Some fantastic tennis today... football not so much!
I love Wimbledon fortnight when it is warm and dry as you are torn between gardening, with the radio on, and dashing in to watch the 'good bits' on tv! I remember my Grandmother doing this, and so did my mother... and I seem to have inherited it!
done weeding stopped toms in g/house at 6 trusses ..outside toms still growing well about 3trusss on them so as don't all come at same time .feeding all toms in g/house peppers and chillis as well . well pleased took lower leaves of to let more air under plants watched 2 robins fighting for top dog looks like the older one has been deposed the younger robin on the fence chirping away when I left breckers now and shower 85 in g/house with 2windows side one and vent put a bucket of water on floor ..
Didnt feel like doing any gardening this evening after Federer lost . But reluctantly mowed the lawn before weekends rain forecast, its starting to look like a lawn again after resowing patches. Just been in the GH scoffing some strawberrys to cheer me up
Jealous of your day (apart from the golf bit sorry!) Doghouse.
Bit miffed that forecast isn't great for the weekend (won't affect Centre Court though!) but have a few jobs planned : turning the compost in my two bins, harvesting some lavender and loads of general tidying/dead-heading etc. Will Iplayer Gardener's World later to see if Monty suggests any jobs too.
I just went to the garden centre to get a few annuals to fill in some euphorbia gaps as I have cut them all back and I got 24 big nicotiana plants and a delphinium with buds for £5 - a bit shop soiled apparently but nothing I can't revive in a week or two.
I've cut one lot of grass, organised the strawberries to keep the magpies off now I need to keep the slugs off....
Removed and potted a little columbine which was dwarfed by the primulas, hacked back a geranium to give a Hebe room, potted up a Hebe seedling which was in the gravel path, chopped back a clematis ready for it's removal to another site, and generally deadheaded and pottered
Rain's gone back off, so might get the front grass done and maybe the fence post for the gate put in.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardeners - a cautionary tale. On Wednesday evening I went into the garden to deadhead a few perennials that had gone over (stupidly I went out in shorts and sandals!). When I came back indoors, I noticed 3 tiny pinhead size red dots on my lower leg and ankle. I thought, mosquito bites and just applied some savlon bite and sting cream .By Thursday morning though I was in absolute agony. Swollen lower leg and ankle and now 3 huge blisters had replaced the pinhead dots. I rushed off to the local minor accident and treatment centre and was told they were infected insect bites. I'm now on a course of strong antibiotics! No more deadheading for me, at least not without covering up.
That is rotten luck Busyliz - I hope you are in less discomfort today. I'm sure most gardeners have tales of mishap and injury but needing antibiotics is not much fun.
A strange day weather-wise here as warm but cloudy and windy. I tackled an overgrown and leggy Lavender bush today - cut out the dead branches and re-shaped. I have revealed a lovely azalea shrub which was shaded out by the lavender plus I have a massive bunch of gorgeous-smelling stems to have in a vase.
My top plants this week are a pink Hydrangea and a Himalayan Honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa).
Took loads of dead tree to the tip and left my strimmer in AGAIN.
My Leycesteria are some of my favourite plants Auntyrach. My first one came by bird I suspect but I've since planted up loads of seedlings and brought them to my new garden. Love 'em!
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Some fantastic tennis today... football not so much!
I love Wimbledon fortnight when it is warm and dry as you are torn between gardening, with the radio on, and dashing in to watch the 'good bits' on tv! I remember my Grandmother doing this, and so did my mother... and I seem to have inherited it!
Not a fan of tennis sadly.
Got back from Prague where we went to see a band and tomato plants shrivelled - panic.
Luckily they revived after being stood in a bucket of water for a few hours and seem none the worse for wear. Phew.
done weeding stopped toms in g/house at 6 trusses ..outside toms still growing well about 3trusss on them so as don't all come at same time .feeding all toms in g/house peppers and chillis as well . well pleased took lower leaves of to let more air under plants watched 2 robins fighting for top dog looks like the older one has been deposed the younger robin on the fence chirping away when I left breckers now and shower 85 in g/house with 2windows side one and vent put a bucket of water on floor ..
Didnt feel like doing any gardening this evening after Federer lost
. But reluctantly mowed the lawn before weekends rain forecast, its starting to look like a lawn again after resowing patches. Just been in the GH scoffing some strawberrys to cheer me up 
Jealous of your day (apart from the golf bit sorry!) Doghouse.
Bit miffed that forecast isn't great for the weekend (won't affect Centre Court though!) but have a few jobs planned : turning the compost in my two bins, harvesting some lavender and loads of general tidying/dead-heading etc. Will Iplayer Gardener's World later to see if Monty suggests any jobs too.
I just went to the garden centre to get a few annuals to fill in some euphorbia gaps as I have cut them all back and I got 24 big nicotiana plants and a delphinium with buds for £5 - a bit shop soiled apparently but nothing I can't revive in a week or two.
What a bargain :-)
Nice bargain Lou.
I've cut one lot of grass, organised the strawberries to keep the magpies off
now I need to keep the slugs off....
Removed and potted a little columbine which was dwarfed by the primulas, hacked back a geranium to give a Hebe room, potted up a Hebe seedling which was in the gravel path, chopped back a clematis ready for it's removal to another site, and generally deadheaded and pottered
Rain's gone back off, so might get the front grass done and maybe the fence post for the gate put in.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardeners - a cautionary tale. On Wednesday evening I went into the garden to deadhead a few perennials that had gone over (stupidly I went out in shorts and sandals!). When I came back indoors, I noticed 3 tiny pinhead size red dots on my lower leg and ankle. I thought, mosquito bites and just applied some savlon bite and sting cream .By Thursday morning though I was in absolute agony. Swollen lower leg and ankle and now 3 huge blisters had replaced the pinhead dots. I rushed off to the local minor accident and treatment centre and was told they were infected insect bites. I'm now on a course of strong antibiotics! No more deadheading for me, at least not without covering up.
That is rotten luck Busyliz - I hope you are in less discomfort today. I'm sure most gardeners have tales of mishap and injury but needing antibiotics is not much fun.
A strange day weather-wise here as warm but cloudy and windy. I tackled an overgrown and leggy Lavender bush today - cut out the dead branches and re-shaped. I have revealed a lovely azalea shrub which was shaded out by the lavender plus I have a massive bunch of gorgeous-smelling stems to have in a vase.
My top plants this week are a pink Hydrangea and a Himalayan Honeysuckle (Leycesteria formosa).
Took loads of dead tree to the tip and left my strimmer in AGAIN.
My Leycesteria are some of my favourite plants Auntyrach. My first one came by bird
I suspect but I've since planted up loads of seedlings and brought them to my new garden. Love 'em!