Morning everyone, Pam I am very jealous , lovely flower. I thought I'd found a bud on mine the other day but it was a honeysuckle flower bud . It's grown so much that it's now all interwined with it . Still healthy though so I live in hope.
I thought Gary would have posted by now to give us his verdict on Downton. Not sure about Shirley McLaine.
Today is a very sad day, I am getting my gardening trousers out of the wardrobe, the shorts will be washed, pressed and wrapped in tissue paper for the winter
Pam that flower is lovely, I too live in hope that mine might flower.
XF- I assume that if you were not in the last 5 minute montage that you are not in the finals.
Morning all-the sun is still shining so the jogging bottoms are not being brought out just yet-I must be a hardier southern softy
A better XF last night in my opinon-I am being sucked in again-fell asleep at the end of Downton-I know we are supposed to think it is wonderful but it is still a posh soap.
Morning all, it's been quite a while since I have posted due to a major crash of my laptop. So I had to wait till my brother had fixed it but as of yesterday evening I'm in full controll again, yay. What seems a bit strange is that this message keeps coming up telling me the software I'm using is not legitimate.....but I still can use it..
In the meanwhile we managed to clear part of the garden of weeds, only a few perennial weeds left which seem to like our soil very much. Only two-thirds to go now. And because I still didn't manage to find a new job I've got loads of time on my hand to tackle Creeping Buttercups, Nettles and Thistles. I am planning to try some cardboard layers with compost in between to suppress the other weeds.
Lovely Cobea Pam. I tried them too and I found that they needed a lot of sunshine and watering as well. The first year, nothing. Second year loads of beautiful flowers.I grew purple/white ones. I'm no good at watering plants in containers so now the containers are getting bigger and bigger. At least that way it takes them longer to dry out.
Kate, why are you preparing for the winter already -planting season just started.
Talking about cold, I heard on the radio that Ranulph Fiennes is planning to walk across Antartica in the winter when it can be minus 70. He's a pensioner has had cancer and a heart attack. I did enjoy his book 'The Feather Men'. It's about how the SAS look after their own. One of the best books I've read. I think it has a grain of truth in it.
Hello one and all. Nice to have you back Flowerchild :- )
Still no time to spend in the garden though I did pick some tomatoes and raspberries over the weekend. And I found a tiny little green butternut squash on a plant in the gh. No chance of it turning into anything edible but it's one more squash than I got last year !!
Kate, I never do shorts for gardening as I'm terribly susceptible to bitey things.
Kate, you can take some cuttings and put them somewhere cool (but not freezing). By May they should be nicely developed plants and weather provided, flower in July. I sowed them in February and they were good plants. They do need a lot of light when growing and it's hard work keeping them from smothering each another.
Sorry Geoff, along with the laptop my brother also took our very very very tall step ladder so I wasn't able to see the other side of our country. Did you like Holland?
I don't do shorts for the same reason FloBear. In my previous job there were too many nasty critters that loved me and besides that, I can't expose too much flesh to the sunlight anyway because of the risk of skin cancer.
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Morning everyone, Pam I am very jealous , lovely flower. I thought I'd found a bud on mine the other day but it was a honeysuckle flower bud . It's grown so much that it's now all interwined with it . Still healthy though so I live in hope.
I thought Gary would have posted by now to give us his verdict on Downton. Not sure about Shirley McLaine.
Today is a very sad day, I am getting my gardening trousers out of the wardrobe, the shorts will be washed, pressed and wrapped in tissue paper for the winter
Pam that flower is lovely, I too live in hope that mine might flower.
XF- I assume that if you were not in the last 5 minute montage that you are not in the finals.
Morning all-the sun is still shining so the jogging bottoms are not being brought out just yet-I must be a hardier southern softy
A better XF last night in my opinon-I am being sucked in again-fell asleep at the end of Downton-I know we are supposed to think it is wonderful but it is still a posh soap.
Lovely flower Pam
Morning all, it's been quite a while since I have posted due to a major crash of my laptop.
So I had to wait till my brother had fixed it but as of yesterday evening I'm in full controll again, yay. 
What seems a bit strange is that this message keeps coming up telling me the software I'm using is not legitimate.....but I still can use it..
In the meanwhile we managed to clear part of the garden of weeds, only a few perennial weeds left which seem to like our soil very much. Only two-thirds to go now. And because I still didn't manage to find a new job I've got loads of time on my hand to tackle Creeping Buttercups, Nettles and Thistles. I am planning to try some cardboard layers with compost in between to suppress the other weeds.
Lovely Cobea Pam. I tried them too and I found that they needed a lot of sunshine and watering as well. The first year, nothing. Second year loads of beautiful flowers.I grew purple/white ones. I'm no good at watering plants in containers so now the containers are getting bigger and bigger. At least that way it takes them longer to dry out.
Kate, why are you preparing for the winter already -planting season just started.
Hello FC and welcome back, computers can be such a pain, I need to know how do you overwinter your cobaeas? Only my legs are preparing for winter.
Geoff everyone knows that women feel the cold quicker than men
Hello FC-I was in Amstleeven last week-waved and shouted but you ignored me
I can hold out for a few weeks more yet-before the autumn wardrobe -might put a heavier duvet on the bed though
Hello Flowerchild.
Talking about cold, I heard on the radio that Ranulph Fiennes is planning to walk across Antartica in the winter when it can be minus 70. He's a pensioner has had cancer and a heart attack. I did enjoy his book 'The Feather Men'. It's about how the SAS look after their own. One of the best books I've read. I think it has a grain of truth in it.
Hello one and all. Nice to have you back Flowerchild :- )
Still no time to spend in the garden though I did pick some tomatoes and raspberries over the weekend. And I found a tiny little green butternut squash on a plant in the gh. No chance of it turning into anything edible but it's one more squash than I got last year !!
Kate, I never do shorts for gardening as I'm terribly susceptible to bitey things.
Thanks for the warm welcome guys!
Kate, you can take some cuttings and put them somewhere cool (but not freezing). By May they should be nicely developed plants and weather provided, flower in July. I sowed them in February and they were good plants. They do need a lot of light when growing and it's hard work keeping them from smothering each another.
Sorry Geoff, along with the laptop my brother also took our very very very tall step ladder so I wasn't able to see the other side of our country. Did you like Holland?
I don't do shorts for the same reason FloBear. In my previous job there were too many nasty critters that loved me and besides that, I can't expose too much flesh to the sunlight anyway because of the risk of skin cancer.
I love raspberries!!