Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

i dont care what sort of owl eggs, snowy would be nice !!

choille

Eagle owl eggs will be very difficult to get I would have thought - maybe try an add, falconery?

Snowing here & wonder if we'll be able to away tomorrow. Must go to bed & stop watching Status Quo.......

lostinrates

Grey, grey, grey morning.

Yesterday's rain was well timed, it pushed down the top soil we'd put in place on Saturday. Despite heaping up a bit we still have to add more, lol.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Grey, grey, grey morning.

Yesterday's rain was well timed, it pushed down the top soil we'd put in place on Saturday. Despite heaping up a bit we still have to add more, lol.

Yes, it's like that when containers of any size are filled, yet if one digs a hole, the earth removed never quite fits into it again, no matter how long is given for settlement! :rotfl:

Bit of sunshine here....:D

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, it's like that when containers of any size are filled, yet if one digs a hole, the earth removed never quite fits into it again, no matter how long is given for settlement! :rotfl:

Bit of sunshine here....:D

Desperate to sow and fill the beds now. Feel like Rummer


Do you now a good source for flowering ornamental sage? I fancy some, particularly maybe a couple of good blue ones ( for my mainly pink and red , USEFUL herb garden, lol) for pots.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Desperate to sow and fill the beds now. Feel like Rummer


Do you now a good source for flowering ornamental sage?

Errr???? There's a number of plants called 'ornamental sage' so I'm not sure.

I like this one though....:D

http://www.kelways.co.uk/product/perennials/108/salvia-nem-caradonna-sage/10519/

Edit: Mention of Rummer made me remember that I bought some seeds on-line last night, including 100 tomato 'Floridity' which I'm going to sell locally. I'm sure I'll get repeat orders next year. :cool:

lostinrates

Fully hardy appeals. I was thinking of something like salvia patens maybe? Something blue to do what microphylla hotlips does. Patens doesn't smell though, does it? But have just found this

http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/shop/plants/salvias/salvia-guaranitica-indigo.html.


Quite taken with that I think.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

But have just found this

http://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/shop/plants/salvias/salvia-guaranitica-indigo.html.


Quite taken with that I think.

We used to have it. It went long ago!

Mrs Yeo is a tough old bird, but a bit unruly (in a pot,) rather like the lady it was named after....

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/131882/Salvia-Christine-Yeo/Details

I've never lost her!

ferretkeeper

It's freezing here today, just got snowed on going out to the animals!

I am also thinking about the garden again, woke up too early and ended up watching an old recorded episode of gardeners world in bed with a cuppa, so I am full of ideas again!

Yes Dave you're quite right, the bank is slipping due to water seeping through and nothing growing on it, I was surprised how wet the slope was. This is also the reason for needing a ladder, it's too slippery and there's nowhere to get a foothold lower down. We're putting GABIONS at the bottom of the slope to retain some soil, eventually we'll be able to plant properly in the deep pocket behind.

Maybe I should send some sheep up to do it, they managed to get up and down the bank just fine! I was actually hoping nature would do this for me over the years, there's an occasional bit of gorse and willow already up there, just not enough.

Well the forecast doesn't look great for today, more showers, but I think I will turn my attention to the big propagator which is under cover of it gets too wet to do anything else. It needs a tidy up, having been used as a table and general dumping area for the winter.

Wrap up warm everyone

Davesnave

ferretkeeper wrote: »

We're putting baboons the the bottom of the slope to retain some soil, eventually we'll be able to plant properly in the deep pocket behind.

I think baboons may be rather destructive and also unreliable as soil sentinels.