Wintersong, if my after pictures look like your before ones I will be happy! Your garden is looking well loved and lovely!
Unfortunately LesleyK, I think my ground elder will cross a moat...inthe shed with a cuppa looking for inspiration, a planb Devine intervention....Any will do!
Love all these before/after photos! And I'm trying not to be jealous of your wonderful garden and situation, Hosta. I think there are quite a few of us who'd give a lot for a garden like that... even though it's clearly a result of a huge amount of work. Congrats to you and your OH!
Sun here after early snow flurries, but not warm enough for much in the garden, other than mourning the demise of the Magnolia stellata flowers and the new growth on the Pieris (dratted frost ). I wonder if we'll get plums this year, or if the frost has put paid to the fruit too.
Off to see Mum.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Quick coffee break, getting fed up with some of this weeding, where do they all come from so quickly??
Hosta, beautiful garden and lovely view too, wish my OH could be coerced into weeding a bit but he will only do the heavy stuff and mow the grass (and that's only 'cos he likes the ride - on thingy).
Must get back to it, the sun is getting quite warm and I do not want to be weeding through hard baked soil.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Hello folks - back from clearing Pa's room - didn't see Ma - she was being kept entertained by the staff so that she wasn't distressed/confused. I've come home with a bottle of Bowmore Single Malt he'd not started on yet - it's one I particularly like so I'll raise a glass to him this evening.
Glad Wonky has been keeping you entertained - I shall have to show her how to upload pics on here - she is doing wonders with what was a very unpromising and overgrown town centre yard in what used to be a bit of a scuzzy area - of course, now that she and her hub have moved in and raised the tone it's on it's way to becoming the Notting Hill of Ipswich, and invitations to their bonfire parties are highly prized!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Disaster this morning. The children had a guinea pig and a rabbit that have lived in a tough cage in the fenced garden for the last 3 or 4 years. A badger has visited in the night and taken them. The cage is destroyed, holes have been dug in the garden and there is a hole burrowed under the fence with a big poo (not fox) by it. Floods of tears. But then the sewage lorry arrived and took their minds off it. We went up the lane, boys on their bikes, to watch the men emptying the sewage tank for the hamlet. Bit smelly, but boys seemed to enjoy it!
Now I'm home, other Granny has taken over.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Of course Pdoc Pop round for a sharpener this evening I do like Bowmore (I've a feeling that this is a bottle I bought for Pa a while back - think he went off his whisky when he had to have thickener in it ) I've not tried the Darkest - I shall look out for it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Unfortunately LesleyK, I think my ground elder will cross a moat...inthe shed with a cuppa looking for inspiration, a planb Devine intervention....Any will do!
Love all these before/after photos!
And I'm trying not to be jealous of your wonderful garden and situation, Hosta. I think there are quite a few of us who'd give a lot for a garden like that... even though it's clearly a result of a huge amount of work. Congrats to you and your OH!
Sun here after early snow flurries, but not warm enough for much in the garden, other than mourning the demise of the Magnolia stellata flowers and the new growth on the Pieris (dratted frost
). I wonder if we'll get plums this year, or if the frost has put paid to the fruit too.
Off to see Mum.
Quick coffee break, getting fed up with some of this weeding, where do they all come from so quickly??
Hosta, beautiful garden and lovely view too, wish my OH could be coerced into weeding a bit but he will only do the heavy stuff and mow the grass (and that's only 'cos he likes the ride - on thingy).
Must get back to it, the sun is getting quite warm and I do not want to be weeding through hard baked soil.
oops back in a mo
Hello folks - back from clearing Pa's room - didn't see Ma - she was being kept entertained by the staff so that she wasn't distressed/confused. I've come home with a bottle of Bowmore Single Malt he'd not started on yet - it's one I particularly like so I'll raise a glass to him this evening.
Glad Wonky has been keeping you entertained - I shall have to show her how to upload pics on here - she is doing wonders with what was a very unpromising and overgrown town centre yard in what used to be a bit of a scuzzy area - of course, now that she and her hub have moved in and raised the tone it's on it's way to becoming the Notting Hill of Ipswich, and invitations to their bonfire parties are highly prized!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I love Bowmore, in particular Bowmore Darkest.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Didn't get time to post earlier.
Disaster this morning. The children had a guinea pig and a rabbit that have lived in a tough cage in the fenced garden for the last 3 or 4 years. A badger has visited in the night and taken them. The cage is destroyed, holes have been dug in the garden and there is a hole burrowed under the fence with a big poo (not fox) by it. Floods of tears. But then the sewage lorry arrived and took their minds off it. We went up the lane, boys on their bikes, to watch the men emptying the sewage tank for the hamlet. Bit smelly, but boys seemed to enjoy it!
Now I'm home, other Granny has taken over.
Of course Pdoc
Pop round for a sharpener this evening 
I do like Bowmore (I've a feeling that this is a bottle I bought for Pa a while back - think he went off his whisky when he had to have thickener in it 
) I've not tried the Darkest - I shall look out for it 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.