Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

Forsythia  and Acer leaves unfurling 

wort

Don't know what's occurring on my phone at the moment , Forsythia is here 

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

Very pretty Wort We have one of those Forsythia bushes in the garden but a small tree fell on it in that storm before Christmas which pretty much destroyed it sadly.

You have lovely garden Dusty, very neat and tidy.  

The weather has been lovely and dry so I've been making the most of it walking in-between work, lost 5kg since Jan, hoping to drop the other 5kg needed by the start of May. 

The baby lambs have been appearing in the fields for the last couple of weeks 



We've had a few hazy days



and a few lovely sunny evenings on the beach recently



and lots of chilly evenings putting a covering of frost a top of the rolling hills



Bit of rain on the way for the next 3 days but looking to be another dry spell next week, sincerely hoping for a lovely summer this year after last year's washout!  

Farway

Trying to decide if sun staying out or clouding over, a bit cold though and expected to get colder by Friday

Nice pics Luna, I like the beach leading lines, and who could resist a lamb?

Wort, nice acer colour, not a tree I can grow unfortunately, space, mainly. Your Forsythia is bushier than mine, but TBF it looks a lot larger.

Dustyevsky said:

Sack trucks are great. It's worth having pneumatic tyres on them too.

My Batch 1 peas aren't showing, so I'm wondering if they were viable. Not sure of the vintage. As for compost, I'll be reporting on the Erin one soon. It won't be high praise! : I'm not sure what my figs are doing, beyond dodging a one way ticket to Norway. I've no room in the poly nowadays. 

Spotted courgettes emerging among one sowing of toms. That means the other pot, placed in the propagator on the same day, has nothing in it at all. 

Dull old day. Mrs Dusty and I bit the bullet, cleaning and defrosting the big freezer this afternoon. It takes 2.5 hours. I'm now eyeing-up some kippers, which came from an August, but which one?

P.s. Dahlias p!!!ked-out and left in the polytunnel. Let's hope for some warm nights, or I'll have b!!!!red-up!

I've ordered sack truck, just has solid tyres but better than nowt. Arriving today and maybe trial run this weekend.

Peas, if you remember my first two goes just rotted, age of seeds I assume, and even the 3rd attempt is erratic germination with two year OOD seeds. This weekend's ones will be fresh new seeds, on offer, of course.

Must be something with cucurbits, I have two cucumbers in one pot & zilch in the other, sown at same time

After similar experiences to your kipper episode, I now write the year on stuff going into freezer

My dwarf dahlias, were sown into modules so no p!!!!ing out needed, but I do need to nip the tops out to get a shapely bush

I'll move them into the unheated conservatory as well, don't want them to get stretched reaching for the light

Resown Rocket, and sown some outside just in case.

Plus harvest some Shoo Fly seeds and sprinkled them about, then went crazy and sprinkled old, left over, cosmos seeds & same with left over nasturtiums.

The old-fashioned two options method of gardening

And, Ta Ra, the Boysenbery I thought had taken a fjord turn, spotted yesterday creeping along the ground and taken root in an old pot. My back was twinging by then, but I'll need to tie up & see how the fresh rooting is doing,

Finally, “Rozanne” hardy geranium has survived and now showing fresh shoots. Young plant last year, so this will be it's first full growing year. 

pink_poppy

I was freezing last night too, twopenny, took a couple of hours of the fire being on before I warmed up.

I'm glad it's a cotoneaster in the pot, Dusty, even though it's not what I thought it was. I wouldn't mind transplanting that somewhere else, just not sure where atm. I love the sedum (now I know what it is), but I think it's in the wrong size pot, so I might attempt to lift the whole lot out, tease out the cotoneaster and divide (& hopefully conquer) the sedum into a couple of shallower/more shallow pots I've got in the garage. I won't do anything yet as I want to buy some grit to mix in with the compost I intend using as I read that sedums like to be free-draining??

That is a LOT of lawn to mow - rather you than me.

I love that pic of the wind-blown tree and turbine and the thought behind it    

Gorgeous pics, wort and lunatic. I love the wee lamb - what lovely colouring and so fluffy

Well done on the weight loss, lunatic, it must be all the trekking up mountains you're doing    

Forsythia should always be preceded by 'Bruce' btw - it is in this family, anyway    

Farway, hope the sack truck lives up to expectations - I imagine it would be useful for a lot of things.

Another grey and cloudy day here, but at least it's not raining.

pink_poppy

A potentially BIG Aurora display is forecast for tonight if you have clear skies - unfortunately for us we have thick cloud, but I hope someone on here gets to see it   Visible from when it gets dark, if you're lucky.

Dustyevsky

Wonderful acer and your forsythia's making quite a statement, wort, but I think the osmanthus behind it is even more impressive, given their slow speed of growth.

And Wow  at those vistas, Luna! Like Farway, I also like the composition of the beach scene. Your lamb is unusually marked too. Hmmm, the only lamb around here is in our freezer.:| I'm still on imperial measure for weight, but I realise your reduction is far more impressive than mine. Just 5lb lost since Christmas here, but it's a start.

Farway said:

I've ordered sack truck, just has solid tyres but better than nowt. Arriving today and maybe trial run this weekend.

My dwarf dahlias, were sown into modules so no p!!!!ing out needed, but I do need to nip the tops out to get a shapely bush

Finally, “Rozanne” hardy geranium has survived and now showing fresh shoots. Young plant last year, so this will be it's first full growing year. 

We have 4 wheelbarrows here, and 2 sack trucks. I notice the ones with puncture-proof, solid tyres don't go well through the long grass and bumps in the field/woodland. Type of tyre probably won't matter much to you, though, and the puncture resistance/easy care will probably be more desirable.

I leave bush pruning to Mrs Dusty. It's crunch year for her cube with a ball on top, but the sparrows like it as it is, with a twig for everyone.

Rozanne won't disappoint. If only she was evergreen.....but then some of her less floriferous cousins wouldn't get a look in.

pink_poppy said:

A potentially BIG Aurora display is forecast for tonight if you have clear skies - unfortunately for us we have thick cloud, but I hope someone on here gets to see it   Visible from when it gets dark, if you're lucky.

I've been out, but nothing here, so far.  

Thanks to those who said our garden's neat. That part is, but as one moves away from the house, things deteriorate quite quickly. It's why we go in for the cottage garden, 'jumbled and spilling over' look.

Here's the 'serious' picture I took of the wind farm. 'Twas a miserable afternoon, but the gorse saved the day..

LessImpecunious

My contribution to Primula variations....we have some very dark red ones (not pictured here, will try for a pic another day!), plus a range of pinks, some here ...

wort

Lovely views Luna, swap you a beach for a Bruce Forsythia 😜 what a cute lamb.
Dusty the Osmanthus and the Bruce get hacked at regularly otherwise they would take over.
Well done both of you on the weight loss👏🏻

After a grey start here the trip into town ,turned warm and I sat out and did some organizing on my phone, another job off the list finally.
Dsis brought round some fizz and we enjoyed the sun till it was time for tea.
Busy day at work today organizing the flowers and plants for Mother’s Day.

Dustyevsky

I'm not sure about my 'aurora' picture:Yes, there are stars there, but the two sources of light coincide with a village 5 miles away and a town 10 miles distant. I think it's street lighting bouncing off clouds.   It's either that or aliens sussing out where they can find proper grass-fed beef and lamb.

Well, it's a calm and misty start here, but apparently, we'll still hit 15c despite the cloud. Yesterday felt hot in the sunshine. I was still rounding-up brash and continuing to reduce the hedge between us and the neighbouring commercial yard, because I don't want any more requests from its owner to cut his side. We only put the hedge there because his fence is ailing. He had a point with the laurels, which have been dealt with severely, and now the hornbeam won't overtop the 2m fence.

We don't enjoy looking at the big blue container, but fair dos, he was there before us.