its a beautiful morning … OH is at home today (he has a very heavy week next week) and I don’t have much on the To Do list other than deadheading and watering (oh! and I must cut the Hesperis hard back and sow some foxgloves) Other than that I can be in the studio this morning and watch tennis this afternoon … it’s a hard life 😃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm planning a gardening day today as I'm going back to France on Monday. Staying with DIL on Sunday in Eastbourne. Lady gardener is coming this afternoon to see what to do in the garden while I, maybe we, are away.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
@Yviestevie. So pleased for your daughter, I will be the same when this goes on the market, will stipulate in the first place it will not be bought by speculators from other countries, the Chinese buy everything up in Cornwall and turn them into holiday homes or pull down and build an estate now the planning laws seem to be ‘anything goes’. I don’t like this ‘offers over’. Only 12 years since I sold the last house and it was still at the bating down times, the price was agreed then they started nit picking and trying to knock down the price, I told them to look elsewhere if they wanted to. Its a cut throat business these days.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I've spent about 5 hours in the garden today, weeding, edging, tying up, dead heading and watering. Tired. Lady gardener didn't come as the road is closed just past our house, sewage pipes for new houses are being put in, as it would have taken her too long by the diversion and she was running late.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I've actually managed some gardening the last couple of days, although jungle clearing might be a better description...bindweed everywhere, it grows metres overnight I'm sure. Looked at the beds today and thought very lacking in colour, spring bulbs and geums over, glads and dahlias yet to come, lilies nearly done, definitely missing something. My salvia are about to get going, roses ok, but had to give a hard deadheading to, so now a bit sparse.. can't think what to put in to fill the gap, probably too late for this year, but next year... I noticed the council garden has lots of Alstroemeria, they seem very colourful and quite prolific, might give them a go. Any ideas anyone, the flowerbed most lacking is north (ish) facing, therefore a bit shady but catches morning sun, raised bed, so good soil and I add to it annually with manure and new compost. Slugs are prolific!
Coach party today of mature French students studying English, cream teas for all. Loved it, the other half of the class are coming next week and then we have a party of 34 students coming soon too, for an English 'experience' and 25 students from the local school for fish and chips, all good.
I know I have my hands full with CdeG, but I've been approached about taking over a restaurant in a very popular tourist spot. The current tenant has been there for 48 years and the offering hasn't changed much in all that time. It's in desperate need of revitalising, the town council has a vested interest.... early days, lots of considerations, 3/4s of me screams no, no, no..... but the challenge, the potential to make something really great..... gosh, I could blow there socks off.... But then I think about that bindweed getting away from me...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm planning a gardening day today as I'm going back to France on Monday. Staying with DIL on Sunday in Eastbourne. Lady gardener is coming this afternoon to see what to do in the garden while I, maybe we, are away.
I don’t like this ‘offers over’. Only 12 years since I sold the last house and it was still at the bating down times, the price was agreed then they started nit picking and trying to knock down the price, I told them to look elsewhere if they wanted to.
Its a cut throat business these days.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Yviestevie, fabulous news, very heartwarming.
I've actually managed some gardening the last couple of days, although jungle clearing might be a better description...bindweed everywhere, it grows metres overnight I'm sure. Looked at the beds today and thought very lacking in colour, spring bulbs and geums over, glads and dahlias yet to come, lilies nearly done, definitely missing something. My salvia are about to get going, roses ok, but had to give a hard deadheading to, so now a bit sparse.. can't think what to put in to fill the gap, probably too late for this year, but next year... I noticed the council garden has lots of Alstroemeria, they seem very colourful and quite prolific, might give them a go. Any ideas anyone, the flowerbed most lacking is north (ish) facing, therefore a bit shady but catches morning sun, raised bed, so good soil and I add to it annually with manure and new compost. Slugs are prolific!
Coach party today of mature French students studying English, cream teas for all. Loved it, the other half of the class are coming next week and then we have a party of 34 students coming soon too, for an English 'experience' and 25 students from the local school for fish and chips, all good.
I know I have my hands full with CdeG, but I've been approached about taking over a restaurant in a very popular tourist spot. The current tenant has been there for 48 years and the offering hasn't changed much in all that time. It's in desperate need of revitalising, the town council has a vested interest.... early days, lots of considerations, 3/4s of me screams no, no, no..... but the challenge, the potential to make something really great..... gosh, I could blow there socks off.... But then I think about that bindweed getting away from me...