I spend a lot of time waiting for 'the right place' for a plant and they sit around in pots waiting and I have to keep watering them. Most of them can be moved if I get it wrong so why don't I just plant them.
Haven't started out there yet today. Had a visitor first thing with a rescued slow worm. We had to admire it for a while, discuss the best part of the garden to release it, let it go and watch it for a while. Have a coffee. Talk a bit more. So here I am on my lunch break with nothing done
I do like your story Birdie. I'll stick with forever creating. More appropriate for a gardener.
I visited a garden that had its forevers created. Everything was as it always had been but cut back to fit. Looked really naff.
Lot of watering today. Yesterday I took some friends on a visit to Chatsworth gardens. I nearly cracked up when some american visitors went "Oh my Gaawd look at that" My thoughts exactly. They were looking at the Emperor fountain. I was looking at the clothes the americans were wearing.
GGirl- are you referring to the hammock or the fountain.....
Fidgetbones- nothing surprises me about our dear American friends any more. Who was it said we were 'two nations divided by a common language'? I remember hearing two young Americans in Italy remarking in loud voices 'oh my gawd- there's a gelato store - like on every corner'......
I rest my case.
Birdy- brilliant story - I think I fall into the first category. Once I've done something I move onto the next project.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Chatsworth is looking very nice at the moment. Bluebells, azaleas and daffs still out.
I went with a jacket expecting it to be cold and ended up carrying it. Sunny and 21C
They got rid of the pile of scrap metal around the emperor fountain lake. It damaged the grass, but a bit more rain and it'll be all right. Oh sorry , did I say scrap metal? It was supposed to be Art. All it did was ruin the view.
I had a friend who went to live in California. I went to visit and we sat in the jacuzzi at their condo, nattering away in broad Mansfield. A bloke got in and looked at us with a quizzical expression on his face. Eventually he leaned over and said slowly, "DO , YOU, SPEAK, ENGLISH?" As we fell about laughing I explained. "We speak English, You speak American"
Ha, ha, I liked the bit about the americans, if I want to the US, I'd probably be saying Aw my gawd, a McDonalds, and on every corner, that's awsome! Mind you, the way McD is spreading here, don't need to go to the US!
Worked hard today, weeding, cutting grass edges, some planting out, finally decided to sow my runner beans, if they don't come up, well try, try, try again! Also planted out my two butternuts. OH has been hacking and digging to try and get the dead bamboo roots out, which have spread at least 8 meters each way along the fence. Fortunately there is also a concrete wall about a foot high between us and the neighbour so thank goodness didn't go across to them as well. Took us over a year chopping down and spraying every little new shoot with glyphosate to kill it. Dreadful stuff, never again!
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A climbing frame would be an item of horror in my garden, hate heights. The gutters on my house need cleaning!
I spend a lot of time waiting for 'the right place' for a plant and they sit around in pots waiting and I have to keep watering them. Most of them can be moved if I get it wrong so why don't I just plant them.
Haven't started out there yet today. Had a visitor first thing with a rescued slow worm. We had to admire it for a while, discuss the best part of the garden to release it, let it go and watch it for a while. Have a coffee. Talk a bit more. So here I am on my lunch break with nothing done
I do like your story Birdie. I'll stick with forever creating. More appropriate for a gardener.
I visited a garden that had its forevers created. Everything was as it always had been but cut back to fit. Looked really naff.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Testing the hammock
That must have been hard work marinelillium.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Lot of watering today. Yesterday I took some friends on a visit to Chatsworth gardens. I nearly cracked up when some american visitors went "Oh my Gaawd look at that" My thoughts exactly. They were looking at the Emperor fountain. I was looking at the clothes the americans were wearing.
That sounds a good idea don't have room for one of those - prob fall out of it anyway
GGirl- are you referring to the hammock or the fountain.....
Fidgetbones- nothing surprises me about our dear American friends any more. Who was it said we were 'two nations divided by a common language'? I remember hearing two young Americans in Italy remarking in loud voices 'oh my gawd- there's a gelato store - like on every corner'......
I rest my case.
Birdy- brilliant story - I think I fall into the first category. Once I've done something I move onto the next project.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Chatsworth is looking very nice at the moment. Bluebells, azaleas and daffs still out.
I went with a jacket expecting it to be cold and ended up carrying it. Sunny and 21C
They got rid of the pile of scrap metal around the emperor fountain lake. It damaged the grass, but a bit more rain and it'll be all right. Oh sorry , did I say scrap metal? It was supposed to be Art. All it did was ruin the view.
I had a friend who went to live in California. I went to visit and we sat in the jacuzzi at their condo, nattering away in broad Mansfield. A bloke got in and looked at us with a quizzical expression on his face. Eventually he leaned over and said slowly, "DO , YOU, SPEAK, ENGLISH?" As we fell about laughing I explained. "We speak English, You speak American"
Fidgetbones....
Ha, ha, I liked the bit about the americans, if I want to the US, I'd probably be saying Aw my gawd, a McDonalds, and on every corner, that's awsome! Mind you, the way McD is spreading here, don't need to go to the US!
Worked hard today, weeding, cutting grass edges, some planting out, finally decided to sow my runner beans, if they don't come up, well try, try, try again! Also planted out my two butternuts. OH has been hacking and digging to try and get the dead bamboo roots out, which have spread at least 8 meters each way along the fence. Fortunately there is also a concrete wall about a foot high between us and the neighbour so thank goodness didn't go across to them as well. Took us over a year chopping down and spraying every little new shoot with glyphosate to kill it. Dreadful stuff, never again!