Coffee consumption fulfilled 😃 I started slug and snail patrol in the greenhouse last night. Green shoots just coming through and wasn't going to have them eaten! 3 patrols, lasts one at 12.15am.... let's just say, very glad I did!!!
I've had a busy and productive morning, such a beautiful day again I just needed to be out in the sunshine.
Dahlias tubers potted up, I had to be careful soaking them that I didn't get them mixed up, I did them in relays just two at a time. Annoyingly I had to actually buy plant pots for them because I was too mercenary with my spring clean out last year! Ranunculus also done. I am hoping to finish planting up my new hot bed today, as far as possible anyway, lots of seeds still in he GH. I am just starting to feel I am getting on top of things here. The weather has been so good I have managed full days.
Enjoying a sandwich and a coffee now with my newly acquired view too, took down some tatty screen yesterday and a wheelbarrow load of ivy. It's next door garden but they don't live there, just come once a week to cut the grass. The woman who owns it is very odd, never speaks or even acknowledges our existence, takes about two hours to mow, has a cigarette and leaves. We asked years ago if we could buy this little strip of land from her and she refused point blank. A shame because it's a beautiful sunny spot.
I hope your boiler is ok @Dovefromabove and good luck at hospital @Hostafan1. I may well be joining you on the slug patrol soon @WonkyWomble once my dahlias start sprouting.
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I've been visiting GCs in the last week, looking for shrubs for my new shrub bed. No shrubs here, Previous Owner said his son's goats ate them. I also wanted a Betula Jacquemontii but none in the GCs. Bought various shrubs, local small GC had some special offers. Then PO told me about a big plant nursery not far away. I've just been to the big nursery - Wow! Wish I'd known earlier, only 12 mins from here, in the middle of the countryside, loads of trees, masses of shrubs, roses, perennials, annuals and vegetable plants. It isn't a garden centre, no tools, fertiliser etc, just plants, rows and rows of them. But they had sold out of Amelanchiers. They did have the tree I wanted, Betula Jacqumontii, around 2.5m tall for only 34€. It only just fitted in the car. I also bought Exochorda "The Bride" and Sambucus Nigra "Black Lace". The shrub bed is laid out now and I must get planting.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That looks so good @Busy-Lizzie and it will look fantastic later on.
I like that view as well @Dordogne_Damsel, shame you couldn't buy that patch of land.
It's very overcast and cold again so not very appealing for gardening. Am re-reading past years' gardening diaries which I'm finding interesting - not least the number of times I apparently moved various plants! I also found some laminated photos of what the garden looked like when we first bought it - a desert of no flowers, completely surrounded by different high overgrown hedges and dying conifers, yet I was so excited to have a more or less blank canvas and was full of energy and enthusiasm. It looks completely different now, I'm glad to say.
I'm just back from Exeter hospital again. Still infected, new antibiotics, need to go back on Monday. 2 hour round trip to see the Doc for 10 mins. Funnily enough, the Doc reckoned the water butt might well have been the source of infection. A salutary lesson gardening folk.
Water butt water is best left for plants @Hostafan1. Hope the new antibiotics do the trick.
Great haul of plants @Busy-Lizzie - and lovely to have discovered a gem of a nursery so close.
Back to the fussy birds @Allotment Boy .....when I last bought suet balls they had run out of standard ones so I had to go for Premium ones. This week I used the last 3 of the standard ones and three of the premium ones - which are slightly yellow. This is the result
Seems like everyone likes “Taste the Difference” 🤣🤣🤣
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I started slug and snail patrol in the greenhouse last night. Green shoots just coming through and wasn't going to have them eaten! 3 patrols, lasts one at 12.15am.... let's just say, very glad I did!!!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've had a busy and productive morning, such a beautiful day again I just needed to be out in the sunshine.
Dahlias tubers potted up, I had to be careful soaking them that I didn't get them mixed up, I did them in relays just two at a time. Annoyingly I had to actually buy plant pots for them because I was too mercenary with my spring clean out last year!
Ranunculus also done. I am hoping to finish planting up my new hot bed today, as far as possible anyway, lots of seeds still in he GH. I am just starting to feel I am getting on top of things here. The weather has been so good I have managed full days.
Enjoying a sandwich and a coffee now with my newly acquired view too, took down some tatty screen yesterday and a wheelbarrow load of ivy. It's next door garden but they don't live there, just come once a week to cut the grass. The woman who owns it is very odd, never speaks or even acknowledges our existence, takes about two hours to mow, has a cigarette and leaves. We asked years ago if we could buy this little strip of land from her and she refused point blank. A shame because it's a beautiful sunny spot.
I hope your boiler is ok @Dovefromabove and good luck at hospital @Hostafan1. I may well be joining you on the slug patrol soon @WonkyWomble once my dahlias start sprouting.
I've been visiting GCs in the last week, looking for shrubs for my new shrub bed. No shrubs here, Previous Owner said his son's goats ate them. I also wanted a Betula Jacquemontii but none in the GCs. Bought various shrubs, local small GC had some special offers. Then PO told me about a big plant nursery not far away.
I've just been to the big nursery - Wow! Wish I'd known earlier, only 12 mins from here, in the middle of the countryside, loads of trees, masses of shrubs, roses, perennials, annuals and vegetable plants. It isn't a garden centre, no tools, fertiliser etc, just plants, rows and rows of them. But they had sold out of Amelanchiers. They did have the tree I wanted, Betula Jacqumontii, around 2.5m tall for only 34€. It only just fitted in the car. I also bought Exochorda "The Bride" and Sambucus Nigra "Black Lace". The shrub bed is laid out now and I must get planting.
@D0rdogne_Damsel she’s probably the third generation to do exactly as she does 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds like heaven @b@Busy-Lizzie. Fantastic progress you are making, great to have a blank canvas.
Must crack on!
Have a good afternoon all.
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That looks so good @Busy-Lizzie and it will look fantastic later on.
I like that view as well @Dordogne_Damsel, shame you couldn't buy that patch of land.
It's very overcast and cold again so not very appealing for gardening. Am re-reading past years' gardening diaries which I'm finding interesting - not least the number of times I apparently moved various plants! I also found some laminated photos of what the garden looked like when we first bought it - a desert of no flowers, completely surrounded by different high overgrown hedges and dying conifers, yet I was so excited to have a more or less blank canvas and was full of energy and enthusiasm. It looks completely different now, I'm glad to say.
@Dovefromabove - hope your boiler can be fixed.
@Hostafan1 - hope your finger's okay.
2 hour round trip to see the Doc for 10 mins.
Funnily enough, the Doc reckoned the water butt might well have been the source of infection. A salutary lesson gardening folk.
Great haul of plants @Busy-Lizzie - and lovely to have discovered a gem of a nursery so close.