the daydream fund challenge thread

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Grrr. My broody chicken has gone of brood. I'm desperately trying to set up the incubator. Then have to hope someone goes broody again in the next few weeks, these babies NEED a mamma.

I have two you are welcome to! One of the Vorwerks would be just perfect, as she is the most determined chicken I've met so far. Throw her out of the nest box umpteen times a day and she just bounces straight back in again.

alfie_1

Davesnave wrote: »

I have two you are welcome to! One of the Vorwerks would be just perfect, as she is the most determined chicken I've met so far. Throw her out of the nest box umpteen times a day and she just bounces straight back in again.

my 2 pekins are like that, 1st lot of eggs [pekins] were duff so they decided to go for the BIG time and sit ALWAYS TOGETHER! on a dozen BIG hens eggs....we will see...as they are due soon..

im hoping the goosegogs will hatch very soon...

NOW im off to bed...nite all.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I have two you are welcome to! One of the Vorwerks would be just perfect, as she is the most determined chicken I've met so far. Throw her out of the nest box umpteen times a day and she just bounces straight back in again.

Don't joke, I'm reaally going to need one.

In fact broody went broody again hen released, but because of the wretched egg stealing beasties I can't put the precious eggs out there. I've got stone eggs out there now, and will try and keep her on those till my eggs hatch and then swap at night then hopefully get them all in the broody coop. I'm very wary of this whole proceedure for various reasons.,

lostinrates

LE, I've got the go ahead so I'll take photos tomorrow.

lostinrates

Its only when you get your camera out you realise how messy everything is. And how bad I am at putting the hose away. There is litter all over the garden from the winds. On the plus side, over in the yard everything looks swept!

Lotus I've pmed link for photos, anyone else?

choille

LIR - That would be nice to see.

The wind seems to have die ddown quite a lot - thank fully, but it's still raining hard - making up for the really dry spell.

Electric back on for us, which is good. But not a lot you can do when it's streaming down. Hopefully it'll buck up a little for the weekend as a couple o joiners are coming - yipee. Just trying to arrange a forklift to lift beams that we made but first option a no go as no road tax & the guy won't go for it - can't blame him.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Its only when you get your camera out you realise how messy everything is. And how bad I am at putting the hose away. There is litter all over the garden from the winds. On the plus side, over in the yard everything looks swept!

Lotus I've pmed link for photos, anyone else?

Hi, I've had a look and I really don't know sorry, it's too hard to get into your head about what you want. My wants would be completely different.
My main question, is do you want to look out over the bit you are designing, or do you want to sort of cut it off a bit, by having some sort of barrier across the end, making it a sort of enclosed garden. You seem to have everything very low.

I have some other questions, I don't know anything about water rills, do they get stagnant water, or is there some sort of circulation?
Is there to be a metal grill over them, so you can get to the beds easily?
What are you going to put in the beds?
Herbs, have you thought about that, was that a plan for the beds?

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Hi, I've had a look and I really don't know sorry, it's too hard to get into your head about what you want. My wants would be completely different.
My main question, is do you want to look out over the bit you are designing, or do you want to sort of cut it off a bit, by having some sort of barrier across the end, making it a sort of enclosed garden. You seem to have everything very low.

I had thought about wisteria arches over the paths....I want that first bit to feel like a garden of its own...leading to but not part of the further bit

I have some other questions, I don't know anything about water rills, do they get stagnant water, or is there some sort of circulation?
Is there to be a metal grill over them, so you can get to the beds easily?

me neither, but they look nice! I was planing on a small pump for movement in them, but no idea if that would work. I like Davenave's idea of just going for it with a formal pond but still like the idea of some water on the larger terrace area, because I like the play of water on interior walls ceilings from out side.

What are you going to put in the beds?
Herbs, have you thought about that, was that a plan for the beds?

Herb garden will be the other side of the kitchen. Brace yourself LE, this is more ornamental garden. More flowers Plan for this is very scented things, mixture of structure (probably lavender, predictble but for a reason,...sort of informal cottage beds within the formal structures) and crazy ''deformalised'' roses and things like delphiniums, nicotiana, night scented stocks in summer. I really liked the idea of ''cloud'' hedges at chelsea but hate the smell of box. Maybe even sweet pea towers in summer. I also want, long term...money forbids in near future, oversized pots with trees in them at every corner, for a sort of repeat emphasis of structure and symetry.

Think Islamic art: structure, symmetry but riots of colour (not of people, but you know...). Nothing ''standard''.

Lotus-eater

OK, I like the idea of this. A curved wall of something going around the outside, so it curves away from the house, maybe posts and angled posts, a central round patio, with a pattern in the middle, like the islamic art patterns you get.
A path running from the patio to the middle of the "wall" with a small pond either side. On the other side of the ponds are beds, paths will have to go in somewhere.
Around the round patio, you'll have to have some curved beds of some kind, haven't got any further yet

Big blue flowers grown up the wall, other colours too if you like.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Big blue flowers grown up the wall, other colours too if you like.

See you, DO do flowers.

Which reminds me, I've been looking at wisteria varities, for the back, we have a white one at the front and I want a blue one at the back. Our white one has stubby droops of flowers, I want one with the really long droops.

http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/climbers/other-climbers/wisteria-floribunda-multijuga/classid.1741/

But can that one be grown on a house rather than as a tree? I'd love a tree, but no where for it. I can't have it if I can't grow it on the house because nowhere else to put it away from livestock risk.