I just typed a long post with all the info about our trip, my plant purchases and gifts from Nut and the lovely time we had looking around her garden and the delicious lunch she'd prepared for us - but it all disappeared into the ether and I'm too tired to type it again now - I'll tell you all about it in the morning
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Evening all.... Orchid chilli monster!!!! ok yeah I have been killed a hot head many times but!!! Well phoned the garden company today and am still waiting for a call back!!! Woodland garden is romping away I'm well impressed!! Tracey thanks for bday wishes for lo!! She's calmer today thank heavens.... Right lunch to make for tomorrow back to work boooo
I will be recording "The Widower" on +1 as OH wants to watch "The Plantagenets".
Tracey, before you went off for the w/e (glad you had a good one) you said something about delphiniums not germinating. I tend to buy plants and take cuttings of the shoots, it's quicker than seeds. But not so many of course, if they germinate.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Delphiniums from seed work for me - but need patience. I always go for a blue mix ( blue fountains fromGC, or online) and then you avoid the disappointment of a peelywally white one. For me, any shade of blue delphinium is lovely - and worth the wait. Have never tried cuttings - maybe i'll give that a go this year. Is it best to do basal ones?
Evening all Have been out for a lovely dinner with two very good girlfriends. Just what I needed, and it was my treat to them for being great!
Would love some delphiniums but I fear I my garden is way too much of a slug/snail jamboree to attempt growing them. I'd rather not run the risk of pellets etc not working!
I'm still happy that weeds are growing in my garden. Sounds weird doesn't it? In my last garden (rental property) I cleared the very overgrown garden (by hand - no chemicals used) in August. Roll on to the next August and not a single weed had grown. I often wondered what they'd done to that soil!
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Hi all, just home and noticed one of my rhododendrons has managed to burst itself into bud.
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Must look up wiegela so I can decide where to put it - borrowed it on a permanent basis from sister's yesterday, she can visit anytime.
Hello folks - we're back
I just typed a long post with all the info about our trip, my plant purchases
and gifts from Nut 
and the lovely time we had looking around her garden and the delicious lunch she'd prepared for us - but it all disappeared into the ether and I'm too tired to type it again now - I'll tell you all about it in the morning 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Evening all.... Orchid chilli monster!!!! ok yeah I have been killed a hot head many times but!!! Well phoned the garden company today and am still waiting for a call back!!! Woodland garden is romping away I'm well impressed!! Tracey thanks for bday wishes for lo!! She's calmer today thank heavens.... Right lunch to make for tomorrow back to work boooo
I will be recording "The Widower" on +1 as OH wants to watch "The Plantagenets".
Tracey, before you went off for the w/e (glad you had a good one) you said something about delphiniums not germinating. I tend to buy plants and take cuttings of the shoots, it's quicker than seeds. But not so many of course, if they germinate.
Delphiniums from seed work for me - but need patience. I always go for a blue mix ( blue fountains fromGC, or online) and then you avoid the disappointment of a peelywally white one. For me, any shade of blue delphinium is lovely
- and worth the wait. Have never tried cuttings - maybe i'll give that a go this year. Is it best to do basal ones?
Evening all
Have been out for a lovely dinner with two very good girlfriends. Just what I needed, and it was my treat to them for being great!
Would love some delphiniums but I fear I my garden is way too much of a slug/snail jamboree to attempt growing them. I'd rather not run the risk of pellets etc not working!
Glad you had a lovely time Dove
Panda - copper collars round them whilst the shoots get going seems to do the trick
. They are my favourite flower
I'm still happy that weeds are growing in my garden. Sounds weird doesn't it? In my last garden (rental property) I cleared the very overgrown garden (by hand - no chemicals used) in August. Roll on to the next August and not a single weed had grown. I often wondered what they'd done to that soil!
Right, bed time soon!