Flumpy, i am on page 17 of the April issue of GWmag. , first letter in Alan's Tales of the imagination box. The £10 garden voucher will be spent next Saturday. Frank, yes, we do have trouble keeping hold of our allotments in Bristol but there are new raised beds for growing veg in our local park. New thinking is bearing fruit. Lots of people cannot commit to looking after a whole or even a half plot but would like some outdoor space to grow veg. Volunteers in local parks are increasing too. All helps to get people out in the fresh air and vitamin D to keep them healthy. Though with the increased traffic as Bristol grows "fresh" is hard to find. TY Fruitcake!
A tad cloudy in Bristol this morning but the sun is there and will soon burn it away. Very mild and forecast to be quite warm for the next three days so all heating off and meals outside for me today and the rest of the week.
Oh my goodness t got hot out there gardening even though I had gone down to the tshirt and jeans stage of clothes. 36 sweet peas sown and a basketful of miniature daffodils which had flowered in the garage with lots more to open were rescued and planted beneath the Bramley apple where Cyclamen hederifolium grows and seeds itself. I have no idea where they came from - not in a pot, just laid on the garage floor in soil and moss looking for all the world like someone had just sliced them from a meadow. The fairies this year have also brought me the prettiest little alpine red and yellow tulips, scattered in various parts of the garden and now coming into flower. Two plants new to my garden which I will need to do research on to find out their name.
Just to add to my troubles finding names for things I have a beautiful pot of tulips just coming into flower which does seem to have lost its label . anyone know the name of this apricot tulip with green markings on the outside petals? I do have the label for my Bithynian Squill, thank goodness.
I know what you mean about it being warm Marion, yesterday I had to put suncream on, and today I had to sit in the shade at the allotment because I'd forgotten to put any suncream on. I have just put a bottle in my allotment bag to leave on the shed ready for the rest of the week
But it is so lovely to finally get warmth from the sun
Lovely pictures Marion I love the colours too, blue is my favourite colour .
just read your article it's lovely, it takes me back to my child hood, me and my brother had a favourite tree in the middle of the farmers field with a big pond in front, the tree had a really big hole in it,big enough for us to climb in when sheltering from the rain Them where the good times care free and safe then
Awe that's lovely, we have a pussy willow tree at the back of our garden, when the sun shines on it, it's looks lovely and yellow Spring and summer is my favourite time of year, probably because I was born in spring
Forecast even warmer for Bristol today so must get the toughest jobs done early in the day. There are lots of plants needing potting on which I can do in the shade in the afternoon. Still lots of daffodils to deadhead in the slate scree too which is shaded in the afternoon. Lots of leucojum (snowflakes) are flowering in their place. My cut and come again salad leaves are loving this weather so I had a thick layer of Oriental Spicy leaves on my Cheddar sandwich yesterday lunchtime which was delicious . There is some pak choi which Is getting big too which could go out of the cold frame into a raised bed now. I can always put a cloche over it if the weather turns chilly. Then I have some nice fresh greens to pick as well. The red onions and banana shallots are loving the warm weather too which I planted in the autumn last year. My apricot tulips have 20 buds opening this morning and look tremendous.
I counted 20 buds on my tulip without a name this morning. The garden is ablaze with colour.
A fb friend brought me a small plant of Aquilegia clematifolia last year and I was able to show her it is thriving and being monitored for the dreaded scourge that has wiped out the national collection of aquilegias.
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Flumpy, i am on page 17 of the April issue of GWmag. , first letter in Alan's Tales of the imagination box. The £10 garden voucher will be spent next Saturday. Frank, yes, we do have trouble keeping hold of our allotments in Bristol but there are new raised beds for growing veg in our local park. New thinking is bearing fruit. Lots of people cannot commit to looking after a whole or even a half plot but would like some outdoor space to grow veg. Volunteers in local parks are increasing too. All helps to get people out in the fresh air and vitamin D to keep them healthy. Though with the increased traffic as Bristol grows "fresh" is hard to find. TY Fruitcake!
A tad cloudy in Bristol this morning but the sun is there and will soon burn it away. Very mild and forecast to be quite warm for the next three days so all heating off and meals outside for me today and the rest of the week.
Just had an email to say the Easter weekend plant sale at the Bot, Garden run by the Friends fetched £1,075 which beat last year!
Oh my goodness t got hot out there gardening even though I had gone down to the tshirt and jeans stage of clothes. 36 sweet peas sown and a basketful of miniature daffodils which had flowered in the garage with lots more to open were rescued and planted beneath the Bramley apple where Cyclamen hederifolium grows and seeds itself. I have no idea where they came from - not in a pot, just laid on the garage floor in soil and moss looking for all the world like someone had just sliced them from a meadow. The fairies this year have also brought me the prettiest little alpine red and yellow tulips, scattered in various parts of the garden and now coming into flower. Two plants new to my garden which I will need to do research on to find out their name.
Just to add to my troubles finding names for things I have a beautiful pot of tulips just coming into flower which does seem to have lost its label . anyone know the name of this apricot tulip with green markings on the outside petals? I do have the label for my Bithynian Squill, thank goodness.
I know what you mean about it being warm Marion, yesterday I had to put suncream on, and today I had to sit in the shade at the allotment because I'd forgotten to put any suncream on. I have just put a bottle in my allotment bag to leave on the shed ready for the rest of the week
But it is so lovely to finally get warmth from the sun
Lovely pictures Marion I love the colours too, blue is my favourite colour
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just read your article it's lovely, it takes me back to my child hood, me and my brother had a favourite tree in the middle of the farmers field with a big pond in front, the tree had a really big hole in it,big enough for us to climb in when sheltering from the rain
Them where the good times care free and safe then 
Awww, flumpy, a little bit of nostalgia for you then! The lad next door took some good pics of the honeybees on my p
ussy willow tree and emailed them to me this evening.
Awe that's lovely, we have a pussy willow tree at the back of our garden, when the sun shines on it, it's looks lovely and yellow
Spring and summer is my favourite time of year, probably because I was born in spring 
Forecast even warmer for Bristol today so must get the toughest jobs done early in the day. There are lots of plants needing potting on which I can do in the shade in the afternoon. Still lots of daffodils to deadhead in the slate scree too which is shaded in the afternoon. Lots of leucojum (snowflakes) are flowering in their place. My cut and come again salad leaves are loving this weather so I had a thick layer of Oriental Spicy leaves on my Cheddar sandwich yesterday lunchtime which was delicious . There is some pak choi which Is getting big too which could go out of the cold frame into a raised bed now. I can always put a cloche over it if the weather turns chilly. Then I have some nice fresh greens to pick as well. The red onions and banana shallots are loving the warm weather too which I planted in the autumn last year. My apricot tulips have 20 buds opening this morning and look tremendous.
I counted 20 buds on my tulip without a name this morning. The garden is ablaze with colour.
A fb friend brought me a small plant of Aquilegia clematifolia last year and I was able to show her it is thriving and being monitored for the dreaded scourge that has wiped out the national collection of aquilegias.