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🌹 HELLO FORKERS 🍓 June ‘23 🌹 🍓 🌹

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My gardener daughter @WonkyWomble has been taking care of my mojo for me … she’s only letting me have it back a little at a time … 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Red mapleRed maple Posts: 1,138
    Good morning,

    hello @plant pauper. We haven’t met either, but nice to see that you are back on the forum.

    We have had much needed rain through the night and already the grass looks happier. We have more forecast this pm, with possible thunder storms. At the moment, though, the sky is blue and the sun is shining. I plan to do a little more tidying of the borders, having done some yesterday. Looking better already.

    Ive been reading through this last weeks posts, as I’m a bit behind having had a week of being here, there and everywhere. I do hope those of you with health issues start to see improvement asap, and @AnnaB, I hope your GP can get you sorted. She sounds marvellous. It does seem as if you could be suffering from long covid, but I’m no expert on such matters. Take care.

    Well, I’d better get on, breakfast is calling (well, my stomach is 😂).


  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Good morning all,  we had a little rain late yesterday but not enough to do much good.  Hopefully we will get much more.  
    We are still suffering the after effects of the colds we picked up in the last week of our trip . Its making our catch up a lot slower than we had hoped.  
    AB Still learning

  • AnnaBAnnaB Posts: 524
    Hello @plant pauper we haven't met either but I well remember you from several years ago when I just did a daily read of the forum but never posted. Welcome back.

    @Lizzie27 we had neighbours with a standard 10 (or was it and 8?), a black metal box on wheels, and a lot of weekends were spent driving out for a picnic - mummy and daddy neighbour, their daughter, my mum, and me (a tall lanky 14 year old who's legs cramped up in the back seat space) plus a HUGE hairy dog who trampled all over us the whole journey. We were all pretty exhausted by the time we arrived at somewhere to picnic especially as the old car groaned somewhat under all the weight and only puttered along at its own slow speed. Oh the memories!

    Well guess what - we had rain overnight. Several heavy downpours but dont think it has been enough to do a lot of good. Garden air smells lovely though, off to sit outside with my mid morning coffee.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Morning all, no rain here unfortunately but very humid so who knows. I did want to plant a clematis but need OH to dig the hole. He must have known what I was thinking as he's just gone off for a walk!

    @AnnaB, we started out with a Standard 8 but as the family expanded, Dad had to buy the bigger 10. As you say, a metal box on wheels but it towed a very tiny caravan up to the wilds of Scotland for several years. Mum, my baby sister and I slept in it while the males slept in an old Army tent, the big round camouflage ones. Enjoy your coffee.
    I'm having a running battle with a young squirrel on the bird feeders - it's winning so far!

    Pleased to meet you @plant pauper. Hope you enjoy the forum again.

    Right, I'd better put the laptop down and go and do something. Enjoy your Sunday folks.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Morning all.
    Hello again @plant pauper. Chuffed that you remember my garden. I downsized 2 1/2 years ago, sold to a Dutch couple who said my garden made their mouths water so I hope they are liking it. I've been making a new garden at my new house, hard work, but fun.

    Our thunderstorm hasn't arrived yet, it's warm and sunny. Garden could do with a good soak.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    How could I forget it @Busy-Lizzie? It is a masterpiece! (and also your pond 🤣).
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    Lovely to meet you @plant pauper
    I am in Central Italy near Viterbo @Dovefromabove
    @tui34 ciao! Hope all well in pretty Provence.

    I left OH in charge of watering the garden, 🤞 it is still dry and hot in Luxembourg.  Here too but only in the last couple of days, and of course,  they all moan about the "bad weather" lol.




    Luxembourg
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That looks like a lovely area @coccinella … 😊 

    I’ve been out there filling the garden waste bin with yet more of the rubbish cut back when Wonky came to ‘sort the garden out’ and I’ve hoed the veg patch around the beanpoles, courgettes and tomatoes … I’ve also sown a row of beetroot and a row of Swiss Chard and covered then with rigid plastic mesh to protect from neighbour’s cats. They don’t often visit but seem to have a nose for a freshly sown seedbed. Everything was watered earlier and I’ve had the seep hose on the Shady Bank fir a while. I’ve also given the area around the amelanchier a good soaking … the leaves are turning already because of the drought!  

    I’ve topped the pond up too … OH said he saw a hedgehog poking around near the log pile in the Wilderness at the back of the pond yesterday afternoon … we’re hoping that it was a nursing female going to the pond for  a drink, rather than one with a health problem. OH said it seemed healthy from what he could see. 

    The Wilderness is thickly covered with low undergrowth, ferns, hardy geraniums, acanthus, a rambling rose, Alchemilla Mollis and lots of other stuff … and there’s the log pile of course … perfect hedgehog habitat …  we very rarely set foot in that corner … just look at it 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • D0rdogne_DamselD0rdogne_Damsel Posts: 4,184
    Good evening all and welcome back @plant pauper. 😁

    Mega busy weekend, Father's Day, a band played here last night and I think the whole world dined here today.... certainly seemed like it! 😱

    I'm now sat in the lower garden, feet up, church bells ringing, enjoying being alone. The midges are annoying me, they can probably smell me, awfully warm in the kitchen today. 😅

    House saga continues, another meeting on Tuesday, fed up with it all. I've looked at some others, but like this one so much it seems a shame to give up on it over what is a bureaucratic issue, some say the policy might even be reversed as there is such an outcry from the public and all of the estate agents, apparently they're lobbying the government, I don't hold out much hope but we'll see. 

    Charlie went to a pool party on Saturday and his dad wouldn't buy him any suncream, despite Charlie asking him and explaining how important it was. Unfortunately, he caught the sun and has suffered ever since. Ive told him if he ever needs anything just to ask me and I'll sort it. I would have taken it to the party for him. Of course, all the other kids are farmers kids and have no need of it, so no-one to borrow from. I was cross with his dad though. 😬 So was Charlie. He can't understand why his dad is being so difficult. Very frustrating. 

    Anyway, I must feed myself but I think there's a possibility of a bit of thundery rain, so I might hang out here a bit longer and enjoy the peace. 


    Good evening to all. 



    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
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