Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Mrs Dusty is very organised, Dusty, does she have a garden design background?? I could do with her here.
I like that Euphorbia - it looks exotic. And I do like your view towards Dartmoor.

Mrs Dusty has no formal training in design etc, but she can turn her hand to most things when there's a good reason. For example, she's just taught herself 'Publisher,' to churn out posters and publicity. I'm far more relaxed, but that's probably because I have Mrs D to keep me on the straight & narrow.

 As for the view to Dartmoor, it doesn't come close to the one I had for a year in a 'penthouse' type flat. There, I could survey life on the outskirts of the city, including playing fields, a main road, a canal, a busy train line, plus several streets of a modern estate. I felt like God up there, observing the humans....though God probably has a good head for heights. I couldn't go right next to the window!

What an evocative photo that is, although it doesn't suggest warmth to me. Where I was this afternoon, the car said it was 8c, and I noticed the sheep had shunned the field and gone under the trees. Two hours later, it rained. 

Farway said:

This is attempt 2, I had completed my posting and went to refresh before final send, and it all went wonky & I was signed out, with my post gone

Can't write it all again, but all the photos are up to usual excellent standards, and signed up to Dusty's YT poster, nad good news on Romeo.

It's rotten when a post goes AWOL. I try to press 'save' frequently, but it's pathetic the programmers apparently can't be bothered to build a failsafe into their template.

Chloe only seems to do shorts. She's very direct, but I like that...from a distance! I'd probably be more comfortable chatting with your allotment Emma IRL.

pink_poppy

I love that first pic, twopenny. I really like pink magnolias and the wall is gorgeous too. Your last pic gives me nightmares though, because the stone path is pretty much what we have/had here. It looks nice, but they're uncomfortable to walk on and the paths here are downright dangerous, especially when it's been raining. The design of the garden in your pic is lovely, but no way Jose to the stone path    I can see the appeal of the stones around the pond and what lovely clear water - nothing like mine!!

Dusty, it was fairly cloudy today, but it was so mild. The path is up and down and surrounded by trees, so I was probably huffing and puffing a bit   It was a very warm wind though - dried my washing in no time. It's cooled down now and the fire has been lit. Feet up soon with a glass of something warming and the final Lord of the Rings film that we're watching for the umpteenth time    

Ps your 'penthouse' flat sounds super cool - I'd be the same with the windows though - I don't do heights...

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all   Having had some lovely sunny + frosty days, some sunny and warm days, and a hazy sunny day yesterday, it's now persisting it down out there because I'm not at work. Swines.

I've read and catched up but I can't remember who said what :rolleyes:  Garden design - yeah I kinda a bit sort of did. I lifted Adam the Gardener books when I saw them in charity shops, and lots by that other fellah that was recommended on here, and then just bashed along watching stuff live or die as it dam well pleased. Beechgrove was much more help to me than Monty was, even if he did get a gorgeous new dog. My garden is NW facing so the right hand side gets the most sun - I put sun loving stuff there and shade loving stuff on the left, and trees at the bottom to grow and give me a bit of privacy (they're cracking on with those flats )  Then I did a lot of it by view point - what do I want to see/smell when I'm doing things.  So daffs are everywhere cos I pure love them, snowdrops and those other wee things are under the trees so when it's too cold to go out I can still see a bit of cheer while I'm washing the dishes, roses on that side so I can smell them when I'm sat reading my book. Like that. But then some stuff will die on you for no bladdy reason, and some things that you don't want will refuse to die no matter how many times you dig out the roots. And none of it grows fast enough...  And when you add that shipbag cat and his shipbags mates + squirrels + fencepost-ridden compost + the fact that I only buy cheapo stuff in general, it's a wonder I've anything growing out there at all ha haa!

Did dgs enjoy his 18th bash Farway? Did your jam turn out ok or is it a jus/sauce 2p? Now that tatty season is upon us will Arb @AbitraryRandom resurface? Who discovered the diddy tatties...? If they were good eaters I'd cut them in half and rebury them, they'll grow   I love those pale daffs, and the 2-tone Nana Muscaris

I really need to get in the garden today, when the rain stops. I bought more fluffy daisies from Posh Town market last saturday (I also have a buggerance gene) and I want them planted. I got iris bulbs and stuff too. I need to get some seeds going or I'll miss the boat entirely. First up, Love in a Mist and aquilegias. Again. 

Oh and happy Spring again again folks

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Ps your 'penthouse' flat sounds super cool - I'd be the same with the windows though - I don't do heights...

It was only the 5th floor, or 6th if you count the cellars. Georgians didn't usually do more, and it was originally for the servants. However, it was set on higher ground, above the floods and plebeian masses, I became its caretaker for a year or so. Those were the days of squatters, and  people with empty property rented it out cheaply to 'trusty' folk like me!

YoungBlueEyes said:

 Who discovered the diddy tatties...? If they were good eaters I'd cut them in half and rebury them, they'll grow   I love those pale daffs, and the 2-tone Nana Muscaris

The tatties were pp, as were the daffs. The Nana Muscaris were my DD's, but they could be mine soon.    I hope you have a peek at Chloe 'cos she has a Nana too!

(Redacted...sound familiar?   )

Now, a cautionary tale. Last week, I was clearing two trees by the waterfall, where holly already makes the stream bank very dark. I cut through them, but one refused to fall, being caught up, way above my head. So, I climbed down into the stream bed to pull it. Suddenly, gravity overcame whatever was holding the larger tree, and although I managed to avoid being hit in the face, it caught my arm on the way down.

Here it is with the smaller one behind:

It doesn't look much of a size in the photo, but this is what it did to my arm through 3 layers of clothes:

The moral, apart from, “Don't stand close to an unsupported tree!” is to have someone close by if you're working with a saw. Even taking care, accidents sometimes happen. This one did because Mrs Dusty wasn't around to pull on a rope for me, and I didn't expect I'd need one. The bruise looks much worse than it feels, but it would have been a different story if the trunk had done real damage, and I was alone.

OT: Mild out there and a stiff breeze, but we may have sunshine and 14c later....allegedly!

PS Don't quote the 'orrible arm photo. Like the tree, it's coming down later!

Dustyevsky

2p, your pebbles and cobbled path photos illustrate what I was saying about them, but some people love them! I know of a house where part of the kitchen is still cobbled! It's Grade 2 listed and I don't think it can be changed.

That magnolia's far forward, but then, you seaside folks are!

Farway

Morning folks, rained overnight but clearing & sun squinting out now.

Very glad for the rain, it was getting very dry out there, I'd even started to water some pots at the front.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Did dgs enjoy his 18th bash Farway?

 I need to get some seeds going or I'll miss the boat entirely. First up, Love in a Mist and aquilegias. Again.

Yes, birthday went well, just quiet. He went to the pub, with parents, for a meal & his first official pint.

Being a booze virgin, he chose stout [fake Guinness I guess], and said it tasted awful.

But of course the first sip of devil's brew always does. His male cousin started the same, but soon fell down the slippery slope where a gorilla enters your bedroom upon your return from the pub, and does awful things.

Love IAM, and the aquilegias, grr, and reading the bit about 2Ps primroses being everywhere except where they were put just bought back my LIAM woes, growing like cress next door, zero where I sowed them

Better news on my Aquilegias, at last, yesterday I planted out the three I did get to survive, hopefully last night's rain will give them a boost as well.

Can't be said for the oriental poppy I rescued last year, and planted out about a week back, It has become slug food, only a few wispy bits left   Pellets applied so who knows?

Lovely magnolia 2P, one near me is similar, if sun appears I may try for photo of cherry over the road

The cucs I sowed a day or so back, in airing cupboards, are just emerging, I'll move into light today

I'm trying White Wonder, says it's easy-peasy & prolific. But so is LIAM !

https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/cucumber-white-wonder-veg-saver-seeds/WKF4386TM

Your hawthorn incident Dusty, made me think about my wobbly buddleia at the front, I did say yesterday but may be in the zapped lost post.

Neighbour did offer to remove it, I said it was fine, but on second thoughts it's so wobbly that I think it's best to come out, just in case it falls on some passerby

Only real gardening today is sowing some beetroot in cells, see how that goes

LessImpecunious

That looks (and sounds!) nasty Dusty (speaking as someone who has had some similar, but less narrow, escapes!) - hope Mrs D wasn't too cross with you for being a silly/naughty boy!

YoungBlueEyes

Jesus god Dusty, do we need to have a whip-round for a suit of armour for you? Or maybe strap you into a pair of boxing gloves so you can't get into any more mischief?   I'll have a look at your link next.

Stout is a queer choice for a first pint Farway, or did he already know he liked it I like Murphy's myself, but you can hardly find that in good shape over here. A proper stout drinker wouldn't consider Murphy's proper, and your purist Guinness drinkers wouldn't consider stout at all.  Whatever happened to good old lager+lime/cider+black?? Did you get your beetroots in? 

I've come in now from the rain but I've a goodly amount of gardening done. Rootled all the way round with the hoe to get the weeds up, then got some bulbs in.  I got LIAM, aquilegias, a few poppy heads that I don't know where they came from , foxgloves that Posh Friend gave me last year, and lots of sweet pea seeds from last year all into pots and/or scattered about the place. #Shawshank *shrug*  Oh and some tom seeds into pots before it was too late.

OT mild and lovely when the sun came out, we got to 13' I think. Very pleasant  

pink_poppy

I want/need to know what "those other wee things" are under your trees, YBE?? I bet your garden is going to look lovely this year.
My DH used to drink Murphy's, but he's been a Guinness drinker for a long time now. I remember years ago going to Dublin and doing the Guinness tour - there was a bar at the top of the building with floor to ceiling windows - I had to sit WELL away from them as just the thought of being near them made me feel dizzy, probably a bit like Dusty's penthouse   

Dusty, that is some bruise!! Get some Arnica on it, that's supposed to help. I like the wee comments on the photos   

Has it already been mentioned on here that Lidl have magnolias in at the moment - £9.99 - possibly a 3L size pot?? I didn't buy one, even though they had the pink one I like.

The mind boggles about gorillas in bedrooms, Farway?!

I woke up to rain this morning, which was a shock to the system, even if it was forecast. It's raining again now and is just a bit dreich out there.

-taff

Beautiful rhododendrum PP..And prunus. Nothing like mine which is boring and will be coming out. Them stones look like ankle breakers for sure. I would make your garden how you want it, because life is short etc...Have what you want how you want it now rather than thinking about a mythical future...Your poor bee looks like a tarantula!

Farway, love the bits falling into pocketses...And the no dig, no bedding..The latter two which I do now but will also be followed by all raised beds where there aren't perennials. And I'm sorry about your cyclamens of the fjords they might not though? I did laugh at gorillas plaguing your nephew..well known for it apparently...

wort, did similar, no criticism here...

wm, good ot hear romeo is better. I follow your thread but don't say much because constant praise would be boring and yes, I hear you about the open gardens.

Less, same as really, I was hoping I would have amore structured approach one day...This is where I need a Mrs Dusty.

Chloe certainly reminded me of someone who posts here not as frequently as before but has some great stories...And yes, I see your cautionary tale and raise you a next time don't...It is a very impressive war wound though...Just goes to show even if they look spindly, they weight a lot more than you think and would be pleased to fall on unprotected areas. I agree to a suit of armour.

2p, I had a peach once in Wales. It was not a happy bunny and I never dared repeat it even though I'm in the SW now...

ybe, thank you for cofirming your stories are the best, including shipbags I like Murphys too, it's a bit sweeter than Guiness, but difficult to find a nice one when you don't drink in pubs that much anymore...

No gardens have been harmed this weekend but I will be cutting down a prunus which is rubbish, it's just evergreen and uninteresting, and a cyoress cypress which has never recovered from a gentle shorning and which I left there to be a buggeration for the people next door...