Thanks for all your much needed advice on how I can improve my roses Marion.Will plant some garlic bulbs tomorrow. Love the gazanias, I going to read up on them and maybe give them a try.......I find your thread very inspiring thank you so much x
You are very welcome,flowers in the rain. Do get yourself some gazanias. They are a delight for at least ten months of the year!. Never stop making more and more buds and no two plants seem to have the same colours of flowers. And now quite hardy too whereas they used to be a florist flower from the hothouse.
Another fine day forecast for gardening. So glad this fine weather has lasted till the weekend for those who have to be at work all week, especially now the nights are closing in. I have visitors tomorrow so will have to pop along to the shops but the rest of the day I will be working in my spinney to the backdrop of the cooing doves. They were so soothing yesterday as i extricated my hair continually from grasping brambles some of which were over ten metres long. I will get there eventually.
A letter from Bristol city Council has just come in the post telling me that Climate Energy, the firm which delivers the Warm up Bristol scheme has gone into administration. They were the people who were to fit my new boiler and external wall installation for my bungalow. The council say they will be in touch personally as soon as possible. I saw it on Points West the other day and the Mayor saying how shocked and saddened he was by the news. Luckily they had not started on the work here so I am not living in a bomb site but the cold weather will soon be upon us.
The City Council say in their letter they will be in touch soon. I believe there is a buyer for the company on the horizon. It will all take time however and there are 1,300 homes with unfinished work just as the cold weather is approaching. Those poor people will not remember Bristol's year as Green capital of Europe very fondly. Luckily they had not even started mine.
Another dry day in Bristol so more gardening this morning. Forecast is for colder from tomorrow so may put the greenhouse heater into the conservatory at the end of the week if below four degrees is forecast. It has a thermostat which switches the heat on when it falls that low, then off again when it reaches about 6 so no energy is wasted.
That's good Marion. I can't get power to my GH without getting an electrician to do major work. So I haven't bothered. I find the mini GH on the east verandah is almost good enough - just enough to get seeds germinated with a bottom heat propagator and then careful management.
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And still I keep finding new colourways on my gazanias. My new red aster is a beauty and goes so well with my blue and oink ones
Lots of bramble clearing done up in the spinney again today and green wheelie bin which was emptied this morning is now almost full up again.
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Thanks for all your much needed advice on how I can improve my roses Marion.Will plant some garlic bulbs tomorrow. Love the gazanias, I going to read up on them and maybe give them a try.......I find your thread very inspiring thank you so much x
You are very welcome,flowers in the rain. Do get yourself some gazanias. They are a delight for at least ten months of the year!. Never stop making more and more buds and no two plants seem to have the same colours of flowers. And now quite hardy too whereas they used to be a florist flower from the hothouse.
Another fine day forecast for gardening. So glad this fine weather has lasted till the weekend for those who have to be at work all week, especially now the nights are closing in. I have visitors tomorrow so will have to pop along to the shops but the rest of the day I will be working in my spinney to the backdrop of the cooing doves. They were so soothing yesterday as i extricated my hair continually from grasping brambles some of which were over ten metres long. I will get there eventually.
A letter from Bristol city Council has just come in the post telling me that Climate Energy, the firm which delivers the Warm up Bristol scheme has gone into administration. They were the people who were to fit my new boiler and external wall installation for my bungalow. The council say they will be in touch personally as soon as possible. I saw it on Points West the other day and the Mayor saying how shocked and saddened he was by the news. Luckily they had not started on the work here so I am not living in a bomb site but the cold weather will soon be upon us.
So sorry to hear about the company going into administration, Marion. What other choices do you have?
The City Council say in their letter they will be in touch soon. I believe there is a buyer for the company on the horizon. It will all take time however and there are 1,300 homes with unfinished work just as the cold weather is approaching. Those poor people will not remember Bristol's year as Green capital of Europe very fondly. Luckily they had not even started mine.
Another dry day in Bristol so more gardening this morning. Forecast is for colder from tomorrow so may put the greenhouse heater into the conservatory at the end of the week if below four degrees is forecast. It has a thermostat which switches the heat on when it falls that low, then off again when it reaches about 6 so no energy is wasted.
That's good Marion. I can't get power to my GH without getting an electrician to do major work. So I haven't bothered. I find the mini GH on the east verandah is almost good enough - just enough to get seeds germinated with a bottom heat propagator and then careful management.
Nearly the middle of October and still the summer flowers are vying with the autumn ones for attention. brilliant colours today.