Awful weather - typical Brits talk

-taff

PP, there are concrete repair options, but they will be more like an araldite type thing, can't think what the glue us called where you mix two things together..Also, if you did want to save it, you can drill some holes and thread some wire through before you repair, or use a staple type of thing. I got a pot of JapAns last year, they have a white flower, and purple streaks on the outside, and woop, they're not doing a fjord visit, they're back! I was quite happy about that. DOn't know yet, the plants haven't arrived yet...I discovered I ordered about five different geums...oops...bloody Bertigo, send him on holiday.

Farway, that was interesting about Fanny Adams, in future pub quizzes I will be first to repsond now with entymology info Love your Judas tree. My cousin in Italy has one and always complained my uncle would prune it every year and make it not flower...She should get flowers this year...And I feel your dog poo pain. There was a runny lump of it by the compost bin I was trying not to step in while empting the bin. I just about managed which is not like me. I was expecting Cat Dog Poo Fingers. Poor Ploughman though.

ybe, how good of cissie! My father only managed the remote control and occasionl emergency texting that's a lovely colour bluebell, I don't care if it's the bustard child of a perfumed romance...did they smell? Love those quince flowers, the guy opposite showed me his bush a couple of weeks ago, it's huge and the same blossom. He has promised me quince this year [ if they grow!]

Dusty, pig nose? that's quite funny...If only we named the things after what they looked like...That heavenly blue is lovely isn't it...Annoying about the neighbour and cats, poor cat too...maybe they were siblings...And don't envy us with smaller gardens, we feel overwhelmed by stuff too...just like the great tit

2p, woop, a bamboo holder! All this time I've been keeping that picture of the allotment/garden with the red brick paths and the holder in my head..I've just realised I have a chimney pot in the garden. It's holding up the free tip treasure chiminea..doh! Your garden looks very lush!

I will potter today , here and at the allotment when the su goes down a bit in the late afternoon. I have so many seedlings and nowhere to put them...

pink_poppy

I was practically horizontal at the dentist and in that position for 20-30 minutes (I lost track of time). I felt a bit weird when I eventually stood up and have gone downhill since then. I’ve been avoiding going to the hairdresser for the same reason - having my head back seems to be a trigger 🤢 I’ll keep doing the exercises and fingers crossed it doesn’t get any worse.

I was going to say Chaenomeles (Quince) for one of YBE’s plants. I’ve got an orange one and it looks similar.

Lovely pic of the Great Tit, Dusty. I took some pics of an adult sparrow feeding a baby on my suet block, but it was through a dusty window so not very good.

It’s a beautiful morning here too. We’re forecast up to 20 degrees, but it was supposed to be 17 degrees yesterday and it definitely wasn’t. I want to get out into the garden as I need to reinstate the washing up bowl pond, but will have to see how it goes.

I’m glad I refreshed - W_M, your pic is lovely. 

I was going to suggest Solomon’s Seal for your shady border on your other thread, but because I didn’t plant mine in our shady border I wasn’t sure if it was a good thing or not. Ours is getting swamped by ivy and honeysuckle so isn’t doing great in that position, but I don’t want to cut things back because I know birds are nesting in there.
I’m definitely going to still try and salvage my birdbath - good idea to do a few layers with drying thoroughly in between. I’m not ‘precious’ about how it looks, I just want the water to stay put when I fill it up.
Love the Christina Aguilera name for Aquilegias 😂

Refreshed again!! I actually thought about Araldite for the birdbath, taff. We had a hole in a bath fixed with that for more years than I care to admit 😂 I’ll try the silicone first and then look at other options.
Trying not to snigger at your neighbour showing you his bush 😂

pink_poppy

I had a bit of a surprise when I wandered into the garden this afternoon… 🥔 😁

Presumably escapees from last year - I’m sure they weren’t there yesterday 😂 

I don’t know what to do with them tbh, because that’s where I was hoping to create a seating area this year 🤷‍♀️ Can they be moved at this stage??

twopenny

I get a lot of these Poppy. They keep popping up each year in various places even though I don't plant any.

Taff, I come across that photo every now and again and it reminds me. I've still got lots of my photos for garden ideas that I got from the net. I may not be able to do them but the ideas filter through and help with some things I'm doing.
So much pleasure in looking for ideas even if there isn't a hope of doing them. But some you can 🙂

WM that's a beautiful walk you get in the morning. What a lovely start to the day.

Been a busy one. I've got the box hedges trimmed. Learned from GW to do it when there is no humidity as such to avoid box moth.
I still have it a bit from when I made a mistake but now the birds can get at them.
The little insect eaters are very active on the roof and gutters.

Managed to drag the compost into the garden and there was a guy bringing compost and manure to one of the tennis players and I took advantage and asked if he had surplus he could spare a small bag or two and he said yes 😁 
So next Tuesday, fingers crossed.

I'm ☺️ at your kind compliments about my garden, thank you but you got the photos on a good day.

LessImpecunious

pink_poppy said:

Presumably escapees from last year - I’m sure they weren’t there yesterday 😂 

I don’t know what to do with them tbh, because that’s where I was hoping to create a seating area this year 🤷‍♀️ Can they be moved at this stage??

Yep, I've moved tatties at this stage, should be fine

Dustyevsky

Working_Mum said:

 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.

I find the Latin names easier to recall than the English equivalents, or rather I did, until the classification boffins got to work and changed so many! Latin was compulsory for 3 years at grammar school, but Mrs Dusty went to a sec mod, and she found it straightforward to work with too. It's just familiarity. Being in the plant business, we printed labels with the Linnean name first and the common name in brackets. Although our business was small, Mrs D still built quite a database. I constantly searched for new plants, usually in places where Latin names predominated. It's amazing how fast one learns when there are financial incentives! Sadly, although the Latin came easily enough, it took about 10 years to learn that small nurseries never make seriously good money.

Dodgy neighbours stand out more than the good ones, unfortunately, and the type of property chosen may have a bearing on the psychology of inhabitants. I won't expand on that here! However, living in the countryside without neighbours wouldn't be my choice. Although some individuals don't get on, here, we're all  eyes and ears against potentially undesirable visits from those outside the locality.

I think your “Wisley Bumfleet” is West Byfleet, notable for a mention in HG Wells' 'War of the Worlds.'

-taff said:

PP, there are concrete repair options, but they will be more like an araldite type thing, can't think what the glue us called where you mix two things together..

Epoxy resin was what I thought of too, as it has a good binding effect, but the other option would be a polymer glue like CT1.

pink_poppy said:
I was going to say Chaenomeles (Quince) for one of YBE’s plants. I’ve got an orange one and it looks similar.

Refreshed again!! I actually thought about Araldite for the birdbath, taff. We had a hole in a bath fixed with that for more years than I care to admit 😂 I’ll try the silicone first and then look at other options.
Trying not to snigger at your neighbour showing you his bush 😂

We had an orange-pink Chaenomeles. Couldn't decide what it was! Neither of us liked it, so I dug it out. I'd love that red one, though.
Snap, we had an avocado plastic bath with an Araldite repair for years. Then Mrs Dusty stood on a chair inside it to clean the window, and the legs went right through it in several places!  Physics was never Mrs Dusty's strong suit!
I think our minds are slowly synchronising on this thread.....

We did stop work in the middle of yesterday's hot weather, but no siesta. We used the time to put up posters for the next Garden Club event and visit a couple of friends en route. That's 4 fewer tomato plants to water! In gardening news, I have broad beans in the polytunnel and baby cucumbers are forming. Outdoors, baby figs are very few, however, so I must refresh their compost, or plant them somewhere. We may soon have the back of a shed to clothe.

I didn't realise it was a long weekend. Walking friend wants to garden and avoid the grockles crowds, so bluebells will have to wait.

Today's photo is a reminder that nature can often manage fine without us. This is in an unloved corner.

Like last year, when the papery seed discs have formed, I'll cut this down and run through the wild area, waving it equally wildly, until all the seeds have distributed themselves. Who knows, Mr Canute might even get a few!

Farway

The sun's hot already, as is fitting for May Day.

As is also the case, the May[hawthorn] flowers open. 

Yuk smell of cat wee now down where it is flowering, the cat wee tree on annual outing.

Came across the cat wee smell as I was checking my fruit crop, cherries have set, but are safe for the moment, nowhere near edible

Managed to send some chillies flying yesterday, . Two may survive, only had four, and I was only growing for decoration, I don't eat them.

More kindness from neighbours, one tomato & one sweet pea plant, in pots, left on my front step. 

I know who it is, so I'll thank him next time I spot him. The sweet pea is handy, mine having cleared off to Norway.

He has a dog, could it be a peace offering, conscience salving, for dog poo incursion?

Anyway, I'm glad to have them

Vine weevil grubs have gnawed my over wintered pelargoniums, just as the buds are coming.

I've pushed them deeper into the pot, hoping they may make fresh roots

Then while I was cleaning & disinfecting the steps, in accordance with the instructions, I accidentally spilt some Jeyes fluid mix into the pots, hope the vine weevil grubs are OK.

A timely warning to take extra care not to spill any if using JF mix near plant pots

The only real job for the day is fixing some basket things to the front step's fancy handrail.

Grand plan is tomatoes hanging down, the lobelia having cleared off to Norway already.

If chillies survive, I may get some in there as well

Dusty, Honesty, mine are coming up everywhere, self seeded. Glad to see them. These are from some seeds given to me last year by Horticultural DGD, who now spouts Latin names like a native.

pink_poppy

I was just surprised about the tatties because I’d been in that area of the garden the day before and hadn’t seen them - it’s like they sprang up overnight. I think I’m going to have to move them (thanks, Less) and will have to use the plastic hessian sacks I used last year.

The Honesty is a very pretty plant, Dusty, it’s a lovely colour. Nice that you got some seeds from GDG, Farway.

A couple of pics taken yesterday. A wee beastie (hopefully not a rat 😳), the robin popped down while I was taking photos of said wee beastie, the first flower on my Ceanothus and a bum, because we haven’t had one for a while…

pink_poppy

Forgot to mention the weather… after yesterday’s 20 degrees, it’s now grey, fretty rain and cold 🥶 

Farway

pink_poppy said:

Forgot to mention the weather… after yesterday’s 20 degrees, it’s now grey, fretty rain and cold 🥶 

I've got your sun today, it's baking out there

Planted up the free sweet pea and fixed the baskets to the handrail

Nice pics as usual

Looks like a rat to me, is that a tail I can just see?

You just missed his mate behind you