Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

Anyone else feeling spring? Its cold and grey yes, but the lilac is COVERED in bud, the figs are too, and our snowdrops are amazing....inherited, and the little white crocus (croci?) I planted last autumn have come up.

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Anyone else feeling spring? Its cold and grey yes, but the lilac is COVERED in bud, the figs are too, and our snowdrops are amazing....inherited, and the little white crocus (croci?) I planted last autumn have come up.

It's strange. Although we barely had any mild spring days, the garden seems to be ahead of time this year.
Clematis is showing green shoots, crocii:p almost done, daffodils are early, rose bushes are starting to show some green.

LydiaJ

First photos from new garden:

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

It's strange. Although we barely had any mild spring days, the garden seems to be ahead of time this year.
Clematis is showing green shoots, crocii:p almost done, daffodils are early, rose bushes are starting to show some green.

We had quite a few shirt sleeve days already. No daffs blooming yet, not that I've seen here, but did see two yesterday a few miles away, just brave green leaves her still. some of my roses kept their leaves this winter, I shall have to check the one that didn't soon. Paul's Himalayan musk has grown about 4 inches over the winter But they are looking pretty ragged. Mock Orange blossom greening up, penstemon....I think ....regrowing from base....there is a fair bit of spring life emerging in our one border planted last year.

lostinrates

Lydia, what beautiful purple those crocii (thanks wheezy ) are. And the wallflowers better spaced than mine which I planted a bit close together and look pretty impressive now in the green but they'll be cross with me soon.

tomterm8

Hm... the daffodils I planted last year are getting quite large, as is the white winter flowering bush (technical term) that was supposed to have a nice smell, but doesn't have much of one, and the snowdrops we planted four or five years ago are doing their first decent show... So it is quite spring-like here, but the weather is not really cooperating with the plants... last week it has almost always been raining, and that has been followed by the great Dank.

It's almost like being back in Manchester.

I will know when the large yellow flowering bush is ahem, flowering, that we have actually reached early spring.

(Do you get the feeling I don't really do flower gardening?)

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

as is the white winter flowering bush (technical term) that was supposed to have a nice smell, but doesn't have much of one,

Hmm...can you identify this? OI could wdo with something white, winter flowering and with a nice smell for the ''white garden''....on the bit between be and where the cows come in...and poop!

and that has been followed by the great Dank.
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Oh, I so understand this! You sound like me...I keep muttering about ''dank'' Is Manchester really dank? That's a shame...puts me off visiting. The dank is lifted a bit to day by some blustery winds, which make it feel a bit fresher, with the possibility of wind blowing things dryer. (the almost black sky threatening more rain simply means I'm not looking up )

michaels

Its half term so I am off - the plan is to try and sort out garage and loft and fit all in to the shed so that the extension can go ahead - have ordered those vacuum plastic bags for textiles and plastic storage boxes for stuff currently in cardboard boxes. Kids are so full of energy with no school to wear them out and of course it is cold damp and miserable - later in the week it is forecast to be warmer but wet, windy and miserable...

LydiaJ

Oooh michaels, how exciting. I hope you can get into the mood for sorting out the garage and loft by looking forward to the extension. :j

I am upstairs on the computer while I can hear sounds of packing tape being pulled off the roll downstairs as the packers are doing their stuff. It's very weird, because upstairs is not remotely sorted. With three extra people staying, it's really quite chaotic up here. We will tidy it tonight when we've got an empty downstairs to put things in.

I am looking forward to driving over to the new house this afternoon, not least because we accidentally left the first-aid-and-medicines-case over there yesterday when we were painting, so I have no decongestants for this :mad: cold until we get there.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Hmm...can you identify this? OI could wdo with something white, winter flowering and with a nice smell for the ''white garden''....on the bit between be and where the cows come in...and poop!

Manchester is dank, but it is ok during the summer months, and there is a lot of stuff on most of the time so you don't really notice it that much.

In terms of flower... I think the white bush is a lemon scented winter flowering honeysuckle, probably Lonicera fragrantissima, although we have lost the label and I can't remember details.