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The last time we discussed Aquilegia,white in particular Dusty sent me some and I noticed yesterday they are coming up in the pot. 🤞🏻fingers crossed they flower, and I’m excited to see if they are white 😍
well done on the photo Dusty, bet you couldn’t do it again 😜
Farway don’t ask my advice on computers.🫣
OT beautiful day yesterday and after my trip into town ,I lazed in the garden with a book. I have a delivery today due between now and 10. The sun is out again so another lovely day in prospect.Focus on contribution instead of the impressiveness of consumption to see the true beauty in people.4 -
i don't think I could possibly have too many blue Aquilegias...
But good advice re. the pulling up (or at least chopping off the seed heads) of the less delightful specimens...
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Sunny,blue sky, supposed to be nice & warmNew [old refurbed] computer is Out for Delivery, then the fun starts as I start looking for passwords, what stick did I bung some obscure programme on etcwort said:The last time we discussed Aquilegia,white in particular Dusty sent me some and I noticed yesterday they are coming up in the pot. 🤞🏻fingers crossed they flower, and I’m excited to see if they are white 😍
Farway don’t ask my advice on computers.🫣That said the three remaining of my seed sown, an exclusive Norwegian blend, have now been planted out and showing some growth. If there is a God, please don't let them be muddy purple after all my tribulations last year.For first time it seems, all my fruit trees are flowering at the same time, apples, pears, plum and cherry.With the sun & bees so far so goodIn another vain attempt to get to eat one on my Sunburst cherries I'm going to try tying net bags I bought over the bunches. Draping netting etc never really worked.I have some photos to sort, but will have to use the other computer, job for this afternoon while I wait for the delivery chapSowed my sweet peas, after soaking overnight.As per link I did not use butt waterThese one are Snoopea, knee high, bushy type. never grown them before, probably smother the Aquilegias.
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I like the look of those Farway - I'd like some if only for the nameDon't have room this year but I'll bookmark. Why can't they give delivery prices on these things? Should be easy enough with seeds and I'd be grateful if they only said *** per pack delivery.Sunny but chilly here. The nights are still darn cold for this part of the country with no sign of it changing.Been out watering pots throughly. I have a new system and thought I may start a thread on it if time allows.At the moment waaaay behind with everything and an inclination to sit out and finish my book rather than go hunting for tiny screws and washing the car etc.
I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
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Bummer, S0ds Law has been initiated.Now a replacement PC is a mere few stops away the duff non Internet one has decided to connect again, and here I am back to normalOf course if new one was not ordered this would cease working come the morningDon't know if laughing or crying is the best optionBut at least the urgency to sort it out, connect up etc has gone.twopenny said:I like the look of those Farway - I'd like some if only for the nameDon't have room this year but I'll bookmark. Why can't they give delivery prices on these things? Should be easy enough with seeds and I'd be grateful if they only said *** per pack delivery.I'll keep posting on progress. I got the seeds from T & M, and they do free P & P now & then, watch this space.Just checked, seeds are 89p on offer, was £2.99But "Orders for packets of seed incur a delivery charge of £2.99"Seems you can't win at the moment, but no doubt all your ducks will line up at some timeSorting out the photos, for this afternoon here's something I'm trying, not my original ideaCut top & middle off a pop bottle, use base as pot, sow seed, put in cutting etc, put top into bottom and call it a mini grow houseI have sown King Coleus in there, one of those expensive, like dust, seeds that need light to germinateThe white bits are vermiculite
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2p and dusty, there are some primroes there but they're not very visible while the stronger yellow things are [ I didn't know they were cowslips though, but now I do
] My father had a thick swathe of purple ones that just keep spreading but none have taken in my garden so far. I'll try again this year. And I must remember to buy chicken pellets too. My compost was really dry on top too, will check it again tomorrow maybe. I'm intrigued by the new watering system.
Dusty, well done for showing the lurgy who's boss. Nice primroses too, very abundant. And love the greenfinches, very funny, one should be called Nigel. And you should get front page for the other three...were you delivering mrs dusty in advance of an anti chainsaw protest?PP, mr and mrs chaffinch have an Olivia Newton John John Travolta thing going onIn agreement with Less, I don't see that many normal ones here either.,ladybirds that is..Fancy sitooteries being a real word! Also agree you might want to start an exhibition somewhere...
Farway, sorry about your on again off again connection but you are future proofed now [ this expression is bandied about willy nilly these days, even by myself] and can ride the winds of techincal havoc. At least you had real tea and reasonable plants too and super bum it is. They can definitely wear their pants outside their tights and the cape. And I have had my copy cat garden cart thingy with added tipping ability...Luna, hope your patio is laid and unlikely to be dug up for fear of what may lay beneath...Weather is sunny, cold in the mornings, getting warmer all day, then cooling a bit in the evenings, not as cold as the mornings though. I have spent some time today putting together a garden cart a la Farway and already used it to transport some heavy ceramic tiles out of the house and down the side of it. I bloody love it. I have done some potting on of tomatoes , one artichoke [ how come all the cardoons came up but only one purple artichoke?] , some savoy cabbage and some teeny tiny celeriac I think , or at least hope. I'll sort out the weetcorn and beans for next week and fine somewhere I can put some lettuce by the back door. That wasn't today though, today has been lazy.Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi6 -
-taff said:..were you delivering mrs dusty in advance of an anti chainsaw protest?No, Mrs D and I are in the what's called the 'Hospital Car Service,' though it's mainly short runs there and back to the local Health Centre. We will do local hospitals, or even the big one at Barnstaple, but no way will we venture to the Exeter one, with its nightmare parking!
As it was an early morning call, Mrs D decided it was my turn!
However, Mrs Dusty's chainsaw work has been completed.We did the necessary things, and the optionals have now rolled into next winter's list.
Yesterday, like you, I began potting-on tomatoes and other seed-raised stuff. Then DD2, whose birthday it was, said her RHS membership had come in the post, her husband was taking the afternoon off, and should we all go over to Rosemoor? What a daft question!So, we had a lovely, sunny, 2.5 hours in Rosemoor, followed by a pig-out at a local hostelry none of us had ever visited. Good old Trip Advisor scored again!Photos coming in a day or so. "They're on my other computer," as Farway and I like to say!
So, I'd better use up the photos I have to hand, including this one snapped a few days ago, when two of the local songsters chose the same tree to serenade the premature arrival of the moon!Yes, it's an alder, and the damn thing has grown too big for me to remove it single-handed. We will have to pay a pro with climbing skills.OT: No frost last night. Now, another glorious sunny day, with light winds and 17c promised.Ah, but what's this? MSM says Ventusky's predicting a 'snow bomb' on the 20th......for Birmingham. Oh, that's OK, might bury all that stinky rubbish then, if it happens!Why does the MSM stoop to this nonsense about 'bombs' and 'vortexes?' Why can't they just say, "Turning cold for a time." Well, of course, it will, it's the Easter Hols!
"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity7 -
Colder start this morning, the heating clicked back on just to prove it. Supposed to warm up later, once the sun has been to work.-taff said:Farway, sorry about your on again off again connection but you are future proofed now [ this expression is bandied about willy nilly these days, even by myself] and can ride the winds of techincal havoc.I have spent some time today putting together a garden cart a la Farway and already used it to transport some heavy ceramic tiles out of the house and down the side of it. I bloody love it.As if to prove paranoia, my Roku streaming thingy tried updating this morning, and now I have a Purple Screen of death instead of catch up TV.No doubt somehow on internet is the fix / bodge, I only need to find it.Well done on the cart transporting jobby, once you have one you wonder just why you never bought one earlier.Hoping to sow a couple of courgettes and water the beet seedings later, if electrical devices allow me time off.This is my Japanese quince / japonica “Salmon Horizon”. I was surprised to see it flower because it's only a small plant, less than a foot high, and only got it last November [£2], so still in a pot while waiting for me to find a space for it.PS just refreshed, so thought I'd better post before I go round in electrical circles looking for magic on Purple Death screensDustyevsky said:Yesterday, like you, I began potting-on tomatoes and other seed-raised stuff. Then DD2, whose birthday it was, said her RHS membership had come in the post, her husband was taking the afternoon off, and should we all go over to Rosemoor? What a daft question!So, we had a lovely, sunny, 2.5 hours in Rosemoor, followed by a pig-out at a local hostelry none of us had ever visited. Good old Trip Advisor scored again!
Photos coming in a day or so. "They're on my other computer," as Farway and I like to say!
OT: No frost last night. Now, another glorious sunny day, with light winds and 17c promised.Ah, but what's this? MSM says Ventusky's predicting a 'snow bomb' on the 20th......for Birmingham. Oh, that's OK, might bury all that stinky rubbish then, if it happens!Why does the MSM stoop to this nonsense about 'bombs' and 'vortexes?' Why can't they just say, "Turning cold for a time." Well, of course, it will, it's the Easter Hols!
I'm sure I can't be the only one who remembers snow at Easter?
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Been reading and loving all the chat and amazing photos but not posting as gardening grinds to a halt here in NE Scotland for many months especially in my garden due to orientation (I still can't cut the grass but my neighbours can)
Amazingly good weather now for a few days so I have been weeding - hairy bittercress is the bane of my life
Big clump of flowers I am not sure about - is it a friend or foe? Suddenly appeared but there has been great upheaval in that part of the garden
One identification says speedwell weed another says forget me nots
It is covering part of next doors fence so I am happy to keep if not invasive
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That's forget-me-not. Will spread everywhere it if like you, but is pretty and easily pulled up.
I've been weeding out hypericum which seems to be everywhere now we've removed that shrubs-cut-as hedge that were in the borders.8
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