Hi Marion, just been catching up on your forum, lovely photos there, I can't believe the size of that water Lilly!! . I ate my first home grown tomato yesterday, I feel so proud of myself , looks like there's quite a few more to eat yet once they are ripe mmmm, the temperature has dropped today Cold and wet so no gardening for me
Now you know the difference in taste from a shop bought tomato and one you grew yourself, flumpy1! Congrats. Colder in Bristol now too though the sun is out and it has stopped raining. The wind is getting up too so real October weather now. Must not grumble after such a marvellous September.
Yes your right Marion we've had a lovely year, tomorrow I'm going to try my curly Kale with my tea, do you just snap the branch off or cut it Marion ?.
i forgot to say I love your poem, did you write it yourself ?
I usually cut kale. flumpy1 and yes I wrote the poem. Poems wake me up in the middle of the night so I have learned to keep pen and paper in the top drawer of my bedside cabinet. I do not sit down deliberately to write a poem on a certain subject. Prose on the other hand i write deliberately. Bedsocks are coming out tonight - brrrr.
Awe Marion, I've just zoomed in on your picture, those flowers are gorgeous, I understand what you mean about writing your poems in a different way, I like to draw, paint or play my organ, but I have to be in the right mood, it normally happens when I'm off work.
weather tomorrow is cloudy in the morning and clear skies in the afternoon, going to bake rhubarb crumble tomorrow mmmmmmm , but before that I will be tidying our garden, what are you doing Marion?
I am making a proper start on tidying the butterfly garden where I have thousands of snowdrops in several different species which at the moment I will not be able to see properly when they flower. Lots of pruning, weeding and path clearing needed. It will take me the rest of October to do There are lots of fallen apples as there is a huge Bramley apple tree there so I will be picking them up so apple crumble may be on the menu. I usually make three and freeze two. I am going to a dayschool on Garden Writing at the Botanic Garden one day this month sothat will be a day off to reinvigorate me.
Is the Botanic Garden open to visitors Marion? It looks like the sort of place I'd like to visit
The uni's Living Sciences building is being officially opened tomorrow by Mr Attenborough it's very, very close to where I work and I get to look at the living wall several times a day
Yes, Fruitcake. Open 10.30 to 4.30 every day. So many Bristolians do not know what they are missing. If you get caught in the rain head for the greenhouses. The sub tropical and tropical houses are very warm. Here is a picture of a banana flower and a new bunch of bananas I took last Thursday. Of course my lens was all steamed upin the heat.
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Hi Marion, just been catching up on your forum, lovely photos there, I can't believe the size of that water Lilly!!
. I ate my first home grown tomato yesterday, I feel so proud of myself 
, looks like there's quite a few more to eat yet once they are ripe mmmm, the temperature has dropped today 
Cold and wet so no gardening for me 
Now you know the difference in taste from a shop bought tomato and one you grew yourself, flumpy1! Congrats. Colder in Bristol now too though the sun is out and it has stopped raining. The wind is getting up too so real October weather now. Must not grumble after such a marvellous September.
Yes your right Marion we've had a lovely year, tomorrow I'm going to try my curly Kale with my tea, do you just snap the branch off or cut it Marion ?.
i forgot to say I love your poem, did you write it yourself ?
I usually cut kale. flumpy1 and yes I wrote the poem. Poems wake me up in the middle of the night so I have learned to keep pen and paper in the top drawer of my bedside cabinet. I do not sit down deliberately to write a poem on a certain subject. Prose on the other hand i write deliberately. Bedsocks are coming out tonight - brrrr.
Those cannas toned so well with the ginger plants in flower in the Univ. of Bristol Bot. Gdn.
Awe Marion, I've just zoomed in on your picture, those flowers are gorgeous, I understand what you mean about writing your poems in a different way, I like to draw, paint or play my organ, but I have to be in the right mood, it normally happens when I'm off work.
weather tomorrow is cloudy in the morning and clear skies in the afternoon, going to bake rhubarb crumble tomorrow mmmmmmm
, but before that I will be tidying our garden, what are you doing Marion?
I am making a proper start on tidying the butterfly garden where I have thousands of snowdrops in several different species which at the moment I will not be able to see properly when they flower. Lots of pruning, weeding and path clearing needed. It will take me the rest of October to do There are lots of fallen apples as there is a huge Bramley apple tree there so I will be picking them up so apple crumble may be on the menu. I usually make three and freeze two. I am going to a dayschool on Garden Writing at the Botanic Garden one day this month sothat will be a day off to reinvigorate me.
Rudbeckias and heleniums at the Univ. of Bristol Bot. Garden last Thursday.
Is the Botanic Garden open to visitors Marion? It looks like the sort of place I'd like to visit
The uni's Living Sciences building is being officially opened tomorrow by Mr Attenborough
it's very, very close to where I work and I get to look at the living wall several times a day
Yes, Fruitcake. Open 10.30 to 4.30 every day. So many Bristolians do not know what they are missing. If you get caught in the rain head for the greenhouses. The sub tropical and tropical houses are very warm. Here is a picture of a banana flower and a new bunch of bananas I took last Thursday. Of course my lens was all steamed upin the heat.