Morning all, flying visit - guests been here all week, lovely as they are they wanted lunch and evening meals daily, stayed mostly at the house 'relaxing', not interested in sightseeing, so I have have my hands full. Poor dishwasher hasn't been off all week.
Just dashing off to a garden Open Day today, taking a friends mum because daughter is away, and hopefully returning to an empty house later.
Poor garden highly neglected.
Will hopefully get a chance to peruse later. hope all ok, have a lovely day. Weather good here btw.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
It looks like its going to be annother beautiful day here again today. I can't believe what fantastic weather we are having
Went to see a house that we liked Thursday and before we knew it ours was on the market! Been busy going mad getting jobs done in the house and garden ready for any potential buyers
Painting the front is on the agenda today! Can't believe where my time off has gone and I'm back on shift tomorrow
Hope you all have great days and hopefully can catch up later xx
Hopefully my wrist will let me do some jobs in the garden today. I wonder if the wax bean seeds are ready to collect I've also got some potting on to do and some seeds and cuttings to get on with.
Panda, is the washing machine dry yet?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Panda - have you been on the bevvy and is the washing sitting in a corner of the kitchen then?
BM - good luck with the house prep. Remember - the approach to your house is the first and last thing they see
Can you tell I've done a lot of house selling and buying recently ....
Woody - dark purple with orange tones are a great combination. There's one called Recreado which looks nice too. I was going to get some purple and orange ones for pots but I've decided to restrain myself.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My cold is relaxing its grip at last. Pottered a bit in the garden yesterday, picking raspberries, reducing the size of the buddleia (probably will have to get rid of it later, cos it's outgrown its site) and weeding moss out of saxifrages in tufa using eyebrow tweezers (they work well btw! ).
Plenty of Big Stuff to do but I'll have to leave major pruning/shrub removal until November, when our local tip re-opens. We were "tipless" for 9 months last year while the council refurbished it, and my shed was stuffed to the roof with sacks of prunings, dandelion roots etc. We're "smokeless" here so I couldn't just burn it either. Then in January this year our lovely shiny new tip opened and we stuffed the car with load after load of garden rubbish, cardboard etc, and got rid of it with great relief. (We don't have garden waste collection round here.)
However, in June a disgruntled former council employee locked himself into said tip at 7am on a Sunday and ran amok with a digger, demolishing walls, buildings and everything else - they had to get armed police to stop him! (Great excitement in this sleepy neck of the woods...) So we're back to square one, no tip until November (they say - though it'll probably be New Year judging by past form). So my poor little 7' x 5' shed is once again stuffed to the gills. My rugosa hedge desperately needs a hard prune cos it's going bare at the bottom, but I daren't do it until I know I can get rid of the rubbish...
Anyway, plenty more to do. Lawn needs mowing, shed needs 2nd coat of paint, as well as a couple of coats of bitumen on its roof, so that should keep me out of mischief today...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Blimey Liri - thats some disgruntlement. Most of us just shout at the long suffering OH for a bit
Your cold is relaxing its grip because its come here instead. Woke up feeling rotten, but a lemsip seems to be doing the trick (other cold remedies are available).
beautiful morning here - still, blue skies, everything looking faintly golden. Today I must plant!! Unfortunately, that will require a bit of weeding first too. But before that..... Another cuppa
beau - new house sounds exciting - tell us more (about the garden, not the house)
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Yviestevie. Chicken wire frustrates squirrels no end. I got fed up with losing crocuses. This year, they have protection.
The white mouse(flash) seems to be surviving. It was running around again this morning.
I am very strong, and it was a very dirty washing machine
Morning all, flying visit - guests been here all week, lovely as they are they wanted lunch and evening meals daily, stayed mostly at the house 'relaxing', not interested in sightseeing, so I have have my hands full. Poor dishwasher hasn't been off all week.
Just dashing off to a garden Open Day today, taking a friends mum because daughter is away, and hopefully returning to an empty house later.
Poor garden highly neglected.
Will hopefully get a chance to peruse later. hope all ok, have a lovely day. Weather good here btw.
Morning DD and everyone.
Very very misty here this morning, can't see the garden.
Sounds like you've had a very busy week, you need to put your feet up and have a lazy day.
Not sure what we are doing today
Take care everyone see you later.
Good morning everyone
Hope you have all had good weekends so far
It looks like its going to be annother beautiful day here again today. I can't believe what fantastic weather we are having
Went to see a house that we liked Thursday and before we knew it ours was on the market! Been busy going mad getting jobs done in the house and garden ready for any potential buyers
Painting the front is on the agenda today! Can't believe where my time off has gone and I'm back on shift tomorrow
Hope you all have great days and hopefully can catch up later xx
Good morning all
That sounds exciting BM 
Hopefully my wrist will let me do some jobs in the garden today. I wonder if the wax bean seeds are ready to collect
I've also got some potting on to do and some seeds and cuttings to get on with.
Panda, is the washing machine dry yet?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. Cloudier here but seems mild.
Panda - have you been on the bevvy and is the washing sitting in a corner of the kitchen then?
BM - good luck with the house prep. Remember - the approach to your house is the first and last thing they see
Can you tell I've done a lot of house selling and buying recently ....
Woody - dark purple with orange tones are a great combination. There's one called Recreado which looks nice too. I was going to get some purple and orange ones for pots but I've decided to restrain myself.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning all!
My cold is relaxing its grip at last. Pottered a bit in the garden yesterday, picking raspberries, reducing the size of the buddleia (probably will have to get rid of it later, cos it's outgrown its site) and weeding moss out of saxifrages in tufa using eyebrow tweezers (they work well btw!
).
Plenty of Big Stuff to do but I'll have to leave major pruning/shrub removal until November, when our local tip re-opens. We were "tipless" for 9 months last year while the council refurbished it, and my shed was stuffed to the roof with sacks of prunings, dandelion roots etc. We're "smokeless" here so I couldn't just burn it either. Then in January this year our lovely shiny new tip opened and we stuffed the car with load after load of garden rubbish, cardboard etc, and got rid of it with great relief. (We don't have garden waste collection round here.)
However, in June a disgruntled former council employee locked himself into said tip at 7am on a Sunday and ran amok with a digger, demolishing walls, buildings and everything else - they had to get armed police to stop him! (Great excitement in this sleepy neck of the woods...) So we're back to square one, no tip until November (they say - though it'll probably be New Year judging by past form). So my poor little 7' x 5' shed is once again stuffed to the gills. My rugosa hedge desperately needs a hard prune cos it's going bare at the bottom, but I daren't do it until I know I can get rid of the rubbish...
Anyway, plenty more to do.
Lawn needs mowing, shed needs 2nd coat of paint, as well as a couple of coats of bitumen on its roof, so that should keep me out of mischief today... 
Blimey Liri - thats some disgruntlement
. Most of us just shout at the long suffering OH for a bit
Your cold is relaxing its grip because its come here instead
. Woke up feeling rotten, but a lemsip seems to be doing the trick (other cold remedies are available
).
beautiful morning here - still, blue skies, everything looking faintly golden. Today I must plant!! Unfortunately, that will require a bit of weeding first too. But before that..... Another cuppa
beau - new house sounds exciting - tell us more (about the garden, not the house
)