I have Nymans recorded - one for tomorrow, when i can keep my eyes open. Lily - it is the last one of the "Great British gardens in time" series - tues 9pm on BBC4. However, think it is repeated at some unearthly hour too, so you still have chance to record it. The others in the series (Dixter, Stowe and Biddulph) have been excellent.
Hi Chicky... alpine roundabout idea on hold for the mo... may do it myself instead of using paid muscle. Have found a GC with great slate and stone. Have a friend with a truck too. My current plan is my terrace at the bottom of the garden with troughs for alpines and maybe a raised bed or two. I can sit amongst them then. Contractor visits tomorrow to discuss.
My Alpine house needs to change... I am getting too many losses indoors, so will shift to growing outside, with GH/AH as back up.
Think it is repeated Thursday at 11pm on BBC 4 that is when I record it as I have recorded the allotment challenge and I have that on a different disk
Had a bit more of a go at the pallet potting table in evening still bits to go yet,
I sowed my lettuce in trays yesterday then I will plant out when ready - I guess if you thin out your lettuce carefully you can keep the roots and plant in another area
GG there are petunias (limoncello and mixed colours), nicotiana, gazanias, lobelia (but they are on the floor under the bench with begonias and busy-Liizzies), cosmos, salvia farinacea, zinnias, phlox drummondii "Moody Blues", a dahlia and some cannas, runner beans, rudbeckia "Tiger Eye" and "Cherry Brandy", Thunbergia and French marigolds. The tomatoes are on the opposite shelving. Other plants are hardening off in the cold frames.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Impressive plant list Lizzie. I have given up growing my own salvia farinacea from seed - i can't get them to flower before end August. But you have reminded me I need to get to the GC to get them as bedding plants that I can bring on in the GH til June. Deer don't eat them, so they form the backbone of my patio pots, along with isotoma.
Let us know how the alpine plans progress Woody.
Misty here - but that keeps the frost at bay. Still forecasting the icy stuff from Friday night onwards, so have my GH defences at the ready
Allotment Challenge a bit of a waste of time I think - not about growing at all, and not about personalities either - falls between two stools. I taped the Nymans programme as I have the rest of the series - it's finding time to watch them that's the problem - I've only seen the Gt Dixter one and I'd happily watch that over and over again I'm currently reading Christopher Lloyd's The Well Chosen Garden so they go together well
Love your Camassias Woody - I've just planted a small clump in my new front border
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I have Nymans recorded - one for tomorrow, when i can keep my eyes open
. Lily - it is the last one of the "Great British gardens in time" series - tues 9pm on BBC4. However, think it is repeated at some unearthly hour too, so you still have chance to record it. The others in the series (Dixter, Stowe and Biddulph) have been excellent
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Nymans is your home turf too
Hi Chicky... alpine roundabout idea on hold for the mo... may do it myself instead of using paid muscle. Have found a GC with great slate and stone. Have a friend with a truck too. My current plan is my terrace at the bottom of the garden with troughs for alpines and maybe a raised bed or two. I can sit amongst them then. Contractor visits tomorrow to discuss.
My Alpine house needs to change... I am getting too many losses indoors, so will shift to growing outside, with GH/AH as back up.
Think it is repeated Thursday at 11pm on BBC 4 that is when I record it as I have recorded the allotment challenge and I have that on a different disk
Had a bit more of a go at the pallet potting table in evening still bits to go yet,
I sowed my lettuce in trays yesterday then I will plant out when ready - I guess if you thin out your lettuce carefully you can keep the roots and plant in another area
Night all sleepy time
GG there are petunias (limoncello and mixed colours), nicotiana, gazanias, lobelia (but they are on the floor under the bench with begonias and busy-Liizzies), cosmos, salvia farinacea, zinnias, phlox drummondii "Moody Blues", a dahlia and some cannas, runner beans, rudbeckia "Tiger Eye" and "Cherry Brandy", Thunbergia and French marigolds. The tomatoes are on the opposite shelving. Other plants are hardening off in the cold frames.
Morning all!
Impressive plant list Lizzie
. I have given up growing my own salvia farinacea from seed - i can't get them to flower before end August. But you have reminded me I need to get to the GC to get them as bedding plants that I can bring on in the GH til June. Deer don't eat them, so they form the backbone of my patio pots, along with isotoma.
Let us know how the alpine plans progress Woody.
Misty here - but that keeps the frost at bay. Still forecasting the icy stuff from Friday night onwards, so have my GH defences at the ready
Good morning all
Allotment Challenge a bit of a waste of time I think - not about growing at all, and not about personalities either - falls between two stools. I taped the Nymans programme as I have the rest of the series - it's finding time to watch them that's the problem - I've only seen the Gt Dixter one and I'd happily watch that over and over again
I'm currently reading Christopher Lloyd's The Well Chosen Garden so they go together well 
Love your Camassias Woody - I've just planted a small clump in my new front border
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Oh, hello Chicky - you snuck in there when I wasn't watching - that'll teach me to chat to OH before clicking Submt
But I have an excuse - I've been renewing my Virus Protection etc online -
I hadn't had enough coffee to do that without my brain hurting 
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More.
Sleep.
Aw! Clari - poor you - can you grab another half hour?
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Morning Clari
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