Evening all, another hot day but with more cloud than yesterday, quite welcome in fact. Been pottering, cleared out the back of the shed - always a dump area. Why am I collecting bags of old compost bags? Trimmed the hedge behind the shed as far as I could reach then OH pruned higher up. It's now a mix of berberis, native honeysuckle, thankfully not as rampant as last year and clematis armandii - very rampant and threatening to engulf the shed. I was too tired to put all the stuff back so that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Glad you enjoyed your adventure trip with Charlie @D0rdogne_Damsel and hopefully you area bit more relaxed now. Fingers crossed for Tuesday.
Blue skies and a cool breeze today. Will have to watch out for sunburn. I actually had shorts on yesterday Might not risk that today.
I've been sorting out the pots in our little sheltered courtyard behind the house. They were all full of grass and nettles, so I've resurrected the 'real' plants - the ones that have survived the winter, anyway. I do have a few, err, planting opportunities. Only lost one of our acers and that was a small one, so not too bad. All the dahlias are dead - as usual. They were gifts from the neighbour - her surplus - I don't buy them because they never survive the winter. Also lost a patio rose (another present) but the lemon verbena is doing well, the baby fig tree is still alive. There's one tiny green shoot on an azalea I bought last year but which didn't like the hot summer. We'll see. Still need to sort the bay tree and my strawberry pots and remove a bit more moss from the paving.
Hope everyone has a nice bank holiday
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
can you have a hangover without drinking? Well I do, bodyache and headache, must have been the 00 beer. The party went very well @Lizzie27, thank you. Better than expected actually, the new neighbours are nice people and we have a gp amongst them, lovely lady. In exchange for her coming to pluck my cooking herbs I can have a free consultation 😄
Oh dear @Allotment Boy I hope there is nothing to show (on your foot!) for all the work you did yesterday. Sometimes it is a balance between bodypain and heartache for the garden and sometime one must favour the mind over the body. I often do.
@raisingirl don't give up on the dahlias yet. Mine is about 5 cm tall resurrecting from a very hard Luxembourgish winter. I put sticks around it to protect it from OH big feet.
Morning everyone, bright but breezy here too. I am taking our dear old Toyota to get some work done on the paintwork while we are away. It's going to be expensive but cheaper than changing the car. My wife is a bit nervous about them knowing we are away, but we are getting a GD to house sit for us so the place won't be empty. Yes @coccinella, in the days when I used to drink beer, the worst hangover ever was on alcohol free stuff, I think it must be all the chemicals they put in to make it taste like the real thing.
Brrr … overcast out there with a cool breeze … but I’ve planted out the courgettes @WonkyWomble gave me. They’re well grown and hardened off and have fruit on them already. 👍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Been pottering, cleared out the back of the shed - always a dump area. Why am I collecting bags of old compost bags? Trimmed the hedge behind the shed as far as I could reach then OH pruned higher up. It's now a mix of berberis, native honeysuckle, thankfully not as rampant as last year and clematis armandii - very rampant and threatening to engulf the shed. I was too tired to put all the stuff back so that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Glad you enjoyed your adventure trip with Charlie @D0rdogne_Damsel and hopefully you area bit more relaxed now. Fingers crossed for Tuesday.
Hope the street party went well @tui34.= or was it @coccinella's?
My remaining strawberries are nowhere near ripening @Allotment Boy, but I bet the ones the squirrels pinched would have been.
You've got far more stamina than I have @Busy-Lizzie, couldn't even contemplate looking after 5 small children!
Hope you're all enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It will be another hot day.
I must drive OH to the dentist, Son 2, to have his stitches out, then I hope to relax.
Looking sunny again. I shall be ordering the under gardener around, trying to get some more planting done.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
A lovely sunny morning but we still have the Easterly breeze making it feel a bit chilly.
I've been sorting out the pots in our little sheltered courtyard behind the house. They were all full of grass and nettles, so I've resurrected the 'real' plants - the ones that have survived the winter, anyway. I do have a few, err, planting opportunities. Only lost one of our acers and that was a small one, so not too bad. All the dahlias are dead - as usual. They were gifts from the neighbour - her surplus - I don't buy them because they never survive the winter. Also lost a patio rose (another present) but the lemon verbena is doing well, the baby fig tree is still alive. There's one tiny green shoot on an azalea I bought last year but which didn't like the hot summer. We'll see. Still need to sort the bay tree and my strawberry pots and remove a bit more moss from the paving.
Hope everyone has a nice bank holiday
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
can you have a hangover without drinking? Well I do, bodyache and headache, must have been the 00 beer. The party went very well @Lizzie27, thank you. Better than expected actually, the new neighbours are nice people and we have a gp amongst them, lovely lady. In exchange for her coming to pluck my cooking herbs I can have a free consultation 😄
Oh dear @Allotment Boy I hope there is nothing to show (on your foot!) for all the work you did yesterday. Sometimes it is a balance between bodypain and heartache for the garden and sometime one must favour the mind over the body. I often do.
@raisingirl don't give up on the dahlias yet. Mine is about 5 cm tall resurrecting from a very hard Luxembourgish winter. I put sticks around it to protect it from OH big feet.
It is sunny here too. Enjoy.
Luxembourg
Super weather for the BH weekend. A tad breezy this morning though.
Yes @coccinella, in the days when I used to drink beer, the worst hangover ever was on alcohol free stuff, I think it must be all the chemicals they put in to make it taste like the real thing.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.