Ten degrees promised for today and dry and sunny so, as I am not dizzy anymore on my second day off medication and feeling much stronger I plan on dividing huge clumps of snowdrops and replanting, something I have been itching to do since I saw John Craven doing it on Countryfile. Lots of mine are really congested. I will aim at about 400. When my new seed compost comes tomorrow I will start off 4 kinds of tomatoes and there are flowers in pots like osteospermums which I should be able to plant out in their permanent quarters now. That and fifty or so Aquadulce broad bean seeds from my store from last year's crop put into pots and started in the conservatory will do till Saturday when I can relax at the Friends of Bristol Botanic Gardens 40th anniversary Concert.
That is a flowering quince, Lyn. My compost was delivered early so i have had a lovely day out in the sunshine and feel so much better for it. More and more flowers showing now including the blue chionodoxa and the little white Allium paradoxum. The crocuses and tulips were opening up to the sun and it all looked so beautiful i had to restrain myself from joining in the birdsong becuase of the builders up the top of the garden building three new bungalows.
Goodness knows what happened to the last picture. It is a monster. Today seems a bit colder outside and pollution from the M5 is drifting over the garden so it might be safer to do seeds sowing inside today, especially as I have just got rid of the breathlessness caused by medication. Hopefully it will be brighter in the afternoon.
I stuck my head out the back door when the sun came out but the smell of traffic fumes was terrible so decided it was wiser to stay indoors. Long range forecast is for a warm wet April so there is going to be plenty of good gardening weather soon.
My goodness it did get cold during the eclipse - just warming up now with a cup of coffee. Tonight is an AGS monthly meeting with a talk from Dr. John Hughes on the flora of Venezuela so have to go to the shops for ingredients for dinner for my friend who comes to take me straight from work. Green wheeliebin has been emptied so may get the rest of the hardy fuchsias pruned.
Splendid talk about the flora of Venezuela with lots of lovely plants I had never seen before and beautiful scenery. I won a lovely cyclamen in flower - Cyclamen persicum "Wild" which has white flowers, and a bag of mini Easter Eggs and some English Breakfast Teabags in the raffle.
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You have so many flowers out Marion.
Flumpy, yes I do speak French. I think you meant you saw my photos on another thread (the Canada one), I put them on this forum.
Ten degrees promised for today and dry and sunny so, as I am not dizzy anymore on my second day off medication and feeling much stronger I plan on dividing huge clumps of snowdrops and replanting, something I have been itching to do since I saw John Craven doing it on Countryfile. Lots of mine are really congested. I will aim at about 400. When my new seed compost comes tomorrow I will start off 4 kinds of tomatoes and there are flowers in pots like osteospermums which I should be able to plant out in their permanent quarters now. That and fifty or so Aquadulce broad bean seeds from my store from last year's crop put into pots and started in the conservatory will do till Saturday when I can relax at the Friends of Bristol Botanic Gardens 40th anniversary Concert.
You do so well Marion, I have missed some of your thread but trying to catch up!
Some lovely spring flowers out there. I love that red shrub above a brick wall, really bright.
That is a flowering quince, Lyn. My compost was delivered early so i have had a lovely day out in the sunshine and feel so much better for it. More and more flowers showing now including the blue chionodoxa and the little white Allium paradoxum. The crocuses and tulips were opening up to the sun and it all looked so beautiful i had to restrain myself from joining in the birdsong becuase of the builders up the top of the garden building three new bungalows.
Goodness knows what happened to the last picture. It is a monster. Today seems a bit colder outside and pollution from the M5 is drifting over the garden so it might be safer to do seeds sowing inside today, especially as I have just got rid of the breathlessness caused by medication. Hopefully it will be brighter in the afternoon.
I stuck my head out the back door when the sun came out but the smell of traffic fumes was terrible so decided it was wiser to stay indoors. Long range forecast is for a warm wet April so there is going to be plenty of good gardening weather soon.
My goodness it did get cold during the eclipse - just warming up now with a cup of coffee. Tonight is an AGS monthly meeting with a talk from Dr. John Hughes on the flora of Venezuela so have to go to the shops for ingredients for dinner for my friend who comes to take me straight from work. Green wheeliebin has been emptied so may get the rest of the hardy fuchsias pruned.
Nice to see your pictures keep them coming
I hope you enjoy the talk, Marion.
It was cloudy and rained here today, hardly got any darker for the eclipse.
Splendid talk about the flora of Venezuela with lots of lovely plants I had never seen before and beautiful scenery. I won a lovely cyclamen in flower - Cyclamen persicum "Wild" which has white flowers, and a bag of mini Easter Eggs and some English Breakfast Teabags in the raffle.