I'm a very happy Dove in Autumn 2012 I planted 2 Fritillaria Imperialis bulbs in a pot - they grew but didn't flower.
Last autumn I had a think and remembered that in a garden I inherited the Imperial Lily bulbs were right up at the surface of the soil and they flowered really well, so I repotted them with the bulbs just below the surface and the noses peeking through ........................................... and today I've just spotted that one of them has a flowering spike with buds on
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sowed more seeds today again Verbena Bonariensis,Eryngium,Sweet Peas,Bidens Golden Goddess,Poppy Orientale,Foxglove Alba,Tomato Maskotka.. Both greenhouses starting to fill up now will have plenty plants for the girls i work with and the garden club keep them all happy and me busy.
I have just found a firm that supplies something I have been looking for for ages.
Wire fasteners that mean you can fasten wire to concrete posts without drilling (impossible) and leaving the fence in place if you have to re-place fence ( doesn't make sense but this link may:
For all you who have to garden by themselves, thought you may find it useful.
I have been lucky with the garden over the bad weather - a lot of ceramic pots smashed - but they can be replaced and the retrieved plants I popped in plastic ones as and when it happened. Plant I lost was a lovely pulmonaria - sturdy as they are - it just seems to have rotted - was in the damper side of the garden
Exhausted! and a little more errr hot (no!) damp (no!) anyway more hard working than a lady should be!
Couldn't get the fire to stay alight (what a girl!) so all broken and piled up to think about later. FIL may come and help tomorrow with fire. Anyone any idea who to contact to remove the stuff - just need a 'man with a mucky van', willing to make a couple of trips to the tip for cheap!
Veg beds dug over, not that I have much intention of growing anything edible... may let FIL play there, he is the opposite to me and can't understand why anyone would grow something they can't eat! He used to have an allotment until the last 2 yrs or so now just grows in his small garden.
Cricket, trampolining and basketball played.
Stumpery rearranged and now renamed as Twig Forest!
Lily - you can have my twisted hazel, it's blinkin ugly in summer!
Matty - will take a look it sounds interesting.
Edd - if youre about ive got a recycling dilemma for you
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YIPPEE!!!!! My snowdrops have just arrived!! Will be a very busy girl today
I'm a very happy Dove
in Autumn 2012 I planted 2 Fritillaria Imperialis bulbs in a pot - they grew but didn't flower.
Last autumn I had a think and remembered that in a garden I inherited the Imperial Lily bulbs were right up at the surface of the soil and they flowered really well, so I repotted them with the bulbs just below the surface and the noses peeking through ........................................... and today I've just spotted that one of them has a flowering spike with buds on
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pheww, all snowdrop bulbs planted. Very pleased, as I ordered 100 and they are all good sized bulbs and well over 100, lost count but over 160!!
Sowed more seeds today again Verbena Bonariensis,Eryngium,Sweet Peas,Bidens Golden Goddess,Poppy Orientale,Foxglove Alba,Tomato Maskotka.. Both greenhouses starting to fill up now will have plenty plants for the girls i work with and the garden club keep them all happy and me busy.
I want a twisted hazel, and I'd like the patio re-done this year. And i'm sure there will be other plants I see along the way lol.
I have just found a firm that supplies something I have been looking for for ages.
Wire fasteners that mean you can fasten wire to concrete posts without drilling (impossible) and leaving the fence in place if you have to re-place fence ( doesn't make sense but this link may:
http://www.rivelinglenproducts.com/wire-anchors-33-c.asp
For all you who have to garden by themselves, thought you may find it useful.
I have been lucky with the garden over the bad weather - a lot of ceramic pots smashed - but they can be replaced and the retrieved plants I popped in plastic ones as and when it happened. Plant I lost was a lovely pulmonaria - sturdy as they are - it just seems to have rotted - was in the damper side of the garden
Exhausted! and a little more errr hot (no!) damp (no!) anyway more hard working than a lady should be!
Couldn't get the fire to stay alight (what a girl!)
so all broken and piled up to think about later. FIL may come and help tomorrow with fire. Anyone any idea who to contact to remove the stuff - just need a 'man with a mucky van', willing to make a couple of trips to the tip for cheap!
Veg beds dug over, not that I have much intention of growing anything edible... may let FIL play there, he is the opposite to me and can't understand why anyone would grow something they can't eat! He used to have an allotment until the last 2 yrs or so now just grows in his small garden.
Cricket, trampolining and basketball played.
Stumpery rearranged and now renamed as Twig Forest!
Lily - you can have my twisted hazel, it's blinkin ugly in summer!
Matty - will take a look it sounds interesting.
Edd - if youre about ive got a recycling dilemma for you
I had a corkscrew hazel once upon a time but as you say, they just look lumpy in the summer.
NDN have one, and have a clematis climbing over it, which camouflages the green lumpiness, but also masks the glory of its form in winter
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.