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  • Wonky - how did I have such a wise daughter image

     

    Morning all , especially those with aches, pains, tiredness and stuff on their mind ((hugs))

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     Help yourself

     


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    Morning all.

    It's nice to be home and sleeping in my own bed.

    Particularly driech here this morning but I managed to visit polytunnel and the Dahlia Imperialis I grew from seed have flower buds on them. They're over 2m tall but if the mild weather holds, I'm hoping there's still time for them to flower.

    Plan was to start lifting dahlias and cannas today, but it's foul out there.

    BL your plan for split living sounds wonderful. Good luck.

    Punkdoc: as my dear late mother would have said 

    " act in haste: repent at leisure."

    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Just been to pick up the car, needed a new alternator, couldn't be simple like the battery, oh well, there goes another shirt of my back.

    A Big Gale.....got to be taking the pee haven't they, it's getting like the US naming storms.

    Sad about Pams dog, but another little one has a lovely home.

    Hoping Dove is getting better, and all others.

    Welcome back Hosta, just say the word and I will be there.

    OH risking the Cornwall job today, I don't think it will be very pleasant driving across Bodmin Moor in this foggy drizzle but it's got to be done sometime, once the rain sets in here it's usually until April.

    Off to Morrisons today, then a nice gammon roast tonight.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    oops, missed you there Dove. Morning.

    Lyn, we'll keep an eye on the forecast, but it's looking pretty pants for the next 10 days image

    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Have we decided to lift the cannas then Hosta, I thought we ??ere just going to grow from seed again?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    Lyn,I'm dumping those small ones into the compost but keeping the apricot and red leaved types.

    I've just received an appointment to see consultant on Dec 1st, my birthday.

    Shame I'll be lying on a beach in Cape Verde that day image

    Just read the Scottish nurse has made a full recovery from Ebola. 

    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Ok Hosta, I think I will leave the few I have in the ground and they can take their chances, I will just pile mulch on then, they are flowering now!  and you already have my coloured one, if you run out of space you could bin mine if you want to.

    We will look out for the weather then, doesn't look good before you go away though.

    Eden have started their free locals passes again if you are interested, talking of cannas and other tropicals. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    there's a thought Lyn.

    We love a freeby. When do they run out?

    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    It costs £12.00 for you, £10.00 for me, you can apply from 1st November to 1st March, then you go in free for as many times as you like through the year, well, up to end of October, so sooner you do it, longer it lasts.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409
    Wise words from Wonky, Pdoc. Doing nothing is you taking control, not impotence image



    Sounds like lots of Eden visits possible for Lyn and Hosta imageimage



    Had a grotty few days with Mr C - I dragged him to the GP yesterday, where they told him off for doing too much too soon, but otherwise reassured us that everything was ok. Apparently it is quite normal to take 2 steps forward and 1 back in this sort of recovery image . Anyway, he seems brighter again this morning.



    Loving Lizzie's cottage plans .....2 gardens sounds wonderful image



    Fine here at the minute, but sharing others gloom at the look of the forecast image
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