Good morning Marion, enjoying your thread immensely, you have so much colour so early, lovely auriculas. What county are you in? I'm in north Yorkshire and we have no signs of colour in our tulips yet. Although there is fair amount of yellow about and all the little daffs and golden crocus remind me of you, and I wonder what my garden will be like in 50 years time. It would be lovely to see some photos of the scree garden, I'm attempting something of a similar description myself. Have a good day out there Marion.
I am already, Lisa,thank you, and decided I needed a coffee break today as I started at 7am. i will snap the scree garden at the end of the week. I live in Bristol, sheltered by the Mendips and am so glad you are enjoying my account of my Golden Jubilee year. Some day you will be handing out Roll of Honour places to your plants!
O what a start to the week! I have kindly had delivered by the Entry Secy of the Bristol and District Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society four very well grown tubers of golden dahlias, all named so I can look them up- a gift from Philip Orley, last year's Silver Medal Winner. They met up at the AGM last weekend and Phillip arranged it. I am so very, very glad I spent all my savings when I was eighty on becoming IT literate and equipped! Otherwise such lovely things would never have happened to me. I hope I can do those lovely tubers justice. What a wonderful golden show they will make at the end of the summer.
Much colder today which is just as well as I overdid the heavy work in the garden yesterday so a lovely warm spell in the conservatory trying to move seedlings around to get veg seeds sown and seeing to my new dahlias will suit me fine. They all look beauties on the internet so I have a great show to look forward to. There are sedums and osteospermums in pots ready to go out in the middle garden so may put on my coat and do that in the afternoon when the temperature is forecast to reach 10 degrees, not 16 like yesterday.
Still foggy and cold in Bristol. I have done the bees' work for them on my peach tree with my sable artist brush and watered all my seedlings in the conservatory. Four of my chlorophytum (Spider) plants have been watered as well as I may use them next Monday in my porch St. Patrick's Day display. The March parcel from Mr. Fothergills for the "Nation of Gardeners" Trials has been dispatched so may arrive today. That is always exciting. Would love to be out in the garden but it is too nasty out there. Parcel has just arrived from Mr. Fothergill by Royal Mail. It just gets more and more exciting every month this trial. Something i had not imagined we would do this month which I will tell you about when everyone has received their parcel.
Our box of supplies from Mr. Fothergills this month contained 24 strawberry plants, 4 kinds of tomato seeds to be grown outside to test against blight etc, one pkt of broad beans to compare yield with autumn sown ones and three pot grown garlic plants to compare with the autumn and spring sown ones for risk of bolting - interesting. I did get the garlic planted but too cold to do the beans and strawberries. Here is the garlic, autumn planted on the left, spring planted on the right, both from cloves, and the new plants top in the middle.
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Good morning Marion. I hope you have a happy gardening day in the sunshine.
I'm still reading although I haven't said anything for a few days. This is your special thread.
Oh wow, I have only tidied the back door patio and am already drooling over my bulbs! They go so well with the dwarf rhododendrons.
Good morning Marion, enjoying your thread immensely, you have so much colour so early, lovely auriculas. What county are you in? I'm in north Yorkshire and we have no signs of colour in our tulips yet. Although there is fair amount of yellow about and all the little daffs and golden crocus remind me of you, and I wonder what my garden will be like in 50 years time. It would be lovely to see some photos of the scree garden, I'm attempting something of a similar description myself. Have a good day out there Marion.
I am already, Lisa,thank you, and decided I needed a coffee break today as I started at 7am. i will snap the scree garden at the end of the week. I live in Bristol, sheltered by the Mendips and am so glad you are enjoying my account of my Golden Jubilee year. Some day you will be handing out Roll of Honour places to your plants!
O what a start to the week! I have kindly had delivered by the Entry Secy of the Bristol and District Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society four very well grown tubers of golden dahlias, all named so I can look them up- a gift from Philip Orley, last year's Silver Medal Winner. They met up at the AGM last weekend and Phillip arranged it. I am so very, very glad I spent all my savings when I was eighty on becoming IT literate and equipped! Otherwise such lovely things would never have happened to me. I hope I can do those lovely tubers justice. What a wonderful golden show they will make at the end of the summer.
Much colder today which is just as well as I overdid the heavy work in the garden yesterday so a lovely warm spell in the conservatory trying to move seedlings around to get veg seeds sown and seeing to my new dahlias will suit me fine. They all look beauties on the internet so I have a great show to look forward to. There are sedums and osteospermums in pots ready to go out in the middle garden so may put on my coat and do that in the afternoon when the temperature is forecast to reach 10 degrees, not 16 like yesterday.
Such a cold, foggy morning in Bristol today i decided the conservatory was the best place to be gardening and took my camera with me.
This is what I see looking out the windows of the conservatory.
I made it out to the front garden
after a steaming hot cup of coffee. The tulips are opening up.
Still foggy and cold in Bristol. I have done the bees' work for them on my peach tree with my sable artist brush and watered all my seedlings in the conservatory. Four of my chlorophytum (Spider) plants have been watered as well as I may use them next Monday in my porch St. Patrick's Day display. The March parcel from Mr. Fothergills for the "Nation of Gardeners" Trials has been dispatched so may arrive today. That is always exciting. Would love to be out in the garden but it is too nasty out there. Parcel has just arrived from Mr. Fothergill by Royal Mail. It just gets more and more exciting every month this trial. Something i had not imagined we would do this month which I will tell you about when everyone has received their parcel.
Our box of supplies from Mr. Fothergills this month contained 24 strawberry plants, 4 kinds of tomato seeds to be grown outside to test against blight etc, one pkt of broad beans to compare yield with autumn sown ones and three pot grown garlic plants to compare with the autumn and spring sown ones for risk of bolting - interesting. I did get the garlic planted but too cold to do the beans and strawberries. Here is the garlic, autumn planted on the left, spring planted on the right, both from cloves, and the new plants top in the middle.