Maybe a rice paddy sounds good or even watercress but your allotment might dry up yet. Try and add compost - orangic matter helps with clay soil or you can buy clay breaker pellets.
Sam, I think I should sit and look at my garden more don't do that enough always busy doing bits of gardening.
Is that just me or do others not sit in the garden enough?
goldionthelevels, welcome and I hope the allotment dries out soon. Have you thought of using a cheap mobile phone as a camera? That is what I use as a numpty friend sent me 'photofun' some silly programme and now all my camera photos go into that and I can't access them to upload. But the mobile phone ones are easy and use less pixels so are faster to upload.
I can take pictures with my phone, but the quality is rubbish and I'm a bit keen on my photography. I'm happy to wait to get my photos and using film makes one more careful about one's pictures - quality rather than quantity! I shall have to send them off by post now that Jessops has closed though. Wish I could afford a digital SLR - it's on my wishlist.
I used to do the photography for a motorbike magazine years ago. Loved it. Now I just do it for myself, pics of bikes still but alot of up north, plants, animals and landscapes
Used to do a lot of B&W photography and developing. Hated the colours from colour processing. When digital came along i thought wow! Got cheap one, pretty good pics really, but I miss the control you get with SLR. The cheap digital is like an instamatic with better colours
I try to sit in the garden but I'm soon doing something in it. But, gardengirl, I think it's good to look at the garden at times to decide what you dont like, do like, want to change, etc. Although not always wise, I will move things in full flower if I think they look better elsewhere. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I guess, and always trying to improve. Even now, you could walk around your garden, maybe sit in it if not too cold, and plan some changes or anticipate new plantIngs. Not too keen on annuals .....but envious of those who can use them to brilliant affect....preferring perennials, shrubs, etc.. What do others think? Annuals or perennials?
Hello Verdun
Will try sitting in the garden some when, I think I like both - perennials are good to have so not to have too much bare ground, and annuals to make areas look different and also like the evergreen plants - did one time go though a phase of bulbs thinking they were best then but sometimes bare soil not so good - so I think I like all plants - need bedding plants to add bit of colour - evergreen plants to stay in winter, shubs, annuals and perennials and bulbs, and I do like growing from seeds
Verdun, like gardengirl I think I like both perennials and annuals. Some years I just want to have loads of orange or try out blues and whites; with annuals you can do that whilst the 'stucture' of the perennials still remains.
Want to plant back fence border with red and gold perennials. Just planted last of shrubs for there, now perennials to fill in gaps till they have matured. In other places - Fairy Dell - mix of annuals for their blousiness and perennials for longevity.
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Hello goldionthelevels
Maybe a rice paddy sounds good or even watercress but your allotment might dry up yet. Try and add compost - orangic matter helps with clay soil or you can buy clay breaker pellets.
Sam, I think I should sit and look at my garden more don't do that enough always busy doing bits of gardening.
Is that just me or do others not sit in the garden enough?
The fairy dell looks great
Everyone seems to have a project this year which is great. Im looking forward to seeing the pictures as they progress 
I will get my new pics up later once I can get them off my phone lol
goldionthelevels, welcome and I hope the allotment dries out soon.
Have you thought of using a cheap mobile phone as a camera? That is what I use as a numpty friend sent me 'photofun' some silly programme and now all my camera photos go into that and I can't access them to upload. But the mobile phone ones are easy and use less pixels so are faster to upload.
I can take pictures with my phone, but the quality is rubbish and I'm a bit keen on my photography. I'm happy to wait to get my photos and using film makes one more careful about one's pictures - quality rather than quantity! I shall have to send them off by post now that Jessops has closed though. Wish I could afford a digital SLR - it's on my wishlist.
I used to do the photography for a motorbike magazine years ago. Loved it. Now I just do it for myself, pics of bikes still but alot of up north, plants, animals and landscapes
Used to do a lot of B&W photography and developing. Hated the colours from colour processing. When digital came along i thought wow! Got cheap one, pretty good pics really, but I miss the control you get with SLR. The cheap digital is like an instamatic with better colours
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Hello Verdun
Will try sitting in the garden some when, I think I like both - perennials are good to have so not to have too much bare ground, and annuals to make areas look different and also like the evergreen plants - did one time go though a phase of bulbs thinking they were best then but sometimes bare soil not so good - so I think I like all plants - need bedding plants to add bit of colour - evergreen plants to stay in winter, shubs, annuals and perennials and bulbs, and I do like growing from seeds
Verdun, like gardengirl I think I like both perennials and annuals. Some years I just want to have loads of orange or try out blues and whites; with annuals you can do that whilst the 'stucture' of the perennials still remains.
Want to plant back fence border with red and gold perennials. Just planted last of shrubs for there, now perennials to fill in gaps till they have matured. In other places - Fairy Dell - mix of annuals for their blousiness and perennials for longevity.
Bjay