Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

It was the fruit trees I was interested in, twopenny, but I like the look of the peony. I’m sure everything will be gone by the time I get to Lidl on Tuesday or Wednesday anyway.
I like your yellow rose 💛

I’ve had robins eat out of my hand/gardening glove twice, Dusty. Once in Inverewe Gardens in Scotland (on my birthday) and once in my old garden when I was doing some digging and found a wee grub ❤️

I don’t know what to do with that wee patch I cleared, YBE, but I’m open to suggestions. Originally I was going to cover it with gravel and have pots, but I’m not sure now. It’s a nice sunny spot in the morning and it’s where I was going to put a bench up against the garage facing it.

Dusty, that apple blossom is stunning - it looks like it should be a wedding background.

Farway, I'm probably remembering wrongly, but do you have a blue Himalayan poppy?? I saw a pic of a garden I visited last year near Inveraray and their blue Himalayan poppies are out now.
Annoying about the dog poop - we sometimes get cat poop on our grass in the back garden - I think it’s a deliberate attempt by the interloper to intimidate our cat. Feline mind games 😂

It’s been a chilly old day today, with a bit of rain. No gardening, but I did pop out a couple of times to check on my Hosta 😉 I’ve used the plant ID app on a plant that’s tangled up with other plants behind the ex pond and it was identified (low percentage) as a black raspberry?? I did think that it looked a bit like a fruit type plant, but I’ve never heard of a black raspberry before. I’ll post a pic, see if anyone recognises it…

pink_poppy

Possible raspberry plant??…

pink_poppy

Another question… I replaced my temporary washing up bowl pond with this bird bath, completely forgetting that the bird bath has a crack in it and the water just pours out ☹️ Any idea what I can use to fix the crack?? The bird bath was a wedding present 30+ years ago so I do want to keep it. It’s heavy - concrete or something, I don’t think it’s stone?? It needs to be a non-toxic repair (for birds etc) and I’m not bothered about it looking a bit rough and ready, as long as it’s waterproof…

twopenny

Looks like a raspberry. Bonus 😉 

Only weeding today.
Visit to see what new neighbours were doing. Their gardener needs a plant app to tell what the plants are 🤔
I've volunteered my services to do their weeding because it's mostly large easy weeds they have for decoration.
I said I'd do it in exchange for one of her delicious cakes. I haven't heard back since I made that stipulation 😁

pink_poppy

Ooh thanks, twopenny, I don’t mind a raspberry. I was going to clear that area, but the Winter Jasmine has gone mad so I’ll probably leave it for now and keep an eye on the raspberry too.

I would definitely do some weeding with cake as payment - hope that works out for you 😊

-taff

pp, silicone..dry it out, then use clear stuff. It'll be fine once dry. And there are low odour ones now too.

twopenny

I have some chuckle worthy tales of trying to do the same to mine but I need to be on the 'puter to show you.
I tried cement and that peeled off.
I tried all purpose paint but the colour stands out.
I did buy aquatic sealant to paint the pond pot which is safe for wildlife. It's clear and invisible but it is expensive. A pet shop may have some. I got mine from the pond section at a garden centre.

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Possible raspberry plant??…

Looks something like an emergent Japanese Anemone too. Just saying....

EDIT: but you would know if you had one of those, and a wild rasp is more likely. I have one to dig up in the herb garden. Must've come from a bird's bum.

YoungBlueEyes

I'd say rasp too pp, or a berry of some sort. I've a collection of stuff planted in paint buckets a proper lovely berry patch in the sunny corner of my garden and those leaves kinda look like all of them. Rasp/bramble/logan/wineberry. I wonder what it'll be...   I was gonna suggest a sitooterie on that patch, can't tell the scale really but would it fit a wee bench maybe?  

Woohoo to getting your fountain righted 2p, but bleurgh to the ants! That's a beautiful colour rose, and fragrant too Imagine a professional gardener needing a plant app  Or are they rare and exotic plants...? Hopefully your 'swopsies for cake' plan comes good. Seems like a fair deal to me - getting someone who knows what they're doing in exchange for cakes she makes anyway :nodding:

Farway put a peg on your nose and take your trowel out and dig it in = free fertiliser innit   That's what I tell myself when I stick my hand in cat poo   Extending the crops' season with giant reflectors rings a bell... but it's prolly wery expensive and therefore not MSE and so we shouldn't talk about that either  Paspatur said:

greenbee said:

Farway - put a sign up next to the dog poo asking the owner to please remove their belongings

Can I do that with all the cat owner s?

Fixed that for you

Looks like a good gardening day. It's a bright cool morning but it feels like there's some heat on the way. Deffo high pressure out there and I think that makes all the difference. It's 11'c currently with a high of 20' to come. They say. Feels like it'll be right. I'll have to not mention it to Cissie though when I get talking to her tonight - she's currently at 9' and it's pouring in the rain, which it has been for days. They say. 

Farway

Bright & sunny, heating up well from today, allegedly. 
All frost dates have passed here, so now sun is back I'll start hardening my stuff off, only dahlias, toms + two cucs

I'd say silicone for the cracked BB as well PP.
There used to be a product for sealing car window seals, simply pour in & it found & sealed gaps. I used it on my Cortina, sealed fine, but the water still came in from the rusty bits elsewhere 
 link, other sources are available https://www.belchers.uk/products/windscreen-windshield-glass-sealant-permatex-81730

PP, your plant, check against Herb Bennet / Wood Avens.
Similar leaves and common as muck [or dog poo in my case] https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/wood-avens-geum-urbanum
Hope it's raspberry hybrid seedling, a Poppyberry? 

It's not me with Himalayan Blue poppy, too warm here & I can't even get Welsh yellow weed poppies to grow 
I do have Norwegian Blue derivative plants 

Is one of first signs of spring, like the cuckoo, the first lily beetle sighting? Found my first ones yesterday and duly stomped on. That's a daily job for the next month or more now, it did pay off last year though, and less hassle than moonlit slug hunting

First open rose spotted in my garden, I'll try for photo but it's on a climber and awkward to reach with wonky legs

At last, peas have been planted out, not ideal transplanting with root disturbance etc, they were originally destined to be pea shoots for the table, but I decided I'd rather give peas a chance [groan ].
Also got the clematis, the newly discovered but long lost honeysuckle & everlasting sweet pea planted out