Wow, what a beautiful woodpecker! Very, very jealous!!
Morning all,
Hope you all have a great day. Sun is shining here at the moment (Nottinghamshire). Hope it stays this way, I've got loads to do in the garden whilst my little man is at his dad's!!
Just a quick question, I'd like some more aquilegias. Is it best buying seed? As each plant is quite expensive really!?
Hello everyone. I've only now had a chance to read back. Off to town for various irritating tasks this morning, then Hubby decided he wanted to cut more firewood from our back blocks. We've got a good trailer full so that'll do us for a while. .
ive managed over 7000 steps today, so I'm rather pleased with that. Walking back and forth with armloads of cut wood to the trailer helped a lot.
really gorgeous photos Chicky. The trip was worth while.
Nothing like a good sleep to set you up for the day. Well done Hosta, hard luck LilyP. Our sleep is regularly interrupted around dawn by our male woodpecker, who in preference to drumming on boring old trees, has taken up hammering the squirrel-proof cage on our seed feeder just outside the bedroom window. It makes a wonderful noise! And the night before last, the wild rose on the bank below the window broke free of its moorings in the wind, and started going "tap, tap, tap SQUEEEEEEK" on the glass. It has been pruned...
Kay, I've just sown a packet of aquilegia seeds. They grow readily from seed, and you're right, it's quite expensive to buy plants. There's a "seed swap" thread on this forum, definitely worth following when you've got a whole garden to stock - and nobody minds if you have nothing to offer in return at the moment.
Good morning. Big fat grey things here but also some blue bits. Breezy but not too cold.
I have been out and checked my treasures for being water logged or windswept and all is well and picked some Munstead Wood roses for a posy - why are the flowers so floppy and droopy? Me or the plant? There's a broken stem of clematis Jan Fopma I shall try and propagate. It's suppsoed to have chocolate scented flowers so I'm hoping its new home will let me enjoy that and it can't hurt to have lots of it.
FG - the bird is a green woodpecker and they eat ants so I suspect our weedy gravel was the driest place around yesterday for hunting them out. I hope it comes back. Haven't seen or heard any spotted woodies here yet.
If the breeze drops I shall be naughty with the glyphosate and kill off the forest of weeds so I can mark out the new dry beds. Left everything growing to see if there were any treasures but there's just a few coronaria, one or two daffs and, under the fig, some rather lovely pink and white aquilegias.
If not, pottering and sowing. Have a good one all, whether at the coalface, out to play or in your garden.
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Never seen one Dove. I did wonder if it was that but wasn't sure. Very pretty
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning all.
LP, I had the " sore ears" thing in the wind on Saturday.
Dare I mention I've had 5 consecutive good sleeps?
Starting work at 1.45pm today!!!
Wow, what a beautiful woodpecker! Very, very jealous!!
Morning all,
Hope you all have a great day. Sun is shining here at the moment (Nottinghamshire). Hope it stays this way, I've got loads to do in the garden whilst my little man is at his dad's!!
Just a quick question, I'd like some more aquilegias. Is it best buying seed? As each plant is quite expensive really!?
Chat later, I've got to get ready :-)
Hello everyone. I've only now had a chance to read back. Off to town for various irritating tasks this morning, then Hubby decided he wanted to cut more firewood from our back blocks. We've got a good trailer full so that'll do us for a while.
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ive managed over 7000 steps today, so I'm rather pleased with that. Walking back and forth with armloads of cut wood to the trailer helped a lot.
really gorgeous photos Chicky. The trip was worth while.
Good on you Pat!!! X
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Thanks Kay. I'm a bit worn out now though.
Good morning everyone - hi Pat!
Nothing like a good sleep to set you up for the day. Well done Hosta, hard luck LilyP. Our sleep is regularly interrupted around dawn by our male woodpecker, who in preference to drumming on boring old trees, has taken up hammering the squirrel-proof cage on our seed feeder just outside the bedroom window. It makes a wonderful noise!
And the night before last, the wild rose on the bank below the window broke free of its moorings in the wind, and started going "tap, tap, tap SQUEEEEEEK" on the glass. It has been pruned...
Kay, I've just sown a packet of aquilegia seeds. They grow readily from seed, and you're right, it's quite expensive to buy plants. There's a "seed swap" thread on this forum, definitely worth following when you've got a whole garden to stock - and nobody minds if you have nothing to offer in return at the moment.
www.gardenersworld.com/forum/the-potting-shed/seed-and-plant-swap-2017/991304-6.html#latest
Foggy in the Pennines at the moment, but we are promised sun later.
Morning all, Liri, what's your secret with aquilegia, I have no luck at all with sowing seeds they just don't germinate. All my other seeds do well
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Beautiful sunny morning here, just had breakfast and as soon as I've finished my cuppa I'll be out there.
Good morning. Big fat grey things here but also some blue bits. Breezy but not too cold.
I have been out and checked my treasures for being water logged or windswept and all is well and picked some Munstead Wood roses for a posy - why are the flowers so floppy and droopy? Me or the plant? There's a broken stem of clematis Jan Fopma I shall try and propagate. It's suppsoed to have chocolate scented flowers so I'm hoping its new home will let me enjoy that and it can't hurt to have lots of it.
FG - the bird is a green woodpecker and they eat ants so I suspect our weedy gravel was the driest place around yesterday for hunting them out. I hope it comes back. Haven't seen or heard any spotted woodies here yet.
If the breeze drops I shall be naughty with the glyphosate and kill off the forest of weeds so I can mark out the new dry beds. Left everything growing to see if there were any treasures but there's just a few coronaria, one or two daffs and, under the fig, some rather lovely pink and white aquilegias.
If not, pottering and sowing. Have a good one all, whether at the coalface, out to play or in your garden.
Morning all.
We are going to the city (as Dove would say) today. Norwich.