No gardening for a while here. Last week was the build up to the dance club's annual ball. Sunday recovery. Monday preps for a trip to Amsterdam and the Hague because for once, in the 25 years we've been in Belgium, all the Vermeers were at home and on display. Saw some other good stuff too.
Today I'm returning 2 fridges and 320 champagne flutes and then getting ready for a Carnival ball this evening.
At some point I'll have to go and repair the windbreak which the gales have loosened because we're expecting more gales on Saturday. Lots of new growth on the daffs in the last 2 days but heavy frosts forecast and the ground is still sodden after all the rain so no proper gardening for a couple of weeks yet.
Have fun if spring has sprung for you.
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Awoke this morning to blinding light, strange the bedroom window faces West? Brilliant sun shining off white frost was the answer so gardening nill blood samples two.
Have checked the greenhouse and wondered around looking at all the bulbs peeping through, snowdrops in flower, daffodiles in flower and funny enough a very irregular shaped bud opening on the short stems of an emerging crysanth most strange, thought it was some sort of bug at first.
No gardening today - woke up to frost and a few flakes of snow, and it remained quite cold here. But in the sunshine of the previous two days I got to do some digging and lots of weeding, and the scent of the earth is much closer to the scent of spring. Lungwort and snowdrops flowering gloriously, and the bird chorus from the nearby woodland is lovely to hear, more rich every day. And this evening, though not actively 'gardening', I worked out where to put a little bare-root tree and what needs to be moved to accommodate it.
Early morning frost glinting in the sun, but at least we've had sun and it's two days together, that's not happened in a long while. By the way this is West Yorks, roughly the middle of the country and leaning gently on the Pennines to the west of here. It's all very wet and yucky but I did have a bit of a tidy up today, pulling up soggy piles of dead and dying crocosmia/monbretia, (someone remind me why the two names??), shifting a pile of recently pruned honeysuckle that my neighbour thought was pulling my fence over (I've already had a new post put in to strengthen the fence but it was nice of her to be worried about it for me), and a general sweep up. In passing I enjoyed seeing crocus doing nicely in a patio pot, the young stems of the peony reaching up, embryonic fruits on the fig bush, and I thought things could be a lot worse, I at least have a garden and it rarely fails to cheer me up when I get out there.
ExtremeGardener, how is the fig bush doing, and do you have it in a pot or in the ground or under cover? A cousin in London gave me one, which is still in a pot here (East Scotland) and I'm needing to work out what to do with it now...
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No gardening for a while here. Last week was the build up to the dance club's annual ball. Sunday recovery. Monday preps for a trip to Amsterdam and the Hague because for once, in the 25 years we've been in Belgium, all the Vermeers were at home and on display. Saw some other good stuff too.
Today I'm returning 2 fridges and 320 champagne flutes and then getting ready for a Carnival ball this evening.
At some point I'll have to go and repair the windbreak which the gales have loosened because we're expecting more gales on Saturday. Lots of new growth on the daffs in the last 2 days but heavy frosts forecast and the ground is still sodden after all the rain so no proper gardening for a couple of weeks yet.
Have fun if spring has sprung for you.
Awoke this morning to blinding light, strange the bedroom window faces West? Brilliant sun shining off white frost was the answer so gardening nill blood samples two.
Frank
Have checked the greenhouse and wondered around looking at all the bulbs peeping through, snowdrops in flower, daffodiles in flower and funny enough a very irregular shaped bud opening on the short stems of an emerging crysanth
most strange, thought it was some sort of bug at first.
Just want to get the thread info and it is no gardening at the mo... we just had hail... really big balls of hail... really, a lot...
No gardening today - woke up to frost and a few flakes of snow, and it remained quite cold here. But in the sunshine of the previous two days I got to do some digging and lots of weeding, and the scent of the earth is much closer to the scent of spring. Lungwort and snowdrops flowering gloriously, and the bird chorus from the nearby woodland is lovely to hear, more rich every day. And this evening, though not actively 'gardening', I worked out where to put a little bare-root tree and what needs to be moved to accommodate it.
we had a lot of sun, so I opened the tunnel doors to let a good bit of air through. ( not the howling gales of late )
I emptied one of the bed out and started to line it ready for the water lily propagation experiment.
Hello all , in Swindon at moment to help decorating Sister in laws flat ,so no gardening for a week
Hope you are all well , hell of a frost this morning , me thinks winters not yet over
Trust you are all well
Early morning frost glinting in the sun, but at least we've had sun and it's two days together, that's not happened in a long while. By the way this is West Yorks, roughly the middle of the country and leaning gently on the Pennines to the west of here. It's all very wet and yucky but I did have a bit of a tidy up today, pulling up soggy piles of dead and dying crocosmia/monbretia, (someone remind me why the two names??), shifting a pile of recently pruned honeysuckle that my neighbour thought was pulling my fence over (I've already had a new post put in to strengthen the fence but it was nice of her to be worried about it for me), and a general sweep up. In passing I enjoyed seeing crocus doing nicely in a patio pot, the young stems of the peony reaching up, embryonic fruits on the fig bush, and I thought things could be a lot worse, I at least have a garden and it rarely fails to cheer me up when I get out there.
ExtremeGardener, how is the fig bush doing, and do you have it in a pot or in the ground or under cover? A cousin in London gave me one, which is still in a pot here (East Scotland) and I'm needing to work out what to do with it now...