Lovely here in the sun, but we have a cold wind and every night this week it has got really cold, seems like it's never going to get properly warm. I am getting very tired of putting all the seedlings in and out, and of course there are more every day as I prick them out and pot them on, good job I have been saving polystyrene packaging for ages to cover them all up with.
Feeling a bit fed up today, I don't know why really, I think the uncertainty about opening/not opening is playing on my mind, I have lined up a couple of new staff but of course I can't promise them anything so I may well lose them....too soon to start writing menus up, it could well still be September beofre we open, who knows. I am thinking about it all of course, but I am going around in circles a bit.
I want to get on with the garden and see everything safely in the ground before I go back to work, but it's just too soon yet....I would like to get some bedding plants organised, but it's also too soon, I'd like a glass of wine but I am still dieting, although I have reached my target weight I still feel flabby, despite the biks rides. Ideally I would like to do 40 lengths of swimming every day, that tones me up so quickly, but of course the pools are shut and it's too cold to open ours here, and even then it's too small to get any distance done. So, I am definitely in moaning mood this evening, sorry folks.
I did manage to paint my little pergola which I am pleased with, the roses and clematis are racing up it so it had to be done now. I might just give it another coat, certainly the big posts, tomorrow. If the wind drops we need a bonfire too, hopefully the last one for a while as all the big stuff has been cut back now.
My lawn seed isn't showing any sign of growth, but I am not surprised really, as soon as the sun moves off it it is just too cold.
Anyway, I am going to have an early night and hopefully feel a bit more cheerful tomorrow.
Have a nice evening all.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
I don't feel this dumb question of mine warrants a full thread of it's own so I'd like to pose a query to you lovely lot in here...
I have two gorgeous peonies that I bought with my birthday money last year, both in bloom at the time of my birthday (end of May). I've been careful with them, pruned them back properly when winter came about and they've been stored over winter in our carpeted outhouse so free of frost and everything. They now both have some gorgeous bushy growth on them (few of the leaves have pink splotches on them but doesn't look enough like anything I've identified online for me to worry about, and they're both growing really healthily so I'd rather leave that alone), the earlier flowering one now has a few juicy looking flower buds on it. However. Since I've had them I've understood that they can't tolerate frost at all, and now it's seeming very likely that my birthday this year will be slightly chillier than it was last year; what do I do with them? Just leave them in the outhouse? If I bring them outside they'll get frost bitten over night won't they? Am I babying them too much? It is really bitter still here in the south west. But if I don't bring them outside soon they'll be blooming in the outhouse...
My peonies are in the garden and have been showing for ages. We have had frosts and it hasn't touched them. They have been in the garden ever since I bought them, some for 10 years, I have never thought of them as tender at all.
My peonies are in the garden and have been showing for ages. We have had frosts and it hasn't touched them. They have been in the garden ever since I bought them, some for 10 years, I have never thought of them as tender at all.
Oh no, perhaps I got some duff information when I bought them and have just been babying them through the last year XD I mean, they don't seem harmed by it at all, but if I could refrain from carrying their pots out every time I see a burst of sunshine and nipping them back in when it looks colder I'd be much happier!
Did a few hours in the garden - running out of space to put all the waste so I will have to bite the bullet and chop some of it up so it can be composted. I have a free tumbler bin thingy now.
Just looking at the forecast, still quite chilly at night but hoping frost risk will be gone by the end of the month so stuff can go out.
I hope all ailments are improving and everyone is doing ok.
I have 4 in the garden @takhana, growing at an amazing rate actually, and although the ffrost/cold has left the hydrangeas are looking very sad and even a couple of the roses a bit droopy and half an Acer tree bald the peonies are absolutely fine. They are left in the ground all year though, yours may well be too mollycoddled at the moment to take the plunge. I am sure someone else will have a better idea.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Mine have been in the front garden which is a bit of a frost pocket for the past 7 years. Tough as old boots, but I imagine if they’ve been kept in a sheltered spot they could be damaged if put out straight away during this chilly spell ... so I would put them out in the daytime and bring them back indoors at night for the next two or three weeks ... after that they should be fine to stay outside.
If you’ve got somewhere outside you can plant them then that’ll be great ... just don’t plant them any deeper than they are planted in the pot.
Enjoy 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Lovely here in the sun, but we have a cold wind and every night this week it has got really cold, seems like it's never going to get properly warm. I am getting very tired of putting all the seedlings in and out, and of course there are more every day as I prick them out and pot them on, good job I have been saving polystyrene packaging for ages to cover them all up with.
Feeling a bit fed up today, I don't know why really, I think the uncertainty about opening/not opening is playing on my mind, I have lined up a couple of new staff but of course I can't promise them anything so I may well lose them....too soon to start writing menus up, it could well still be September beofre we open, who knows. I am thinking about it all of course, but I am going around in circles a bit.
I want to get on with the garden and see everything safely in the ground before I go back to work, but it's just too soon yet....I would like to get some bedding plants organised, but it's also too soon, I'd like a glass of wine but I am still dieting, although I have reached my target weight I still feel flabby, despite the biks rides. Ideally I would like to do 40 lengths of swimming every day, that tones me up so quickly, but of course the pools are shut and it's too cold to open ours here, and even then it's too small to get any distance done. So, I am definitely in moaning mood this evening, sorry folks.
I did manage to paint my little pergola which I am pleased with, the roses and clematis are racing up it so it had to be done now. I might just give it another coat, certainly the big posts, tomorrow. If the wind drops we need a bonfire too, hopefully the last one for a while as all the big stuff has been cut back now.
My lawn seed isn't showing any sign of growth, but I am not surprised really, as soon as the sun moves off it it is just too cold.
Anyway, I am going to have an early night and hopefully feel a bit more cheerful tomorrow.
Have a nice evening all.
I have two gorgeous peonies that I bought with my birthday money last year, both in bloom at the time of my birthday (end of May). I've been careful with them, pruned them back properly when winter came about and they've been stored over winter in our carpeted outhouse so free of frost and everything. They now both have some gorgeous bushy growth on them (few of the leaves have pink splotches on them but doesn't look enough like anything I've identified online for me to worry about, and they're both growing really healthily so I'd rather leave that alone), the earlier flowering one now has a few juicy looking flower buds on it. However. Since I've had them I've understood that they can't tolerate frost at all, and now it's seeming very likely that my birthday this year will be slightly chillier than it was last year; what do I do with them? Just leave them in the outhouse? If I bring them outside they'll get frost bitten over night won't they? Am I babying them too much? It is really bitter still here in the south west. But if I don't bring them outside soon they'll be blooming in the outhouse...
Did a few hours in the garden - running out of space to put all the waste so I will have to bite the bullet and chop some of it up so it can be composted. I have a free tumbler bin thingy now.
Just looking at the forecast, still quite chilly at night but hoping frost risk will be gone by the end of the month so stuff can go out.
I hope all ailments are improving and everyone is doing ok.
back indoors at night for the next two or three weeks ... after that they should be fine to stay outside.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.