Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Not even Splodge????? But Splodge seemed to own you in that picture!!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: behave ! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I_have_spoken

Another plant-ID faux-pas with me.

After nurturing a stand of fireweed back in the spring, I've had to admit that what I hoped were hardy geranium seedlings are in fact nettles

Didn't manage to get photos of the small tortoishells yet

HTH. On the verbena bonariensis the other evening.

choille

I once tended a wispy willow herb in a pot in the living room - a seed must have come in the window. It was like Jack & the beanstalk.

Not a bad day here & a good breeze too, but have been invited out for a meal with clients & I haven't worn a dress up thing in ages so I've emptied my wardrobe of all the mouldy clothes & am in despair as to what to wear.

Fay

lostinrates wrote: »

Not even Splodge????? But Splodge seemed to own you in that picture!!!!

Totally agree and I'm only a lurker he he

Better_Days

Hello Rummer Hope Rumlet enjoyed his hols too. Things seem to be moving on well for you Dave with the garage roof and the plumbing/heating.

Poured with rain last night and windy too. Lay in bed wondering if my little plastic greenhouse was going to end up in the next village, but it's fine:D Sunny and windy today (good drying weather).

The Epiphyllum that Alexelisey kindly gave me is doing well, got it on a NE facing windowsill and new leaves are growing nicely from the buds.

Lovely butterfly photo's. Next door have got a massive buddleia - a purple one and a yellow one and the butterflies feed off the nectar and then warm themselves on our gravel drive.

Lead the Good Life have a sale on their easyfill hanging baskets and wall planters http://www.leadthegoodlife.com/garden-decoration/hanging-baskets.html - unable to resist - already have spots for them all and are planted up in my head!

ukmaggie45

Nice tortoisehell flutterby, IHS. Managed to get some pics of them while doing the Big Butterfly Count this morning. :j This photo has a Wall in it, and a Peacock as well as 3 Tortoiseshells.

Wall, 3 tortoiseshells and a peacock by ukmaggie45, on Flickr

My count this morning was 6 Tortoiseshells, 1 Red Admiral, 1 Peacock, 1 Wall, 1 Small White. For some reason the count isn't showing on the map, even though the one I did a couple of days ago does. <shrugs shoulders>

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Dave Thank you for the recommendations. In the distant past you also recommended a light weight pair of manual hedge trimmers, could you point me in their direction again please

These are the ones we use, but they were mis-priced I think, so I got them for £9.99 :D

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiskars-8-inch-Trimming-Shaping-Shear/dp/B005PNI6Q2/ref=sr_1_12?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1407609605&sr=1-12&keywords=fiskars+shears

I think they are being superseded, as I had to look quite hard for them. Fiskars stuff is good, but somewhat expensive.

The other cutting tool we use for lighter jobs is this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Darlac-Gardening-Ltd-Compact-Shear/dp/B0058SMAHA/ref=sr_1_1?s=outdoors&ie=UTF8&qid=1407609898&sr=1-1&keywords=Darlac+pruning]

These are really sharp; in fact I cut myself quite badly the first time I used them. :o

They are half way between shears and secateurs and great for cutting back perennials at this time of year.

Rummer

Thank you Dave those were the ones that I wanted to get today, however my husband is keen to get some Japanese hedge shears that he has seen as he feels they would be easier to sharpen.

Been weeding the garden today and I got loads done Although we have lost all the keys to the shed and until we find them the grass will remain uncut

Davesnave

Rummer wrote: »

Been weeding the garden today and I got loads done Although we have lost all the keys to the shed and until we find them the grass will remain uncut

I was doing quite well, Tidying-up some loose ends and burning the last of the kitchen ripped out of daughter's house in Brum.....

....when I heard the sound of a vintage Fergie. It was a friend with a couple more dumpy bags of leylandii! :eek:

The wind changed, so I turned the bags over to protect them from rain and cut the fallow hen orchard instead. We are having another friend's chickens to stay while they go on holiday, so it has to be presentable. :A

Next weekend, BiL and the Outlaws are coming down here to construct a proper pitch for their caravan and, hopefully, plumb it into the barn's septic tank, which has never been used. The deal is that they plumb a bog into the barn for us as well and also 'lose' some of the tonnes of stones we've exhumed and piled-up over the past 5 years.

This means we shall be hiring a digger & a dumper for a week and having lots of scalpings delivered. It will be just like the old days when we started out here.

Davesnave

More super butterfly pictures. We don't seem to get Walls, though I notice they were counted a few miles from here. There's a grassland butterfly we don't see in the garden, but it's been in the copse area. Not sure which one...it's brown!

Few butterflies today, as rain threatened, though didn't arrive properly till 7pm.

The kittens hadn't experienced rain before. Izzy point blank refused to go out, but Lila decided to give it a go. 30 seconds later, she was rushing back at 100mph!:rotfl:

They are allowed out now, but neither of them goes far. We put collars with bells on them before opening the door for the day, just in case, and they seem to accept this as routine. Later on, we won't encumber them like that.