Feel a bit better now - thanks all. Just a bit scunnered
Been busy outside - lovely sunshine here Dove
and plenty warm enough for me - wouldn't be for you Hosta
Bees were busy on the apple blossom and I even sat for a while with a cuppa and watched all the bees and insects footling around.
I have some grafting needs doing, but I think I may leave that for another day as I haven't eaten much. I may do a bit of painting too SSun. Always quite satisfying. The dried up lily of the valley pips I bought a few years ago have got foliage. I think they were 50 pence. Basil all separated and repotted, other bits and pieces done and lots of watering. How ridiculous to have to do that here! I took a photo earlier of one of the fat wood pigeons. I'll post it later. It's seriously taking the p*** now
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry you're a bit crook FG. That's a long round trip to climb a hill and maybe get blown off.
Lovely photo Chicky. Do you know if it's permanent or re-planted each year? I may have just the spot for a wildflower perennial and bulbs meadow but not till we have the potager and one or two other bits under way. I suspect there's clay underneath so not really tulip friendly. Maybe snakeshead fritillaries then?
Sorry about your prang Busy. Infuriating. I'd hate to lose my independence by not being able to drive but assume that by the time I'm too doddery we'll be able to buy "intelligent" cars at reasonable rates. I gather they're ready to test them on UK roads already.
It's cool again and still cloudy and blustery so I've been indoors all morning and am now baking a strawberry torte - a first for me and first bake in this new oven. Then I'll sling in the lab shoulder for a long slow cook and go and potter with yesterday's haul of plants.
Visit to the organic potager at La Mothe Achard not as expected. I went, armed with camera, expecting to be able see how they do things and nick any good ideas but it was just a plant sale. Lots of herbs I don’t need but we came home with 3 melon-pear plants which, it turns out, are perennial but tender so will be grown in the polytunnel. Then we added 3 new toms to our selection for this year – Brandywine Apricot, Orange Queen and Watermelon Beefsteak. Didn’t fancy or already had the rest of their range. Same with peppers. Found 3 new squash plants tho – Ultra Butternut, Blue Kuri and Blue Hubbard. I’ve grown Hunter butternut in Belgium and also red kuri and Blue Hubbard and really like the flavours so am hoping blue kuri will be good and the extra heat here will ripen everything nicely.
Since that took all of half an hour we has time to spare and headed off to the local Super U for a pit stop and found another water butt. Then we trotted off east to a nursery at La Chaize Vicomte where I restrained myself and bought just one each plant with a view to dividing them or taking cuttings to increase them – thalictrum Anne, 2 hardy geraniums, a penstemon, a primula viallii, oriental and Icelandic poppies and a Japanese blood grass. Got the haul home, emptied the car and sent OH off to buy compost to pot everything on and the shop’s shut! Will have to check if that’s a regular Saturday pm thing or just because it’s a long weekend here. Fortunately Hyper U was open this morning so I now have 300 litres of potting compost. Should last a couple of days till shops open again on Tuesday. VE Day hol tomorrow.
Keep warm everyone.
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)."
Sunny bed weeded, chard seedlings weeded and watered, half the veg patch hoed everything watered and OH was kind and tidied and put everything away for me. I have no fingernails left ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Shame about the car BL. Hubby had an old lady scrape his bumper, then another one reversed into it. It all got done after the 7.5 tonne truck made the car six inches shorter. The first old lady sent us a voucher to use in a pub miles away, which we haven't used, and the second one sent him £20 for some touch up paint. The truck drivers insurance company got a huge bill.
My car got several scrapes outside a health centre in the peak district. Certainly in more rural areas, where a car is a necessity, I think there are a number of old people driving who shouldn't be.
Lovely day here. I emptied a compost bin ready for filling up after hubby mows the meadow which pretends to be a lawn. Another week and we would be making hay.
I still have some daffs in flower in a shady spot, tulips are nearly over, but May stuff (Alliums and aquilegias) is only in bud yet.
Self drive cars ? in Cities seem fine but in a semi rural location not wide enough for 2 cars to pass side by side or when I have pull on the grass because the tractor coming my way is more than half the width of the road causes me to worry about them
All jobs on garden list done plus potted on fushia plug plants, cucumber seed that I had missed and it germinated in the corner of my one lonely tomato plant and took some dahlia out of the greenhouse and put in a sheltered corner. Everything given a water and now I am cooking roast beef and all the trimmings for tonight's diner.
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.
Sorry to hear about Bizzie's car. Poor old lady. It must be awful to give up you independence but it could be a child in the road next time.
I wonder if Hosta's bird's nest could be a flycatcher. I had a nest in my garden a few years ago and it was low down in a clump of grass and had bright blue eggs. Maybe the bird with the yellow head could be a siskin or a goldcrest.
Work done, AGM attended, more upbeat than I suspected it would be. Sprinkler on, having a cuppa then a wee potter as I don't have Hubby saying " I'm putting dinner on, how long will you be?"
Bought a botte ( ? ) of miracle gro slow release pellets ( I used to know it as Osmocote ) reduced from £4.99 to £1.49 because of a broken lid.
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PS - still flippin' freezin' out there - even though the sun is shining - quite breezy too.
I've done the pricking out / potting on jobs - might just weed the small front bed then call it a day
Lovely pic chicky
Feel a bit better now - thanks all. Just a bit scunnered
Been busy outside - lovely sunshine here Dove
and plenty warm enough for me - wouldn't be for you Hosta
Bees were busy on the apple blossom and I even sat for a while with a cuppa and watched all the bees and insects footling around.
I have some grafting needs doing, but I think I may leave that for another day as I haven't eaten much. I may do a bit of painting too SSun. Always quite satisfying. The dried up lily of the valley pips I bought a few years ago have got foliage. I think they were 50 pence. Basil all separated and repotted, other bits and pieces done and lots of watering. How ridiculous to have to do that here! I took a photo earlier of one of the fat wood pigeons. I'll post it later. It's seriously taking the p*** now
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry you're a bit crook FG. That's a long round trip to climb a hill and maybe get blown off.
Lovely photo Chicky. Do you know if it's permanent or re-planted each year? I may have just the spot for a wildflower perennial and bulbs meadow but not till we have the potager and one or two other bits under way. I suspect there's clay underneath so not really tulip friendly. Maybe snakeshead fritillaries then?
Sorry about your prang Busy. Infuriating. I'd hate to lose my independence by not being able to drive but assume that by the time I'm too doddery we'll be able to buy "intelligent" cars at reasonable rates. I gather they're ready to test them on UK roads already.
It's cool again and still cloudy and blustery so I've been indoors all morning and am now baking a strawberry torte - a first for me and first bake in this new oven. Then I'll sling in the lab shoulder for a long slow cook and go and potter with yesterday's haul of plants.
Visit to the organic potager at La Mothe Achard not as expected. I went, armed with camera, expecting to be able see how they do things and nick any good ideas but it was just a plant sale. Lots of herbs I don’t need but we came home with 3 melon-pear plants which, it turns out, are perennial but tender so will be grown in the polytunnel. Then we added 3 new toms to our selection for this year – Brandywine Apricot, Orange Queen and Watermelon Beefsteak. Didn’t fancy or already had the rest of their range. Same with peppers. Found 3 new squash plants tho – Ultra Butternut, Blue Kuri and Blue Hubbard. I’ve grown Hunter butternut in Belgium and also red kuri and Blue Hubbard and really like the flavours so am hoping blue kuri will be good and the extra heat here will ripen everything nicely.
Since that took all of half an hour we has time to spare and headed off to the local Super U for a pit stop and found another water butt. Then we trotted off east to a nursery at La Chaize Vicomte where I restrained myself and bought just one each plant with a view to dividing them or taking cuttings to increase them – thalictrum Anne, 2 hardy geraniums, a penstemon, a primula viallii, oriental and Icelandic poppies and a Japanese blood grass. Got the haul home, emptied the car and sent OH off to buy compost to pot everything on and the shop’s shut! Will have to check if that’s a regular Saturday pm thing or just because it’s a long weekend here. Fortunately Hyper U was open this morning so I now have 300 litres of potting compost. Should last a couple of days till shops open again on Tuesday. VE Day hol tomorrow.
Keep warm everyone.
Sunny bed weeded, chard seedlings weeded and watered, half the veg patch hoed everything watered and OH was kind and tidied and put everything away for me. I have no fingernails left ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Shame about the car BL. Hubby had an old lady scrape his bumper, then another one reversed into it. It all got done after the 7.5 tonne truck made the car six inches shorter. The first old lady sent us a voucher to use in a pub miles away, which we haven't used, and the second one sent him £20 for some touch up paint. The truck drivers insurance company got a huge bill.
My car got several scrapes outside a health centre in the peak district. Certainly in more rural areas, where a car is a necessity, I think there are a number of old people driving who shouldn't be.
Lovely day here. I emptied a compost bin ready for filling up after hubby mows the meadow which pretends to be a lawn. Another week and we would be making hay.
I still have some daffs in flower in a shady spot, tulips are nearly over, but May stuff (Alliums and aquilegias) is only in bud yet.
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Self drive cars ? in Cities seem fine but in a semi rural location not wide enough for 2 cars to pass side by side or when I have pull on the grass because the tractor coming my way is more than half the width of the road causes me to worry about them
Hope alls well with everybody
All jobs on garden list done plus potted on fushia plug plants, cucumber seed that I had missed and it germinated in the corner of my one lonely tomato plant and took some dahlia out of the greenhouse and put in a sheltered corner. Everything given a water and now I am cooking roast beef and all the trimmings for tonight's diner.
Hello all,
Sorry to hear about Bizzie's car. Poor old lady. It must be awful to give up you independence but it could be a child in the road next time.
I wonder if Hosta's bird's nest could be a flycatcher. I had a nest in my garden a few years ago and it was low down in a clump of grass and had bright blue eggs. Maybe the bird with the yellow head could be a siskin or a goldcrest.
Work done, AGM attended, more upbeat than I suspected it would be. Sprinkler on, having a cuppa then a wee potter as I don't have Hubby saying " I'm putting dinner on, how long will you be?"
Bought a botte ( ? ) of miracle gro slow release pellets ( I used to know it as Osmocote ) reduced from £4.99 to £1.49 because of a broken lid.
Yes Hosta I discovered that too! Had spent ages looking for Osmocote
everyone sounds as if they have been really busy,
Fairy hope you feel better, I think we all get days like that. This might help .......
hope you can smell the perfume!
A A Milne