Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

How do you get rid of fungi in lawns, Dusty?? We do seem to have a lot this year. I like the look of your communal fungi, but I never knew they could be detrimental to trees. Fascinating what you find out on this thread   

What's your tattie of choice for Christmas, Farway?? Mine would be King Edwards roasted in Goose fat. It's funny you should mention blackberries - pic to follow, Lovely close-up photo of the Nasturtiums btw

Hope all okay, W_M and you've been able to concentrate on work today. You certainly achieved a lot this morning and I'm impressed it was all before 8.30am. The sweet peas are a lovely colour and I love the vase they're in and the little ornaments (& conkers)   I would discourage magpies if possible, I really don't like them.

Just the one walk today. A different route, but I made a detour to make a failed attempt at photographing what I think was an Acer from the other day. All the leaves are curled up!! I still think it's an Acer though. There was another one next to it with green leaves.

A couple of photos from my walk - firstly, seals again. I wasn't sure if their wee island from the other day was disappearing or coming back (it's in the middle of a sea loch)...


Blackberries, in November!!

And blossom...

Finally, gorse and berries together - I think it looks quite Christmassy,..

The wind has dropped, which is annoying because I have washing hanging outside. The sun is out, but we don't get sun in that part of the garden at this time of year. It's actually a nice November day

Working_Mum

Are your conkers keeping the spiders away, WM? We magpies here, but usually not for long. A man at the other end of our field has something with the name 'Larsen.'

I think they do work Dusty  I always pop some on my windowsills around this time of year. I love Hallowe'en and miss getting the house all done up nowadays but can't quite give up the fun all together so I do "tasteful" displays on a couple of windowsills

I watched one of the maggies sit on the edge of a pot and turn out every single piece of new soil and manure I'd put in there - no idea what he was hunting for  

-taff

Well done dusty for sticking up for your land rights, not that I'd expect anything different :)I dunno, I was never a huge NC fan but I did like the one he did with Kylie. I did like the idea of ginormous persicaria. I had a bit gifted this year and it's going gret guns and in flower now, I knew I was in for a treat when the words, hanging tassels happened, I have scots lovage and something else to sow now for them to get nice and cold. But I'll see your peucedanum verticillare with my peucedanum japonicum, sown this year, it's been munched a bit now though.

The colours in that leaf are just fab. And now I know why the hedges around here look like mangled messes, they're just not very good at it

I expect your fretty is my picking to rain alos beautiful colours in the fungi. I've only heard owl when we go to Italy, one hunts around our house, shame it doesn't eat pigeons, but it does do some godawful screeching. That's brilliant you have so many round you!Lovely gorse pic and imaine, blackberries flowering now!

when are you off ybe? Just so we're not asking plaintively, where's she gone? ::sob sob:: I hope I do find it, I can do hatchet whirlwinding when the xombe apocalypse comes ! That looks like a fabulous autumnal walk, very bracing.

Not sure it's like cars Farway, I think it's just they get tired of repeating themselves..not meaning you by that..I'm going to try th embrocation or linment on my ankle, stranger things have worked in other areas in the past..You're going to have to try a smash burher now, or at least go and ask them what it is.

Less, good experimenting, and I bet they'll taste lovely no matter what you do with them!

wm, that's pants for you, but well done for taking your mind of things productively. I find that doing stops me from thinking so that's a big bonus sometimes.

Magpies, evil creatures, and noisy squawky buggers too.

A surprise kitchen delivery [thought it was going to be next week] meant one of the blokes was here all day fitting it therefore no gardening but I have amassed a great deal of cardboard for the worms to enjoy tomorrow if my ankle stops playing up. And I may even be able ot cook my christmas cakes [ 8 of] next week in there...but probably not...weather is cold and grey, there was the tiniest hint of sun but it quicly went back indoors where it was probably warmer

And that's three pages caught up on, so apolgies for things I've missed!

wort

Still grey and miserable a bit of breeze so had some washing out, didn’t do too badly, got it in front of the dehumidifier when I brought it in. 

We have magpies galore here, you can do the whole 1 for sorrow two for joy song as you walk down the street. Agree that they are terrible screechers , even the cat usually skulks back in when they start off.

YBE have a wonderful holiday, hope the sun is out Portugal is lovely.

have a great weekend, I’ll be in work all of it, so will miss being at the cenataph tomorrow, although we observe the minute’s silence.

All gave some but some gave All. We will remember them x

YoungBlueEyes

Quick post this morning cos I didn't get everything done yesterday that I wanted to. Mum and dad have been titivated and got fresh flowers, Posh Friend is back on an even keel, I've collected our Euros but I'm yet to pack and do house stuff. Himself is packed and offered to do mine ( ) 

Your gorse is lovely pp (one of my favourites) and it does look christmassy with the berries And you didn't need to delete your post so mine are at the top! I think I miss more posts than I realise, it's not 'til someone mentions something and I think 'well I don't remember reading that' :rolleyes: My pics looked better in real life, less washed out. When are they going to invent a camera that takes pictures that are really real? Is that too much to ask?

I have fuschia flowering here still, maybe I'll have a wee go at the berries if they don't get eaten by birds. I've honeysuckle berries too and they look tastier tbh but I don't want the chits from eating them ha haa! 

Lovely sweet peas wm,  I can smell them from here I like your halloween decs too. I hear magpies round here but they don't come in my garden for some reason, and I have lots of wee birds so maybe there's a link. When I get a rifle for christmas and I'll come round and sort yours out

Did you get your splay gravelled Dusty? Gawd your neighbours make my teeth itch. What is the matter with some people?! She asked, fruitlessly. Ok I'll restart clicking seed links then, cos weird is fine by me - I thought Plum Crazy was a good idea don't forget, and Hanging Baskets of Barbylon. (I've got a notion of doing A Thing with my cherry trees but I'm not sure yet...) I vote Rottery Acres needs lots of full sized oaks, absodeffolutely  

We're going to Portugal taff, and if the weather apps are to be believed it could well be nice weather, possibly :fingerscrossed: 8 Chrissy cakes?! Jeez you'll be there all week So the building works are moving along rightly then  

How's your neighbour's works coming along 2p? Are you out tear-erse-ing around the place in your rasp kia? #yolo  

OT raining, actually. Not forecast and it doesn't say it is, but it is. Only thin half-hearted nonsense, maybe this is what fretty is? Like the mist banded together in an attempt to be sort-of-raindrops. Still mild though and no breeze, and at 8' it is 10' warmer than Sapporo (Japan, from a book but I've forgotten which one!).

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

How do you get rid of fungi in lawns, Dusty?? We do seem to have a lot this year. I like the look of your communal fungi, but I never knew they could be detrimental to trees. Fascinating what you find out on this thread   
Blackberries, in November!!
And blossom...

I don't try to get rid of fungi. A product called Armatillox used to be recommended, but it went the way of real slug pellets. There's a discussion here covering some supposed pros and cons.
https://www.lemonfool.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=36841

 I'm with the people who say plant with the fungus in mind, if you know it's in your soil. Not all trees are equally susceptible, but those birches in the photo are!

I can do a few blackberries too, and there was a lovely pink bloom among them yesterday. It's this one:

https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/blackberry-loch-maree/cww3322TM

Mrs Dusty doesn't agree with T&M's assessment, so it's banished to the woodland edge!
I can't do gorse in bloom like you. Ours looks dishevelled...or rather it did. Now it's been cut back by Tractor Man, I expect it looks worse!

Working_Mum said: I love Hallowe'en and miss getting the house all done up nowadays but can't quite give up the fun all together so I do "tasteful" displays on a couple of windowsills

I was in our small Sainsbury's on Thursday (other local supermarkets are not available!) and saw a young lad staring at their Halloween display. He turned to me, laughing, and said scathingly, “They've still got Halloween stuff!” I pointed out it was all heavily discounted. He wasn't impressed. “But you'd have to wait a whole year!” Silly me, that's an age when you're 10. 

-taff said:

Well done dusty for sticking up for your land rights .... I did like the idea of ginormous persicaria. I'll see your peucedanum verticillare with my peucedanum japonicum, sown this year, it's been munched a bit now though.

The colours in that leaf are just fab. And now I know why the hedges around here look like mangled messes, they're just not very good at it

Local history is the key to understanding how our communal neighbours own the road and the land, while we own rights over both. The guy who sold them the land and road owned our property, so he wasn't going to leave it landlocked. It's simple, but not for some people!

Mangled hedges are down to poor cutting, and/or contract rates for each 100m cut. Tractor Man has standards and a long-standing 'round' of hedges to do. He knows local people will evaluate what he does, and works on a time taken basis, which is fairer, because hedge is different. We have 2 years growth on the inside edges of ours, and about a dozen oak trees to dodge, so that's harder than one year of growth with a clear run.

wort said:

YBE have a wonderful holiday, hope the sun is out Portugal is lovely.
 I’ll miss being at the cenataph tomorrow, although we observe the minute’s silence.
All gave some but some gave All. We will remember them x

Indeed. After those Wars, people had fresh visions for the future, reflected in the institutions they set up. It's maybe time to look at whether their intentions are being followed correctly. If we don't remember, we'll most likely repeat the mistakes that led to those wars.

No chance of sunshine here yet!  Bon voyage Bluey. Today's photo is a cheery sprawling geranium, planted deliberately with the shrub Callicarpa bodinieri by Mrs Dusty.

YoungBlueEyes

Last one from me. Remember I was saying about the farmer where Cissie lives going back to ‘osses to get his fields ploughed? Seems he’s not the only one going analogue cos look what just went past! 

OT it’s still almost raining. 

Farway

Caught up again, still dull & grey but “may” change tomorrow, hope it does not turn to rain with all the remembrance parades going on

Dustyevsky said:

wort said:

YBE have a wonderful holiday, hope the sun is out Portugal is lovely.
 I’ll miss being at the cenataph tomorrow, although we observe the minute’s silence.
All gave some but some gave All. We will remember them x

Indeed. After those Wars, people had fresh visions for the future, reflected in the institutions they set up. It's maybe time to look at whether their intentions are being followed correctly. If we don't remember, we'll most likely repeat the mistakes that led to those wars.

No chance of sunshine here yet!  Bon voyage Bluey. Today's photo is a cheery sprawling geranium, planted deliberately with the shrub Callicarpa bodinieri by Mrs Dusty.

What a lovely pic Dusty, Mrs D certainly has a flair for design, and I'll take her word about blackberries, save me buying Loch Maree, does read well, but that is T & M for you, lots of bull “soil improver”

Worryingly, for those who look, the current world does resemble pre-1914. Hopefully there are students of history among our leaders.

pink_poppy said:

How do you get rid of fungi in lawns, Dusty?? We do seem to have a lot this year. I like the look of your communal fungi, but I never knew they could be detrimental to trees. Fascinating what you find out on this thread   

What's your tattie of choice for Christmas, Farway?? Mine would be King Edwards roasted in Goose fat. It's funny you should mention blackberries - pic to follow, Lovely close-up photo of the Nasturtiums btw

I'm with dusty on fungi in lawns, just ignore it, or plants something that is not affected as badly

Christmas tatties, normally I'm round DS or DD place for the meal, so I'm like a stick on the waves and just go with what is plonked in front of me

I was thinking of growing [failed] some new spuds as treat, but now looking like it'll be Aunt Bessie's or King Asda's

Bon Voyage YBE, enjoy the break, with all the sunny Christmas tat to look at

Oh, just refreshed, the rag & bone man, would you still get a goldfish in exchange?

No gardening today, but there is a pelargonium still in flower, so I'll try for pic before any frost arrives

twopenny

Been a bit absent because I had no gardening news, computer running irritatingly slowly and nothing cheerful to report so been enjoying the photos and information

Boa Viagem Bluey    Oh how I envy you the sunshine! I haven't been to Portugal yet. News please (and flower photos) when you get back.

Wish that horse and cart was around here! Could get rid of stuff by collection from the door. Brilliant!

Gorgeous colours in those flowers Farway and Dusty! Lovely they are still giving some lightness to the days. I saw a yellow rose blooming like mad through a thick hedge. Will get a photo because I had to go round and check it was real

Poppy, you're going good. That was a lot to get over in one go. Love watching seals, did you see the guardians? Usually one under the water and one in surveying the surface while the others sleep.

WM, love that little pumpkin with a hat on

Taff, ' fretty is my picking to rain' - down here it's 'mizzle' which I love. Dimpsy is when it's half day half night whatever time.

Wort, I have been known to go out in a rush yelling at Magpies. They kill juvinile birds of other species and raid nests so I can't take to them however pretty they are.

Gardening? It's bitterly cold the last couple of days, and dark and damp so I moved some bulb pots and dropped one so they still aren't in place. The bulbs are growing already. Some in the ground when I was cleaning up out the front are poking their heads up.

Just eaten 2 raspberries that are still going. Think that's the last but they were sweet and tasty with the damp unlike the dry summer.

If it's dry enough I want to mow the lawn. It's sporting lots of moss just sitting in the damp. I'll be doing the 'organic' treatment again as soon as.

And ok, I had to look up 'smashed burgers'. Another money for old rope but just as tasty. So hoping Farway tries one. If you ask Farway maybe you'll get  a sample 

pink_poppy

Happy new kitchen, taff

Hope you have a lovely time in Portugal, YBE. How funny that you had a rag & bone man (I saw the singer as support for Shania Twain in July this year ) I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a horse & cart like that.

wort, your last sentence made me gulp

Thanks, Dusty & Farway for the fungi advice. I expect they'll be long gone by the time it's grass-cutting time again. I'm wondering if I've disturbed something by raking the thatch up a while back. Our grass is very spongy.

Lovely & vibrant colours in that photo, Dusty. My compliments to the designer    

Glad you've come back, twopenny. I'd never heard of seal guardians - I'll make a point of looking next time. They weren't there today, but there again, neither was the island    

All this talk of magpies has brought one into my garden - I couldn't believe it - talk of the devil etc... it was on the suet block that I only put outside this morning, so I've brought that back inside.

DH did a covid test yesterday and thankfully it was negative. I'm still wibbly wobbly at times, but getting out for a walk each day makes me feel better I just have to be careful where I'm going because it's so easy to start looking around and vera-ing off in a different direction. I've noticed I start feeling a bit nauseous when I first set off too, so this inner ear lurgy is still lingering.

No pics today - I did pick up a leaf that I think is an Acer, but it's yellow, so I think it's off the green leafed one, rather than the red one. I'll laugh if neither of them are Acers   

OT - we were supposed to have sunny spells and a gentle breeze. Supposed to...