Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

We're repurposing some old concrete blocks as support for curved edge beds. Not sure how we are going to conceal the fronts of them yet ( planting lavender in front...not sure it will be tall enough quickly enough to make a good cover........



About to start looking for good prices for top soil.....

Davesnave

Better_Days wrote: »

Did you have a good lunch Dave and any luck with the lawnmower? Mr BD is pleased with our Aldi one, but it remains to seen how long it will last.

Oh and I've ordered some of these paving slabs for the back garden - they work out at just over £2 each so I hope they will be OK http://www.clearancepaving.co.uk/concrete-paving-slabs/64-honey-brown-riven-paving-slabs-600x450x32mm/

The lunch was so good, I've only just got back! I'm trying to lessen the effects of Exmoor Ale and clotted cream, but may as well give in.....:o zzzzzzz

Didn't get the mower (a Hayterette) Went to £185 and my top bid was£182. It was a bit too shiny and posh for my needs TBH.

Those slabs will tone well with your house.

Sorry can't advise over heather. Couldn't grow it at the last place, so no experience. Woodruff is good for carpeting shady beds as well.

lostinrates

17 barrows of muck DH has brought round today.

I did a bit of half hearted attempt at the border edges with a half moon thingy.

Rummer

lostinrates wrote: »

I did a bit of half hearted attempt at the border edges with a half moon thingy.

I have banned myself from using ours as I keep getting carried away :rotfl:

Better_Days

Davesnave wrote: »

The lunch was so good, I've only just got back! I'm trying to lessen the effects of Exmoor Ale and clotted cream, but may as well give in.....:o zzzzzzz

Didn't get the mower (a Hayterette) Went to £185 and my top bid was£182. It was a bit too shiny and posh for my needs TBH.

Those slabs will tone well with your house.

Sorry can't advise over heather. Couldn't grow it at the last place, so no experience. Woodruff is good for carpeting shady beds as well.

Ahh sounds like it was an excellent lunch :D Up from your nap yet? I'm feeling very sleepy after all the fresh air today, early to bed for me I think

Shame about the mower - better luck next time

That's a good quantity of muck LIR, all we have is what 4 chickens produce - perhaps I should save it for the roses :D

Davesnave

After my last post, I fell asleep for an hour. T'was inevitable.

When I awoke, I spent a leisurely hour by the stream, planting snowdrops someone gave me. Then I dug some ragwort from the top field. We don't get a lot. :A

Looking up at the gap in the hedge we tried to fill last year with beech, only to have them snapped, I noticed immediately that the dozen plants we'd added this spring were all...... GONE! Not even snapped this time, but pulled out and taken away. :mad:

I'd last seen them alive and well a week ago.

Now I don't think there's an animal that collects up beech whips like that, so we know where they went..... I must really be getting to him!:rotfl:

Perhaps the beech distracted our vandal, who completely missed the hawthorn planted there in similar number, and of course last year's snapped plants are making a comeback too, so the situation's not that bad. I slapped myself though, because if I'd pruned the whips down to15cm they'd probably have gone unnoticed.

Oh the joys of country living!

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

I have banned myself from using ours as I keep getting carried away :rotfl:

Hmm.....you'd be welcome to get carried away here! The weeny bit I did looks fabulous. The plan is the bit that's now five sweeps of the lawn mower wide can end up as narrow as two or less, but no grass lawn by then.

lostinrates

Dave, that's horrid. What a nasty man that guy is.

Better_Days

Ohh no, your beech hedge :eek: What a meanie :mad:

At least all is not lost with the hedge but not nice nonetheless.

lostinrates

Better_Days wrote: »

That's a good quantity of muck LIR, all we have is what 4 chickens produce - perhaps I should save it for the roses :D

We reckon its about half what we need! We've done the bed on one side ( end end out as 18 barrows. It means we can then order something more suitable for bed filling and have the bottom filled already with something we have for free. Its all very well rotted, beautiful stuff, and for mainly shallow rooting herbs, so hopefully won't cause a problem with a thick addition of topsoil. The alternative is to get compost and mix the two I suppose.


We're looking at here we use less as saladings for this part of the herb garden, ( we use heavy amounts of coriander, flat leaf parse.y, basil, and some other herbs for salads over lettuces) maybe some medicinal herbs, not sure yet. This last minute change means something is get on able with, so we are getting on with it. The shade side remaines the hardest, I ' m thinking of putting an ' unusal' mint under dh's study window in a raised planter so that he gets a nice waft of something. Not sure what. He saw chocolate mint listed somewhere but I think it sounds a bit sickly.