@Marlorena Thanks for that Marlorena, I would never have thought about spider eggs. But having googled it since your post you could well be right. I doubt whether they will survive now though unfortunately.
Back home now. The tadpoles are looking happy and it seems that the blanket weed that I put in there did make the perfect holiday food. I had a quick look around the garden and things seem to have really started moving over the last week. Looking at the roses I’ve found the the suspected first bud on Desdemona is indeed a bud, plus there are lots more on Lady of Shalott and Royal Jubilee.
Do you all enjoy being given a rose as a present? My answer to that is a resounding 'NO'.. because it's never going to be the one I want and my garden is peculiar in its narrow confines.. Today a well meaning relative brought me a beautiful red strongly scented rose in a pot. I know where they got it and how much it cost [£9] .. because I've seen it there many times and always left it on the shelf with good reason... it's one of the thorniest roses I know of.. 'OTHELLO'.. beautiful but deadly. If you've never grown it, be warned..
I shall repot it, keep it a respectable amount of time, 6 months if lucky, and it will then quietly disappear..
Lordy, Lordy ... I had a friend over from Berlin for 6 days and I come back to 14 pages!
@Marlorena that they will just be delayed by a few weeks. When you said it was recently -8 degrees with you we were at -16, and some silly fool called 'Me' had just early pruned his Hydrangeas.
But it is warming up and the perennials are now getting planted into the new bed. I really need to repost a picture. I was also replanting the Martagons and thought of you @Marlorena
Oh no... Marlorena... we were raising a subscription to buy you five Othellos, five Queen Elizabeths, a Kiftsgate rambler, and a random unlabelled mixture of garish HTs from JParkers. 😉
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Thanks for that Marlorena, I would never have thought about spider eggs. But having googled it since your post you could well be right. I doubt whether they will survive now though unfortunately.
@Nollie, congratulations on first bloom of the season. Wisteria is looking amazing.
I’ll have a closer look tomorrow!
@JessicaS all very lush, almost like summer..
Do you all enjoy being given a rose as a present? My answer to that is a resounding 'NO'.. because it's never going to be the one I want and my garden is peculiar in its narrow confines..
Today a well meaning relative brought me a beautiful red strongly scented rose in a pot. I know where they got it and how much it cost [£9] .. because I've seen it there many times and always left it on the shelf with good reason... it's one of the thorniest roses I know of..
'OTHELLO'.. beautiful but deadly. If you've never grown it, be warned..
I shall repot it, keep it a respectable amount of time, 6 months if lucky, and it will then quietly disappear..
Glad to be back.