.... Sounds like you need a smelly honeysuckle Dove. We had a gorgeous deep pink and purple one in Belgium and have inherited a soft yellow one here. Yum! ...
It had crossed my mind Obelixx We've got Lon. Serotina, Belgica and Graham Thomas in the back garden ... maybe I'll find another one for the front
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, don't give up on the clematis, I had one with similar problems, I dug up the root, kept it in the GH for a winter and this year it's shooting out from the base.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
OK Lyn I'll pot it up and talk nicely to it ........... it is a bit special as it was a retirement gift from the young friend who died a year ago this month, just after Ma.
She chose Daniel Deronda 'cos she was very keen on purple
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My tickets for Chatsworth arrived yesterday too. No programme though. Will that come separately , do you think , or should I get my complaint in now? I'm going with my friend and my mum.
Now the garden has had a soaking, I am going to do some digging(forking), now that I can get a fork in. I don't dig with a spade unless it is a hole for planting something. I didn't put any seed of fillers in this year (cosmos etc). Good job really, I have no idea where all these dahlias and salvias I overwintered are going to go. One of the brugmansias has flowered. A big yellow trumpet was perfuming the greenhouse. I bought it down to the house to see it, but I will need to keep an eye on the weather. It won't stand a frost.
Shower room chappy has been and gone. 3 hours! re-drawn plan to take into account stone wall at back of house and swap over loo and shower positions and check finishes. He's off now to Saintes which is, at least, on the way home to Bordeaux. Lots of lovely Roman stuff in Saintes, if ever you get the opportunity to visit.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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That honeysuckle looks gorgeous, in fact it's exactly what I want on the trellis at the back of our cottage in Norfolk.
Been to see baby grandson, John or Jean (English or French). Had a small cuddle but he was fast asleep most of the time, except when nearly 2 year old brother poked him in the face! Son and DIL had lunch all prepared for us, which we hadn't expected, and daughter 2's French husband popped in as he was working in the area so he stayed for lunch too. He's just been back here to collect the things I'd bought for them in England, garden fork, Marmite, Golden Syrup, Bovril, Sherry etc.
We drove past signposts to Saintes on our way back from Saint Malo on Tuesday. When we first came to France I found it exciting driving past signposts to all the vineyards and villages with familiar names like Saint Emilion and Pomerol.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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It had crossed my mind Obelixx
We've got Lon. Serotina, Belgica and Graham Thomas in the back garden ... maybe I'll find another one for the front
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, don't give up on the clematis, I had one with similar problems, I dug up the root, kept it in the GH for a winter and this year it's shooting out from the base.
OK Lyn
I'll pot it up and talk nicely to it ........... it is a bit special as it was a retirement gift from the young friend who died a year ago this month, just after Ma.
She chose Daniel Deronda 'cos she was very keen on purple
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My tickets for Chatsworth arrived yesterday too. No programme though. Will that come separately , do you think , or should I get my complaint in now? I'm going with my friend and my mum.
Now the garden has had a soaking, I am going to do some digging(forking), now that I can get a fork in. I don't dig with a spade unless it is a hole for planting something. I didn't put any seed of fillers in this year (cosmos etc). Good job really, I have no idea where all these dahlias and salvias I overwintered are going to go. One of the brugmansias has flowered. A big yellow trumpet was perfuming the greenhouse. I bought it down to the house to see it, but I will need to keep an eye on the weather. It won't stand a frost.
Lovely clem Dove and worth saving if you can. I've had lots of "resurrection" clems.
Chappy has just called to say he's here. Don't think so. Satnav telling porkies.
I'm thinking about this honeysuckle for that trellis ...... what do you think?
http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/lonicera-periclymenum-rhubarb-and-custard/classid.2000020958/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yum!
Shower room chappy has been and gone. 3 hours! re-drawn plan to take into account stone wall at back of house and swap over loo and shower positions and check finishes. He's off now to Saintes which is, at least, on the way home to Bordeaux. Lots of lovely Roman stuff in Saintes, if ever you get the opportunity to visit.
That honeysuckle looks gorgeous, in fact it's exactly what I want on the trellis at the back of our cottage in Norfolk.
Been to see baby grandson, John or Jean (English or French). Had a small cuddle but he was fast asleep most of the time, except when nearly 2 year old brother poked him in the face! Son and DIL had lunch all prepared for us, which we hadn't expected, and daughter 2's French husband popped in as he was working in the area so he stayed for lunch too. He's just been back here to collect the things I'd bought for them in England, garden fork, Marmite, Golden Syrup, Bovril, Sherry etc.
We drove past signposts to Saintes on our way back from Saint Malo on Tuesday. When we first came to France I found it exciting driving past signposts to all the vineyards and villages with familiar names like Saint Emilion and Pomerol.
Right, Clem Daniel Deronda dug up and potted nice and deep and put in a sheltered spot ... Fingers crossed.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Matty (ex-poster) had a super DD clem. Fingers crossed.
Absolutely tipping with rain in Dordogne, garden really needed it.