@AnniD Oh goodness yes, can see it quite easily 🤦♀️ Didn't notice when taking/posting photos Thank you for help. Did you put anything else in their place? @Topbird thank you too. How long do you think I should leave it before planting a new shrub/plant there. @Songbird-2 thank you, it certainly does. I can't begin to explain how I'm feeling. So sorry to hear that your brother has been diagnosed with health issues. Sending my very best wishes to you x
I'm sorry you are feeling so down @star gaze lily, but I found, when first OH died, that the first year is the worst. Life does pick up and family and grandchildren help. Definitely box moth caterpillars in your box.
It will be hot today, probably 34° this afternoon. We are on an orange alert for the next few days. Not too bad at the moment as there is a slight breeze flowing between the open kitchen window and the sitting room French windows, but I will have to shut them soon. This old stone cottage is reasonably cool, except for the upstairs. My bedroom was 28° last night.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Lily I have a photo that I framed a few years ago .It is on the wall in my dining room. It is a photo and not a sketch . My grandma was brought up at the Rose and Crown until it was pulled down I believe in the early nineteen hundreds . It is hard to believe but my grandma was born in 1878. I never new her as a middle aged lady . She was well into her sixties when I was born .
Talking of critters, we seem to have many, many cobwebs and spiders, strewn everywhere...between plant to plant, plant to fence, plant to tree, plant to chairs, plants to greenhouse, you get the idea. When we walk round the garden it's like an Indiana Jones tunnel moment getting through 'em all😬 @star gaze lily, do you have many box plants? What a job...we saw another mouse in the garden. Wildlife is going mad this year.....
@Busy-Lizzie thank you. I know I have a lot 'of firsts' to get through and it's early days. But the pain is indescribable, I know you will know it too. The little ones certainly brighten the day as do family and friends. @Songbird-2 I only have the one box ball. Which was a gift and has/had grown into a beautiful large ball. And up until a few days ago had still looked perfect. I couldn't believe it when I looked at it yesterday how quickly it had deteriorated 😞 @Rubee what a beautiful and treasured photo. Such lovely memories and history for you too. Thank you for sharing.
Hazel I think my ancestors life will have been very hard .She was the owner and had to do everything from brewing to serving her customers and dealing with coach parties travelling north and south .I know she had staff they are listed as servants in the archive .
@star gaze lily, all the box hedge in the back garden was removed, and l just used it as a new planting opportunity for perennials . The front garden had 2 big box balls under the front windows, l took those out and replaced them with shrubby salvias.
We still have a low box hedge in the front garden, l was all for taking it out but my OH wanted to try and save it. We picked off what seemed like hundreds of caterpillars, and this Spring it didn't look too bad, but the caterpillars are back again 🙄, and its starting to look really bad in places. There is talk of possibly reducing its size and replacing it with Ilex crenata this Autumn.
Thank you for the link @AnniD I will have a think about those. But I'm thinking of putting a potentilla there and a couple of bargain Astrantias that I bought the other day and need putting in the ground. Just need to find out how long to leave the ground before planting anything. Son has dug it out for me, took some shifting, but it's now in the green bin. He's a good lad 🥰 @Rubee how lovely to be able have such documentation about your ancestors. It does sound like she worked so very hard, bless her.
Just think of the tales that street could tell Rubee. Wow, she did the brewing too? Very impressive. Yes, I can well imagine that life would have been incredibly hard. @star gaze lily, could you maybe plant something there for OH or perhaps that would too hard yet?
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Thank you for help. Did you put anything else in their place?
@Topbird thank you too. How long do you think I should leave it before planting a new shrub/plant there.
@Songbird-2 thank you, it certainly does. I can't begin to explain how I'm feeling.
So sorry to hear that your brother has been diagnosed with health issues. Sending my very best wishes to you x
I'm sorry you are feeling so down @star gaze lily, but I found, when first OH died, that the first year is the worst. Life does pick up and family and grandchildren help. Definitely box moth caterpillars in your box.
It will be hot today, probably 34° this afternoon. We are on an orange alert for the next few days. Not too bad at the moment as there is a slight breeze flowing between the open kitchen window and the sitting room French windows, but I will have to shut them soon. This old stone cottage is reasonably cool, except for the upstairs. My bedroom was 28° last night.
@star gaze lily, do you have many box plants? What a job...we saw another mouse in the garden. Wildlife is going mad this year.....
@Songbird-2 I only have the one box ball. Which was a gift and has/had grown into a beautiful large ball. And up until a few days ago had still looked perfect. I couldn't believe it when I looked at it yesterday how quickly it had deteriorated 😞
@Rubee what a beautiful and treasured photo. Such lovely memories and history for you too. Thank you for sharing.
The front garden had 2 big box balls under the front windows, l took those out and replaced them with shrubby salvias.
We still have a low box hedge in the front garden, l was all for taking it out but my OH wanted to try and save it. We picked off what seemed like hundreds of caterpillars, and this Spring it didn't look too bad, but the caterpillars are back again 🙄, and its starting to look really bad in places. There is talk of possibly reducing its size and replacing it with Ilex crenata this Autumn.
https://www.scotplantsdirect.co.uk/hedging/pot-grown-hedging/ilex-crenata-hedge-plants/ilex-crenata-green-hedge-evergreen-japanese-holly-hedging-pot-grown.html?gad=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm5u8qorrgAMVo5NoCR15gwwwEAQYAiABEgLEEPD_BwE
But I'm thinking of putting a potentilla there and a couple of bargain Astrantias that I bought the other day and need putting in the ground. Just need to find out how long to leave the ground before planting anything.
Son has dug it out for me, took some shifting, but it's now in the green bin. He's a good lad 🥰
@Rubee how lovely to be able have such documentation about your ancestors. It does sound like she worked so very hard, bless her.
@star gaze lily, could you maybe plant something there for OH or perhaps that would too hard yet?