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My Bristol Garden in 2015

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  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Simba is just like one of the cats from next door called Wally who does the same and is all black.  Your parents' garden is lovely and I bet the wildlife loves the pond.  Do they grow their own food?  If so you may have to harvest some while they are away.

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Yes the garden looks good image

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Hello GWRS.  Good to know you are still around.  Cloudy again in Bristol and we had some rain through the night.  There is about a cm. worth in the containers I put out.  Every little helps.  I will water and feed the tomatoes in the conservatory this morning.  Five kinds all giving good crops, including the Red Bodyguard one for Mr. Fothergills trials.  I like the name showing how beneficial for health red vegetables can be .Perhaps beetroot and chard should be similarly named.  And collections could be marketed as Keep-Fit collections!

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Hello , very little rain in Lincoln have to keep watering , although it is due today 

    in the green house the cucumbers are rampant , lots of male flower thou 

    just about to start feeding tomatoes in G/H , however have lots of cherry toms in hanging baskets , can get battered by wind image

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    It was just drizzle for an hour or so in Bristol but now is more steady rain.  I took a few pics - the first of my friend's Cosmos Sonata he brought me plants of to flower is a very cheerful colour and some of my tomatoes needing sunshine now.

     

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  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Phone rang while I was doing the tomatoes - a booking to give a talk on Oct. 14th.  While I was putting it on the calender I realised I have a busy social week this week.  Theatre tomorrow night to see "Glory Dazed" and Monty Don at the Botanic Garden next Sunday.  Looking forward to both.

  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    The garden may be very wet but the scent from Wm. Shakespeare  rose is heavenly.

     

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  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316

    It sounds as though you've got a full diary coming up Marion. I hope you enjoy the various activities, as I'm sure you will.

    We had snow again last night followed by rain which was heavy enough for us to hear from inside the house.  This morning is snow was still on the ground in sheltered spots, as well as on the various hills around us, and distinctively miserable outside, so once again I've not done any gardening. The rain gauge registered 36mm, so that part of it was good, but there is water laying around everywhere on the driveways - no doubt because there was no sun to dry it out.  The weather channel reported snow all the way up to Queensland (well, southern Queensland at least), so there were lots of photos of people playing in snow for their first time ever.

    love the new photos - especially the Cosmos.

    S. E. NSW
  • flumpy1flumpy1 Posts: 3,117
    Hi Marion I'm afraid the magpies and pigeons have ate all there strawberries so next year my dad said he will put a net over : )
  • happymarionhappymarion Posts: 4,591

    Even an old net curtain from the charity shop will be sufficient and cost very little, flumpy.

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