Daydream fund challenge part 4

choille

,,,specially you being a Grandaddy an all...............

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

friend went to look at what they have done to the old house. they have stripped ALL the garden of everything. not a plant to be seen !. hate it when good plants are destroyed....

That's worse than what happened to my last garden, which just went to ruin. Under the ruins, some shrubs had survived when I saw it last. I'd propagated from most of them anyway!

That's why I like planting trees. I know most of them will end as someone's firewood, but a few should look nice enough to be spared the chain saw. I'd like to think so anyway.

Gardens are ever changing and evolving. You just have to think of your old garden like I think of mine; having a rest until the next proper gardener starts the process again.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

,,,specially you being a Grandaddy an all...............

Yes, if we were still waiting , I'd have a good woman here to advise and take some of the physical strain.... or at least to have a shouting match with! :rotfl:

phoebe1989seb

Lovely piccie Dave......little Sam looks adorable (although I have to confess I share your view about babies and DH prefers them once they've grown up, lol ) x

Sunny, but very cold here today. Have just been out for a brisk walk with the dogs and this morning we went to David Austin Roses which is just up the road. We've a few rose bushes here, but several areas that will need re-planting and we want to try to recreate the rose garden we'd started to establish at the last house.

They also had peacocks roaming around the grounds which led me to wonder about keeping a different variety of *fowl*.....they'd look splendid here, but not sure if the neighbours - or dogs - woukd approve!

Currently snuggled up on the deep window seat in our upstairs *snug* looking out over the dogs playing in the wooded part of the garden.....so nice for them to have a secure place to explore rather than our old plot with stream that was just too risky to allow them free access.....

I_have_spoken

Maybe need some extra heating tonight to keep these snug...

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

That's worse than what happened to my last garden, which just went to ruin. Under the ruins, some shrubs had survived when I saw it last. I'd propagated from most of them anyway!

That's why I like planting trees. I know most of them will end as someone's firewood, but a few should look nice enough to be spared the chain saw. I'd like to think so anyway.

Gardens are ever changing and evolving. You just have to think of your old garden like I think of mine; having a rest until the next proper gardener starts the process again.

They have ripped everything out at my last garden too. Makes my mother really angry. The great shame is she specifically asked saying we'd love lots of stuff IF they didn't want it and they said no they wanted it, yet within a fortnight they had diggers pulling it out. .

Its absolutely their right of course but needlessly greedy.

choille

Pheobe I do envy you your agarves. I've lost all mine to the frost - in the shed. I had really huge old ones.

Cracking cold here & even the sky looks white. The wind seems to have eased - fingers crossed.

ukmaggie45

Dave, congrats to your DD and her OH, Sam looks lovely... Of course they all do, until you have to change nasty nappies at bleep o'clock in the morning!

I hope you have as much fun watching your GS grow up as we're having with our 3. OH has lots of fun with them, I have to mainly be content with watching, and occasionally taking photos or video.

Twins now much too big and heavy for me to lift, and even GS3 is too big for me to lift now - think am not as strong now as when they were approaching 2.

Enjoy while you can - twins now in school, so will be changing fast over next few years I think.

Davesnave

choille wrote: »

Pheobe I do envy you your agarves. I've lost all mine to the frost - in the shed. I had really huge old ones.

It's IHS with the agaves .....which reminds me, my big one is still sitting on the patio and must've had that -5c a few weeks ago! :o

Dank at present and I doubt it'll freeze tonight., but I ought to pull the poor thing indoors out of the wet.

Puggled after going up & down to the loft so many times. Besides the doors, I had about 15 polystyrene batts, larger than doors, filling in for the missing insulation!:rotfl:

alfie_1

IT IS BLUDDY FREEZING COLD HERE :eek: albeit not as cold as choille/ctc