As I look out the window, I note clumps of honey fungus everywhere (I blame the local council for deliberately killing many of our street trees - saves on clearing leaves and someone might trip over a leaf and litigate)
In true Go'sS spirit, I will wait to see what survives and plant more of them. What else can you do? I hope I won't lose some old friends too soon.
Imagine having photos of kids kicking up leaves in autumn as historic digital images argh! ....it will be sad if that tradition dies out.
My Mum was telling me that her council have stopped doing green bins unless you pay for them and even if you do, it will be Spring before they pick them up. How can it be that there is so little green waste that this has been the correct commercial decision?
Unless the council can't be **s*d and they're also slackers?
I'll think myself lucky then that I live in a progressive, green council area. They provide green bins and you can pay if you want more than one. They're collected every other week.
I'm in the throes of mid-lurg lethargy. I've had five very nice bare root roses delivered and there's a big crate of spent compost outside the back door. I'm tempted to do a very bad thing
Good idea bringing this one back Hazel! Hope your feeling better from your nasty bug!
The trouble with winter I find is that it has a tendency to make all gardens look like Brown sticks with boggy bits and therefore the tireless effort that we dedicated gallery of shame inhabitants take to create this 'style' is overlooked and undermined....
Glad to see this thread back.....makes me look out of the window.....better from a distance......and think about doing some gardening sometime bit cold as yet though
B3 post lurgy permits doing bad things....I'm sure we will be able to justify what ever it is! hope you feel better soon
I have just recieved another climbing rose as Christmas present. One each now from my two grown up children, who no doubt think I am crazy.
I have stuck rose # 2 into a bucket and will heel it in tomorrow weather permitting.
I did some clearing up but not too much, it's very very wet underfoot out there. Lots of snowdrops showing up all over the garden from places where the soil was dug up and moved.
My new Mahonia (winter sun) is looking good. Some lovely flowers on them but it will take few years to get it looking more rounded. The birds loved the berries on my old one.
Back into hibernation later in the week I think . Icy winds await.
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It's nature cloggie. We are the ultimate organic gardeners. My herbs are organic because I don't do anything to them. I even have an organic 'lawn'
..aka 'grass' then B3?
I have a grassed area and a place where herbs survive.
I have to admit that there is indeed some grass in my lawn bit there are also many more interesting plants therein
As I look out the window, I note clumps of honey fungus everywhere (I blame the local council for deliberately killing many of our street trees - saves on clearing leaves and someone might trip over a leaf and litigate)
In true Go'sS spirit, I will wait to see what survives and plant more of them. What else can you do? I hope I won't lose some old friends too soon.
Imagine having photos of kids kicking up leaves in autumn as historic digital images argh! ....it will be sad if that tradition dies out.
My Mum was telling me that her council have stopped doing green bins unless you pay for them and even if you do, it will be Spring before they pick them up. How can it be that there is so little green waste that this has been the correct commercial decision?
Unless the council can't be **s*d and they're also slackers?
I'll think myself lucky then that I live in a progressive, green council area. They provide green bins and you can pay if you want more than one. They're collected every other week.
Good to see this thread popping up again.
I'm in the throes of mid-lurg lethargy. I've had five very nice bare root roses delivered and there's a big crate of spent compost outside the back door. I'm tempted to do a very bad thing
Good idea bringing this one back Hazel! Hope your feeling better from your nasty bug!
The trouble with winter I find is that it has a tendency to make all gardens look like Brown sticks with boggy bits and therefore the tireless effort that we dedicated gallery of shame inhabitants take to create this 'style' is overlooked and undermined....
Glad to see this thread back.....makes me look out of the window.....better from a distance......and think about doing some gardening sometime
bit cold as yet though 
B3 post lurgy permits doing bad things....I'm sure we will be able to justify what ever it is!
hope you feel better soon
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I have just recieved another climbing rose as Christmas present. One each now from my two grown up children, who no doubt think I am crazy.
I have stuck rose # 2 into a bucket and will heel it in tomorrow weather permitting.
I did some clearing up but not too much, it's very very wet underfoot out there. Lots of snowdrops showing up all over the garden from places where the soil was dug up and moved.
My new Mahonia (winter sun) is looking good. Some lovely flowers on them but it will take few years to get it looking more rounded. The birds loved the berries on my old one.
Back into hibernation later in the week I think . Icy winds await.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'