There's odd @chicky. In my Belgian garden I couldn't get liatris spicata to last more than one season and even then it was peaky so I gave up. On the other hand, achillea grew well - wild form in the verges, cobbles and lawn plus ornamental varieties in the borders. Achillea The Pearl was especially good. Deep, fertile, alkaline loam on a clay subsoil and plenty of rain.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Lovely silver lining @chicky ... and I'm keeping myself amused by enjoying a late-delivered but very much appreciated part of my birthday present from @Wonkywomble ... 'A Year in the Life of Beth Chatto's Gardens'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's still perishing here and I got very cold waiting in the car whilst OH had his physio session. I read the paper so didn't really realize how cold I was getting - stupid!
I read and re-read Beth Chatto's Garden Notes, a year in her garden, written quite a long time ago now. We've enjoyed two visits there on our way to Holland and back over the years. I do hope it warms up tomorrow.
Afternoon folks, That still looks really painful @Pat E
Feeling a bit down today, mainly due to the weather. I'd sort of psyched myself up to getting going in the garden following those lovely few days we had but now find everything on hold due to the current cold snap. I'm just hoping it warms up soon.
Yievie a hug from me.Ihave just finished reading one of the Ann cleeves, Shetland murdery books, got the grass cut yesterday,it was lovely out of the wind.mid afternoon it was dark,cloudy old man said rain, thought good because everything is so dry,it snowed,quite a lot came down didn't lay,but then the sun came out and blue sky,as though it had never happened
There was a frost this morning, but the sun came out and it was warmer than I expected it to be. I watered each plant, using the hose pipe then hoed the flower beds, there were seedling weeds.
This afternoon I finished painting the first coat on the utility room ceiling and the end wall.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
By echium, twas chilly out first thing this morning Had my 5-minute mooch early doors. Nothing much to report - the daffs still haven't opened and another broad bean seed has germinated and sprung up. It must be a fan of sub-zero temperatures.
Another lovely day so I assume it got warmer as I spent another day indoors hunched over two laptops
We've lost a chook. Only 5 in the hen house at bedtime and no sign of no 6 anywhere in the hen house, their pen, the potager, the polytunnel, the trees overhead, the barns.... Not in the long grass near the potager and too much to search all the rest but no clucking or muttering anywhere.
Stumped.
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)."
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I read and re-read Beth Chatto's Garden Notes, a year in her garden, written quite a long time ago now. We've enjoyed two visits there on our way to Holland and back over the years.
I do hope it warms up tomorrow.
This afternoon I finished painting the first coat on the utility room ceiling and the end wall.
Another lovely day so I assume it got warmer as I spent another day indoors hunched over two laptops
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Stumped.