too. Has anyone ever grown Sombreuil aka Colonial White and if so, how do you find it?
Thinking (far) ahead to the autumn here, but it’s on my shortlist, along with Aimée Vibert, Adélaïde d'Orléans and Felicité et Perpetúe.
Thank goodness your beehive is on stilts, @Tack. OH wants bees, but Spanish honey bees are meant to be quite aggressive so I’ve agreed on the basis that she looks after them exclusively and they are sited far from my garden!
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@Nollie Yes I have but it was about 15 years ago now, specifics are fuzzy but it was a beautiful rose. I would grow it again. I remember thinking it’s a rather romantic rose.
@Tack Wow that flooding, hope all will be well with your garden.
@Tack hope the water continues to recede ( you said these pics are after the first lot of receding you mentioned?) and @Mr. Vine Eye -- I'm with all the others re your post.
Thank you everyone. There is no real problem with the flooding happening, it is expected every now and again. I may have tried my luck with planting Alex G (in Nov)at the bottom of the garden. All my other more recent plantings are nearer the house where the flooding is only as bad as my photos at the end of the last thread. I will spend the rest of the year soon enough whinging about watering.
The bees are a delight, particularly as they are my son's responsibility, we just host the hive. I love seeing where their focus is as the flowers appear, they are always interesting. I didn't know Spanish Honey bees were aggressive, even between hives here they vary, I guess depending on the queen/genetics. We have a particularly placid hive compared to other family members'.
Yes Desi, the water came up as far as Alex G's graft a couple of weeks ago then went down and then up again much higher on Monday and started going down on Wed. The pics above are this morning's.
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...but I didn't know you kept bees... that must bring you a lot of pleasure...
Please don't be concerned about your posts @Mr. Vine Eye, we are all on your side!
Thinking (far) ahead to the autumn here, but it’s on my shortlist, along with Aimée Vibert, Adélaïde d'Orléans and Felicité et Perpetúe.
Thank goodness your beehive is on stilts, @Tack. OH wants bees, but Spanish honey bees are meant to be quite aggressive so I’ve agreed on the basis that she looks after them exclusively and they are sited far from my garden!