Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

I_have_spoken

Snooting for plant bargains, picked up large Agapanthus 'Northern Star' in B&Q at 50% off the marked price of £25. Reckon I'll try planting outdoors (in Scotland, of course) with a good mulch to protect the crown over winter.

They also had a load of 4' rubber plants, umbrella trees and weeping figs for £10

Edit, well that's the Agapanthus planted after removing all the 'over' lilies, I'll let them die-back in a corner of the garden before storing in the garage. Still some flowers and the seed heads to come; the blue flowers work well with the blue of the eryngiums.

Rummer

I have just cleared out the coal bunker :eek: the spiders were massive and I have clearly destroyed some kind of bug hotel :eek:

I have been looking and thinking and scheming all day and now all I need is a few thousand pounds and the garden will look immense :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

We do need to start making some decisions and they will require funding The fence on one side needs replacing and the potting shed is reaching the end of its days, we patched it up but the walls, roof and floor are done. I am tempted to get rid of the greenhouse and the existing potting shed and invest in a good potting shed so that seedlings could be brought on and we would have storage space.

That would free up a phenomenal amount of space in the back garden which would be repurposed as a Rumlet play zone It is just finding the money (isn't it always :rotfl:)

lostinrates

rummer, money is always a stumper.

I have been looking for suitable planters for the walking cane bamboo I still really want, but really HAS to be contained, and thought today surely the simplest answer would be to BUILD a planter where I want it! the right size and have them growing raised at the back of a bed where an ugly concrete block planter wouldn't be seen in any case.

But cannot get us seeing to it any time soon!

lostinrates

No flowers on my crocosmia. Why?

I could try and divide I suppose. Was only planted a couple of years ago, it looks healthy, but no flowers. I wouldn't have thought size of clump was an issue, its healthy but not huge in the scheme of clumps at all.

I get very few on my day lilies too. . That border has been a bit grim this year in fact and looks exhausted now.

alfie_1

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

you do realise the ones that have tasted our bacon are going to reading this, and be envious and dribbling the same time... as we know exactly what you ate tasting lol....


Do you want to put your name down ready for more bacon, for when we send the next one off???


cant remember did you have sausages?? they are scrummy

:j:j PUT MY NAME DOWN :j:j

COOLTRIKERCHICK

alfie_1 wrote: »

:j:j PUT MY NAME DOWN :j:j

Automatically Done Alfie....


been a lovely ay here, just started clouding over with dark-ish clouds..


Rummer... money would do wonders here too lol..


you can only do, what you can do, booger what other people think or say....

choille

lostinrates wrote: »

No flowers on my crocosmia. Why?

I could try and divide I suppose. Was only planted a couple of years ago, it looks healthy, but no flowers. I wouldn't have thought size of clump was an issue, its healthy but not huge in the scheme of clumps at all.

I get very few on my day lilies too. . That border has been a bit grim this year in fact and looks exhausted now.

Try some wood ash - potash. It worked on my clemetis

I_have_spoken

I get very few on my day lilies too.

I had none this year. Mixed bag with crocosmia - the one planted way back in 2012 have flowerd, more recent ones not.

Davesnave

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

been a lovely day here..

Same here, so I really needed to spend half the afternoon down in the depths of a dingy, fake castle made of granite.....:(

This is Castle Drogo, on the edge of Dartmoor. The NT are doing it up at the moment, but the most exciting bit, climbing the scaffolding to about 5th storey level, was unavailable to me. Firstly, I'm still finding stairs painful, and secondly, I can't cope with heights! :rotfl:

DW went up there though.

Anyway, I saw something that would make CTC drool down in the kitchens, so here it is:

Rummer

Alfie I would like to pick your brains about doll houses as I know you are a bit of an expert Many years ago I got This kit and so far all I have really done is paint the outside with textured doll house paint.

Now I am ready to start on the inside I already have a bathroom suite and a few bits and pieces however I wondered if there was an online place to buy that was reasonable? The model shop near me is ludicrously expensive so a recommended online source would be marvellous. Not planning on adding electrics however everything else needs to be done from flooring to furniture!

Oh and the best type of paint for the roof would be helpful too! Thank you