Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Funnily enough Farway our next camera challenge is 'movement or barely there' so I've got quite a few of those

It was a quick grab shot in biting cold and wind and wet. I'll do better next time.

No, Garlic chives don't smell of garlic when in a vase Poppy. They may while you cut the stems but it's not the same as bulb garlic. A friend staying with me put Chive flowers in a vase and it' looked really pretty. Mixed would be great but they don't flower at the same time.

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And yes, t'was me said about lavender in the vac Bluey. Glad you like it. Nice not to have chemically things.. If no one is looking spread it on the carpet and tread in then vac. I did that once and forgot - of course the person I'd least like to see it called. Another is to put a small pot or paper towel of clothes conditioner on a radiator in winter. Makes the house smell lovely - again, don't forget it or it could raise eyebrows   

Was mild here at last, no wind and even a brief spell of something bright so I got on the beach with lunch and book to listen to the sea sound as it's the first oportunity this year. Strangely I'm really tired now. It's this relaxing idea I suppose.

LessImpecunious

I have ordinary chives flowering at the moment 2P (well, I did until I cut them down and put in a vase )... I think if you cut a whole bunch down (perhaps after first flowering) they will flower a second time (and possibly more, with a long growing season)... and if you have several clumps just cut at different times and you can get a succession.

Must give the garlic chives a go again - think I tried seed once unsuccessfully...

twopenny

Interesting Les, I leave the chive flowers because they are pretty outside. Next year I'll try your theory as I have 2 clumps. Used to be more but they got ravaged by some black beastie during the last 2 summer heatwaves.

I keep sowing Garlic chive seed but it doesn't take easily. I've found plants get going better. They're a bit of a diva but once you get them going they spread.

I would have gone and got a better photo but it's been chucking it down and cold since I last posted. Bought my Basil in after removing 2 large snails, 3 slugs and a caterpillar   

Dustyevsky

After 2p's Intentional Camera Movement, I'm inspired to give you an example of Deliberate Camera Defocusing from our walk along the estuary yesterday. It's a wild species of Convolvulus, with surprisingly lovely markings, which I thought worthy of making more mysterious :

Very successful, don't you think?

With rain threatening, and most small footpaths likely to be quagmires, the estuary wildlife reserve seemed an obvious choice, especially as it gave a good chance of getting a heron shot to rival pp's. Sadly, the only heron spotted was too far off to match hers, but at least there was one dabbling-about. I don't think two guys fishing from a boat and someone racing a car on the nearby airfield helped much!

Overall, it wasn't too bad an afternoon; quite warm and windless, though the clouds amassing to the east were a worry. It didn't start raining until around 17.00, after I'd left for home.

It looks as if we will miss the worst of the ran today too. Those of you further east and in Wales look like you will have most rain.

wort

Pp that’s a stunning sunset, glad you’ve received some sun now. I should really clean my conservatory windows 😏

Farway that’s a bu$$er with the toms splitting.

Dusty I was about to suggest deepening the stream 😉😂 what an idiot neighbour you have there. Good pic of the spider there.

Ybe I’m the same,my Nanna always left spiders as they catch the dirty flies and I don’t mind them depending where they are hanging out, yesterday going to the bins 2 massive webs and spiders had stretched all across the pathway, if I’d been walking quicker or in the dark would of walked straight into them. I could recreate arachnophobia with the amount of spiders in the garden. The top of my head was a magnet for webs when I was tidying the garden on Friday.

I gave the escallonia a chop, think it needs a bit more off, I grew it originally a bit of a tree style to stop neighbour poking his head over the fence. But it’s a bit too leggy now and I miss the flowers that run across the top, also I have a clematis that runs up it and they are now too high for viewing.
yesterday was back to dull grey though not cold, today has started dull too. Think rain is forecast most of the week. 

wort

P p your picture of the sunset is photo of the week !

wort

Just nipped out to see how they were doing out there 🕷🕸

Dustyevsky

wort said:

P p your picture of the sunset is photo of the week !

Indeed:https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/team-blog/2024/09/forum-highlights-06-09-2024/?from=forum-homepage-sidekicks

PS: Great Garden Spider web, wort.

pink_poppy

Ooh, I didn't even know there was such a thing as photo of the week - fame at last   

We had another beautiful sky last night - sunset season finally arriving after a miserable summer. Having said that, it's actually looking a bit cloudy today, with heavy rain forecast for tomorrow night and lower temperatures, so maybe that's sunset season over with already.

Spooky spider pic, wort. Imagine if you'd walked into that web. Eek!!

That heron pic is brilliant, Dusty, much better than my Uriah Heep one. The herons tend to fly off here if they see you coming, so any pic has to be taken quickly and from long-range.

Farway

Not raining at the moment, may come back later in case anywhere was missed over the past few days

Wort, good spider photo. I usually walk into them.

Congrats PP on Pic of week sunset

My fruit nets work after a fashion, but I think squirrels are using them as shopping bags!

A fig I had covered & ripening has vanished , no sign of the net either, not dropped on the ground or nearby. A couple of apples were on the ground, with nets & unharmed, just windfalls, too heavy for a squirrel to cart away to its lair.

Anyway, the apple harvest is under way, the unknown one is producing large apples this year , all the rain I expect.

The Elstar is having a good crop this year, it was £2.25 from Asda in 2016, bought because it was a cheap, pre-Christmas, clear-out & not from knowledge

Since then, I have read it is a bit of a Diva & precocious regarding cropping & care, not considered a good garden variety because of this

But this year is good for me, and the apples are supposed to keep into January

Another one that given another life I would not choose, along with my hard red pear and manky, fruit free, plum

At least you got out yesterday, Dusty, looks nice from the pics. It just rained here.

I have spotted something on YT about turning flower pics into “art” paintings. Watch this space is all I can say.

Jobs for today, it if rain holds off, trundle garden wheelie round for bin men next week, I spotted my Bloody Butcher tom is showing blight, so must get that in the bin ASAP

And, Ta RA, toot toot, my Kong coleus have germinated, the ones that fell out in a heap as I gently tried to place them. Pic to follow.

Today is the turn of hibiscus, from seed years ago. Pic from upstairs window to show how floriferous it is this year.

Runners bottom right, pyracantha on right