Cant wait for the weather to get warmer and more stable so I can move stuff outside. Now have a windowsill of Borage seedlings in 3 1/2" pots, one windowsill full of little pots of herb seedlings and another with Agastache, Tagetes and Birdsfoot seedlings. So bad that I filled a tray of Lupin seeds and had to put them upstairs in the kids room. Hope it warms up before the missus cracks and knifes me!
It is hardy for Dundee, but if it goes out at the moment, the spring winds that blow through this garden will do for them like it did for my Crocuses (Croci?), a situation that will continue until the hedge thickens up!
No gardening today I'm in Worcester on Nanna Duty. It was cold when I got up this morning Bekkie, I had a wonder round the garden and there was ice out there. Brrrrr Had put my Cosmos choccomocha out was a bit worried but they were fine.
Everything is moving on so fast at the moment.
Does anyone know if you can tell the difference between flower buds and leaf buds on Wisteria. I am desperate for mine to flower. This year I have pruned it and cared for it by the book. It came from reliable stock so it should flower. There are buds on it but I'm not sure if they are flower buds. If it does flower I am going to throw a flippin party. If it doesn't it might be for the chop.
My wisteria's flowers have just opened today but there aren't many leaves on it Yvie so maybe all your buds are flowers.
Been to a friend's house and came home with a crate of flowers; snowdrops, muscari and heucher and some white onions, planted them all already, so exciting, be lovely to see the spring flowers next year in the gaps I found this year.
Also noticed my clematis are all in bud, in fact everything is growing at a tremendous rate, the sunshine today has been lovely, more like August than April, have had to water the garden in places. Hope it lasts.
Have a tray of seedlings in the greenhouse, I have no idea what they are, the packet had got wet and nothing happened for ages and now they are shooting up, will post a pic tomorrow, sure someone on here will know what they are, nice little surprise.
Second sowing of Cosmos have all germinated but I am keeping them covered in the GH for now after the last lot got eaten alive.
Tomorrow is my college 'eat lunch and speak English' day, hope my nails scrub up clean enough to be seen in public.
Forgot to mention earlier in the week I was invited for a 'private tour' of the local chateau by the Marquis and Marquise, it was beautiful and I did feel very honoured to be invited, they were lovely too and as I stood sipping champagne and nibbling little gateaux I was thinking how different from my previous life in UK. OH did sort of burst my bubble when he said it was just a marketing exercise on their part to get me to send my guests to their chateau to help fund the fixing of their crumbling walls.
Anyway, hope you are all well and have had a good evening.
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Yvie - wisteria leaf buds are smooth and brown ....a bit like an apple pip. The flower ones fatten up and look more like the head of a bluebell before it opens. Its dark now, but i will venture out in the morning and post you some pics, just in case my wonderfully descriptive words are leaving you scratching your head
Wintersong, well remembered. I have Penstemon Husker Red, planted it 3 or 4 years ago and it just comes up and flowers with no help from me apart from some watering in the summer. I also have a Polemonium. I tried one a few years ago and planted it in the sun, but the Dordogne summer was too hot and it shrivelled up. The one I bought last year is in dappled shade and it's come up again after this winter.
My borage seeds itself in the veg garden, comes up end of March. But this year OH didn't notice it and has rotovated it, so I've scattered some more seeds in a bare patch.
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Cant wait for the weather to get warmer and more stable so I can move stuff outside. Now have a windowsill of Borage seedlings in 3 1/2" pots, one windowsill full of little pots of herb seedlings and another with Agastache, Tagetes and Birdsfoot seedlings. So bad that I filled a tray of Lupin seeds and had to put them upstairs in the kids room. Hope it warms up before the missus cracks and knifes me!
When i get accused of making my OHs hayfever bad with all my plants, i just tell him those plants dont make pollen!
It is hardy for Dundee, but if it goes out at the moment, the spring winds that blow through this garden will do for them like it did for my Crocuses (Croci?), a situation that will continue until the hedge thickens up!
I'll try the air quality trick though!
Is that screening stuff no good to you? I tie mine to the hedge, but i only use it to stop the nosey neighbours gawking!
Haha!
I remember getting funny looks on holiday in San Francisco in September for wandering around in a t-shirt when it was 14°. They breed us hardy up here
No gardening today I'm in Worcester on Nanna Duty. It was cold when I got up this morning Bekkie, I had a wonder round the garden and there was ice out there. Brrrrr Had put my Cosmos choccomocha out was a bit worried but they were fine.
Everything is moving on so fast at the moment.
Does anyone know if you can tell the difference between flower buds and leaf buds on Wisteria. I am desperate for mine to flower. This year I have pruned it and cared for it by the book. It came from reliable stock so it should flower. There are buds on it but I'm not sure if they are flower buds. If it does flower I am going to throw a flippin party. If it doesn't it might be for the chop.
Evening all,
My wisteria's flowers have just opened today but there aren't many leaves on it Yvie so maybe all your buds are flowers.
Been to a friend's house and came home with a crate of flowers; snowdrops, muscari and heucher and some white onions, planted them all already, so exciting, be lovely to see the spring flowers next year in the gaps I found this year.
Also noticed my clematis are all in bud, in fact everything is growing at a tremendous rate, the sunshine today has been lovely, more like August than April, have had to water the garden in places. Hope it lasts.
Have a tray of seedlings in the greenhouse, I have no idea what they are, the packet had got wet and nothing happened for ages and now they are shooting up, will post a pic tomorrow, sure someone on here will know what they are, nice little surprise.
Second sowing of Cosmos have all germinated but I am keeping them covered in the GH for now after the last lot got eaten alive.
Tomorrow is my college 'eat lunch and speak English' day, hope my nails scrub up clean enough to be seen in public.
Forgot to mention earlier in the week I was invited for a 'private tour' of the local chateau by the Marquis and Marquise, it was beautiful and I did feel very honoured to be invited, they were lovely too and as I stood sipping champagne and nibbling little gateaux I was thinking how different from my previous life in UK. OH did sort of burst my bubble when he said it was just a marketing exercise on their part to get me to send my guests to their chateau to help fund the fixing of their crumbling walls.
Anyway, hope you are all well and have had a good evening.
Yvie - wisteria leaf buds are smooth and brown ....a bit like an apple pip. The flower ones fatten up and look more like the head of a bluebell before it opens. Its dark now, but i will venture out in the morning and post you some pics, just in case my wonderfully descriptive words are leaving you scratching your head
Wintersong, well remembered. I have Penstemon Husker Red, planted it 3 or 4 years ago and it just comes up and flowers with no help from me apart from some watering in the summer. I also have a Polemonium. I tried one a few years ago and planted it in the sun, but the Dordogne summer was too hot and it shrivelled up. The one I bought last year is in dappled shade and it's come up again after this winter.
My borage seeds itself in the veg garden, comes up end of March. But this year OH didn't notice it and has rotovated it, so I've scattered some more seeds in a bare patch.
When I get back tomorrow I'll check the Wisteria and see if their are two types of bud or only one. Fingers crossed.