Two packs of Magnums would neverremain undiscovered in this household. Unbridled joy when I found out that there were vegan ones .... the one and only thing I had been missing.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Ergates,my CT flowered one winter,then died. 12 year old granddaughter stayed this week,we made a Halloween cake. Last year I just made it as a pumpkin, covered in webs and spider. Hubby decorated this one. Steve Tu,we get bees all year. Let's face it,it is pretty mild here. We took grandaughter home,7 0 clock last night,It was 19c.
Got my new prunus pissardi nigra planted with OH digging the hole and me sorting thru the excavated soil to remove weeds and stones and save worms. As ever, it was a quarrying exercise so one barrowful of soil removed, one barrowful of weeds and roots and 2/3rds barrowful of stones from pebbles to small rocks.
I shall plant some spring bulbs around it next week when all the water has drained thru and the soil has settled a bit. Two smallish magnolias and a couple of shrubs to go in as the bones of a new bed for pollinators and birds. Got to love autumn planning and planting.
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)."
It's been a lovely bright afternoon, towels dried on the line (gotta love free solar and wind energy!), and I've planted 100 Narcissus bulbs (Thalia - I hope ) in pots to go into the ground in spring when I can see where the gaps are.
I'd already done 50 N. Petrel and 50 allium Purple Sensation. That's used up a bag of rubbish cheap peat-free compost, which actually seemed better in texture for being left sitting around outside all summer (no worries about nutrient leaching as it's only to provide a temporary growing medium for bulbs) and a bag of bought topsoil, mixed together. Just 50 each of tulips Doll's Minuet and Purple Doll to go, but I might put some of those in big tubs to flower by the front door. I need more compost for them, but there's no hurry for tulip planting.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Was it you that got a load of scrumpled-kleenex double daffs instead of Thalia @B3?
This is the 3rd year in a row I've bought 100 Thalia from J Parkers wholesale. One time I got 99 Thalia and 1 some kind of pheasant's eye narcissus, another I got 99 Thalia and 1 Ornithogalum nutans. Not too bad! I think with the addition of this 3rd batch I'll get the look that I'm after.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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Two packs of Magnums would never remain undiscovered in this household.
Unbridled joy when I found out that there were vegan ones .... the one and only thing I had been missing.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
I shall plant some spring bulbs around it next week when all the water has drained thru and the soil has settled a bit. Two smallish magnolias and a couple of shrubs to go in as the bones of a new bed for pollinators and birds. Got to love autumn planning and planting.