I've now had 3 catalogues and have ordered some plug plants, annuals.
https://www.promessedefleurs.com/vivaces.html Haven't had annuals from them before, but they do Isotoma, Ammi Visnaga, Osteospermum Terracotta that I couldn't find anywhere else. Coming end of March. Hope they are OK.
2pm here and still only -4°. The dining room is only +4°, heating is only on for dinner parties, few and far between in winter, last used for Christmas with the fire lit too.
Off to look at next catalogue.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I've just made a huge pot of 'clear your sinuses' hot and sour soup which can be divided into portions and frozen. Will add coconut milk, veg, prawns and noodles to one batch for tonights supper and call it a laksa. Yum - love spicy food.
Hope Hosta & OH get off without any bother. Not a nice end to a holiday but it will make for a good tale down the pub or round the dinner table.
Friend coming round for a cuppa soon - will be good to have a natter and she wants to see what we had done with the garden. Shame it still looks a bit of a mess - new grass is a bit tufty and there are several piles of compost waiting to be spread around (can't use a wheelbarrow on the new turf until it's either a bit drier and / or not frozen). Never mind - she'll get the general idea
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Just back from Morrisons with an unexpected addition to the shopping. There was a trolley outside with "Christmas roses" on, nice and healthy with lots of flowers & buds, for £3. Just one of these...
...looking very lonely, so I've found it a spot in the garden. Maybe it'll be obvious which hellebore it is, once the flowers open.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We've been to view a new place. Looks like it has everything we want except someone has already made an offer and we haven't got ours on the market yet. It even has a good pub up the road. We had lunch while we were out.
Best get yours cleaned and on the market asap then Fidget. We thought ours would take up to 2 years to sell, like others in the village, but we happened on the right buyers early on and it took just 10 days on the market. Lovely for us as we could then buy this one which suits us well but maybe just a bit too quick for getting all our stuff well organised. Start sorting now!
Hosta - fingers crossed you're on your way home safely.
We have been to Les Sables d'Olonne again today. We'd hoped the first two Globe sialors would be in by now but the recent strong winds mean they've had to go up level with the Isles of Scilly and tack back down so tomorrow now - maybe. We had to pick up anew chap for the satnav then I took hubby to a big garden centre - Villa Verde - to see if they had water butts on sale. No, but they did have some decent mixed seed bird food and packets of bulbs all reduced to 1€ so I have more scented daffs, botanical tulips, some simple, short gladioli - Byzantine style - and some scillas. Also a tower for the kittens who think the sofas are for climbing on and claw sharpening and a blue Weber BBQ reduced. They had large pots of either dark or creamy hellebores for 19€ - excessive - and smaller ones of doubles, speckled, yellow and picotee for 9€ but those were covered in greenfly and white fly so I resisted. Daphne aurora marginata started at 30€!
Home via fishmonger, SM and freezer shop. I am now resting the broken toe and minding kittens while OH walks the doglets. Fabulous sun again but freezing and with added windchill.
Busy - thanks for posting that link. I shall have a look. Got OH all excited about the nerines advert on here but they don't ship out of the UK. Humph.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Nice Liri - I got a couple of the Hellebore nigers in Morrisons. One is still alive
I'm keen to get more white ones for this time of year, for the areas which should have no foliage... errr..that's should, but the weather seems to have other ideas. I've never had deciduous grasses which still have noticeable foliage on them at this time of year. My Clematis E.V had substantial bits of new growth and also the old foliage. Bizarre
Fidget - Sod's Law isn't it? The perfect house always appears just at the wrong moment. There's a house for sale at Succoth, next to Arrochar, which would be utterly perfect for me - in about 6 or 7 years time! I wish you luck with getting your house sorted so that you can get on your way.
Pity about the sunrise Dove. I'll see if I have a spare from last year...yes here's one from October to cheer us all up
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I shall be up and on parade to photograph tomorrow's sunrise if it's pretty. Taking Rasta to the vet for her regular ear check. The perisher digs holes, sticks her head in, gets dirty and sometimes infected and then needs ear cleaning products.
Busy - you are an expensive friend. I've been on your link and ended up ordering perennials, summer bulbs and DA roses! Delivery mid March.
Forecast is colder tomorrow - -6C plus wind chill factor of several degrees.
Supposed to be having hake and veggies for dinner but not hungry after lunch out so yogurt and honey for me and cheese and biccies for him. Better go and freeze the fish then.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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I've now had 3 catalogues
and have ordered some plug plants, annuals.
https://www.promessedefleurs.com/vivaces.html Haven't had annuals from them before, but they do Isotoma, Ammi Visnaga, Osteospermum Terracotta that I couldn't find anywhere else. Coming end of March. Hope they are OK.
2pm here and still only -4°. The dining room is only +4°, heating is only on for dinner parties, few and far between in winter, last used for Christmas with the fire lit too.
Off to look at next catalogue.
Sorry Fairy - no pic - was still tucked up in bed.
Now I'm on the sofa with a good book ....
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've just made a huge pot of 'clear your sinuses' hot and sour soup which can be divided into portions and frozen. Will add coconut milk, veg, prawns and noodles to one batch for tonights supper and call it a laksa. Yum - love spicy food.
Hope Hosta & OH get off without any bother. Not a nice end to a holiday but it will make for a good tale down the pub or round the dinner table.
Friend coming round for a cuppa soon - will be good to have a natter and she wants to see what we had done with the garden. Shame it still looks a bit of a mess - new grass is a bit tufty and there are several piles of compost waiting to be spread around (can't use a wheelbarrow on the new turf until it's either a bit drier and / or not frozen). Never mind - she'll get the general idea
Just back from Morrisons with an unexpected addition to the shopping. There was a trolley outside with "Christmas roses" on, nice and healthy with lots of flowers & buds, for £3. Just one of these...
...looking very lonely, so I've found it a spot in the garden. Maybe it'll be obvious which hellebore it is, once the flowers open.
Gorgeous bargain Liri, look forward to update when it opens
Interesting looking leaves, Liri.
We've been to view a new place. Looks like it has everything we want except someone has already made an offer and we haven't got ours on the market yet. It even has a good pub up the road. We had lunch while we were out.
I'm not getting my hopes up yet.
Best get yours cleaned and on the market asap then Fidget. We thought ours would take up to 2 years to sell, like others in the village, but we happened on the right buyers early on and it took just 10 days on the market. Lovely for us as we could then buy this one which suits us well but maybe just a bit too quick for getting all our stuff well organised. Start sorting now!
Hosta - fingers crossed you're on your way home safely.
We have been to Les Sables d'Olonne again today. We'd hoped the first two Globe sialors would be in by now but the recent strong winds mean they've had to go up level with the Isles of Scilly and tack back down so tomorrow now - maybe. We had to pick up anew chap for the satnav then I took hubby to a big garden centre - Villa Verde - to see if they had water butts on sale. No, but they did have some decent mixed seed bird food and packets of bulbs all reduced to 1€ so I have more scented daffs, botanical tulips, some simple, short gladioli - Byzantine style - and some scillas. Also a tower for the kittens who think the sofas are for climbing on and claw sharpening and a blue Weber BBQ reduced. They had large pots of either dark or creamy hellebores for 19€ - excessive - and smaller ones of doubles, speckled, yellow and picotee for 9€ but those were covered in greenfly and white fly so I resisted. Daphne aurora marginata started at 30€!
Home via fishmonger, SM and freezer shop. I am now resting the broken toe and minding kittens while OH walks the doglets. Fabulous sun again but freezing and with added windchill.
Busy - thanks for posting that link. I shall have a look. Got OH all excited about the nerines advert on here but they don't ship out of the UK. Humph.
Nice Liri - I got a couple of the Hellebore nigers in Morrisons. One is still alive
I'm keen to get more white ones for this time of year, for the areas which should have no foliage... errr..that's should, but the weather seems to have other ideas. I've never had deciduous grasses which still have noticeable foliage on them at this time of year. My Clematis E.V had substantial bits of new growth and also the old foliage. Bizarre
Fidget - Sod's Law isn't it? The perfect house always appears just at the wrong moment. There's a house for sale at Succoth, next to Arrochar, which would be utterly perfect for me - in about 6 or 7 years time! I wish you luck with getting your house sorted so that you can get on your way.
Pity about the sunrise Dove. I'll see if I have a spare from last year...yes here's one from October to cheer us all up
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I shall be up and on parade to photograph tomorrow's sunrise if it's pretty. Taking Rasta to the vet for her regular ear check. The perisher digs holes, sticks her head in, gets dirty and sometimes infected and then needs ear cleaning products.
Busy - you are an expensive friend. I've been on your link and ended up ordering perennials, summer bulbs and DA roses! Delivery mid March.
Forecast is colder tomorrow - -6C plus wind chill factor of several degrees.
Supposed to be having hake and veggies for dinner but not hungry after lunch out so yogurt and honey for me and cheese and biccies for him. Better go and freeze the fish then.