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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

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    lots more to go, but the soil is perfect for moving. Not too wet , not too dry.

    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    I want to improve the view from the house so I'm clearing the bank back a bit.

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Lovely idea Hosta ... some foxgloves would look good around that oak image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    tee hee, I've just been ripping them out as I'm clearing the bank. image

    I'm sure millions more will appear by next year.

    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    I came across this nest. Which bird is so stupid as to build a nest at ground level?image

    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Looks like a blackbird's nest. Usually low down, made of grasses and twigs, stuck togther with mud and lined with fine grasses. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Did you leave it in peace, Hosta?

    Thanks for the PM, Joyce.  I have replied.  image

    Much of the day has been spent clearing up after the cat, who has been comprehensively sick all over the house image - poor little thing.  We thought we'd improved her digestion by getting her hypo-allergenic, expensive cat food; she loves it, and had been better for a week, but clearly there's another problem.  She's now asleep on the radiator shelf, so hopefully the worst is over... for the time being...

    Anyway, it's been too cold for much gardening.  image 

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Joyce I hope you got sitting out,  still breezy here and I have had to soak a lot of plants As I was planting my new delphiniums. soil was really dry down to about 2 ft! Our orchard which floods is cracking!

    Pat, will certainly let you know

    Hosta that looks really good, post planting photos please

    Wonky I just adore the sound if a "lemon tree" courtyard must smell divine when the blossom starts

    Hosta we get a lot of wrens nesting in the hedging of the parterres but they don't have eggs like that 

    have been really busy again but sadly have to admit one of the cordylines  made it this year, ni idea why, the others are fine.

    anyone got a suggestion for new plants in stone pots against a grey wall inside the porch? I will have to swap them over as one side gets sun and the other doesn't . I suppose I could start new palms 

    enjoy your Sat night everyone ?

     

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    Lily when I was a child my mum used to grow a lemon tree in the porch. Never got any lemons but the scent was lovely every time you entered the house.

    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Ooooh I never thought of that.  How lovely!

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
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