Just back from my 'let them practise on you' lunch, was fabulous! Monkfish in saffron sauce followed by crêpes flambées with Grand Marnier and homemade vanilla ice cream. Lovely, not sure am up to gardening now but have to take Shadow for his afternnon walk, he has certainly recovered from op, loads of energy.
Punkdoc, gorgeoups pics, the iris are particularly beautiful.
You have all been so busy, I am going to get stuck in from Friday, too busy tomorrow & Thursday. Next week though is school hols, which means no taxi service required & also no Pilates or Keep Fit, so loads of time to catch up & hopefully warmer weather too. Will be sowing even more seeds too.
Just noticed Lidl have some climbing roses on offer & some seeds for €1.29, might just have to pop in there over next few days. Shame to miss a bargain.
Good afternoon all, whatever you are up too.
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Well done Yvie. You must show me how you manage to just 'pop' a plant in, I've been heaving all day.
I know the feeling punkdoc! It's the bane of my gardening life that I start off intending to do one thing and end up doing something completely different!
That's most days anyhow...today I have managed a grand, one-off special! Let me count it all up briefly:
1 pyracantha (moved)
2 Group 1 Clematis planted
1 Geranium,
1 Acer,
1 Spirea,
1 trachelospermum jasminoides up the arch.
area cleared of invasive Crocosmia
2 of my 3 hefty box balls in the ground (got to measure third for precise formation)
2 climbing roses pruned
Berberis moved front
Nandina moved back
and a jolly sore back at the end of that!
I count lucky 13! Can anyone beat that?
Verdun, I'm sure your good deed is very appreciated. Have another larger
bekkie, I didn't realise you had this condition? If you do then I think you are doing an amazing job since my husband couldn't even get up off the sofa for a year, let alone do the gym!
He lost his job after 1 year of working from home and whilst he is now re-employed working from home for a different company, I don't think he will ever be driving again. I am trying to find the time/courage to learn so that when he's ready to get out again, (hasn't left the house in 4yrs) then I can at least take the reigns so to speak.
Pm me if you want any chats about living with these conditions sometimes, just a chat helps xx
Well, its not the planting that takes the time, its preparing the soil.
I've dug out an old tree peony. Root breaker needed. Wheely bin full of roots. Fork it over. Add two wheelbarrows full of FYM. Add a sprinkling of FBB. Fork it again. Fight off the robins squabbling over the worms. Plant aquilegias, snapdragons, and lily bulbs. Put stuff away and wash up.
Now I'm off to get my eyes tested. Have a good afternoon.
B....y deer have broken the fence at the end of the garden and eaten the blue and yellow pansies around the sundial and the Erysimum Jenny Brook x 3 that I grew from cuttings Hoofprints everywhere. They've also eaten pansies on the lower level that isn't fenced. Moles have made tunnels in the flower beds and Alexa the cat has been digging in all the places I'd forked over and planted in the autumn, leaving poos All this seems to have happened in 2 days, since I last walked round looking at snowdrops. Fed up.
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Ok, so perhaps applying for jobs isn't that taxing Well, not after the list of things that you have all achieved this morning! Thanks for the support as well Think OH could do with it more than me - for some reason he finds applying soooo difficult
Just having a somewhat late lunch of my soup, and let me say, it is soouper!
Heck I've only been outside 3 hours and you lot have all sorts of news.
Think I should post a and add names and and ditto. Sorry to all who don't get a personal mention.
Panda good luck with job hunting for two never made soup with sprouts in, or did I dream that ingredient?
Winter I'm sad to hear about your OH and being unable to leave home. I hope you do learn to drive, I am well capable of driving but lost the confidence a few years ago to venture into the unknown. I'd feel lost without my car and the independence it gives me even if it only drives around this borough and it goes to GC's on auto pilot I have a friend who didn't learn to drive until she was mid 50's and now goes the length and breadth of the country..go for it gal x
Pdoc lovely pictures thanks Any sign of growth from the blue beauties? I am as ever hopeful for a flower from mine this June.
Lizzie I quite like Venison casserole do you have a large freezer ?
Gg you've got that milk man well trained
Two dogwood cut back and chopped up, some more weeds pulled and GH's ventilated, not a mega effort but I have been thinking really hard about where to extend veg bed to, and what shapes I want for flower beds rather than boring borders. Will fess up to standing and admiring hellebores for quite a while...your donation is looking lovely Fidget TY.
Also had the washing out, but you don't really want to know about that....booooring
BL so sorry about the damage done by wildlife, it must be awful to see all your hard work undone.
I decided not to return to the garden this afternoon as I am already aching all over from this mornings efforts. I will have to go out and just lock up the shed and close the greenhouse door, anything else can wait.
Just ordered a few plants to frame the bench I ordered last week (delivered today) might have a go at putting it together later.
Bet you are so pleased with what youve got done today Yvie, hope you dont pay too badly for it tomorrow!
GG, ive seen those vases too, very tempting!
DD, glad shadow has recovered! Your meal sounds sooo good!
Winter, now youve finished your gardening, theres plenty to do at my house! , as far as being ill goes, im rubbish at it, i live on lots of naughty tablets and sugar! Thanks for your kind words x. Please learn to drive, i would give my arm to be able to, just think how many plants you could get!
Fidget, youve been busy too, think we will have an achey back club tomorrow!
Vennison for dinner tonight BL?, at least they are beautiful to look at, sorry about your plants, you will have to cheer yourself up with a trip to the GC
Kef, nothing wrong with admiring the garden, thats what we do it for afterall
Spent an hour or so weeding, put that b####y greenhouse up, who sells a greenhouse with no instructions??? Will be very supprised if its still there tomorrow, if i had paid 50 quid for it, there would have been hell to pay! Apart from that, had a very pleasent time in the sunshine
Fritillary, that was how my greenhouse looked after the Boxing day snow storm. I managed to cobble it back together, using rigid plastic sheets from B@Q.
Still trying to work out the feasibility of getting a new one. I am lucky I have plenty of space, but it is all on a slope, so will need a lot of work to dig out the base. I don't think I am up to doing it, and I can't find anyone else to do it.
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Just back from my 'let them practise on you' lunch, was fabulous! Monkfish in saffron sauce followed by crêpes flambées with Grand Marnier and homemade vanilla ice cream. Lovely, not sure am up to gardening now but have to take Shadow for his afternnon walk, he has certainly recovered from op, loads of energy.
Punkdoc, gorgeoups pics, the iris are particularly beautiful.
You have all been so busy, I am going to get stuck in from Friday, too busy tomorrow & Thursday. Next week though is school hols, which means no taxi service required & also no Pilates or Keep Fit, so loads of time to catch up & hopefully warmer weather too. Will be sowing even more seeds too.
Just noticed Lidl have some climbing roses on offer & some seeds for €1.29, might just have to pop in there over next few days. Shame to miss a bargain.
Good afternoon all, whatever you are up too.
Well done Yvie. You must show me how you manage to just 'pop' a plant in, I've been heaving all day.
I know the feeling punkdoc! It's the bane of my gardening life that I start off intending to do one thing and end up doing something completely different!
That's most days anyhow...today I have managed a grand, one-off special! Let me count it all up briefly:
I count lucky 13! Can anyone beat that?
Verdun, I'm sure your good deed is very appreciated. Have another larger
bekkie, I didn't realise you had this condition? If you do then I think you are doing an amazing job since my husband couldn't even get up off the sofa for a year, let alone do the gym!
He lost his job after 1 year of working from home and whilst he is now re-employed working from home for a different company, I don't think he will ever be driving again. I am trying to find the time/courage to learn so that when he's ready to get out again, (hasn't left the house in 4yrs) then I can at least take the reigns so to speak.
Pm me if you want any chats about living with these conditions
sometimes, just a chat helps xx
Well, its not the planting that takes the time, its preparing the soil.
I've dug out an old tree peony. Root breaker needed. Wheely bin full of roots. Fork it over. Add two wheelbarrows full of FYM. Add a sprinkling of FBB. Fork it again. Fight off the robins squabbling over the worms. Plant aquilegias, snapdragons, and lily bulbs. Put stuff away and wash up.
Now I'm off to get my eyes tested. Have a good afternoon.
B....y deer have broken the fence at the end of the garden and eaten the blue and yellow pansies around the sundial and the Erysimum Jenny Brook x 3 that I grew from cuttings
Hoofprints everywhere. They've also eaten pansies on the lower level that isn't fenced. Moles have made tunnels in the flower beds and Alexa the cat has been digging in all the places I'd forked over and planted in the autumn, leaving poos 
All this seems to have happened in 2 days, since I last walked round looking at snowdrops. Fed up.
Ok, so perhaps applying for jobs isn't that taxing
Well, not after the list of things that you have all achieved this morning! Thanks for the support as well 
Think OH could do with it more than me - for some reason he finds applying soooo difficult 
Just having a somewhat late lunch of my soup, and let me say, it is soouper!
Those are lovely pictures P'doc
Right, better get back to it
Heck I've only been outside 3 hours and you lot have all sorts of news.
Think I should post a
and add names and 
and ditto. Sorry to all who don't get a personal mention.
Panda good luck with job hunting for two
never made soup with sprouts in, or did I dream that ingredient?
Winter I'm sad to hear about your OH and being unable to leave home. I hope you do learn to drive, I am well capable of driving but lost the confidence a few years ago to venture into the unknown. I'd feel lost without my car and the independence it gives me even if it only drives around this borough and it goes to GC's on auto pilot
I have a friend who didn't learn to drive until she was mid 50's and now goes the length and breadth of the country..go for it gal x
Pdoc lovely pictures thanks
Any sign of growth from the blue beauties? I am as ever hopeful for a flower from mine this June.
Lizzie
I quite like Venison casserole 
do you have a large freezer ?
Gg you've got that milk man well trained
Two dogwood cut back and chopped up, some more weeds pulled and GH's ventilated, not a mega effort but I have been thinking really hard
about where to extend veg bed to, and what shapes I want for flower beds rather than boring borders. Will fess up to standing and admiring hellebores for quite a while...your donation is looking lovely Fidget TY.
Also had the washing out, but you don't really want to know about that....booooring
BL so sorry about the damage done by wildlife, it must be awful to see all your hard work undone.
I decided not to return to the garden this afternoon as I am already aching all over from this mornings efforts. I will have to go out and just lock up the shed and close the greenhouse door, anything else can wait.
Just ordered a few plants to frame the bench I ordered last week (delivered today) might have a go at putting it together later.
Kef you mentioned that you ventilated your green house. Mine has natural ventilation.
Don't quite know what I am going to do. Did think of the corrugated roof light sheeting for repairs .
Bet you are so pleased with what youve got done today Yvie, hope you dont pay too badly for it tomorrow!
GG, ive seen those vases too, very tempting!
DD, glad shadow has recovered! Your meal sounds sooo good!
Winter, now youve finished your gardening
Fidget, youve been busy too, think we will have an achey back club tomorrow!
Vennison for dinner tonight BL?
Kef, nothing wrong with admiring the garden, thats what we do it for afterall
Spent an hour or so weeding, put that b####y greenhouse up, who sells a greenhouse with no instructions??? Will be very supprised if its still there tomorrow, if i had paid 50 quid for it, there would have been hell to pay! Apart from that, had a very pleasent time in the sunshine
Fritillary, that was how my greenhouse looked after the Boxing day snow storm. I managed to cobble it back together, using rigid plastic sheets from B@Q.
Still trying to work out the feasibility of getting a new one. I am lucky I have plenty of space, but it is all on a slope, so will need a lot of work to dig out the base. I don't think I am up to doing it, and I can't find anyone else to do it.
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