I too shall be voting for Chris Beardshaw's garden. I am not sure whether this is an appropriate thing to say, but if I was gay, he would be my ideal sort of man.
Today will largely be spent moving Cannas and Dahlias around the garden, trying to find their ideal positions.
Then I shall be sitting down to "admire" my handiwork.
Tomorrow, I will hate what I have done and move everything again.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Good morning another nice day and looks like it wil continue a bit longer ☀️
Yes agree with Hostafan , voted for Chris's garden and loved the little Japanese garden ?
I also liked the Covent Garden and Canadian Gardens ?
Going into Lincoln today both for hai cuts , will call into Weartherspoons for a curry and drinks as well , have to keep hydrated in this warm weather , that's my excuse any ?
You don't have to be gay to think CB is an ideal man. He's just lovely - friendly, pleasant, intelligent, knowledgeable and a garden plant and design guru. What more can you want?
They can all win gold FG. It's not a competition against the other gardens. It's about following the brief and attention to detail and scoring points in several preset categories. I can't believe they thought his planting too dense given that that's what Chelsea gardens do - cram the place full of plants, often performing before or after their normal season. It's a lot more "natural" now than when I first attended in 1989. Still OTT but it's a show, so that's OK.
I want to see gardens, with ideas I can adopt of modify for my own, not miniature landscapes of Mars, Lebanon, Provence, deserts - we've had them all.
Hot here already but breezy so OK. I have to spray the polytunnel to clear it, plant and pot on treasures, sow some beans and sand furniture. Public holiday for Ascension here so a quiet day.
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 been cutting back all the chives and putting them into the drying machine since they are no longer happy with our temps.
I noticed this morning that they are talking about snow down to 800m in Tasmania this weekend. It's a big strange here because we traditionally have the opening of the ski season on Queen's Birthday long weekend (first weekend in June here), but there isn't any snow at Thredbo or Perisher in NSW and I haven't heard of any in the Victorian alps yet either. Maybe it'll just be a party weekend rather than a skiing weekend.
Summer's here and I've just ordered a new pair of sandals ..... my size is out of stock and they won't arrive until mid July ....... just as well our holiday is in September ... I shall just have to slob about in my several pairs of last year's and the year's before.
I've done some paperwork and will dash up to the farm shop for some food lest we starve this evening, then I don't care if it is still May, I'm going to plant my runner beans out ................. I think
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Our lovely new tenants ( on a fixed electricity price ) bought a tumble drier within a fortnight of moving in, and even though he's at home now, it's forecast to be 22C today, there's not a cloud in the sky and there's a lovely breeze blowing, they're using their tumble drier.
Methinks we need to chat about a price hike on electricity.
Hosta. Interesting. I think modern young people have become very dependent on our various electrical conveniences. I know my son has a washing machine which also dries. He doesn't hang washing outside. - doesn't want neighbours seeing his washing. It's beyond my comprehension, but I'm rather old school.
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Morning all.
Very warm.
I too shall be voting for Chris Beardshaw's garden. I am not sure whether this is an appropriate thing to say, but if I was gay, he would be my ideal sort of man.
Today will largely be spent moving Cannas and Dahlias around the garden, trying to find their ideal positions.
Then I shall be sitting down to "admire" my handiwork.
Tomorrow, I will hate what I have done and move everything again.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
"Tomorrow, I will hate what I have done and move everything again."
Haven't we all been there?
Good morning another nice day and looks like it wil continue a bit longer ☀️
Yes agree with Hostafan , voted for Chris's garden and loved the little Japanese garden ?
I also liked the Covent Garden and Canadian Gardens ?
Going into Lincoln today both for hai cuts , will call into Weartherspoons for a curry and drinks as well , have to keep hydrated in this warm weather , that's my excuse any ?
Have a good day ?
You don't have to be gay to think CB is an ideal man. He's just lovely - friendly, pleasant, intelligent, knowledgeable and a garden plant and design guru. What more can you want?
They can all win gold FG. It's not a competition against the other gardens. It's about following the brief and attention to detail and scoring points in several preset categories. I can't believe they thought his planting too dense given that that's what Chelsea gardens do - cram the place full of plants, often performing before or after their normal season. It's a lot more "natural" now than when I first attended in 1989. Still OTT but it's a show, so that's OK.
I want to see gardens, with ideas I can adopt of modify for my own, not miniature landscapes of Mars, Lebanon, Provence, deserts - we've had them all.
Hot here already but breezy so OK. I have to spray the polytunnel to clear it, plant and pot on treasures, sow some beans and sand furniture. Public holiday for Ascension here so a quiet day.
I've been cutting back all the chives and putting them into the drying machine since they are no longer happy with our temps.
I noticed this morning that they are talking about snow down to 800m in Tasmania this weekend. It's a big strange here because we traditionally have the opening of the ski season on Queen's Birthday long weekend (first weekend in June here), but there isn't any snow at Thredbo or Perisher in NSW and I haven't heard of any in the Victorian alps yet either. Maybe it'll just be a party weekend rather than a skiing weekend.
Summer's here and I've just ordered a new pair of sandals ..... my size is out of stock and they won't arrive until mid July ....... just as well our holiday is in September ... I shall just have to slob about in my several pairs of last year's and the year's before.
I've done some paperwork and will dash up to the farm shop for some food lest we starve this evening, then I don't care if it is still May, I'm going to plant my runner beans out ................. I think
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've just spoken to our letting agents.
Our lovely new tenants ( on a fixed electricity price ) bought a tumble drier within a fortnight of moving in, and even though he's at home now, it's forecast to be 22C today, there's not a cloud in the sky and there's a lovely breeze blowing, they're using their tumble drier.
Methinks we need to chat about a price hike on electricity.
A price hike and a talk on drying washing outdoors in good weather may be a good idea Hosta.
Have some people not got any common sense?
Voted for CB too.
Hosta. Interesting. I think modern young people have become very dependent on our various electrical conveniences. I know my son has a washing machine which also dries. He doesn't hang washing outside.
- doesn't want neighbours seeing his washing. It's beyond my comprehension, but I'm rather old school.
Wow, it is hot out there. 34 in the greenhouse.
I swear the Ricin have grown 6 inches in the last 2 days.
Colocasia has just been planted out, getting too big for the living room.
Time for a cool drink I think.
Government have just released the immigration figures, convinient or what?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border