Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Oh Dave (and anyone else) we used to have a bush in our garden that in spring/summer was covered in tiny bright blue flowers, I think it may have been spiky too. We lost it after a hard winter and would love to replace it but we don't know what it is called.

Ceanothus?

choille

Hope everyone is all well - nice day here today, but pouring down again now. Managed to get some washing out.....for a bit. Did some sawing of limbs & a bit of idle walking round wondering where to start on the garden etc....feel a lot overwhelmed at the moment.

No progress really on the house & very down about things just going awry.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

No progress really on the house & very down about things just going awry.

I know you're waiting on the roof, but you did get the Rayburn sorted, and that's something.

Rummer, you shouldn't ask questions like that, because now I've replied, you'll be Googling half the day! :rotfl:

Sown yesterday:

Veg.
Tomato ‘Floridity’
Tomato ‘Gardener’s Delight’
Tomato ‘Ben’s Early Vine’
Japanese Greens Mizuna
Japanese Greens Mibuna
Pepper ‘Chocolate Beauty’
Pepper ‘Nocera Rosso’
Pepper ‘Long Marconi’

Ornamentals
Cleome spinosa Mixed Colours
Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls'
Nicotiana mutabilis
Penstemon lyallii
Aquilegia ‘Oranges & Lemons’
Aquilegia ‘Clematiflora Mixed’
Angelica pachycarpa
Lupinus arboreus (blue)
Digitalis mixed species & cultivars
Erysimum ‘Plant World Rainbows’
Phacelia bolanderi
Acanthus hungaricus
Mixed shrubs & trees (Chiltern Seeds)
Fleabane
Inula (from Rosemoor!)
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

well done Luceille,on selling your first ride on!!!! ( sounds quite rude LOL)


Rummer I am holding back on starting to sow seeds.... I know we are going to be really busy for the next few weeks,so it is pointless sowing them, as I will not have the time to over see them etc..But come the middle of March I should have more time, and with the clocks going forward... I can play catch up..




I have a few VERY expensive months ahead..... so I am knuckling down and trying to list/flog stuff.. Its starting to get to the big spending now with the ranch..... Plus I hate April, as the council tax, water rates, insurances are ALL due.... haven't a clue how much the council tax is going up by this year...

lostinrates

Beautiful morning here, suddenly the tiny buds on everything seem much bigger and instead of being little swollen boon nubs with dots of green they are green nubs glowing on the stems.


Worryingly there are two broken tiles on the ground at the back of the house, so I have to try and work out where they are from and how much to worry.


I'm ready for a spring clean now, inside and out, get everything looking spic and span,

lostinrates

Kind person has just called and told me they thought of me when they saw this

http://www.spaldingbulb.co.uk/product/red-apple/

. It does look beautiful and gifts of trees are never to be sniffed at even if one doesn't quite feel like the tree someone else associates with oneself!

The question is, where to put it? Its only wee, I am wondering if maybe I should put it as a bit of a random in the pear garden as a closing off end of garden tree. Its not what I would have chosen , but its coming.....there, or in the orchard proper? I dunno.....

lostinrates

Hope Alfie is starting to feel better by now.

Rummer

Davesnave wrote: »

Rummer, you shouldn't ask questions like that, because now I've replied, you'll be Googling half the day! :rotfl:

:rotfl: I laugh in the face of your challenge, it only took me a few mins to whizz through your list on google :rotfl:

I have a few of those waiting to be sown and we already have an Aquilegia in the garden that appeared all by itself a couple of years ago. It is beautiful and grows well in our soil so I would love some more.

Currently trying to design the beds in our back garden and my head is spinning

lostinrates

Rummer I haven't posted on your thread...but a sunny fence in a bed only a meter deep......are you sure you don't want a productive trained fruit tree there? Easy to reach and fun? By the time rumlEt starts nursery it will have some fruit......

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Rummer I haven't posted on your thread.....

Nor me, but that's because I'm no designer.:o I grow 'em and DW positions them, but sometimes i can answer more specific questions, like Mrs Atobe's, t'other day.

With aquilegias, the trick is to be ruthless and rip out plants with muddy or unwanted colours as soon as they flower. Let the others self-seed and be equally harsh with their progeny. People don't remember to do this, and then they say, "Oh my aquilegias are all muddy and boring!"

As it was a pleasant day, I began by reducing our 'Paul's Scarlet' hawthorn from about 14' to around 7' to see if that would slow its decline. It hasn't flowered or kept its leaves till autumn in the last 2 years, but mostly just looked miserable. So, even if this is no cure, it will be a much reduced miserable thing until we are ready with a digger to do the deed! :rotfl:

Later on, I attacked a small piece of elm hedge atop a wall at our entrance. Having grown totally out of proportion, it needed a saw rather than Pete's flail. This is another tree which will eventually go, as we'll re-build the wall, but not for a few more years. We'll preserve the main elm hedge, which is about 100m long and quite tidy now.