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lucielle

Hi Stripes. Please can you recommend some plants to plant to enhance a stream water feature, must be ok in peaty soil and able to with stand high winds.


Thanks
L

Pippilongstocking

lucielle wrote: »

Hi Stripes. Please can you recommend some plants to plant to enhance a stream water feature, must be ok in peaty soil and able to with stand high winds.


Thanks
L

Hey Lu - sorry been working like a beast this week.

Off the top of my head.

Willow (just about any variety but the eared willow and woolly willow are nice forms and leaves and not too big)

Forget-me-nots - they don't mind being soggy and also will tolerate peat.

Erica's and Heathers also don't mind acidic soil and damp toes.

Bog Mrytle - and all the others like bearberry, crow berry etc

Cinquefoils - water guems and herbaceous potentillas

Another great list here.

https://gardenseeker.com/plants/plants_for_damp_soil_conditions_.htm

Good luck sorry only just had a chance to do this now.

have a good weekend chickie.

Pippilongstocking

What a week. 36+ hours in garden, job application (yes I did apply) and writing up work for the chap who's going, and still working on womble report, up to 10.5 womble hours this week alone.

Not finished yet.

Slow and steady and all that.

Huge thank you to the you-know-who's who proof read and helped format/structure said application. you know who you are

Thank good ness for meal planning.

Hope you're all good. DS is winging his way home as we speak. Picking him up tomorrow at late-o-clock.

Hoping to finish reporting today and get some house blessing done and then some decluttering and some walking. We'll see.

Anyone any more exciting plans than me?

Cheery_Daff

Your plans sound cheery mostly

Glad you got the job form in! :j :j Fingers crossed :j

Exciting plans... well, I just did the internet banking :rotfl: and now I have a few hours of painting in store before cycling 11 miles along the canal to play some music in a giant church - quite an odd occurance for me so yes, you could say it was exciting!

Only exciting thing about painting is the thought of then not having to paint that particular coat on that particular wall ever again :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Now I've not done anything as exciting as internet banking yet.

good luck playing the music and having done up the flat for selling I know exactly how you feel about painting walls.

So far I've flaffled about. must get some brekkie and some focus.

Meal plan too.



Washing is done so maybe I can be courageous and get up the garden?

rtandon27

not sure that any of this counts as exciting...

ate bf - OH cooked!
did budgeting
faffed with activating replacement credit card - what a process that was!
couple of personal e-mails so friends know we are still alive and kicking:D
ordered grocery delivery
going to post office
dropping off OHs work shirts to the ironing place
gym - enough said
pick up online b00ts order
rummage at L!dls to see what can be had for cheap(er)
home to amend grocery delivery
do up a meal plan
bbq chops & veg for dinner

Pippilongstocking

Oh now I can steal so much of that list. Very MSE my dear. If you find any decent bargains please report back.



Washing is out and there are things cooking on the stove.

MIL here tonight I've heard so I've dug something out the freezer for three rather than the two I had planned.

I've also cut up some beetroot for pickling - I now have beetroot hand, which I suspect is a bit like tennis elbow but pinker. One large jar now in the fridge, probably more to follow


Sat - surprise stew, is it beef or venison, who knows. Was for two so bulking that up with some courgettes and big side of cauliflower/brocolli and tatties all from garden.
Sun -- currently no clue if we are two or three, DS home too late for tea - spag bog extra will be frozen
Mon - 3 folks - taking mince out to make shepherds pie and have extra veg - something hearty for the returning surfer
Tues - turkey stir fry with courgette noodles - its a true wonder veg
Wed - HM pizza seems to be a winner and we've lots of cheese although DS leaves today so might swap that with the turkey. Tom sauce spiked with courgettes and blended. Shh.
Thurs - cauli cheese with courgettes what else.
Fri - possibly a takeaway we'll see.

Soups for himself lunch tomato and couregette, hm lentil with smoked ham, courgette and spinach. There's also some spare spag bog and some spare chick curry, so might send those with a baked tattie.

Salads for me with baked tattie maybe omlettes if the chickens are kind and I can always steal some soup.

Must do a shopping list next - not sure we need much but returning surfers do eat a lot of toast.

Pippilongstocking

Thanks for the kind words re weight loss. Books have been interesting.
Oddest thing since cutting most (not all) sugar out and cutting down on bread is that I'm just not hungry. On my bread based scoffing regime I was ALWAYS ravenous.

OK, so I'm a scoffer but I'm not absent mindedly scoffing cos I'm ravenous, if I catch myself doing it its normally because I'm bored and its a habit.

Breakfast is porridge or shredded wheat - using stevia to sweeten if I want it though I'm weaning myself off. I'm also using nut milk rather than coos = less calories and I dont mind the taste although I'm freezing it as I can't use a whole 1ltr quick enough.

Weaned from white coffee with one, to black with sweetener will try and reduce this down again sometime but not worrying about that now.

Lunch huge amount of salad and trying get my fibre up so chick peas or houmous too.

Tea is normal stuff but smaller portions, often substitute carbs (rice/pasta/noodles) for shredded veg or potatoes.

I'm weighing some things but not overly. But I am using my fitness pal and using that to work out calories for home made meals.

Lost one more lb this week but we did have a takeaway (spread over two meals) and we've been eating late. NOt managed to get to the gym much but walking at work is getting higher and there's been lots of lugging this week.

Must try and fit more walks with mutts in.

Slow and steady.

Pippilongstocking

Fridge cleaned out meant to do with before our welsh visitors whoops.

A few dead carrots I'm afraid. Beyond salvation. RIP carrots, never fear I have rehydrated them and boiled them for the chooks, lets hope they are colour blind.

Have tatties brocolli and cauli HG, courgettes (what else), onions, lettuce and spinach from the garden and some tomatoes.

Fridge hosts - chinese leaf lettuce, baby sweetcorn, toms and some peas.

Freezer sweetcorn/peas, spinach.

We're OK for veg this week.

Fruit - kiwi, oranges, lemons/limes, melon and a few pears. OK again.

Milk - frozen 2 ltr real, 2 ltr nut. Fresh around 1.5 ltrs. OK for that too it would seem.

Butter running low, cheese have big stash of welsh we've just started on , houlomi, feta, spreading plastic cheese and regular plastic cheese. Some french in the freezer so OK there too.

Running low on squash, dog food and crackers. No bread aside two frozen muffins and four rolls, which isnt' an issue until Monday.

Shopping - squash, dug fud, crackers, bread, washing stuff and fabric softener.

Sounds like a plan. May combine with a walk

Pippilongstocking

Weekly summary for me

35 garden hours and I'm f/t next week too so its a good pay month this month. Might take last week sept off. Not sure yet.

No payments to kids woohoo DD has earned enough to be OK for rent etc til after xmas I got told today.

CC balance is only 0% and slowly coming down, largely DS stuff and some holiday stuff.

Car due MOT soon I'm sure..........pesky money