Perfume garden all dug up and clean. Rhododendron planted and I think I will have room for my Rhododendron "Klondyke AK" which is a beautiful yellow flowered one with lovely scent. Now I am aiming to get it all planted up by the end of November and the chippings path round two sides of it weeded - it has loads of brown leaved ajuga and poached egg plants seeded or run into it. But that is a job that can be done in a raincoat and rain hat quite happily if it is raining and not too windy.
Rain is just water and not likely to do you any harm in small amounts and cold can be kept at bay by hard work. I just prefer to be out in the gresh air rather than indoors as long as there is daylight. Another fine day today in Bristol but rain forecast for tomorrow.
You too, GWRS.I am out to the theatre tonight -"Gardenio" by Shakespeare and others. I have just put away in the fridge and freezer a month's supply of groceries ordered online. Even less room for my Bramleys now. I think I may dry some in the oven - sliced. I have two ginger toms that visit too. They like sitting on top of my neighbour's new wall watching me work. One is such a dark ginger he is almost brown. Shopping online saves me so much time to do more in the garden and I always hated going to the shops once the supermarkets arrived and you had to do all the work yourself.
My new offers from the Secret Gardening club have arrived and I have ordered 3xwhite Dianthus "Devon dove", 10 "princess Irene" tulips for my perfume garden, 10 crocus "Romance " which is cream for a pot. 3x Helenium "Pipsqueak", 3x Campanula glomerata "Superba" and 3x Aster "Chatterbox" to fill in the border spaces I am making as I dig up perfumed shrubs for my perfume garden. All for £23 as I get an extra 10% discount for having a Plant Pass subscription for the year. P&P free is a great saving.
A very wet garden this morning and still raining. The forecast is for much of the day the same persistent rain but that cannot dampen my spirits this morning after seeing what I consider the play that has everything last night and coming home clutching a bundle of wooden lollipop sticks from the playgoers who had ice-creams in the interval to serve as labels for my new plants. Only in Bristol, the Green Capital of Europe could it happen!
"Cardenio" is often called the lost Shakespeare play. No more. it now has a great deal to recommend it. Last night we had ladies playing the part of gentlemen very competently,very clever scenery,, an intriguing love story, Spanish dancing and music,exquisite costumes, drama to make you jump out of your seat and unexpected and intriguing "Frozen" moments of the action , to mention just a few of the delights. I took my seat with a backache from my extraordinary exertions in the garden last week and stood up at the end free of it. Perhaps the NHS could provide a night at a good play on prescription?
Hi everyone, hope your having nicer weather than us, it's wet wet wet in the NW, the leaves on trees are all falling off now and cold : (, roll on spring already, I'm glad to say I still have plants flowering in our garden and my chrysanthemums have lovely yellow flowers : ), Marion glad you enjoyed your Shakespeare, I've been reading you've got more plants coming is this for your perfume garden Marion?
Some are flumpy - the white carnations and scented Princess Irene tulips. Others are to fill in the gaps in the borders left my my resiting perfumed shrubs like the rhododendrons and deutzias to the perfume garden. GWRS the play has just been released for general production as it was just "discovered and rewritten" by the Royal Shakespeare company in 2003.
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Perfume garden all dug up and clean. Rhododendron planted and I think I will have room for my Rhododendron "Klondyke AK" which is a beautiful yellow flowered one with lovely scent. Now I am aiming to get it all planted up by the end of November and the chippings path round two sides of it weeded - it has loads of brown leaved ajuga and poached egg plants seeded or run into it. But that is a job that can be done in a raincoat and rain hat quite happily if it is raining and not too windy.
Hello , I have to say I am a fair weather gardener , little drizzle ok but that's it , don't mind the cold thou
Rain is just water and not likely to do you any harm in small amounts and cold can be kept at bay by hard work. I just prefer to be out in the gresh air rather than indoors as long as there is daylight. Another fine day today in Bristol but rain forecast for tomorrow.
Yes nice day today here too , we have freinds coming for dinner tonight so will be helping o/h with the prep
just watched ginger toms walk around garden
have a good day
You too, GWRS.I am out to the theatre tonight -"Gardenio" by Shakespeare and others. I have just put away in the fridge and freezer a month's supply of groceries ordered online. Even less room for my Bramleys now. I think I may dry some in the oven - sliced. I have two ginger toms that visit too. They like sitting on top of my neighbour's new wall watching me work. One is such a dark ginger he is almost brown. Shopping online saves me so much time to do more in the garden and I always hated going to the shops once the supermarkets arrived and you had to do all the work yourself.
My new offers from the Secret Gardening club have arrived and I have ordered 3xwhite Dianthus "Devon dove", 10 "princess Irene" tulips for my perfume garden, 10 crocus "Romance " which is cream for a pot. 3x Helenium "Pipsqueak", 3x Campanula glomerata "Superba" and 3x Aster "Chatterbox" to fill in the border spaces I am making as I dig up perfumed shrubs for my perfume garden. All for £23 as I get an extra 10% discount for having a Plant Pass subscription for the year. P&P free is a great saving.
A very wet garden this morning and still raining. The forecast is for much of the day the same persistent rain but that cannot dampen my spirits this morning after seeing what I consider the play that has everything last night and coming home clutching a bundle of wooden lollipop sticks from the playgoers who had ice-creams in the interval to serve as labels for my new plants. Only in Bristol, the Green Capital of Europe could it happen!
"Cardenio" is often called the lost Shakespeare play. No more. it now has a great deal to recommend it. Last night we had ladies playing the part of gentlemen very competently,very clever scenery,, an intriguing love story, Spanish dancing and music,exquisite costumes, drama to make you jump out of your seat and unexpected and intriguing "Frozen" moments of the action , to mention just a few of the delights. I took my seat with a backache from my extraordinary exertions in the garden last week and stood up at the end free of it. Perhaps the NHS could provide a night at a good play on prescription?
Good recycling of loli sticks , glad you enjoyed the play , to be honest never heard of it but I am not big on Shakespeare
Weather not looking good about to go for flu jab and have a look at new War memorial that was installed on Friday in Village
Have a good day
Some are flumpy - the white carnations and scented Princess Irene tulips. Others are to fill in the gaps in the borders left my my resiting perfumed shrubs like the rhododendrons and deutzias to the perfume garden. GWRS the play has just been released for general production as it was just "discovered and rewritten" by the Royal Shakespeare company in 2003.