Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

I_have_spoken

Took a 1/2 day leave to complete digging in the garden when I saw it would be dry and cool. That's it done - must be about 2 tonnes of gooey clay taken out over the last few weeks. Still hoping to get all groundworks done before Easter.

Travis Perkins delivered a jumbo bag of "topsoil" - which is actually incredibly sandy. Not a bad thing though as rain is never lacking in Glasgow(!) and it means I can plant the lilies and be in with a chance they won't rot-off over the next winter.

I feared the winter wet had meant even the hosta 'Big Daddy' was a goner but I reckon it's showing shoots. The coreopsis do appear dead, but I found then unreliable perennials even in my Cambs garden.

RAS

Red veined sorrel, I think?

Yep rosemary flowers at this time of year here and with the very mild winter earlier than usual this year.

ukmaggie45

RAS wrote: »

Red veined sorrel, I think?

Thanks! :A Not a lot of leaves to eat yet, but hopefully will be more when we come back later in the year!

Davesnave

Footpaths: Always bound to be a few problems, as with shared access etc, but as I've said before, the cheapest and nicest way to channel Johnny Public is with prickly hedges.....and that takes time. Look on it the same way as I look on Mr Dog's nice laurel hedge, just planted....a 5 year plan.

We have a road. Stuff comes out of cars. :mad: Yoofs drop things, especially as we're en-route to 'town' for the lads & lasses at the place for young adults at risk. We just pick it up. It goes with the territory.

Please don't think I'm being unsympathetic. Events make us wild at times, but perhaps we should try not to let them get to us like that.

A local EA wrote an interesting piece in the paper recently. She warned people not to hold out for a 10/10 property, or even a 9/10, because most of us will never find it. She reckoned 8/10 was the best we'd do, but warned that the -2 should be things we could either live with or change longer term. I'd go with that.

No matter how posh you are, you may have a footpath. My friends here have what you might call an idyllic situation and garden, but it still has a footpath right down the side of it. I took this photo (primroses there too) from it, otherwise I wouldn't put it up here. (I'll remove later) OK I did do a bit of wiggling along the ground!!! :rotfl:

Photo now removed ....sorry!

moneyistooshorttomention

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

We bought them maybe 10 years ago? Just 2 or 3 plants grown from proper collected wild seed - it's illegal to take wild plants. We've moved some this year, as they'd spread into the bit of field that gets mowed so would be killed by that. Not sure if they'll have a home at house or at lottie. My preference is lottie I think, as we have loads of weird coloured primulas in garden, and they'd cross pollinate.

At least when we bought them I managed to find both pins (female) and thrums (male), only way for them to spread. Need to search for thrums in "hedge", majority on brief first look seem to be pins...

Quick wonder what thrums are. Ah...now I see...

How do you tell the difference between pins and thrums?

That's a nice house in that photo Dave. As you say, its best not to hold out for a 10/10 house. I wouldn't count out a place personally because of a public footpath being there. On the other hand, I WOULD count out a thatched house (as I've heard of far too many of them going up in flames and that the insurance costs on them are high). Shame, as I'd like a thatched cottage all else being equal...

Now my Dream Home was still on the market the last time I looked. It's come down by about a third in price, but still costs well over £half million. House itself probably needs a lot of work, but that land....drools and dreams. They have a few acres worth and its in a conservation area and yet not inconveniently-located. So house itself would be the 1/10 Bad Point and my concerns about possible "baddies" liking the fact that it was a little on its own and with just a little woman living there (if I had it) being a 1/10 Bad Point, but for the sake of that land.....if I could...I would.

Looking for 10/10 in any sphere of life is very difficult. I held out for a 10/10 marriage, as there are a (VERY few) people that get it. I wasn't one of them. But I tend to agree that "Perfection doesn't happen (or at least VERY rarely), as this is Planet Earth and Earth doesn't do perfect lives". There's something wrong with everyones life. There's something wrong with every house.

Davesnave

RAS wrote: »

Red veined sorrel, I think?

Nice pot maggie and a great view too.

I think it is the red sorrel. I tried growing it because it looks good, but mine turned out tough, so I went back to the plain one.

Sorrel is one of the most under-rated of the green stuff for salads & sandwiches, IMO.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all,

jus nipped back home to see to the quail, make sure the boys have been feeding the cats, clean up after them, and have a bath and put my clothes on quick wash lol..

the big compramise for us was the footpath... and it is a footpath that is in regular use...

I was trying to turn the negative into a positive,

Everything at the moment is in stereo soto speak... and feels totally in my face... and I am like a coiled spring, just waiting to go bang....

What type of 'thorny' strubs would you recommend Davesnave... as I think we could start doing one side for now, until we decide the final layout of the other..

lostinrates

CTC...you have the holly, you know it likes it there, its ever green......seems ideal to me?

lostinrates

Put coir up for hops. .

Garden alive. Weeding, seeing more damage.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

LIR... the holly is soooo slow growing, need something that will grow fairly quick, and thick growing...