Nice morning here in Bristol but very windy. Clouded over now and looks like rain. Bought some more plants yesterday so spent the morning planting an alstromeria,4 cosmos to fill a few gaps and a freesia. Never grown freesias before so hope it takes ok. Smells wonderful. Also bought a day lily and a white scabious, but still deciding where to put them.
Batten down the hatches, then, Lorelei - this weather is moving up the Bristol Channel!
I tried freesias once, with limited success, so I hope yours do well. Likewise a scabious, which decided not to like me, and turned up its toes in no time at all. Oh, well - success wouldn't be so sweet if it was always assured, would it?
In my neck of the woods Freesia are a greenhouse plant, I think you can grow them outside in a warm sheltered spot in the far South, probably not this year though. My wife loved them so it was my job to keep them not too hot never too cold free draining yet well watered although not at first, they were labour intensive but the smile I got worth the work needed. Scabious love a sunny site well drained fertile soil and if you cut them back after flowering will come again. Still no rain on the Tees in fact it is brightening. just had a phone call, be on parade Sunday for lunch or else? fathers day or something, who invented all these days I ask.
No sunshine for me today Frank just wall to wall cloud and a chilly wind, did manage to get to a tropical 16.3c in the garden, managed to get the back grass cut just in case it does decide to rain over the next few days, when oh when will the Summer start.
Had some rain and more to come I'm sure by the look of the sky. Hatches battened !
The label on the freesias said they were now easier to grow than they were, so fingers crossed. I have put them in a pot so could put them somewhere warmer over winter if I had to. I had freesias asmy wedding bouquet a long time ago and have always loved them. Will let you know How they fair.
I have a pink scabious which is flowering lovely but never grown a white one. Looksa a bit more robust than the pink one. Will have to find a home for it soon. Impulse buys !!!!!
Father's Day - just another excuse for the greetings card industry to get us to buy more cards, and for sales of aftershave etc to get a bit of a boost beyond the Christmas season!
Freesias are one of my favourite flowers, too, so I'll be interested in any feedback Lorelei (Siren of the Bristol Channel? ). I would happily give them another go, as it were.
Rain still threatening to get heavy here - but it just spatters down, lightens up a bit, and then goes greyer. According to the lunchtime forecast, we should be sitting under a big blue blanket by now.
Well, we had a lovely breezy morning here, sunny with lots of cloud cover. Now it's gone very dark, the wind is picking up and it's looking very dismal outside. According to radio 2 this morning, we're in for a month's worth of rain in the next 3 days. I really hope not, my son is having his jubilee 'street party' at school tomorrow, I'd hate for it to rain. It probably will though, I've got some beans and squash that need planting out over the weekend, and hubby has (finally!) agreed to put up some more hanging basket brackets and help me hang them (I'm slightly disabled and can't lift the flipping things very far now they're full!)
Some squalls here, sky looking ominous, tempest forecast for later on. But at least it will be coming from the SE, not NW like last week's, so maybe the foxgloves etc will be be blown upright...
A friend turned up who's been in southern France for the last month. He was enchanted by the green chaos...and I must admit, it does look like the Secret Garden at the moment. He took some pics which I'll post later. Good news is that I should be picking broad beans and courgettes soon...
No sunshine for me today Frank just wall to wall cloud and a chilly wind, did manage to get to a tropical 16.3c in the garden, managed to get the back grass cut just in case it does decide to rain over the next few days, when oh when will the Summer start.
We had a lovely sunny evening Rain, it was windy but sitting in the conservatory watching the sunset it was warm enough. It does feel much cooler now at 22:00 pm better put a warm brick in my jimjams, not forgetting to take it out before retiring of course.
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Batten down the hatches, then, Lorelei - this weather is moving up the Bristol Channel!
I tried freesias once, with limited success, so I hope yours do well. Likewise a scabious, which decided not to like me, and turned up its toes in no time at all. Oh, well - success wouldn't be so sweet if it was always assured, would it?
In my neck of the woods Freesia are a greenhouse plant, I think you can grow them outside in a warm sheltered spot in the far South, probably not this year though.
My wife loved them so it was my job to keep them not too hot never too cold free draining yet well watered although not at first, they were labour intensive but the smile I got worth the work needed.
Scabious love a sunny site well drained fertile soil and if you cut them back after flowering will come again.
Still no rain on the Tees in fact it is brightening. just had a phone call, be on parade Sunday for lunch or else? fathers day or something, who invented all these days I ask.
No sunshine for me today Frank just wall to wall cloud and a chilly wind, did manage to get to a tropical 16.3c in the garden, managed to get the back grass cut just in case it does decide to rain over the next few days, when oh when will the Summer start.
The label on the freesias said they were now easier to grow than they were, so fingers crossed. I have put them in a pot so could put them somewhere warmer over winter if I had to. I had freesias asmy wedding bouquet a long time ago and have always loved them. Will let you know How they fair.
I have a pink scabious which is flowering lovely but never grown a white one. Looksa a bit more robust than the pink one. Will have to find a home for it soon. Impulse buys !!!!!
Father's Day - just another excuse for the greetings card industry to get us to buy more cards, and for sales of aftershave etc to get a bit of a boost beyond the Christmas season!
Freesias are one of my favourite flowers, too, so I'll be interested in any feedback Lorelei (Siren of the Bristol Channel?
). I would happily give them another go, as it were.
Rain still threatening to get heavy here - but it just spatters down, lightens up a bit, and then goes greyer. According to the lunchtime forecast, we should be sitting under a big blue blanket by now.
Well, we had a lovely breezy morning here, sunny with lots of cloud cover. Now it's gone very dark, the wind is picking up and it's looking very dismal outside. According to radio 2 this morning, we're in for a month's worth of rain in the next 3 days. I really hope not, my son is having his jubilee 'street party' at school tomorrow, I'd hate for it to rain. It probably will though, I've got some beans and squash that need planting out over the weekend, and hubby has (finally!) agreed to put up some more hanging basket brackets and help me hang them (I'm slightly disabled and can't lift the flipping things very far now they're full!)
A friend turned up who's been in southern France for the last month. He was enchanted by the green chaos...and I must admit, it does look like the Secret Garden at the moment. He took some pics which I'll post later. Good news is that I should be picking broad beans and courgettes soon...
We had a lovely sunny evening Rain, it was windy but sitting in the conservatory watching the sunset it was warm enough. It does feel much cooler now at 22:00 pm better put a warm brick in my jimjams, not forgetting to take it out before retiring of course.
Frank.