Got to the end of a road - needed to turn right - Road Closed sign - follow diversions.
So I did - for about 6 miles. Only to end up at another (you've guessed it) - Road Closed - follow diversions
As for the pub.... Looks nice but they clearly weren't keen on dealing with a group with 2 very small and hungry (but very well behaved) children (in spite of the welcoming notices on the website).
Their loss. My friend is on holiday for 10 days and is having a lot of visitors over that time. They'd been told the food in the pub was very good and were planning on taking several groups there. Needless to say they won't be now. Pub has just lost about 30 covers...
When I said I had bits of ash tree all over the garden I meant little brittle branches - nothing like Obx and Hosta. Chainsaws at the ready....
Last edited: 07 June 2017 14:31:31
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
In the veg garden the biggest disaster was all but one of the cavolo nero ripped out of the ground . I've pushed them back in but they only had a teeny bit of root still attached so I'm not hopeful. I guess they must have been struggling for some reason - they weren't especially large plants not sure why they went. The (much bigger) purple sprouting next to them went over but didn't snap off so I'm fairly hopeful they'll recover with some supplementary staking. The comfrey is flat so will be making extra plant food. Most of the walking onions have had their stride broken.
The good news is the new sturdy bean frame stood up so other than a few slightly diagonal broad bean plants, they all came through unscathed.
In the ornamentals, strangely enough it's actually the wildlfowers (call them weeds if you want) that bore the brunt, along with the more robust plants like geraniums. I think in the recent warm wet weather they all put on a lot of soft growth which has now been flattened. So I've hoiked the flattened nettles and ox eye daisies off the better plants they'd fallen over onto, 'chelsea chopped' the horizontal growth on the rest. The oriental poppies that I'd staked are a total loss this year - all snapped off but the plants will survive I'm sure. One Patty's Plum that I hadn't staked looks like someone sat on it - I'll see what can be salvaged but it's not going to be pretty. The alliums all survived, as did the delphiniums. .
No tree damage to report. I think the big beech tree lost a branch or two but it's so big you can't really tell until the broken bits reach the ground (I think I can see a couple swinging in the breeze halfway up).
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
T'bird - I would be tempted to write and tell the pub owner why he lost so much future custom.
No chainsaws here so we'll wait for the broken branches to fall and then cut them up. Meanwhile I have contacted 2 tree surgeons to ask for estimates for removing the ash tree and its neighbour as one is clearly weak and the other is in the wrong place too. There are two more by the pond which can stay - or go depending on expert advice
OH is home and knows about the walnut stuff he has to shift....
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)."
Topbird ... tell me to mind my own business if you like, but I'd be curious to know which pub (PM me ?)
Sorry to hear about all the garden damage everyone ((hugs)) ............ from the windows mine looks a bit dishevelled, but I don't think there's any real damage. We're quite sheltered really although the wind can sometimes swirl around a bit in the back garden ... because of that the broad beans had been 'fenced' with canes and string, and because the runner beans have only just started their journey up the poles, the wind has filtered through the canes rather than bashing the beans around.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Afternoon all; test was nice and simple but I have been craving REALLY craving strawberry bon bons all day; hardly appropriate after a diabetes test! I'm trying to be good but I pass many shops on the way home so I can't promise to be good much longer.
Currently waiting for the nice IT man to sort my computer out. I think he might struggle with my sense of humour.
Tonight is dog food prep night: so while I loving prepare carefully nutritionally balanced meals for him... I'm hoping I can convince his lordship to nip to the chip shop! After four hours hacking raw frozen meat to bits you really don't fancy cooking.
Having experienced 2 or 3 bouts of unseasonally strong winds this spring I have decided we will be building permanent Munty frames for any future bean and bean and other climbing crops. Can't be doing with chasing canes all over the place.
Just been looking at our other trees and there are two more dodgy looking ash and some goat willows that can go if we ever get a tree surgeon to come. OH is clearing away walnut tree bits, aided and abetted - well supervised really - by the two dogs and Minstrel. Cosmos is not a gardener.
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)."
One pear tree on its side greeted me on the drive: thank goodness it's still in the pot. hopefully we can rally the troops and get it pipped back upright.
All of the young boys on the street are playing on various bikes / scooters. I fully expect to hear one of them bonk into the back of my car.
just been to see any problems in the garden and got slapped inthe mouth by a fatsia branch.Am ok but hope I wasn't observed or overheard. My small cardoon is down . And the potted tree has fallen over again,but not too much damage . Still it was good to get out. My man recently had varicose viens in both legs sorted . Came home same day .one or two problems but getting on ok. So we have spent the last few weeks around the garden and inthe house since the rain. Am hoping that we can have a trip to the garden centre tomorrow
sorry about the tree problems . I hope that you get your trees sorted soon.
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Not so much lost as frustrated Dove.
Got to the end of a road - needed to turn right - Road Closed sign - follow diversions.
So I did - for about 6 miles. Only to end up at another (you've guessed it) - Road Closed - follow diversions
As for the pub.... Looks nice but they clearly weren't keen on dealing with a group with 2 very small and hungry (but very well behaved) children (in spite of the welcoming notices on the website).
Their loss. My friend is on holiday for 10 days and is having a lot of visitors over that time. They'd been told the food in the pub was very good and were planning on taking several groups there. Needless to say they won't be now. Pub has just lost about 30 covers...
When I said I had bits of ash tree all over the garden I meant little brittle branches - nothing like Obx and Hosta. Chainsaws at the ready....
Last edited: 07 June 2017 14:31:31
Damage report:
In the veg garden the biggest disaster was all but one of the cavolo nero ripped out of the ground
. I've pushed them back in but they only had a teeny bit of root still attached so I'm not hopeful. I guess they must have been struggling for some reason - they weren't especially large plants not sure why they went. The (much bigger) purple sprouting next to them went over but didn't snap off so I'm fairly hopeful they'll recover with some supplementary staking. The comfrey is flat so will be making extra plant food. Most of the walking onions have had their stride broken.
The good news is the new sturdy bean frame stood up so other than a few slightly diagonal broad bean plants, they all came through unscathed.
In the ornamentals, strangely enough it's actually the wildlfowers (call them weeds if you want) that bore the brunt, along with the more robust plants like geraniums. I think in the recent warm wet weather they all put on a lot of soft growth which has now been flattened. So I've hoiked the flattened nettles and ox eye daisies off the better plants they'd fallen over onto, 'chelsea chopped' the horizontal growth on the rest. The oriental poppies that I'd staked are a total loss this year - all snapped off
but the plants will survive I'm sure. One Patty's Plum that I hadn't staked looks like someone sat on it - I'll see what can be salvaged but it's not going to be pretty. The alliums all survived, as did the delphiniums. 
.
No tree damage to report. I think the big beech tree lost a branch or two but it's so big you can't really tell until the broken bits reach the ground (I think I can see a couple swinging in the breeze halfway up).
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
T'bird - I would be tempted to write and tell the pub owner why he lost so much future custom.
No chainsaws here so we'll wait for the broken branches to fall and then cut them up. Meanwhile I have contacted 2 tree surgeons to ask for estimates for removing the ash tree and its neighbour as one is clearly weak and the other is in the wrong place too. There are two more by the pond which can stay - or go depending on expert advice
OH is home and knows about the walnut stuff he has to shift....
Topbird ... tell me to mind my own business if you like, but I'd be curious to know which pub (PM me ?)
Sorry to hear about all the garden damage everyone ((hugs)) ............ from the windows mine looks a bit dishevelled, but I don't think there's any real damage. We're quite sheltered really although the wind can sometimes swirl around a bit in the back garden ... because of that the broad beans had been 'fenced' with canes and string, and because the runner beans have only just started their journey up the poles, the wind has filtered through the canes rather than bashing the beans around.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Afternoon all; test was nice and simple but I have been craving REALLY craving strawberry bon bons all day; hardly appropriate after a diabetes test! I'm trying to be good but I pass many shops on the way home so I can't promise to be good much longer.
Currently waiting for the nice IT man to sort my computer out. I think he might struggle with my sense of humour.
Tonight is dog food prep night: so while I loving prepare carefully nutritionally balanced meals for him... I'm hoping I can convince his lordship to nip to the chip shop! After four hours hacking raw frozen meat to bits you really don't fancy cooking.
Maybe he'll get me some strawberry bon bons too.
Having experienced 2 or 3 bouts of unseasonally strong winds this spring I have decided we will be building permanent Munty frames for any future bean and bean and other climbing crops. Can't be doing with chasing canes all over the place.
Just been looking at our other trees and there are two more dodgy looking ash and some goat willows that can go if we ever get a tree surgeon to come. OH is clearing away walnut tree bits, aided and abetted - well supervised really - by the two dogs and Minstrel. Cosmos is not a gardener.
Just home, first sweet pea out, I must say I am very impressed with my Sarah Raven plants and seeds,
so far so good
cuppa waiting and a read back?
A A Milne
Sainsbury's has no strawberry bon bons!!!
One pear tree on its side greeted me on the drive: thank goodness it's still in the pot. hopefully we can rally the troops and get it pipped back upright.
All of the young boys on the street are playing on various bikes / scooters. I fully expect to hear one of them bonk into the back of my car.
Good afternoon all .
just been to see any problems in the garden and got slapped inthe mouth by a fatsia branch.Am ok but hope I wasn't observed or overheard. My small cardoon is down . And the potted tree has fallen over again,but not too much damage . Still it was good to get out. My man recently had varicose viens in both legs sorted . Came home same day .one or two problems but getting on ok. So we have spent the last few weeks around the garden and inthe house since the rain. Am hoping that we can have a trip to the garden centre tomorrow
sorry about the tree problems . I hope that you get your trees sorted soon.
Have a good evening everyone.
PM for you Dove