Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

What a beautiful tree Dusty.
I had one like that in my last place. An absolute joy with primroses under. Always wanted a circular bench under for the rural idle.

Just popping in to say it's been high 20s here and off to enjoy every bit of it.
I have some garden related news 

Note I have my chimney pot for canes at last. Works really well.
Bees are loving the flowering brassicas, hopefully they will go to seed soon and I can get my bean and tomato supports in.
Tomato seeds in pots. I left them their to warm the compost it was cold and wet. I've probably dried them right out now 🥴

Friend bought round a bag of well rotted compost this morning while I was still sleeping. Perfect 😁
Hauling it through the narrow passage not so much.

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

There are red flowered apples that give red apples, inside & out. Not sure of names though,

I wish I had a drone, Dusty, can I get one with laser death ray installed? For anti dog poo patrols.

Would team up nicely with the death glare sheep mentioned umpteen pages back

A visit to Wisley is on the cards soon,

We have a bright red, with red flesh, apple. It's not flowering yet. It's not one of the two you listed. I'll get a photo when it's ready.

Our drone would be handy enough with just a stun ray For under £300, it only comes equipped with a camera. It's for professional use in my SiL's work, so he's learning how to use it. I'm astonished by its capabilities: 2km range and about 20mins flying on a full battery. It's set not to exceed 300m in altitude and to cruise above the level of the local power lines.

I've already found out what my neighbour with the new piece of field is up to by way of 'garden extension.'

Another trip to Rosemoor would be worthwhile, but I'm still intent on finding some bluebell woods to walk in. It'll be too late soon.

A very distraught lady banged on the door this morning shortly after I posted. She'd had the misfortune to run over a large male cat, almost identical to the one we found dead a few months ago. I can't trace an owner. One of our neighbours said, "Oh, he's just like the one we lost in the winter."  I bit my lip. At the time, she claimed he was a stray they'd fed from time to time, and she certainly didn't offer to bury him!   Looks like I'll have to get me shovel out.... 

Grass cutting's going slowly. It's too hot!

Update: Cat owner finally located. Many four letter expletives! He's still in a wheelbarrow in our 'chapel of rest', but perhaps my shovel can rest easy beside that deep bed I'm still making. 

pink_poppy

By coincidence I was taking photos of the sky just after 6am this morning, YBE. One was similar to your long thin cloud, but I think mine was an aeroplane trail. I’ve seen colours in clouds before  - something to do with ice particles - there is a name for them but I can’t remember what it is 😂

Your garden is looking lovely, twopenny, very neat. I love your chimney pot bamboo holder.

I can give you a patch of bluebells, Dusty. My wild bit of garden - not quite a woodland.

I’ve rolled the top of the birdbath into the garage and it’s worse than I thought…

pink_poppy

Sorry about the pussycat, Dusty 😢 Glad the owner has been found though.

My garden plans are going to be curtailed in the coming weeks because I’ve been having vertigo symptoms since my trip to the dentist last week. It’s not as bad as last year (🙏) so I’m doing the horrible exercises in the hope that I can head it off (no pun intended). Unfortunately I’ve got another dentist appointment in less than two weeks.

twopenny

Oh dear Poppy. That's a shame that it's come back. 
Do you think it's stress ,tension in the shoulders or something like that that kicks it off?

Dusty how sad. I don't understand how people can care for an animal but then just ignore it. 
I even bury wildlife if it perishes in the garden.

There's a beautiful spread of bluebells just up the river from Watersmeet. It's not too far and fairly level plus the excellent cheese scones at the tea room 🙂
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/DXHGB0/watersmeet-where-the-valleys-of-the-east-lyn-and-hoar-oak-water-merge-DXHGB0.jpg

Here I've made a start on watering and getting frustrated by every time I put something down on the patio or path it's full of ants!

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh isn’t the Heavenly Blue pretty Dusty, I’m glad I lifted them now 😊 I hope they take ages to grow that big for they haven’t room where I’ve put them ha haa!  I fancy a death ray laser drone too. I know you can’t buy them but I wonder if those Repair Cafe things would knock you one up, quietly, for lots of cash…  Have you any notion of what your new neighbours will be like? Did you spot any viewers…? That’s a disgrace about the cat/s! Good thing they’ve got you to see them buried right. Karma will get those people, especially the ones that disowned their own cat 😠

Farway the f+v shop here was selling red inside and out apples, and the woman behind the counter assured me they were The Best Thing Ever. Good flesh, proper old flavour, juicy and delicious. So I lifted 6 and I’m sorry I did - the skins were too hard, the flesh was barely pink, and they were cotton woolly. They did taste ok but I wouldn’t pay what I paid for them again! I think the wisteria tree was 2p perhaps… 

Your garden’s looking lovely 2p, lovely thick grass and no weeds! I’ll have to keep my eye out for a chimney pot for canes, that looks well (Mine are jabbed behind my downpipe, with a watering can stopping their feet from slipping.)  Friend bringing good compost without disturbing you - win :clapping:  Grrr to the ants though, I feel your pain there. 

I can’t think of the name for bits of ‘rainbows’ in clouds either pp, I’m sure I know it but my stoopid brain isn’t giving me it  Thank god Bertigo isn’t as bad as last year (🙏🏻) and fingers crossed it doesn’t return after the dentist 🤞🏻Have you been getting a share of this good weather up there..?   

Speaking of bluebells - I saw these on my walk to work yesterday (I’ve found a tiny woodland to walk through if I go a very long way round) 

They were a queer pinky/lilac-y colour in real life, a bit unusual I thought. I also saw this, which I like a lot - 

OT warm and gerrin’ warmer *sigh* Quite nice at the minute though for I’ve all the windows open and there’s a lovely soft breeze coming through  No rain forecast in the next 10 days and my water butts are near empty  

Dustyevsky

twopenny said:

What a beautiful tree Dusty.
I had one like that in my last place. An absolute joy with primroses under. Always wanted a circular bench under for the rural idle.

The tree needs its crown lifted, so mowing underneath becomes possible. Sadly, this rural person was too idle to get that job done last winter!   Having a large garden is sometimes a pleasure, but it's often more crisis management rather than calm, well-planned maintenance. There's many a time I envy folk with tidier, 'normal sized' gardens, like your lovely, organised space, above.

pink_poppy said:

My garden plans are going to be curtailed in the coming weeks because I’ve been having vertigo symptoms since my trip to the dentist last week. It’s not as bad as last year (🙏) so I’m doing the horrible exercises in the hope that I can head it off (no pun intended). Unfortunately I’ve got another dentist appointment in less than two weeks.

Oh, no! I hope you can beat-off the blimmin' thing before it gets going! Why would the dentist set it off, I wonder?

Let's hope it's just a blip.

Your wild garden looks good, and it has more bluebells than mine, but I hope you'll excuse me if we stay local. That might mean a trip to the Lyn valley 2p, but I have somewhere even closer in mind.

YoungBlueEyes said:

 Have you any notion of what your new neighbours will be like? Did you spot any viewers…? That’s a disgrace about the cat/s! Good thing they’ve got you to see them buried right. Karma will get those people, especially the ones that disowned their own cat 😠

I also saw this, which I like a lot - 

I only know the new neighbours (150 m away!) drive a hard bargain, but buying houses is business, and you're aware of that!  They'll need to be firm with some of their immediate neighbours, who are... err...'strong willed.' We've had the police here again this week, apparently because of a neighbour disagreement. I know this sounds an awful place, but it's a small minority who cause the problems. One of that minority is the person who let me bury their cat, saying it was a stray. It probably was originally, but it was staying in their house, and they fed it. I'm not burying the latest casualty; he was removed from his resting place within the hour.

And on a lighter note that's a nice combination of plants: Chaenomeles, Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald Gaiety' and a Jasmine, I think.

Still mowing here , and it's due to be Scorchio today. I may have a siesta in the hottest part! Yesterday I was lucky and finally managed to finally snap a Great Tit. However, he's quite scruffy, looking frazzled at the edges.  I know how he feels!

Farway

Scorchio due here as well, windows open, and I've been out watering the pots already.

Shame about the cat Dusty, at least he was loved enough to be owned & buried

YBE, I have bluebells that colour, I think they are the misbegotten offspring of Spanish & English bluebells, sort of Holiday romance result

To continue rubbing salt in wounds, my neighbour has pure blue English ones. This is the same neighbour who has Love IAM self sown like weeds, and Alliums popping up without any trouble.

Not everything goes their way though, their flight to see DD in Australia was delayed three days at Heathrow by the recent sub station fire

Shame about the red apple's taste, I suppose, looks sell. 

Odd that local lady behind counter exaggerated taste, normally in local F & V, or any local shop, I'd expect an honest answer. 

I know in F & V shop here I heard the seller tell a woman that the russet apples are “different” taste & not to everyone's liking.

No sign of my sweet peas, the bush type ones, sown ages ago & molly coddled in the conservatory. I've never had much success with SPs, so true to form. I'll probably put them outside to sink or swim.

The dog poo dried up nicely in the sunshine , so much so I oiked it aside with my spade & planted out the Shasta daisy & Oriental poppy

Tempted to sprinkle my annual flower mix seeds there later

If time & back permits I may try to plant out a tomato, not really hardened off but with forecast worth a punt I think

twopenny

Gorgeous morning with sunshine and warmth. 
I would like this 5 days a week with 2 cool and drizzle. Bluey can have all the chilly stuff oop north and we'd all be happy 😁 

Yes the cane store seems to work well and I don't have to fumble and curse while getting them. Now I'm old I have to be organised as I have only half the time speed I used to when the bits ache which they don't do with convenience 😐
Yesterday went swimming beach picnic and a walk and it's telling me it's not used to the exercise.

I'd love to go out in this lovely weather but there's watering to do and compost to move and prunings to get rid of.
Wonder if I can manage both and survive.
We have no doctors and 4 months to see a physio.😬
I had to stand in a line of 20 for a friend who couldn't stand at the surgery as I was the better of the two of us. All their computers were down. 

Good that you have blue bells near you dusty. We do but it's uphill and I can't do that at the moment.
Those purply ones are Spanish ones but lovely bit of colour all the same.
Absolutely love the red growing through the green there. Those Chaemo-something are a gorgeous colour.

Working_Mum

Good morning everyone from a very sunny NE corner of the world,
I'm working from Mum's today so Rome0 and I have had our daily constitutional around the wind turbines - not that he was interested in anything other than his ball! It wouldn't be an update from me unless I included a turbine pic would it 


 I am always impressed with your knowledge of the proper names of plants Dusty - it's a fab skill and one that completely evades me. Thank goodness for Post It notes stuck in my gardening folder as I couldn't cope without them! I call Aqualeiga's "Christina Aguilera's" so that I don't forget their names!

So sorry you've had to deal with dodgy neighbours - it sounds very challenging. I downsized 5 years ago into a semi and was very concerned how I'd cope with neighbours around me after living 20 years in a detached property.

Well done for finally getting a pic of  a GT on your feeders - he looks ace.

I am loving your chimney pot storage 2P - it complements your beautiful garden so well. All the R's in one - reduced, reused and recycled!  I am a big fan of cheese scones - alas they are an infrequent treat since my gallbladder removal and intolerance to fat!

I think with a bit of patience you bird bath is salvageable Poppy - just layer up the silicon and ensure you let it dry thoroughly between applications. You've got nothing to lose and it's a lovely thing. I would love Lily of the Valley in my garden - I have Solomon's Seal in my shady border and think it's gorgeous and my 2 little plants have grown into a right old clump over the last couple of years. I should think about digging some up and moving them to another area of my garden. 

So sorry to read your vertigo symptoms have returned - I hope they soon back off and you can get into the sunshine.

I spied my Japanese Anemones are growing back Farway which I am very happy about as I love them. I'm probably going to explore how to propagate them or maybe buy some smaller (cheaper) plants to dig in and fill my borders - lazy girl gardening style! 

Your Judas Tree is a stunner and kudos for growing from seed too! There is one in a garden I visit during our local Open Gardens event in May and it is in full bloom then. I picked up some seeds from theirs and tried to grow one but nothing took. May have to revisit the idea and so the job properly! 

I hope you enjoyed your trip to Wisley - when I first moved "darn sarf" I lived close by in a place I affectionately still call "Wisley Bumfleet" (can you guess where it is!?).

You always seem so busy in your garden Greenbee - it sounds like you've got a big space and lots of projects going on (plus a puppy to contend with).

Your skies look amazing YBE - there is something so special seeing that Azure blue isn't there. Hoping you are enjoying you nature trek into work each morning?

-Taff from one to another "my name is WM and I am a plantaholic" - there are definitely worse vices to have! My borders looked stuff to bursting and I am not minded to thin things out for fear of upsetting the finely balanced equilibrium! I am a bit of a chicken in that regard - I have a self seeded Rowan tree which has a self seeded peony at it's base and they are so tightly bound together I couldn't separate them for fear of one of them dying (and I wouldn't like that at all  

Yesterday I wrote myself a lovely list of all my BH gardening jobs for this coming weekend and feel confident I may get a few of them ticked off. My friend is giving me two Camelia's - as they "don't get on" she said (wasn't sure if she meant the individual Camelia's or herself!  - so I'm a lucky girl! I have one in a pot so need to investigate where the best location for planting in the ground - maybe my forest-y bit at the end of my garden would be the place??

Wishing everyone a smashing Wednesday!

((WM))