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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
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You're going great guns with your allotment taff, it looks fab! Did the bamboo splinter take your finger or are you alright now...?
I did scatter seeds into the stones on my wall pp butt I've forgot what they are (fleabane or summat?) wot a kind soul sent me last year. I've slung poppies and all sorts in there so we'll see what transpires :fingerscrossed: #Shawshank That's a cracking bird pic, front page again :nodding: And imagine sitooteries being a real word, someone tell the Lopper from Joppa
I've 2 cherry trees so I'll leave one be and tie the others' branches down, thanks 2p. It'll either work or it won't. I can snip any new shoots off to start wth, and if it goes wrong I can leave it to revert to type
That's a good load of stuff you grow in your greenhouse LessI always wonder what people grow in theirs, in case I grow the same thing and it'd be better if I got a greenhouse to do it properly itms. Sort of reverse peer pressure ha haa! I wonder if that was your original Harley that came back in... Ooh that yellow ladybird just looks wrong! Is there a list somewhere of the goodies and baddies..? I don't want to be missing an opportunity to kill wrongly encouraging whatever the equivalent is of grey squirrels and them yanqui shrimps wosnames
Windows7 here too and it's not gonna last much longer I don't think. Sod's Law in full force with you there FarwayAnd belated happy burfday :cake:
Is there a queue for the Front Page? I reckon it won't be long 'til you're on it Dusty The pair of greenfinches+caption and the blackie+robin+caption are pure brilliant
I love your forget-me-nots pas, I'd happily be knee deep in them. Are you leaving them..?
Gawd that's a belter of a cherry tree wort! What do you do with all those cherries? Do the birds decide to leave you many? Ah it's ornamental only
Jeez that was some catchup, I'm gonna have to start coming on in the mornings again or summat. Well I've still got a Galileo bobbin, a garden, and a lovely blue car. We've had weather (frosty mornings for a while there but they've gone now), the days are sunny and lovely. Cissie rang me the other night asking me what I was doing the next few days - she wanted to come over cos she couldn't stand the heat22' they've had, and warm at night too, she can't bear it.
Here is this week's absolutely free, absolutely not true legal advice. The stamp duty deadline is over, it's gone, there's no going back. Just because you paid some fellah on that tikkety tok $1000 for a 'secret code' to give to your solicitors to extend the deadline does not make it true. (The secret code is "I've paid the $1000 and then a) No you aren't being treated differently because you're a furrnerr. No you can't play the race card. Yes you can ring the police if you like, but would you please stand nearer me so I can hear what they say. Yes you and your actual solicitor/conveyancer are covered by all sorts of laws about confidentiality, but I'm a phone-answering chai wallah-ette and I'm gonna tell everybody!
Anyway. I've that many pics to put up but I'm feared the thread will groan under the weight of them and head northwards so I'll do them bit by bit. I've a lot of primroses all come up, in various colours, and a lot of them even match the labels. My fruit trees are looking good too, but just to balance it out my toms aren't having it. Tiny wee things with the diddiest of leaves on themI have deployed kind words a-la Big Lugs, I've hummed them the theme tune to Rising Damp - very jolly - and I've done stern glances, side-eye, and "oh just soddin GROW!" whilst shaking my fist at them. They didn't even twitch. Shipbags. I'm gonna have to buy tom plants, the shame
I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.8 -
We had a lovely wee break, thanks Dusty. One night away with two full days being tourists 😊 and then we came home and had another full day out yesterday. The weather has been amazing - cool mornings and roasting hot afternoons 🥵
YBE, it sounds like your wall is going to be gorgeous once it’s established. Are your cherry trees eating or ornamental?? I’ve decided to heck with the covenants here and will be looking to plant trees (cherry and apple) once the landscaping is finished.
I like that aubretia, Farway.
That’s an unusual ladybird, Less, well spotted (groan) 😂
Beautiful cherry blossom, wort.
Twopenny, I’ve got bluebells starting to come out too - I think they’re native, but they don’t usually flower until May.
A couple of pics from my mini-break. Another ‘Instagram’ favourite apparently… 🙄
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And a couple from yesterday. No idea what the big yellow plants are, but they were striking. We passed the mother’s meeting/lamb crèche on the way home yesterday… 🐑
'A watched potato will never chit'...7 -
One more. I loved this monkey puzzle tree in the grounds of the accommodation we stayed at on Wednesday night…
'A watched potato will never chit'...7 -
As planned, yesterday, I left Mrs Dusty, cheerfully bush trimming, just like Farway
and headed off to the coast with my walking friend. The idea was to test my knees and on 'the last and best hot day so far.' We intended to reach a beach via a fairly strenuous section of coast path, then return a slightly different way, covering about 3 miles.
Well, we made two viewpoints and the beach OK, but the return trip went very wrong. We came upon 9' electrified fences, totally blocking the route. These were for the benefit of our old friends, the pheasants, but it meant a serious detour, way off our map..... I won't bore you with the rest. Eventually, we had to seek assistance from the only human we could raise; a chap, probably called Henry, who'd holidayed 'all his life' in Granny's house. Despite that, he didn't know where the footpath might be.
In the end, we used the setting sun as a guide, reached something recognisable on our map, and eventually made it back to the car. Total pedometer distance 7.1 miles. I guess the knees still work!
Not too many photos here either, Bluey. Somehow, the most dramatic scenery looks unimpressive in my pictures.But for context, here's a slope, followed by one of the wildflowers spotted in the grass while toiling upwards.
Besides the violets, there were some vetches, and rather spookily, a rock with my first name scratched into it, I can't show you those. I was too puffed to bother by then!On Forget-me-nots, as we have no trouble keeping the ordinary kind, I thought I'd introduce the waterside variety to the stream side, so planted some well-grown specimens there. It took about a week before the molluscs ate them all.Wort's cherry is a Kojo-no-mai, I think. It's more for contemplating the fleeting nature of beauty than consuming, though with all cherries it often seems to be the same thing!I've had to look up Roku, which just proves what an old fogey I am. Mrs D has a Humax which she programmes religiously on Sunday and seems happy with, so I stay quiet."There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity6 -
Sunny again, but seems it may be the last for a bit, so I'll use it while it's herewort said:wish my forget me nots would spread like that, Paspatur. Mine disappeared.I’ve bought more seeds just need to decide best time to put out? Would now be right if they are flowering as the will surely self seed as they die off 🤔 my primroses are now out in full force masses of them even though I thinned out a lot.Now nasturtiums are another matter, thankfully they pop up everywhereStill working on Love in a M.YoungBlueEyes said:Windows7 here too and it's not gonna last much longer I don't think. Sod's Law in full force with you there Farway
And belated happy burfday :cake:
My fruit trees are looking good too, but just to balance it out my toms aren't having it. Tiny wee things with the diddiest of leaves on themI have deployed kind words a-la Big Lugs, I've hummed them the theme tune to Rising Damp - very jolly - and I've done stern glances, side-eye, and "oh just soddin GROW!" whilst shaking my fist at them. They didn't even twitch. Shipbags. I'm gonna have to buy tom plants, the shame
Loath to say it, but It does seem better than W10 to me, sort of, I couldn't find how to turn PC off, had to force stop in the end.I've since looked it up, another one of these dead easy once you know how jobsToms, seem to be little bu66ers this year. My first sowing went well, all now potted up & looking lush.Second lot, like yours, some weedy & stunted, others never even showed up.I have dredged two old packets [2014 & 206] seeds out and will try those, I'll sow the lot, and go from thereJust refreshed, lovely pics as usual PP,The yellow plants are Skunk Cabbage, I've seen them at Wisley. These days one of the forbidden ones, spreads everywhere, banned & invasive, and stinks like a skunk. Not to be planted.And don't send cutting to Dusty in case it spreads to his dam building neighbourThis link tells you more, you may want to report your sighting so it can be removed from the wildJobs for the day, plick out some peppers, sow old tom seedsMy cherry blossom, very edible, but I've never eaten more than a couple in any one year, birds, snails, rats etcEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens8 -
I missed your post pp.
Looks like you had a super break, and I really like the Still sculpture and its two facets.
As regards the American Skunk Cabbage, it's legal to continue growing it, and its cousin, the Asian Skunk Cabbage, but not to plant or sell it. My 'friend' downstream won't be getting any, however, as it would be out of scale with our little stream. (He's had seeds of something else that does well there, Farway!)
Here is the Asian Lysochiton, also just beginning to flower, shot at Rosemoor a few days ago. That is the sort of setting it's stature demands."There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity8 -
YoungBlueEyes said:I wonder if that was your original Harley that came back in... Ooh that yellow ladybird just looks wrong! Is there a list somewhere of the goodies and baddies..? I don't want to be missing an opportunity to kill wrongly encouraging whatever the equivalent is of grey squirrels and them yanqui shrimps wosnames
My fruit trees are looking good too, but just to balance it out my toms aren't having it. Tiny wee things with the diddiest of leaves on themI have deployed kind words a-la Big Lugs, I've hummed them the theme tune to Rising Damp - very jolly - and I've done stern glances, side-eye, and "oh just soddin GROW!" whilst shaking my fist at them. They didn't even twitch. Shipbags. I'm gonna have to buy tom plants, the shame
I think it was a second Harley - looked slightly different, no more since, instead seem to be having an outbreak of vine weevil adults in the house at the mo...The yellow one is a goodie, if you'd like your mildew removed. This seems like a good guide https://www.uksafari.com/ladybirds.htm
My toms are still tiny, find they grow like billyo once put in big pots...
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Thanks Less, I’ll prique them out when I get back later. (Off out shortly, doing a Blue Plaque trail round ‘Ull with wm + R0me0
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Primroses of all hues and colours. The last one is the buttery daisy looking labelled ones 🤔 and I’ve no idea where the first one came from!Orange is evidently the tastiest colour, so Lovely Double Daff is now keeping a stern eye on proceedings -I don’t know if my cherries are eaters or not pp, I’ve grown them from seeds I rescued from bird poos in the garden of my last houseI didn’t even know what they were when I planted them ha haa!
I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.8 -
I like your pillar box red primrose, Bluey, and also your saxifrage. There only seems to be one primrose photo from the recent Rosemoor trip; a rather tasteful pink. Being the RHS, no nonsense from wee birds either and 2 tonnes of mulch underneath!
Ah, but there's still a hairy bittercress, lurking.....
Yesterday, we actually had some rain. It formed a 2mm puddle in Mrs Dusty's wheelbarrow, so made little difference, beyond giving me an opportunity to ignite the bonfire. While it burned, the wind went around from SW (good) to W (less good) but there was so little, and not much smoke either, so the whole affair was very controlled.
The west wind's brisker this morning, but I'm in two minds whether to fire-up the other bonfire, sandwiched as it is between two neighbours I could politely describe as somewhat unhinged easily offended. It might be better left until they are safely at work.The rain certainly wasn't enough to prevent me from mowing a few lawn grass areas. I wanted to do our friendly neighbour's rough grass too, but the padlock I'd stuck on the gate latch after the plastic table dumping incident malfunctioned, so I couldn't.It looks like I'll have to angle-grind it off!
Reading back, that's a very good ladybird ID guide, Less, should we get to see any more here. And don't worry, tomatoes often catch-up quickly after a period of sulking. So far mine have been well-behaved, if we don't count the Floridity, which didn't come up, or the Divinity I forgot to sow."There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity6
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