A good day for gaardening forecast and 7 degrees already but we have yellow warnings from the Met. Office for snow and ice for Bristol from tomorrow afternoon onto Saturday so must get as much done outside today as i can and get to the shops while the pavements are still safe to walk on. Lovely picture greeted me in the conservatory this morning. I think my £2,99 begonia I bought for Valentine's day is now at its zenith.
A beautiful start to today with frost and sun, but we also have snow forecast, for tonight and tomorrow. We're supposed to be going away for the weekend, driving to North Yorks tomorrow - not sure how well that'll work...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Latest offers from the Secret Gardening Club have just come in to my email so succumbed and went all purple. For £17.98 I had 3 each of 9cm pots of Pulsatilla vulgaris "Lilac", Polemonium caeroleum and Iris reticulata "JS Dijt". Free P&P so less than two pounds each pot. Expect lovely purple pictures soon.
I have done my shopping, used a freebie voucher from Iceland to get a Black Forest cheesecake for the freezer. perused the flower shop plants for Mother's Day but mostly cut flower bunches at £3.99 so passed them by. After lunch I will be out in the bright sunshine to start off my dahlias.
Your daffs in the photos are lovely Marion, Spring is my favourite season, with all the new life bursting out.
You definitely got a bargain with those plants, I got some Potentilla last year and the rabbits came in and eat the lot down to to the ground.
I bought some plants last year on your recommendation to the site, they were very good, and have started shooting out now. I have the email too, so will have a look.
did your Agastashe Apache (was it) come to anything that you sowed last year.?
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Thank you Verdun. I have been out in the sunsine to feed the birds but came in pretty quickly, it was so nippy still. But I did find some nerines, polianthes tuberosa and galtonia bulbs needing my attention so they are the next job to be done.
Hello Snow and TY I have managed to plant all my bulbs and a curry plant from a cutting that had outgrown its pot is now out in the garden looking very handsome and making me hungry with the scent now on my hands and clothes! I do so need a bird hide in my garden. I was gasping at how beautiful the wood pigeons and blackbirds and the robin looked by my myriad of daffodils but of course the birds are not obedient models so I just had to let them feed in peace. A potable hide would be the thing. I could just sit with my camera muffled to the eyes against the cold and wait for the shot. Ah well, it is good to have something to save for. Get thee behind me all you satanic plants !
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A good day for gaardening forecast and 7 degrees already but we have yellow warnings from the Met. Office for snow and ice for Bristol from tomorrow afternoon onto Saturday so must get as much done outside today as i can and get to the shops while the pavements are still safe to walk on. Lovely picture greeted me in the conservatory this morning. I think my £2,99 begonia I bought for Valentine's day is now at its zenith.
What a lovely show, Marion!
A beautiful start to today with frost and sun, but we also have snow forecast, for tonight and tomorrow. We're supposed to be going away for the weekend, driving to North Yorks tomorrow - not sure how well that'll work...
Latest offers from the Secret Gardening Club have just come in to my email so succumbed and went all purple. For £17.98 I had 3 each of 9cm pots of Pulsatilla vulgaris "Lilac", Polemonium caeroleum and Iris reticulata "JS Dijt". Free P&P so less than two pounds each pot. Expect lovely purple pictures soon.
I have done my shopping, used a freebie voucher from Iceland to get a Black Forest cheesecake for the freezer. perused the flower shop plants for Mother's Day but mostly cut flower bunches at £3.99 so passed them by. After lunch I will be out in the bright sunshine to start off my dahlias.
Your daffs in the photos are lovely Marion, Spring is my favourite season, with all the new life bursting out.
You definitely got a bargain with those plants, I got some Potentilla last year and the rabbits came in and eat the lot down to to the ground.
I bought some plants last year on your recommendation to the site, they were very good, and have started shooting out now. I have the email too, so will have a look.
did your Agastashe Apache (was it) come to anything that you sowed last year.?
Yes Lyn, expecting lots of flowers this year as now have good size plants.
Colder this morning at just 2 degrees but sunny and dry. It may be 6 degrees by lunchtime when I will be able to get some work done outside.
Thank you Verdun. I have been out in the sunsine to feed the birds but came in pretty quickly, it was so nippy still. But I did find some nerines, polianthes tuberosa and galtonia bulbs needing my attention so they are the next job to be done.
Hello Snow and TY I have managed to plant all my bulbs and a curry plant from a cutting that had outgrown its pot is now out in the garden looking very handsome and making me hungry with the scent now on my hands and clothes! I do so need a bird hide in my garden. I was gasping at how beautiful the wood pigeons and blackbirds and the robin looked by my myriad of daffodils but of course the birds are not obedient models so I just had to let them feed in peace. A potable hide would be the thing. I could just sit with my camera muffled to the eyes against the cold and wait for the shot. Ah well, it is good to have something to save for. Get thee behind me all you satanic plants !
Good afternoon , I trust you are keeping well , in Swindon at moment on way to London to celebrate my nieces 21st
Sunny but cold hear