You are so lucky Marion getting your green bin emptied all year. We get ours emptied every other week but collections stop at the end of October and don't start again until April.
Yes it is a good service. Yviestevie, and only costs £15 a year for pensioners after you have bought your bin. Raining and windy now here though very mild. One week since I bought my lovely begonia from our flower shop and i have given it pride of place on the kitchen dresser.
Yes Snow a fb friend from Scotland sent me some two years ago. They had increased to three flowers lasr year in their pot so I planted them out in the garden but forget where but may find them when i am dividing in the next few weeks. It has poured and blown all day so I was glad when the postie brought my Amateur Gardening Mag. and the Mar. issue of Gardeners World Mag which is very special this month being their Silver Jubilee edition. Free Cosmos seeds in both!
Your mention of contrasting colours takes me back to my days at technical college studying Display (Window Dressing). We had to paint a 24 segment colour wheel!
I feel frustrated that I haven't done enough gardening and that my green wheelie bin doesn't have anything in, so it won't be worth putting it out this week. Ours are emptied every 2 weeks, all year.
Hello again Marion and friends, from cold Madeira! The sun shone for us today, but the wind is still so strong that I set out walking with 5 layers on. I'd shed a couple of them by late afternoon, but it's still unseasonably cold, with roads in the mountains closed by snow. Tomorrow should be better, I think.
Marion, I'm sure you'd love Madeira! You're right about the fields of bananas - the bunches of fruit are wrapped in blue plastic to help them ripen faster. The fruits are tiny - about 4-5ins long - but delicious, with a much more "fruity" and less "mealy" texture than the bananas we get in Britain (which have probably been ripened artificially rather than on the plant).
I've also been enjoying custard apples - strangely knobbly fruit, but lovely soft flesh with a stewed-apple-&-custard flavour. Also the fruit of Monstera deliciosa, the Swiss Cheese plant, which grows up trees here. It tastes a little like pineapple.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Wow Liriodendron! I might try a Swiss Cheese plant in the conservatory! I am so looking forward to the next AGS meeting when we are having a talk on the landscapes of Madeira from Dr. George Hargreaves. It is very grey but exceedingly mild in Bristol today - 11 degrees already but winds of over 40mph forecast for all day so I think work in the conservatory would be wiser today. I must make room to sow lots of seeds at the end of the month.
Nearly Menorcan temperatures here today in Bristol at over 11 degrees. I was able to work in the conservatory with the windows open to let fresh air in so it almost felt like being out in the garden. I could not smell the daffodils as the hycinths are still the predominant perfume. My Sweet William have started to flower, usually July here!
Awe Marion your pictures are lovely, nice vibrant colours too .
well it's meant to be 13c here but the wind is cooling it down and it's very grey. Our in-laws gave us a suprise visit at 10.40am, thankfully we where dressed and just eating breakfast.
i'm going to see how our Hyacinth are doing in a minute, I think my lawn is starting to grow too
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You are so lucky Marion getting your green bin emptied all year. We get ours emptied every other week but collections stop at the end of October and don't start again until April.
Yes it is a good service. Yviestevie, and only costs £15 a year for pensioners after you have bought your bin. Raining and windy now here though very mild. One week since I bought my lovely begonia from our flower shop and i have given it pride of place on the kitchen dresser.
Yes Snow a fb friend from Scotland sent me some two years ago. They had increased to three flowers lasr year in their pot so I planted them out in the garden but forget where but may find them when i am dividing in the next few weeks. It has poured and blown all day so I was glad when the postie brought my Amateur Gardening Mag. and the Mar. issue of Gardeners World Mag which is very special this month being their Silver Jubilee edition. Free Cosmos seeds in both!
Thanks Snow, just sat with my thick wooly jumper on watching A place in the sun winter sun
, Can't wait for hols 
Your mention of contrasting colours takes me back to my days at technical college studying Display (Window Dressing). We had to paint a 24 segment colour wheel!
I feel frustrated that I haven't done enough gardening and that my green wheelie bin doesn't have anything in, so it won't be worth putting it out this week. Ours are emptied every 2 weeks, all year.
Hello again Marion and friends, from cold Madeira! The sun shone for us today, but the wind is still so strong that I set out walking with 5 layers on. I'd shed a couple of them by late afternoon, but it's still unseasonably cold, with roads in the mountains closed by snow. Tomorrow should be better, I think.
Marion, I'm sure you'd love Madeira! You're right about the fields of bananas - the bunches of fruit are wrapped in blue plastic to help them ripen faster. The fruits are tiny - about 4-5ins long - but delicious, with a much more "fruity" and less "mealy" texture than the bananas we get in Britain (which have probably been ripened artificially rather than on the plant).
I've also been enjoying custard apples - strangely knobbly fruit, but lovely soft flesh with a stewed-apple-&-custard flavour. Also the fruit of Monstera deliciosa, the Swiss Cheese plant, which grows up trees here. It tastes a little like pineapple.
Wow Liriodendron! I might try a Swiss Cheese plant in the conservatory! I am so looking forward to the next AGS meeting when we are having a talk on the landscapes of Madeira from Dr. George Hargreaves. It is very grey but exceedingly mild in Bristol today - 11 degrees already but winds of over 40mph forecast for all day so I think work in the conservatory would be wiser today. I must make room to sow lots of seeds at the end of the month.
Morning Marion hope you are well
I'm feeling a lot better today and have colour in my face now.
i keep checking on my sweet peas but no heads popping out yet, but I've heard it can take upto 21 day.
ive been looking at the temperature in Menorca and it's 14c And sunshine.
Nearly Menorcan temperatures here today in Bristol at over 11 degrees. I was able to work in the conservatory with the windows open to let fresh air in so it almost felt like being out in the garden. I could not smell the daffodils as the hycinths are still the predominant perfume. My Sweet William have started to flower, usually July here!
Awe Marion your pictures are lovely, nice vibrant colours too
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well it's meant to be 13c here but the wind is cooling it down and it's very grey. Our in-laws gave us a suprise visit at 10.40am, thankfully we where dressed and just eating breakfast.
i'm going to see how our Hyacinth are doing in a minute, I think my lawn is starting to grow too