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My Bristol Garden in 2015

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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316

    Hello Marion   Your talk should be interesting, I hope everyone enjoys it.

    my old cat lived to 18, and was sadly missed when she died. She was a tortoiseshell. 

    S. E. NSW
  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Another dull dark morning but rain forecast from lunchtime onwards so up the garden this morning to gat my fresh air fix and do some pruning.  An empty green wheeliebin on a Monday is very rare for me.

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,617

    Our brown bins for compostables don't get emptied until March now. Erewash council doesn't  think anyone does any tidying up the garden until then. That's better than Ashfield and Derby, who think that charging people for each emptying of a garden refuse bin is a good idea. No its not, good people just carrier bag it and hide it in the normal bin. Bad ones just fly tip it.

    I think your hellebores will be lovely xmas prezzies, Marion.

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Got camellias ready too fidgetbones.  Bristol CC charge pensioners like me £15 a year but it is for the whole year.  My neighbours sometimes give me space in their bins when mine is full.  Mine is half full now as it is splendid gardening weather at the moment but i took minutes off my coffee break to snap these two blue flowers greeting me this Monday morning.  

     

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     Iris inguicularis

     

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     Campanuls porsch -something or other.

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Good afternoon , we have to pay for our garden bin to be emptied fort nightly and you can be fined for putting 

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Hello , post went eatly , it should have said , fined for putting garden waste in normal bin 

    off to Antwerp tomorrow for a few days , hope you are well image 

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Very well TY GWRS.  You do get around.  I managed to do quite a bit of pruning and planted three carnation  plant in my perfume garden.  We are do for record mild weather here at the end of the week so the flowers will keep on appearing.  i bet Antwerp is beautiful for Xmas.  Enjoy.

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Very dull and damp again this morning in Bristol but oh so mild - no heating needed indoors.  Heavy rain forecast for the afternoon so any gardening will have to be done this morning..  I will bring in some of the Charles Ross apples off the tree as the birds are flocking to eat them off the tree.

  • Some lovely pics again Marion image 

    I like that it's so mild in bristol at the mo but I am so fed up of the constant rain! I've barely been able to get anything done at either allotment or my garden 

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Bad the rain this afternoon.  I have just been out to the postbox and found two men at work signs outside my front garden - pavement work tomorrow then.  Yes I too get withdrawal symptoms when I cannot get anything done outside though the conservatory does help.  TV crews galore round our way lately because of filming the Brailsford Lights.

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