Morning all! Sounds a little gloomy over head and all around, well except Verdun who appears to have ordered different weather to the rest of us! Totally fell for the Choisya on GW, beautiful!
BM, that dainty rose is a stunner, never seen it before, I adore single petal roses, as do the bees!
Dove, really looking forward to spending times in the garden with you! I'm not scared of hard work, got a bad mood to work through so bring it on!
Morning all. Nice looking day starting to form here. Spending it in the garden once I've organised myself a bit more after a bit of a lie in. Had a great walk yesterday- magnificent weather and loads of photos taken. It was nice to get away from all the post election gubbins - which I won't mention at all. One thing's for sure - no matter who's in power or what happens - we have our gardens and we're in charge of those!
Just having some pains au choc as I've denied myself those for many months. Felt I deserved them after my exercise yesterday
Not really smelt choisya foliage up close if I'm honest. May have to go and sniff it now. ..
Off for a look round to see what I missed yesterday
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning all Liked the look of that choisya too - what do the leaves smell like Hosta??
planning a GC trip to start the hunt for annuals for my pots .... Normally takes a couple of trips to find exactly what I am looking for - isotoma, blue salvia and marguerite daisies. Will pot up and grow on for a few weeks.
Also had some gaura seedlings arrive in the post that need planting, and a load of seedlings that need potting on. Starting to run out of GH space
Molly says thank you for all your lovely comments .....its making her blush
Morning all! Misty, damp morning but the trees on the hillside opposite are almost luminous with their new leaves. Beautiful!
Beaus, that rose is lovely. Never seen it in the flesh, but it features in an item on single roses in the May issue of "The Garden" (RHS magazine). I love single roses too, Wonky - got a Rosa rugosa hedge, a lovely arching Rosa glauca, and a much-too-big-but-I-love-it Rosa moyesii 'Geranium' in a corner where the local youth used to push through the fence to use the garden as a short cut. (They don't any more - the thorns are like barbed wire! )
Re shed cats, Wonky. My son found a stray cat and her 6 kittens in his shed a few years ago. He lived next to a very busy road, so the RSPCA suggested he caught the kittens and took them indoors, with their mum, to be out of harm's way (and so he could play with the kittens and socialise them). RSPCA had no room to keep them. Luckily he could work from home, and gradually the mother cat came round too - she was a beautiful long-haired ginger tabby, a huge cat and a great mother. The kittens were adorable and in the end son's friends adopted most of them, and he & girlfriend kept one (Maisie - daft as a brush and looks like one too - long-haired tabby). RSPCA re-homed the mum, too, finally.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Malvern report....as good as ever if not a bit better. Threatened rain held off, show gardens superb, especially the childrens'. As ever GW didn't feature the latter , and then at the end sat drinking wine in the best in show garden, which in our opinion was the worst in show. ( why does the RHS award best accolades to those with biggest budgets?)
Floral pavilion showed just how lucky we are as gardeners, with dozens of great growers and nurseries showing off great stuff. So overwhelmed I didn't actually buy much. Actually I did buy some alpines to put into the niches/holes in my stumps.
The flower of the show for me is the blue camassia... all over the show... will be buying loads of bulbs in the Autumn to extend my wildflower garden.
A lovely day. Just one word of advice... the entry cost on the first day is not far off double the second day's cost (£39 vs. £22.50).
Morning Lirio we have a struggling ray of sunshine braving the clouds now, fingers crossed! Sounds like everything is appreciating the watering around yur way, sounds fresh and lush looking!
Thorns make excellent deterrents don't they! And the birds feel quite safe in the knowledge that the cats will get scratched to bits if they go near!
The problem with shed cat is that I think he has a home, just not a very good one he leaves the shed by 8pm and is back again for bird watching in the morning!
I remember A program when I was a kid, the littlest hobo, about a dog that just moved from place to place, I've wanted to take Flatface in myself if I thought he wanted me to, thing is hes a real character, does his own thing when he wants to! And he doesn't hold back in letting you know if he wants you to do something, he actually talks!
Harrie would miss him terribly if he left but it seems he has the neighbourhood well trained and has us all doing exactly as he wants! Lol
I'm a big softy so I don't mind, he's a very happy chappy
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Good morning
Is it morning? Hard to tell because it's so dark
. OH got up before me and is out with the dog and I'm having a rare lie-in. Bliss
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Beaus that rose is lovely and I'll keep a lookout for it
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Morning all.
Rained heavily during night, but sun is shining now.
BM, very pretty rose, lovely shade of pink.
RB, you'll have to go shopping Monday, Poldark box set out in shops from Monday
Washing on the go, beds stripped and h****w**k this morning.
Will sort out linen cupboard then cut the grass if dry enough.
Have a lovely day everyone.
TTFN x
Verdun, I totally agree about hostas at this time of year esp with the warm start and now some rain. Perfect.
Morning all! Sounds a little gloomy over head and all around, well except Verdun who appears to have ordered different weather to the rest of us! Totally fell for the Choisya on GW, beautiful!
BM, that dainty rose is a stunner, never seen it before, I adore single petal roses, as do the bees!
Dove, really looking forward to spending times in the garden with you! I'm not scared of hard work, got a bad mood to work through so bring it on!
Hope the clouds part for all!
Morning all. Nice looking day starting to form here. Spending it in the garden once I've organised myself a bit more after a bit of a lie in. Had a great walk yesterday- magnificent weather and loads of photos taken. It was nice to get away from all the post election gubbins - which I won't mention at all. One thing's for sure - no matter who's in power or what happens - we have our gardens and we're in charge of those!
Just having some pains au choc as I've denied myself those for many months. Felt I deserved them after my exercise yesterday
Not really smelt choisya foliage up close if I'm honest. May have to go and sniff it now. ..
Off for a look round to see what I missed yesterday
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning everyone
I'm into roses this year 
BM what a little stunner
It was sunny here earlier I recon Verdun has blown all the weather up the coast to here it is now raining and not a chink of blue.
Hand picked half the Hosta last evening
and was going to do some more this morning but I think I'll wait and sort seedlings in the greenhouse instead
Hope you have the chance to enhance Doves patch Wonky
if not a tactics meeting in the GC coffee shop 
Have a good day All and hope that you get a share of West country weather
Morning all
Liked the look of that choisya too - what do the leaves smell like Hosta??
planning a GC trip to start the hunt for annuals for my pots .... Normally takes a couple of trips to find exactly what I am looking for - isotoma, blue salvia and marguerite daisies. Will pot up and grow on for a few weeks.
Also had some gaura seedlings arrive in the post that need planting, and a load of seedlings that need potting on. Starting to run out of GH space
Molly says thank you for all your lovely comments .....its making her blush
Morning all!
Misty, damp morning but the trees on the hillside opposite are almost luminous with their new leaves. Beautiful!
Beaus, that rose is lovely. Never seen it in the flesh, but it features in an item on single roses in the May issue of "The Garden" (RHS magazine). I love single roses too, Wonky - got a Rosa rugosa hedge, a lovely arching Rosa glauca, and a much-too-big-but-I-love-it Rosa moyesii 'Geranium' in a corner where the local youth used to push through the fence to use the garden as a short cut. (They don't any more - the thorns are like barbed wire!
)
Re shed cats, Wonky. My son found a stray cat and her 6 kittens in his shed a few years ago. He lived next to a very busy road, so the RSPCA suggested he caught the kittens and took them indoors, with their mum, to be out of harm's way (and so he could play with the kittens and socialise them). RSPCA had no room to keep them. Luckily he could work from home, and gradually the mother cat came round too - she was a beautiful long-haired ginger tabby, a huge cat and a great mother. The kittens were adorable and in the end son's friends adopted most of them, and he & girlfriend kept one (Maisie - daft as a brush and looks like one too - long-haired tabby). RSPCA re-homed the mum, too, finally.
Malvern report....as good as ever if not a bit better. Threatened rain held off, show gardens superb, especially the childrens'. As ever GW didn't feature the latter
, and then at the end sat drinking wine in the best in show garden, which in our opinion was the worst in show. ( why does the RHS award best accolades to those with biggest budgets?)
Floral pavilion showed just how lucky we are as gardeners, with dozens of great growers and nurseries showing off great stuff. So overwhelmed I didn't actually buy much. Actually I did buy some alpines to put into the niches/holes in my stumps.
The flower of the show for me is the blue camassia... all over the show... will be buying loads of bulbs in the Autumn to extend my wildflower garden.
A lovely day. Just one word of advice... the entry cost on the first day is not far off double the second day's cost (£39 vs. £22.50).
Morning Lirio
we have a struggling ray of sunshine braving the clouds now, fingers crossed! Sounds like everything is appreciating the watering around yur way, sounds fresh and lush looking!
Thorns make excellent deterrents don't they! And the birds feel quite safe in the knowledge that the cats will get scratched to bits if they go near!
The problem with shed cat is that I think he has a home, just not a very good one
he leaves the shed by 8pm and is back again for bird watching in the morning!
I remember A program when I was a kid, the littlest hobo, about a dog that just moved from place to place, I've wanted to take Flatface in myself if I thought he wanted me to, thing is hes a real character, does his own thing when he wants to! And he doesn't hold back in letting you know if he wants you to do something, he actually talks!
Harrie would miss him terribly if he left but it seems he has the neighbourhood well trained and has us all doing exactly as he wants! Lol
I'm a big softy so I don't mind, he's a very happy chappy