Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

Ooh, they look lovely, Farway, thank you. To be MSE, I should probably wait for one of your tempting offers to come up    I think I'll get the yellow and the red, maybe grow two of each.

The pruning of the cherry tree has given me a view of these nice old chimney pots, at least I think they're old, they're nice anyway...

twopenny

Less that's a lovely flower. Simple and simply beautiful.

Wow what a lot of posts. Poppy, good news in it's way as a cold goes quicker. Not so good about the ankles, I have one now. Coming out in sympathy? Love old chimney pots and tiles. I used to draw them because there was such a variety of shapes. Will look twice as lovely with cherry blossom.

Time to rummage in the medicine basket Farway for my little pot of TB. See if it works for me.

Funny old day. Nothing quite worked out. It's chilly, mizzle which wasn't predicted has wetted the washing which I left out believing the drunkards. Cloud couldn't be a/sed to stay up in the sky and dropped down.

Not sure what to hope for, cloudy and not too cold or bright and cold which means heating. One things for sure, everyone is a gloomy as the weather round here.

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

I'm guessing you'll keep the felled trees for future log burning, Dusty?? What trees are they?? We can still only get hold of larch or oak here, or spruce if we're really desperate.
I'm thinking of trying bush tomato plants next year - any recommendations?? They would be grown indoors, unless I manage to magic up a greenhouse.

The main trees that need to come out are cherry, birch, and Italian alder. The alder isn't a recognised as 'good' firewood, but it will be OK if dried for 2 years. We often get oak in our bought-in wood, but it takes an age to dry fully, so I often put it to one side. Our last bought load was all beech and ash. Those are both good too. 

I grew Farway's balcony yellow, and they were extremely productive. However, I just couldn't get over the yellowness! I can cope with orange, but yellow is a shade too far away from red for me.

The Veranda Reds grown this year were OK, but I'll probably grow another bush type next year in the continuing search for the ideal space-saving tomato.

-taff

That's a beautiful lily Less

I see your ripe ones that will taste better than the ones rieing in my kitchen, but I think I'd rather have yours fresh off the plant

Lovel chimney pots PP. My father used to *collect* them when he saw them pying around so there are at least fifteen gracing the top of the bathroom roof [ downstairs] at my sisters house. I have started a campaign of removal and now I've seen 2Ps chimney pot stick holder, I will step it up a notch.

Made it there today, barrowed a fork ton of compost from the motherlode at the back. If you discount the leaves it loks better than the stuff I was getting out of bags this year. The fruit cage at the back is the only thing that hasn't changed since I got it. That's a job at the end of sorting. And the rubbishy cardboard thingy is my keyhole garden just because I've wanted to make one for years. I've put some geums in to the right and  quite a few bublbs, tulips and aliums mostly and I'll throw some more stuff in there later on.

Ankle is verily protesting now but tomorrws delights only involve lunch with a friend and gossip.

wort

Pp 🤞🏻 it’s not the dreaded COVID. And the swaying is gone soon.

Dusty you’re right the flooding was a shock when I saw the front of the papers at work. It’s heartbreaking the lives and homes/ shops that have been taken. The area we drove through from the airport to the resort was just masses of greenhouses,the driver was telling us that they produce masses of fruit in them , due to the desert like conditions there.

YBE lovely rose colour, and I would have sat watching that sky too.

2p that lady has a good haul of toms there, very neat too.

Up early again on my day off, and hoping there’s no rain due as I’m hoping to do some gardening. Green bin day tomorrow so need to fill it. It looks like another dreary grey day , I wish the lawn was dry enough to give it a cut, but the damp everywhere is not helping.

Dustyevsky

Wow, taff, there's some progress! By this point, Mrs Dusty and I would probably still be choosing the layout, finding fault with all the designs, and still searching for the perfect one! I like the beds at the height you've done them, having found my very deep bed a big mistake. It dries out too much in the summer, and I'm not a specialist grower of parsnips or carrots! Beds can grow upwards if required later. Even Charles Dowding thinks 6" enough, and his partner, Steph, seems to agree.

Today, I'm told, we will have mist to accompany the grey. It's early yet, but I can't see t'other side of the valley, so the drunkards are accurate thus far.   Haven't seen Dartmoor for days. As 2p and wort have said, it's really too wet for grass cutting, but our ride-on can cope because it doesn't pick up. We therefore have a choice between wading through longish grass, or having easy passage and loads of clippings stuck to our boots!

wort said:

Dusty you’re right the flooding was a shock when I saw the front of the papers at work. It’s heartbreaking the lives and homes/ shops that have been taken. The area we drove through from the airport to the resort was just masses of greenhouses,the driver was telling us that they produce masses of fruit in them , due to the desert like conditions there.

I'm not sure if it's related, but there was a dearth of some fruit and veg when I reached the consumer emporiums late yesterday afternoon.

Well, we all know what's going on across the pond* today. I asked this guy at Rosemoor what he thought about it, but he didn't say anything.....

* They're-designing and replanting half of the Winter Garden, which is across the pond and through the hedge from the Cool Garden. It's taking ages! 

Dustyevsky

LessImpecunious said:

My contribution to the flowering out of season thread - though perhaps for a different reason than others - Vallota Lily which was placed outside for the summer and eaten to the ground by a passing rabbit (makes a change from slugs, though they seem to be nibbling at the buds now... )

I had to look that one up, Less! Looks like it might be grown like dahlias, or does it prefer no disturbance, just storing in its pot in a frost free place over winter? I'd guess it might be OK in some SW coastal gardens....most winters.

LessImpecunious

The Vallota Lily was originally given to my mum from someone living in London - where I imagine it might have survived outdoors all year (but think it was only grown in pots - all my info on it has come from houseplant books). I've inherited bits of it (the bulbs multiply), and overwintered this pot successfully in my greenhouse last year (but I think I lost some bulbs in a different pot in previous colder ones). Think it may prefer not being disturbed, as it's said to flower best when potbound/lots of bulbs crowded in one pot - I've not tried planting any out... Even in normal years it has only made it to flowering (on the few occasions it has!) by end of the summer, as we're a bit cool here generally...

Farway

Still grey, dry & dull, absolutely not tempted to go out into garden

Admiring Taff's progress, those trees / shrubs should give some protection as well I'd guess, the birds can safely perch in there until it's safe to devour your raspberries / cabbages etc

pink_poppy said:

Ooh, they look lovely, Farway, thank you. To be MSE, I should probably wait for one of your tempting offers to come up    I think I'll get the yellow and the red, maybe grow two of each.

Good idea, T & M usually come up with something. I have grown the red, but I'm the opposite of Dusty, I prefer yellow, just as a change from reds.

But that's gardening, isn't it? Everyone has their own preferences & tastes.

The squatting bloke at Rosemoor reminds me of something, probably best not mentioned on a family forum.

I'll be glad when the Transatlantic bit is over, only thing for certain is 50% will be unhappy.

My knee is OKish, omitted the TB this morning, but with 2P taking up the TB baton the menthol whiff of embrocation can continue on the board. Hope it works for you, 2P.

Today is the last gasp of tomato flowers, still open in conservatory but no chance of fruit ripening because it's not heated

Variety is Divinity, one of the T & M offers, which turned out well, and blight free

My only mistake was that I grew it as standard but should have left it as bush style. Note, RTFI

YoungBlueEyes

Well it'll be Christmas 7 weeks tomorrow taff, I reckon there'll be another installment if you can wait that long. I meant it when I said himself's ears are purely decorative   That's some work you've put into your allotment. I reckon I'd be a bit obsessed with it too, it's deffo the gift that keeps on giving eh  

That's beautiful lily Less. I like how it's not gone the fancy colours route, just one colour done well and the fanciness is the shape of the petals. Very pleasing.

Seems like they gave the cherry tree a haircut just to improve your view pp Good news you've only got a lurgy and not The Dreaded Lurgy  
I'd say we live in a nice village but not posh. There are posh villages near us but we couldn't afford to buy there and I'm pleased about that actually. There's a church at the end of our road which rings the hour every hour day and night (took a bit of getting used to) and the building at the bottom of the garden is the old school which they're turning into flats. We're actually at the cheap end of the village now funnily enough. On the main road out they're throwing up more houses on the new build estate and you wanna see what they're asking for them - 50% more than we paid for this  

That's a bu99er about your ankle coming out in sympathy 2p, hopefully TB will provide some relief. Ankle needs to realise you're a Busy Person with Stuff To Do and no time for Nonsense. Was the raspberry sour still there? Did you get a go in it?

I quite like your spelling mistake Farway, it looks like it says Balcony Fellow. Nice to see embrocation getting a run out, it's one you don't hear enough Is knee behaving itself now...? 

Drunkards are accurate here too Dusty Company card must've been cancelled or something... It looks like your 'Thinker' carved from a single piece of wood? That really is beautiful. Nice save btw  

Thanks for kind words re my swish rose/mood lighting folks It was certainly worth paying good money for, well they both were tbh. 

OT dull here and misty and murky and drab. Still not warm or cold or breezy or nothing. It's 11'c currently, which is the same temp as Massapequa.