Oh dear!!! Drat and double drat!!! Yes of course I do ... thank you @punkdoc 😱it’s an Aquilegia alpina which on the Shady Bank is planted in front of the Clematis alpina ... I’m blaming the unaccustomed heat 🥵 🍻
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Desi_in_London thank you ... he’s having a very tough time at the moment ... he’s on some new immunotherapy treatment to slow the advance of multiple tumours ... however it comes with its own package of side effects one of which may well have caused tumours in the eye. Addenbrookes & associated clinics, and Moorfields are being wonderful .., but it’s grim.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Spent most of the day in the veg garden again - weeded nearly all of it now, just a couple of patches in my perennial beds to finish but it got too hot to stay out Did have an interlude when I was drinking my tea this morning, watching a fledgling pied wagtail on the wall, with Mum and Dad still keeping close and feeding it. By this afternoon it was doing short looping flights. I haven't been back to see, but it's probably got to the hazel trees on the bank by now and hopefully safe. They raised 4 babies last year, looks like only one made it this year but he looked fine and healthy. The redstarts were flitting in and out all the while - they're nesting in the wall by the back door, still got a young brood in the nest I'm guessing by the amount of trips going on. We've got three nesting pairs of swallows, all with babies hatched now - they've been flying high today. And the buzzard was circling over all day too. The wagtails maybe know he won't come so close to the house so their fledgling is not in danger from him. He was after baby rabbits I think - didn't quite see but he caught something in the field above the house.
OH is roasting some beef for dinner. My arms are stinging from the big nettles. But it's been a rather lovely day. Hope you've all found some peace and quiet too
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gorgeous iris @chicky! And seeing your aquilegias @Dovefromabove reminded me that a little while ago @D0rdogne_Damsel posted a pic of hers and I thought - wow, love those - and went online to search for some to buy. Didn't find any but a couple of weeks later, guess what popped up in my garden?
I'm collapsed in my chair with a nice cold glass of wine, cooling down after a quick shower to get the worst of the day's gardening efforts off. Been busy brushing Patio Magic on the worst of the paving round the house, dead-heading the irises (yours are just gorgeous @chicky), watering seedlings and young plants, sieving very old bark mulch mush and mixing it with MPC and finally potting up a rooted bit of the wild honeysuckle which is rapidly taking over our tall back hedge. I thought it might be useful for my daughter's high retaining wall - if she can climb up to the top to plant it!
Your brother's condition/treatment sounds grim @Dovefromabove, do hope it's successful or at least makes him more comfortable.
I'm too tired now to make a Shepherds Pie so it might just have to be a ready made lasagne tonight.
They are gorgeous aren’t they @didyw ... I bought mine from Notcutt’s on the ring road about seven or eight years ago ... but they've seeded all around the garden. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Eveining all. Congratulations to @Busy-Lizzie. I've done 2 loads of washing, cut ALL the grass, had an hour on the sunbed, traybake in the over and I've had a shower. Hugs to those who need them.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Spent most of the day in the veg garden again - weeded nearly all of it now, just a couple of patches in my perennial beds to finish but it got too hot to stay out
Did have an interlude when I was drinking my tea this morning, watching a fledgling pied wagtail on the wall, with Mum and Dad still keeping close and feeding it. By this afternoon it was doing short looping flights. I haven't been back to see, but it's probably got to the hazel trees on the bank by now and hopefully safe. They raised 4 babies last year, looks like only one made it this year but he looked fine and healthy.
The redstarts were flitting in and out all the while - they're nesting in the wall by the back door, still got a young brood in the nest I'm guessing by the amount of trips going on.
We've got three nesting pairs of swallows, all with babies hatched now - they've been flying high today.
And the buzzard was circling over all day too. The wagtails maybe know he won't come so close to the house so their fledgling is not in danger from him. He was after baby rabbits I think - didn't quite see but he caught something in the field above the house.
OH is roasting some beef for dinner. My arms are stinging from the big nettles. But it's been a rather lovely day. Hope you've all found some peace and quiet too
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Your brother's condition/treatment sounds grim @Dovefromabove, do hope it's successful or at least makes him more comfortable.
I'm too tired now to make a Shepherds Pie so it might just have to be a ready made lasagne tonight.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Congratulations to @Busy-Lizzie.
I've done 2 loads of washing, cut ALL the grass, had an hour on the sunbed, traybake in the over and I've had a shower.
Hugs to those who need them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.