... Despite good intentions, did precisely nothing after the drive home from Nottngham yesterday, apart from sit in the sun and read. So today will be a day of ACTION
Sometimes doing nothing is just what is needed - she tells herself after lying in late to finish another book. bright and sunny here and 22Ca lready. OH is golfing and Possum and I are off out to a garden brocante so i'm hoping fro plants and maybe some other bits.
BM - devil's advocate, but why not take you prairie bed right to the fence and borrow the landscape with it instead of making an island?
FG - great view. You too Pat with your changing colours.
I'm aching again today after winning the battle of the hosta and splitting it to have a spare. Got some other bits planted and have just 3 hosta pots left to wrangle and then some other bits for ground cover. Might need to fence the bed off for a while as the dogs trample it to bark at the neighbous' dog when she comes out. Not good.
Hope you're all getting some sun and fun in the garden or whatever else you're doing.
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)."
Scorchio! out there ......... 23C in the shade ... OH has found my gardening hat and plonked it on my head ... any minute now he'll be slathering me in sun cream ...........
The bed in the front garden is now nearly twice it's original size ... Hosta 'Hadspen's Blue' has been moved so it is occupying a focal point on a corner and is no longer going to be sat upon by fat pigeons when they're trying to hoover up the spillages from Mr Chaffinch's favourite feeder.
Some very patient Touchwood aquilegias grown from seed a couple or so years ago have at last been planted out in the shady bit of the west-facing bed and on the Shady Bank, and Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate' has been moved from the north facing bed to the west facing one in the hope that she can cope with that much sunshine ... she didn't seem happy with the very shady spot she was in but all the websites say that her foliage scorches if she has too much sun ........... we shall wait and see.
A big alchemilla mollis bought the other day has been split into four and potted on ... I need a lot of them for a project I have in mind at the foot of the Shady Bank ... this lot will be split into 16 and then into 64 ... that ought to be enough ............ all for £7.99 and some compost
Now I shall organise some lunch, put a chicken stuffed with lemon and tarragon in the covered roaster for this evening and go out there again and sow some Swiss chard, parsley and .....................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Too bad that you are so far away Dove.....I removed a square metre of A mollis the other day. It had been planted as a temporary measure many years ago. I do still have some, in other parts of the garden ,which are not allowed to set seed.
Yesterday I discovered just how long hosta roots can be. The Naegato that put up the fight was in a 50cms deep pot and its roots had hit the bottom, curled round the crocks and come half way back up again. I was given alchemilla mollis right at the start of planting up the Belgian garden, along with valerian. I spent the next 18 years pulling them up and a flower arranger friend was horrified when I cut off all its blooms just as they opened. I can't stand that acid yellow/green. That same friend then gave me a dwarf alchemilla. Fortunately it didn't like my garden.
I have been to a plant fair with Possum, just down the road in Angles. The first things we saw were an alpaca with two babies then 2 small, hairy pigs, 2 enormous rabbits, black faced sheep with lambs and a donkey and a calf. Some project about eco-pastures. I did wonder what neighbour Luc would make of alpacas in our paddock.......
Then on to the serious stuff. Came home with a honey bee tree (tetradium danielii hupehensis) which is new to me but supposedly provides lots of blossom for bees; some rhubarb, several kinds of toms including a blue one, strawberry mint, dill, tarragon, oregano, potimarron, 3 potentillas, a penstemon and a catmint to drive the kittens wild.
Now to pot most of them on and do a bit of sunbathing. If I'm lucky, there are 2 honey bee trees in the pot and not just a low multi stem.
Why do you need 64 AMs Dove? Seems a bit excessive.
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)."
I've just found a packet of shallots hidden in the cupboard not looking their best. Rather than wasting them a quick Google search revealed that once peeled and chopped up they can be popped in the freezer.
I'd forgotten just how much they make things sting!!
Hound is struggling with the heat somewhat; if only he was sensible enough to listen to my pleas not to sleep in the middle of the lawn til he's near on fire.
Dove - we could send Joyce's Alchemilla courtesy of the Grand National winner....it would get there in no time
What a cracking result it was - another great GN story, and Lucinda Russell is a worthy, winning trainer. I forgot to record unfortunately, but there was a bit on the Scottish news on Friday about the two 'laydee' owners. Fab.
I've been repotting strawbs and sending the vine weevil grubs to the birds...
Bought some lily and liatris bulbs the other day from the cheapo shop. They look ok, but the lilies are a bit small so they'll get potted and I'll see how they fare. For a few quid it's worth the effort.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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That's not doing nothing Chicky ............ that's a very important part of life
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sometimes doing nothing is just what is needed - she tells herself after lying in late to finish another book. bright and sunny here and 22Ca lready. OH is golfing and Possum and I are off out to a garden brocante so i'm hoping fro plants and maybe some other bits.
BM - devil's advocate, but why not take you prairie bed right to the fence and borrow the landscape with it instead of making an island?
FG - great view. You too Pat with your changing colours.
I'm aching again today after winning the battle of the hosta and splitting it to have a spare. Got some other bits planted and have just 3 hosta pots left to wrangle and then some other bits for ground cover. Might need to fence the bed off for a while as the dogs trample it to bark at the neighbous' dog when she comes out. Not good.
Hope you're all getting some sun and fun in the garden or whatever else you're doing.
Scorchio!
out there ......... 23C in the shade ... OH has found my gardening hat and plonked it on my head ... any minute now he'll be slathering me in sun cream ...........
The bed in the front garden is now nearly twice it's original size ... Hosta 'Hadspen's Blue' has been moved so it is occupying a focal point on a corner and is no longer going to be sat upon by fat pigeons when they're trying to hoover up the spillages from Mr Chaffinch's favourite feeder.
Some very patient Touchwood aquilegias grown from seed a couple or so years ago have at last been planted out in the shady bit of the west-facing bed and on the Shady Bank, and Tradescantia 'Sweet Kate' has been moved from the north facing bed to the west facing one in the hope that she can cope with that much sunshine ... she didn't seem happy with the very shady spot she was in but all the websites say that her foliage scorches if she has too much sun ........... we shall wait and see.
A big alchemilla mollis bought the other day has been split into four and potted on ... I need a lot of them for a project I have in mind at the foot of the Shady Bank ... this lot will be split into 16 and then into 64 ... that ought to be enough ............ all for £7.99 and some compost
Now I shall organise some lunch, put a chicken stuffed with lemon and tarragon in the covered roaster for this evening and go out there again and sow some Swiss chard, parsley and .....................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Too bad that you are so far away Dove.....I removed a square metre of A mollis the other day. It had been planted as a temporary measure many years ago. I do still have some, in other parts of the garden ,which are not allowed to set seed.
Do you think you could knock one of these together Joyce ? ... after all, it's downhill all the way from you to here ... gravity will help
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove
It was a b****r to dig up.
The one I bought was in quite a deep pot and the roots go right down to the bottom ... I've potted the four on into clematis pots!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yesterday I discovered just how long hosta roots can be. The Naegato that put up the fight was in a 50cms deep pot and its roots had hit the bottom, curled round the crocks and come half way back up again. I was given alchemilla mollis right at the start of planting up the Belgian garden, along with valerian. I spent the next 18 years pulling them up and a flower arranger friend was horrified when I cut off all its blooms just as they opened. I can't stand that acid yellow/green. That same friend then gave me a dwarf alchemilla. Fortunately it didn't like my garden.
I have been to a plant fair with Possum, just down the road in Angles. The first things we saw were an alpaca with two babies then 2 small, hairy pigs, 2 enormous rabbits, black faced sheep with lambs and a donkey and a calf. Some project about eco-pastures. I did wonder what neighbour Luc would make of alpacas in our paddock.......
Then on to the serious stuff. Came home with a honey bee tree (tetradium danielii hupehensis) which is new to me but supposedly provides lots of blossom for bees; some rhubarb, several kinds of toms including a blue one, strawberry mint, dill, tarragon, oregano, potimarron, 3 potentillas, a penstemon and a catmint to drive the kittens wild.
Now to pot most of them on and do a bit of sunbathing. If I'm lucky, there are 2 honey bee trees in the pot and not just a low multi stem.
Why do you need 64 AMs Dove? Seems a bit excessive.
Any sign of Wonky yet?
I've just found a packet of shallots hidden in the cupboard not looking their best. Rather than wasting them a quick Google search revealed that once peeled and chopped up they can be popped in the freezer.
I'd forgotten just how much they make things sting!!
Hound is struggling with the heat somewhat; if only he was sensible enough to listen to my pleas not to sleep in the middle of the lawn til he's near on fire.
Dove - we could send Joyce's Alchemilla courtesy of the Grand National winner....it would get there in no time
What a cracking result it was - another great GN story, and Lucinda Russell is a worthy, winning trainer. I forgot to record unfortunately, but there was a bit on the Scottish news on Friday about the two 'laydee' owners. Fab.
I've been repotting strawbs and sending the vine weevil grubs to the birds...
Bought some lily and liatris bulbs the other day from the cheapo shop. They look ok, but the lilies are a bit small so they'll get potted and I'll see how they fare. For a few quid it's worth the effort.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...