Plantmaiden - albizzia julibrissin. Not reliable hardy in much of the UK but quite common round here.
I have pruned ours to raise and open up the crown to allow more light and rain to the bed below which was completely covered in weed membrane and dead shrubs and weeds when we arrived. We've bunged about 600 litres of MPC to improve the solid clay we found when we cleared all that and then I planted spring bulbs and a few perennials. Now for some more perennials and lots of colour.
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)."
Dove, I hadn't thought of the concept of "different types of mud"... but you're probably right, it would need to be good building mud, capable of sticking together.
Fairy, not so much patient as lazy... I'd threatened the lilac a few times, but not "got round" to digging it up. It's in the wrong place, really, not enough sun and soil too acid, but its leaves are pretty so it got a reprieve. I'll post a photo on the garden pics site, assuming the buds open.
We have rain again.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We have the nice gentle rain here so I've been potting on and pricking out too.
Yesterday took the plunge and bought tickets for the RHS Chatsworth show! Chelsea kind of prices, but I'm never going to be able to get to Chelsea, so decided it was worth splurging on somewhere much nearer and easier to get to. Lots of gardens to look at and a huge floral marquee, really looking forward to it, daughter is coming too Anyone else going?
Obelixx, I found one of those moths last year, a lovely thing. Had to look it up and they are interesting creatures. They eat ragwort apparently,( but I don't know what else), but only rarely, in order to sequester the alkoloids in it, which makes them unpalatable to predators. They advertise the fact with special organs that broadcast anti-predator hormones, which is how they get away with being so conspicuous.
Some more swallows have finally arrived two days ago, more than a month after the first two. They are all flying round joyously and I had almost resigned myself to never seeing them again. So glad they have made it
Liri, I grew up on a farm in Mid Suffolk ... the land was virtually solid clay until Pa had spent years improving it with good old pig muck and cow manure. Around the farmhouse there was a pond and moat with clay banks and the swallows and martins gathered beaks full of mud there ... the east facing eaves of the house were lined with house martin nests ... we could see inside them if we leaned out of our playroom windows ... and the big old open fronted cart shed had swallows' nests up among the roof trusses ..... magical.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Buttercupdays , thought about Chatworth as it driveable from where we live , do let us known what you think of it , I am sure you will have a great day
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Plantmaiden - albizzia julibrissin. Not reliable hardy in much of the UK but quite common round here.
I have pruned ours to raise and open up the crown to allow more light and rain to the bed below which was completely covered in weed membrane and dead shrubs and weeds when we arrived. We've bunged about 600 litres of MPC to improve the solid clay we found when we cleared all that and then I planted spring bulbs and a few perennials. Now for some more perennials and lots of colour.
Dove, I hadn't thought of the concept of "different types of mud"... but you're probably right, it would need to be good building mud, capable of sticking together.
Fairy, not so much patient as lazy...
I'd threatened the lilac a few times, but not "got round" to digging it up. It's in the wrong place, really, not enough sun and soil too acid, but its leaves are pretty so it got a reprieve. I'll post a photo on the garden pics site, assuming the buds open.
We have rain again.
Just reading back, so much going on !
We have the nice gentle rain here so I've been potting on and pricking out too.
Yesterday took the plunge and bought tickets for the RHS Chatsworth show! Chelsea kind of prices, but I'm never going to be able to get to Chelsea, so decided it was worth splurging on somewhere much nearer and easier to get to. Lots of gardens to look at and a huge floral marquee, really looking forward to it, daughter is coming too
Anyone else going?
Obelixx, I found one of those moths last year, a lovely thing. Had to look it up and they are interesting creatures. They eat ragwort apparently,( but I don't know what else), but only rarely, in order to sequester the alkoloids in it, which makes them unpalatable to predators. They advertise the fact with special organs that broadcast anti-predator hormones, which is how they get away with being so conspicuous.
Some more swallows have finally arrived two days ago, more than a month after the first two. They are all flying round joyously and I had almost resigned myself to never seeing them again. So glad they have made it
Liri, I grew up on a farm in Mid Suffolk ... the land was virtually solid clay until Pa had spent years improving it with good old pig muck and cow manure. Around the farmhouse there was a pond and moat with clay banks and the swallows and martins gathered beaks full of mud there ... the east facing eaves of the house were lined with house martin nests ... we could see inside them if we leaned out of our playroom windows ... and the big old open fronted cart shed had swallows' nests up among the roof trusses ..... magical.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"moat", " playroom", flippin' 'eck, you're posh.
Buttercupdays , thought about Chatworth as it driveable from where we live , do let us known what you think of it , I am sure you will have a great day
Hope G/W cover it on TV
Hosta....a lake???
Unless you have a duck house you are not posh. [ I don't ], but I do have a bell tower.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Pdoc, does the bell tower have a bell?
I've a moat about the house.
Okay so technically it's localised flooding but you all know how descriptive estate agents are when selling a house so why can't I.
New job is proving a while heap of potential.