Just spent an hour showing one of my neighbours round the garden. he says I have a mini botanic garden and kept saying I did not know that - I told him to treat his wife to a perennial sweet pea as she was having trouble growing them! Took pics of what he saw.
I had a £50 voucher from British Gas for Amazon for changing my tariff to a cheaper one and used it for climbers so next year it will be heads up inmy garden to see what is clambering through my huge trees. I already have lots of climbing roses. I bought Clematis armandii, Lonicera "Copper Beauty" and Lonicera "Fragrant Cloud" and Trachelospermum., all delivered free from July 2nd. Sorry they have to be delivered using fossil fuel but never look a gift horse in the mouth and they will contribute a lot in beauty and cleaning the atmosphere of pollutants.
Another ice cream box filled with strawberries and put to freeze plus two tupperware boxes of blackcurrants. Have to do 2nd picking of strawberries when i go up to the potager for beans for supper. We had a very few spots of rain so nothing forecast till perhaps on Sunday and then a bit of a heatwave!
The weather bureau has been predicting rain for nearly a week now, but it must have skimmed past us - we didn't get a drop. They did get a huge downfall at Jervis Bay which is North East of us on the coast. We were still on the minus 4-5c today and every day for the past several days. At least it was sunny enough for us to be outside - hurrah.
It's my sister's 80th birthday on 29 th, so have sent her some greetings plus scratch lotto cards - I'm sure she'd like to win some cash. My surviving daughter is having her 50th on July 5 th and is planning a huge party with friends. Our eldest daughter succumbed to ovarian cancer nearly 6 years ago - she didn't make it to her 50 th, unfortunately. It still hurts to think about her and her lost opportunities. However, I still find lots of pleasure and happiness in my gardening so it's best to not get morbid. The best thing about gardening, is that you never stop learning. I can't begin to list the things that I have done wrong, but won't make the same mistake again with each experience. Hope you all had a. Good nights sleep.
I picked a bunch of red Nandina leaves to brighten up the house and they look lovely. The Forsythia is looking as though the shoots are swelling, so I might get a bright yellow display inside as well. The jonquils are bending down with the weight of flowers and truthfully because they would probably have been happy to get some rain as well as us. We went out the back this afternoon with the trailer and chain saw, so we're OK for firewood for another week. Hopefully the house wil be nice and warm this week. Just saw the stage finish of the bike race in France - pretty exciting stuff.
It looks like an early Australian spring there , Pat .
I have done some gardening for a friend near the coast in Western Australia, and while they get no frost, getting plants to establish in what are virtual sand dunes is challenging to say the least. we saw the stand of Wollemi pines in a botanic garden that must be near you. (Relatively speaking)
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Just spent an hour showing one of my neighbours round the garden. he says I have a mini botanic garden and kept saying I did not know that - I told him to treat his wife to a perennial sweet pea as she was having trouble growing them! Took pics of what he saw.
I had a £50 voucher from British Gas for Amazon for changing my tariff to a cheaper one and used it for climbers so next year it will be heads up inmy garden to see what is clambering through my huge trees. I already have lots of climbing roses. I bought Clematis armandii, Lonicera "Copper Beauty" and Lonicera "Fragrant Cloud" and Trachelospermum., all delivered free from July 2nd. Sorry they have to be delivered using fossil fuel but never look a gift horse in the mouth and they will contribute a lot in beauty and cleaning the atmosphere of pollutants.
I did enjoy buying things I thought I could never afford but dearly wanted!
Another ice cream box filled with strawberries and put to freeze plus two tupperware boxes of blackcurrants. Have to do 2nd picking of strawberries when i go up to the potager for beans for supper. We had a very few spots of rain so nothing forecast till perhaps on Sunday and then a bit of a heatwave!
Your selection of plants will be all the more special Marion
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I'm admiring the fresh white of those flowers, a perfect foil for the jewel brightness of the ganazia and roses - beautiful blooms
Rained today - hurray! and forcast for Sunday too, water butt filling nicely thank goodness.
This caught my eye yesterday, not often I manage to get so many plants flowering together
having divided so many last year it was hobsons choice as to where they could be replanted
was worth it!
The weather bureau has been predicting rain for nearly a week now, but it must have skimmed past us - we didn't get a drop. They did get a huge downfall at Jervis Bay which is North East of us on the coast. We were still on the minus 4-5c today and every day for the past several days. At least it was sunny enough for us to be outside - hurrah.
It's my sister's 80th birthday on 29 th, so have sent her some greetings plus scratch lotto cards - I'm sure she'd like to win some cash. My surviving daughter is having her 50th on July 5 th and is planning a huge party with friends. Our eldest daughter succumbed to ovarian cancer nearly 6 years ago - she didn't make it to her 50 th, unfortunately. It still hurts to think about her and her lost opportunities. However, I still find lots of pleasure and happiness in my gardening so it's best to not get morbid. The best thing about gardening, is that you never stop learning. I can't begin to list the things that I have done wrong, but won't make the same mistake again with each experience. Hope you all had a. Good nights sleep.
I picked a bunch of red Nandina leaves to brighten up the house and they look lovely. The Forsythia is looking as though the shoots are swelling, so I might get a bright yellow display inside as well. The jonquils are bending down with the weight of flowers and truthfully because they would probably have been happy to get some rain as well as us. We went out the back this afternoon with the trailer and chain saw, so we're OK for firewood for another week. Hopefully the house wil be nice and warm this week. Just saw the stage finish of the bike race in France - pretty exciting stuff.
It looks like an early Australian spring there , Pat .
I have done some gardening for a friend near the coast in Western Australia, and while they get no frost, getting plants to establish in what are virtual sand dunes is challenging to say the least. we saw the stand of Wollemi pines in a botanic garden that must be near you. (Relatively speaking)