All worth the effort Marion, you certainly made the most of the better weather last week. Your garden is great you know, so much colour and variation. I'm just imagining the safari Maybe you can relax a little now.
So glad your visitors enjoyed your garden and hospitality Marion. From all the wonderful pictures you have shown us it's no surprise that everyone is impressed with it. Good idea to do as BizzieB says and take it easy, but don't stop taking your photos Hope your weather improves soon.
Oh thank you for your considerate thoughts on my behalf. I will have a day off tomorrow and visit my friends at the Botanic Garden and deliver the donation from today's whip round. Next week will be a busy one - a trip out on the 4th to two lovely gardens and on the fifth a visit from a reporter and photographer from a magazine, so will be busy in the garden again. But then being busy in the garden is what I enjoy most whether it is doing the work or talking about the results. My visitors were very impressed with my new jubilee border. I have flower buds on my new peopy lactiflora, on my trollius from Hanbury Hall last year, on my Cirsium rivale from a too big clump my friend dug up and I divided. It will be so lovely next year for Bristol's Green Capitol of Europe Year.
So happy your day went well Marion, shame about the weather but it sounds like you made the most of it and kept everyone well entertained, you put your feet up now, you deserve it, well done
Home from the Bot, Garden and I should have taken my camera! I thought it would be too wet but the weather is improving. It was lovely to see all the new plantings going in and what had been removed to make way for them. I got myself a free gardening magazine so shall read that on my "Day off" and get back to the routine tomorrow as the green wheelie bins get emptied tomorrow morning.
Once again the garden looks like it has been raining all night in Bristol. I do feel energetic after my day off yesterday so will go to the flower shop for some fresh compost and sow my runner beans. They should soon come up in the conservatory and in the meantime will erect their wigwams. By then the garden should be a bit drier and I can start filling up the green wheeliebin again as it gets emptied this morning. I want to clear the paths in the butterfly garden and the spinney of weeds so I can have a dry pathway all round the garden even when it has been raining all night. It is so useful in the potager to be able to go and pick broad beans even in the rain without treading on any soil.
30 seeds each of White Lady and Moonlight runner bean seeds sown, two to a pot and 15 of each over to fill in any gaps that may arise. I also have made a good start to weeding in the butterfly garden and will do some more when i get my breath back. It is ideal gardening weather now it is dry, not too warm, no wind. The foxgloves are flowering and bringing in the pollinators. Small tomatoes in the conservatory already and the many tomato flowers are bringing more colour to it.
Just finished for the day. The green wheeliebin is nearly full again after being emptied this morning. It pays to have a day off occasionally. You get lots more done when you are itching for it. Weather for the next two days is forecast to be dry in Bristol so should be able to clear the long path that winds through the Butterfly garden and the spinney before the rain comes back. Standing on a dry path I can always work on the edges,
Hi Marion, what lovely pictures, you've been very busy again with all your seed pots, my flower plants are being delivered tomorrow can't wait to get planting them, the weather forecast is sunshine tomorrow
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All worth the effort Marion, you certainly made the most of the better weather last week. Your garden is great you know, so much colour and variation. I'm just imagining the safari
Maybe you can relax a little now.
So glad your visitors enjoyed your garden and hospitality Marion. From all the wonderful pictures you have shown us it's no surprise that everyone is impressed with it. Good idea to do as BizzieB says and take it easy, but don't stop taking your photos
Hope your weather improves soon.
Oh thank you for your considerate thoughts on my behalf. I will have a day off tomorrow and visit my friends at the Botanic Garden and deliver the donation from today's whip round. Next week will be a busy one - a trip out on the 4th to two lovely gardens and on the fifth a visit from a reporter and photographer from a magazine, so will be busy in the garden again. But then being busy in the garden is what I enjoy most whether it is doing the work or talking about the results. My visitors were very impressed with my new jubilee border. I have flower buds on my new peopy lactiflora, on my trollius from Hanbury Hall last year, on my Cirsium rivale from a too big clump my friend dug up and I divided. It will be so lovely next year for Bristol's Green Capitol of Europe Year.
So happy your day went well Marion, shame about the weather but it sounds like you made the most of it and kept everyone well entertained, you put your feet up now, you deserve it, well done
Thank you, Flumpy1, I have just watched a super film "The History Boys" and enjoyed it very much indeed.
Home from the Bot, Garden and I should have taken my camera! I thought it would be too wet but the weather is improving. It was lovely to see all the new plantings going in and what had been removed to make way for them. I got myself a free gardening magazine so shall read that on my "Day off" and get back to the routine tomorrow as the green wheelie bins get emptied tomorrow morning.
Once again the garden looks like it has been raining all night in Bristol. I do feel energetic after my day off yesterday so will go to the flower shop for some fresh compost and sow my runner beans. They should soon come up in the conservatory and in the meantime will erect their wigwams. By then the garden should be a bit drier and I can start filling up the green wheeliebin again as it gets emptied this morning. I want to clear the paths in the butterfly garden and the spinney of weeds so I can have a dry pathway all round the garden even when it has been raining all night. It is so useful in the potager to be able to go and pick broad beans even in the rain without treading on any soil.
30 seeds each of White Lady and Moonlight runner bean seeds sown, two to a pot and 15 of each over to fill in any gaps that may arise. I also have made a good start to weeding in the butterfly garden and will do some more when i get my breath back. It is ideal gardening weather now it is dry, not too warm, no wind. The foxgloves are flowering and bringing in the pollinators. Small tomatoes in the conservatory already and the many tomato flowers are bringing more colour to it.
Just finished for the day. The green wheeliebin is nearly full again after being emptied this morning. It pays to have a day off occasionally. You get lots more done when you are itching for it. Weather for the next two days is forecast to be dry in Bristol so should be able to clear the long path that winds through the Butterfly garden and the spinney before the rain comes back. Standing on a dry path I can always work on the edges,
Hi Marion, what lovely pictures, you've been very busy again with all your seed pots, my flower plants are being delivered tomorrow can't wait to get planting them, the weather forecast is sunshine tomorrow