Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

What a nice place to enjoy your fish and chips, Dusty - lovely photos 😍

I can’t imagine having 11 tomato plants in the house, Pas, I was gifted two yesterday and that’s plenty.  Yay to (free??) child labour.

I was trying to be arty and capture an aeroplane flying close to the moon earlier and managed to inadvertently ’do a Dusty’ with a photobombing torpedo (either a crow or a blackbird) 😂

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

What a nice place to enjoy your fish and chips, Dusty - lovely photos 😍

I can’t imagine having 11 tomato plants in the house, Pas, I was gifted two yesterday and that’s plenty.  Yay to (free??) child labour.

I was trying to be arty and capture an aeroplane flying close to the moon earlier and managed to inadvertently ’do a Dusty’ with a photobombing torpedo (either a crow or a blackbird) 😂

Wonderful!! How can I compete with that? While I'm out stalking robins, you're upping the stakes with an Exocet blackbird!

My robin has a grub in his gob, but he ought to be standing on one leg and waving as well to upstage  the avian missile you've captured!

pink_poppy

It's not as funny as your pic from a few weeks ago, Dusty   

Love the robin pic   My robins yesterday were definitely a couple

It's another lovely morning here, although looks quite cloudy at the moment. I'm aching after the weeding and grass cutting yesterday, but I'm going to be doing more today because I really want the garden to be ready for putting landscaping materials down. I still haven't moved the wee tattie plants or the cotoneaster - hopefully get that done this morning.

YoungBlueEyes

Goldfinches! That's the one, thanks Dusty. I wonder how @goldfinches is getting on...?  Aww a magnolia, I'd love a magnolia. Not so keen on elderberries though, but I like the colour of your ones Cracking chish+fips eating view, look at the colour of your soil!  "Exocet blackbird" <splutter>   

Purdies are tatties pp, 'sore' means something that's not right usually. Cissie doesn't think it'll be a good year for them this year cos the weather was right at the wrong times - not enough rain when it should have been, toooo hot when it shouldn't have been, etc. Cissie is hilarious, that woman is my heart's beat and I don't know what I'll do without her. I love your pics - your view over the water is enviable  

Did you get your pavers done 2p? Your May Day parade sounds like just the ticket when the weather behaves itself  

Good luck to your DGD getting into a job Farway. Not the easiest gig to break into I don't think. Well not without a Daddy and enough money behind you to be able to work for peanuts.

I was attaching string up the fence for my sweet peas to climb up too gb, and the wind was bladdy cold :brrr: I'll be pleased when it turns round a bit. 

Ooh do you ever go to BeechGrove pas? Is it a place you can visit or is it private/just for telly? Hurray for free child labour  

OT cold here in that wind. The sots <nods to Dusty> reckon it's 8'c (HA HA HA HAAA!) and it'll get up to 13' later when the sun decides to play ball. We took a run up to Filey yesterday to give Liam a good stretch (diesels don't like to be sat about the place apparently) and my god the wind was cold up there!

pink_poppy

Looks like someone has been eating all the pies…

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

It's not as funny as your pic from a few weeks ago, Dusty   

Oh, I don't know....Now I look again, it could also be an airborne flatfish, or a secret stealth plane, like the B2. You never know what might be going on in the Highlands! Anyway, enjoy that lovely blue sky.  With the government apparently funding  'dimming the sun' who knows what may happen next?

YoungBlueEyes said:

 Aww a magnolia, I'd love a magnolia.

OK. Here's a Rosemoor snap from last month. They were just perfect then.

Go now, and I doubt they'll be so wonderful. "Carpe diem" and all that.

Farway, like you, I've held back on planting out my courgettes and cues. Yesterday's cutting wind would have set them way back. It looks as if we won't be free of low overnight temperatures this week either.   Decisions...

Pas, I'm keen to know if they open Beechgrove to the public as well. Must be nice to have a TV programme giving very local advice on planting etc, though even 6 miles away can be quite different if altitude different soil and frost pockets are involved.

A warmer day in prospect here. Lots to do. With the dryness of late, I'm setting up some watering for newly planted subjects in the woodland, before being distracted by the inevitable lawn mowing grass cutting.

twopenny

Awww that is some shot Poppy!
Hope it wasn't full of all your plants 🙂
Lovely start to the day.

Bluey just like old times having you posting early. Your garden seems to be growing faster than topsy.
Half ny germinating sweet peas seem to have come up. Guess I didn't water enough. I seem to be at it all the time at the moment.

Pas, it sounds cold up there. Do you have to choose your plants to suit or is it just a shorter growing season?

Dusty that's a chubby looking robin too. 

No pavers not done. It's blooming freezing out front and plenty of other things to do.
Today is a swim and shopping for drain cleaner as I'm having problems. Have to go to another village for that.
Also looking at garden kneelers they don't suit. I may have to search out a wooden stool in the garage or make a wooden folding one because the stuff available is all the same. Whatever happened to simple.
Anyway, that and more watering. No sign of rain. Its waiting for next Tuesday when I want a day in Cornwall.

Farway

Sunny, but looks like cold wind still doth blow

I'll leave it a bit then poke hooter out to see if it gets warmer

YoungBlueEyes said:

Ooh do you ever go to BeechGrove pas? Is it a place you can visit or is it private/just for telly? Hurray for free child labour

Pas will know better than I, but no public allowed. 

However, keep up the DGD work Pas, 'cos my horticultural DGD was invited to Beechgove during her year with MacRobert trust at Douneside, Aberdenshire.

DGD has since changed direction from Horticulture & gone into botanical conservation something or other, and now studying at Gloucester University.

Her aim is botanical science boffin.

Some good pics as usual, I like the variety, one day it's bums, or 'planes, dead leaves, seashores etc etc

If it warms up a bit, I'll top up the birdbath & water an apple in a pot, and look for a photo opp while at it.

My little red acer, from Morries a few weeks back, is thriving since repotting, with fresh growth and every chance of paying it's way

A very odd thing I noticed. 

You may recall how I accidentally spilt Jeyes Fluid into my vine weevil infested flower pots a week or so back?

I've not rummaged to check on vine weevil survival, but the VW nibbled pelargoniums in the pots have perked up no end, the leaves are now dark healthy green and no longer pale green.

I'm not crying over spilt Jeyes Fluid mix

If it warms a bit, I hope to pot on my Red Filbert. It's doing well in its little pot. 

My intention was to plant it at the volunteer place, but there have been, I'll politely say, “developments” and I'll not be doing that now

Not going into details, but all will be discussed at committee meeting this month

The outcome may well find me and other garden volunteers with a bit of extra time on our hands this summer

Another magnolia lover here, if only the tree was lovely all year, but just a quick flash & it's over

Oh, nearly forgot. 

My tree lilies seem to have bought a return ticket from Norway. 

Now thrusting upwards, last year they were woeful, and I was sure they were Norway bound, never flowered or did much at except mope about waiting to die.

twopenny said:

Anyway, that and more watering. No sign of rain. Its waiting for next Tuesday when I want a day in Cornwall.

That's it, mark down Tuesday as rain & windy day, 'cos that's also the day I'm at Wisley

Paspatur

Yes Farway is correct, not open to the public
Twopenny a bit of both, choose the right plants and a shorter growing season
My camelias seldom flower but are green and healthy and getting bigger, someone bought me a magnolia recently but I expect it to die the same way as the last one or live but not flower
Someone else bought me a Tibetan Cherry Tree last year and it is still alive and has some blossom so I am dead chuffed about that

-taff

Gawd I'm so behind! Had a problem at the allotment of rats infesting my keyhole bed because....There was some compost offered by the ptb so I took four bags over the course of a couple of weeks and put them in my bed. Apparently an e-mail was sent out to say use this stuff one handful to 25 normal compost or sprinkle because it's concentrated food waste compost. If I had received that email I wouldn't have bothered using it at all  because life is too short to muck around like that but of course having put four bags  of the stuff in the bed, now there is a huge rat problem at the allotment because they are digging up everywhere anyone has used it or eating through sheds to get to bags people have stored.  This means I now have to empty my bed and get rid of that stuff somehow. I am feeling most disheartened and feeling guilty because they are nesting my bed and fanning out in a directions according to the camera next door have on their rat traps, but I will perk up tomorrow probably....maybe...hence absence....