Glad you have sunshine too Hazel although ours has clouded over now, I've still been out and planted some tulips that Dove brought lived with her yesterday.
The new job is certainly a challenge as I've been put in charge of driving the tipper truck even though I've only passed my driving test this year! but in the deep end I went and touch wood.....it seems to be going well thank you I'm enjoying the work, although the money is worse than terrible, there's room for advancement. I did get top marks in the class on our pruning training!
Morning all, Welcome Daydaisy, you don't have to be mad to post here but it helps
Lovely and sunny here. Have had a busy morning, dahlias have been chopped down and a thick layer of mulch over them so they are cosy for the winter. have removed quite a few plants from posts, trimmed them and potted them up, hoping to keep them over the winter as didn't take any cuttings, worked last year so fingers crossed.
Roses are still looking georgeous, don't know how they do it, we've had two good frosts but doesn't seem to have touched them.
Well done Wonky for passing your prunning test with flying colours, we'll be seeing you on Gardener's World before we know it.
Wonky? Did they teach you to cut out old and diseased wood first, then crossing branches, then adjust to shape, or the usual lollipop style that seems to be the council system around here? There are even magnolias that have been ruined by lollipopping.
Bed time and the moon is really bright, but hoping to see the big one tomorrow night. Should be good (if it doesn't cloud over ). I remember that we raced up the hill behind the house to look at Halleys comet a few years ago, only to stand there like idiots for ages but the clouds won.
Reggie and I went out to make the most of the sunny weather this morning. Beautiful sunshine, calm breezes, pleasant people, to take some time in the peace and quiet to remember those who fight to keep us safe (and who get caught up in conflict with no way of escape)....
... imagine the hell on earth when I decide to nip in to a garden centre on my way home and find this
No sign of the garlic I went in for but floor to ceiling of Christmas tat. They even had cut trees for sale.
What a contrast to the beautiful images of those choosing to spend today remembering.
It was a complete sensory overload. I can't begin to imagine trying to go inside with a child who might struggle with the noise, lights, the crowds...
... thank dog for Internet shopping. As awful as it is not to support local shops I'm afraid til March I will happily stay away.
Fidget - Wonky said the pruning trainer was really good - a specialist who loved ornamental shrubs and whose priority it was to show the plant to its best advantage.
If any of you love it as much as we do, 'Oliver!' - the proper 1968 version with Ron Moody and Oliver Reed - is on GOLD (or rather XMAS GOLD) this afternoon starting at 2.25pm
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fidget, it was really a pleasant surprise! The tutor had total on site experience from working in stately homes and gardens to contracting landscape work. No office/how to train experience! so therefore he knew what he was on about and had a real passion for plants. he taught us the proper way, not lollipoping! he was very impressed that I was a gardener and not a hedgetrimming maniac!
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Glad you have sunshine too Hazel
although ours has clouded over now, I've still been out and planted some tulips that Dove brought lived with her yesterday.
The new job is certainly a challenge as I've been put in charge of driving the tipper truck even though I've only passed my driving test this year!
but in the deep end I went and touch wood.....it seems to be going well thank you 
I'm enjoying the work, although the money is worse than terrible, there's room for advancement. I did get top marks in the class on our pruning training! 
Onwards and upwards Wonkie, and not just with the tipper truck
Morning all, Welcome Daydaisy, you don't have to be mad to post here but it helps
Lovely and sunny here. Have had a busy morning, dahlias have been chopped down and a thick layer of mulch over them so they are cosy for the winter. have removed quite a few plants from posts, trimmed them and potted them up, hoping to keep them over the winter as didn't take any cuttings, worked last year so fingers crossed.
Roses are still looking georgeous, don't know how they do it, we've had two good frosts but doesn't seem to have touched them.
Well done Wonky for passing your prunning test with flying colours, we'll be seeing you on Gardener's World before we know it.
Wonky? Did they teach you to cut out old and diseased wood first, then crossing branches, then adjust to shape, or the usual lollipop style that seems to be the council system around here? There are even magnolias that have been ruined by lollipopping.
Bed time and the moon is really bright, but hoping to see the big one tomorrow night. Should be good (if it doesn't cloud over
). I remember that we raced up the hill behind the house to look at Halleys comet a few years ago, only to stand there like idiots for ages but the clouds won.
Night All.
Sweet dreams Pat.
Reggie and I went out to make the most of the sunny weather this morning. Beautiful sunshine, calm breezes, pleasant people, to take some time in the peace and quiet to remember those who fight to keep us safe (and who get caught up in conflict with no way of escape)....
... imagine the hell on earth when I decide to nip in to a garden centre on my way home and find this
No sign of the garlic I went in for but floor to ceiling of Christmas tat. They even had cut trees for sale.
What a contrast to the beautiful images of those choosing to spend today remembering.
It was a complete sensory overload. I can't begin to imagine trying to go inside with a child who might struggle with the noise, lights, the crowds...
... thank dog for Internet shopping. As awful as it is not to support local shops I'm afraid til March I will happily stay away.
Didn't get my garlic.
Fidget - Wonky said the pruning trainer was really good - a specialist who loved ornamental shrubs and whose priority it was to show the plant to its best advantage.
If any of you love it as much as we do, 'Oliver!' - the proper 1968 version with Ron Moody and Oliver Reed - is on GOLD (or rather XMAS GOLD) this afternoon starting at 2.25pm
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello, Yvie, Clari and Fidget, night Pat
Fidget, it was really a pleasant surprise! The tutor had total on site experience from working in stately homes and gardens to contracting landscape work. No office/how to train experience!
so therefore he knew what he was on about and had a real passion for plants. 
he taught us the proper way, not lollipoping! 
he was very impressed that I was a gardener and not a hedgetrimming maniac! 