I love viticellas, vigorous and covered in flowers. So easy to prune, just chop it all down in early Spring. I have Etoile Violette, Ville de Lyon, Princess Diana and Alionushka.
Was very courageous and cut all the old wood out of Mme Alfred Carrière today, photos on gardening thread.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I see lots of cake making, paper shuffling and loads and loads of gardening has been done.
All I have done is pot on some more seedlings and moved a couple of trays into the GH.
Also a bit of chaos sorting out what visitors will sleep on. Cleaned some ancient toys up as well to keep little one entertained.
Tree was delivered, arrived in back of a van which had a sun roof type affair on top with tree sticking out of it - result no damage at all to tree-. planting at weekend
Have felt really well today - hopefully will just keep improving now.
Wow, this is a busy thread! Thanks for all the welcomes.
I've got 3 pear trees, a conference, fondant de automne and doyenne du cornice. I'm not a big fan of pears but other half and little un will hopefully enjoy them when they eventually give us fruit. I can't put away the paintbrush just yet - need to paint the fence and get the wires in place asap as we're planning on training the trees into oblique cordons as it's a smallish garden. Unfortunately every time I have some spare time to crack on with it the weather is lousy or it has been so wet the wood is really damp.
At the moment I have peas, rocket, chives, cosmos and a single marigold I've grown from seed, and have just planted sunflowers and carrots. I'm also trying to keep a load of lemongrass alive that my mum had me sow last year. Gardening is sort of the the blood, my great-grandad was head gardener on an estate back in the day, and nan and mum are both pretty obssessive about their gardens. Looking forward to getting mine looking lovely!
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I love viticellas, vigorous and covered in flowers. So easy to prune, just chop it all down in early Spring. I have Etoile Violette, Ville de Lyon, Princess Diana and Alionushka.
Was very courageous and cut all the old wood out of Mme Alfred Carrière today, photos on gardening thread.
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I see lots of cake making, paper shuffling and loads and loads of gardening has been done.
All I have done is pot on some more seedlings and moved a couple of trays into the GH.
Also a bit of chaos sorting out what visitors will sleep on. Cleaned some ancient toys up as well to keep little one entertained.
Tree was delivered, arrived in back of a van which had a sun roof type affair on top with tree sticking out of it - result no damage at all to tree-. planting at weekend
Have felt really well today - hopefully will just keep improving now.
ooh I hope so............ just have to be careful not to get over-tired now, and hope I don't have another set back
Sorry for going AWOL, suffice to say i overdid things a little over the last few days, even typing has been difficult.....silly moo that i am!
Got to liven up, got a planter to make up for my mom tomorrow, have ordered a candle lantern thingy to put it in, should look nice
Have only read this page, sorry! Good to hear gardening being done...best therapy if you ask me
That rebecca clematis can look a bit naf when its going over, its a weird red, mom wanted one, but i talked her out of it
RB, get cha feet up, save your ebergy for the rugby on sat
Glad to see improvement Matty, slowly slowly catch a monkey as my OH says
Thanks for the heads up on Clematis girls, I'm so inspired by the Viticellas
Wow, this is a busy thread! Thanks for all the welcomes.
I've got 3 pear trees, a conference, fondant de automne and doyenne du cornice. I'm not a big fan of pears but other half and little un will hopefully enjoy them when they eventually give us fruit. I can't put away the paintbrush just yet - need to paint the fence and get the wires in place asap as we're planning on training the trees into oblique cordons as it's a smallish garden. Unfortunately every time I have some spare time to crack on with it the weather is lousy or it has been so wet the wood is really damp.
At the moment I have peas, rocket, chives, cosmos and a single marigold I've grown from seed, and have just planted sunflowers and carrots. I'm also trying to keep a load of lemongrass alive that my mum had me sow last year. Gardening is sort of the the blood, my great-grandad was head gardener on an estate back in the day, and nan and mum are both pretty obssessive about their gardens. Looking forward to getting mine looking lovely!
Well done Doves daughter, wish i could be like that, i would have probably apologised for being in their way !
Welcome TC
Bekkie - that's the same daughter of mine who had ME and felt that life was passing her by not so very long ago
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.