Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

Dusty, I absolutely LOVE roads like that with a tunnel of trees - not scary at all. I think I must have been a wood nymph in a previous life    

Less, gorgeous photos - you have so many aquilegia/s and some lovely plants. That's a cracking bee bum pic too.

Your garden is very pretty, twopenny, like a typical cottage garden. I'm guessing if it was your ivy tree, that's why whoever chopped it back returned the branches to you, as I think that's what you're supposed to do?? They should have asked though, instead of just chucking them into your garden. And that doesn't explain the rubble - very annoying. I like your ladybird nailbrush    

taff, the fire grate is another brilliant find.

Whoops, pressed post by accident...

YBE, hope you get your Fridays off again - you don't want your weekends to be full of domestic nonsense and shopping.

Good that you can get stuff delivered for the same price as going to the shops, Farway.

OT - lots of showers today, including one very heavy one. It was lovely yesterday afternoon/evening, but I made the mistake of wandering into the garden at 8pm to rescue a fallen pot, only to be bitten by midges - I was only outside for less than two minutes    

twopenny

So glad we don't have the midges Poppy. I love having all windows and doors open all day. 
Are midges all over Scotland or just in watery parts? Do they move wider areas if it rains?

The tree was on my land. You don't go into your neighbours garden and cut down their tree, not in bird nesting season, bats roosted there and the branches as well as some that weren't mine ..... And leave it all blocking a badger route.
Also the frame I made for a gate. Was broken up and the thin post snapped out of the ground where it was concreted in.
Really made a job of it.
If they'd cut my neighbours trees down she'd have been thrilled!

Been a nice heat here, warm, gentle sun, light breeze. 
Got the run cleared and have even more roses there 🙂
They were Poundland ones, took ages to get going but come good in the end. Photos later.
Now I know I should have put them in pots and nurtured them to get them started. Lesson learned as they say 😉

Dusty I took like tunnels of trees. Difficult to photograph so good going.

YoungBlueEyes

Shiftee Plants Dusty   A 4 yo muttering chaos theory Is he named Sheldon by any chance?  Your scary wood looks lovely and cool and inviting, not scary at all - I can smell it from here Be a good screensaver would that. 

Sorry 2p I meant would the useless son give you a hand humping stuff back over the fence...? Do something neighbourly for once in his life and give you a hand...?  I'll have a rake through my old gardening books this aft and see what the advice used to be about JF, or varmints in general. I've no further sightings of That Dirty Rat here but I doubt the block of stuff can claim credit - it was prolly about to cark it anyway.  Love your nail brushes, where'd you get them from? 

I vote you plant the sweetpeas in where the corn is/was Farway. That'll ensure they all grow like topsy (because it's not your original plan), and the peas can clamber up the corn  

Jeez look at all your aquileias Less! I've only ever seen purple ones (and white, on here), look at all the colours you've got there.  Brilliant Bee Bum  

Thanks for the compost info gb. If Erin is a bust I'll start looking for that  

I don't envy you those midges pp... how long 'til their season is over? Do they last the whole summer? 

OT well it was nice weather yesterday, same as 2p's. Just the right amount of warmth, bit sunny and cloudy, nice breeze. I could stick a lot of that Same again today but a bit cooler, possibly. Need to do some gardening weeding today really. Bluddy thistles and mare tail's and bind weed 

Oh and to add insult to injury the tea they serve in that cafe place we went to for breakfast last weekend was Tetley. Tetley! Old Ken must be spinning in his grave.

Farway

Dull but warm, it was a tad too hot for me yesterday, a walk slow hobble down Dusty's road tree tunnel would have been ideal.

YoungBlueEyes said:

I vote you plant the sweetpeas in where the corn is/was Farway. That'll ensure they all grow like topsy (because it's not your original plan), and the peas can clamber up the corn  

Oh and to add insult to injury the tea they serve in that cafe place we went to for breakfast last weekend was Tetley. Tetley! Old Ken must be spinning in his grave.

My sweet peas are a disaster, when I went to plant out yesterday I only had two growing, out of over a dozen sown, and one of those is a runt

I just popped them in a space I found, I'm fully expecting them to snuff it anyway

Had another look for my sweet corn, no signs at all. 

What I may do is sprinkle a packet of surplus mixed annuals in the sweet corn space and see what comes up.

Lucky you to get Tetley, most ones I use seem to use £land dishwater economy steeped in warm water 

That's awful about your tree, 2p. Do you think you may replace it with some other tree?

Very tempting to plant a Leylandii, but perhaps some nice ornamental something, shame you don't have very large garden or a nice cat wee tree would be ideal 

I was watching YT, some chap had spent years, and pounds, converting his front garden to wildlife friendly, came back one day & neighbour had sprayed & killed the lot.  

Untidy & weeds you see. Tinges of my volunteer garden.

He has a court case on the way, criminal damage.

Anyone seen this week's GW? 

For once, it had interesting items, including a bloke photographing bees, with his garden left as cultivated neglect for the wild flowers & bees. [Me & Taff?]

And the Indian lady who moved to the Lakes, goodness knows how she finds time

The young head gardener, hard work there but shows what is possible, but as Monty pointed out, she must be a whizz to have been under training at Wisley and then head-hunted for a plum job.

Just slightly jarring was the lady growing cut flowers for sale in her “back garden” which seems to be huge and not a typical garden or house at all.

Love those aquilegias Less, had to look at my poor pair, at least mine are setting seed so who knows in the future.

On a brighter note, the pelargoniums, from Morries, that overwintered outside, survived vine weevils & a Jeyes fluid drenching are looking good and set for summer

YoungBlueEyes

Speaking of name changes/wrong spellings/why can't they let stuff be, I saw this in my wee veg shop yesterday (forgive the queer angle, I was trying to keep me fizzog outta the picture ) - 



I wonder if they're a new something and I should tell them to avoid Shiftee Plants...

This was the moon last night. It was a peachy coral sort of a colour in real life that my phone really hasn't picked up, but anyway - 

The night before last Jesus was giving his freshly invented clouds an airing. Blackie didn't come to sing at them, so I take it they're a bust - 



The wispy Running Man in the middle of this has the moon as his belly button. Very pleasing in real life  

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

Dusty, I absolutely LOVE roads like that with a tunnel of trees - not scary at all. I think I must have been a wood nymph in a previous life    

It was quite pretty when I took the snap, but it can take on a different character in less pleasant weather. I had to stop because the potholes are so bad, and what you can't see, are the boggy areas each side of the single track to trap the unwary driver in winter. I was lucky. Nearing the end, a huge tractor pulling a dung spreader pulled out of a field and headed my way. In winter, I'd have had to reverse all the way back to the start of the wood, rather than risk getting stuck.

What a collection of aquilegias, Less! I love that 4th one.  And is that a Medlar flower I see? Ours are flowering too. Mrs Dusty didn't go mad pruning them last autumn!  Oh, you have some other tasteful plants....your peony is more tasteful than ours....an interesting foxglove, and a fetching bee bum to close.  Great stuff!

Your charitable neighbours don't sound very charitable or community-minded, 2p. Their volunteers seem to have overstepped their brief. Once some people put on organisational hats, they do things they'd never think of doing as individuals.

YoungBlueEyes said:

Thanks for the compost info gb. If Erin is a bust I'll start looking for that  

Had a look. Seems a good choice. I'll stick with the GC stuff for now, but who knows how long something unbranded will last, when so many of the branded ones have gone eco-naff? 

Bluey, maybe I'd better not tell you, Tetley's main base is in India now, not even in NE England....so I won't! 

'Tis quiet this morning, as life returns to what passes as normal around here.    It looked threatening half an hour ago, but now there's a smattering of blue sky. The stiff westerly wind is back again, so after a morning trip to civilization for larder replenishment, it should be a good day for digging out the old dung heap to finish filling the new tomato/ cucumber deep bed.  

I've shown these before. Although they are happiest in boggy ground, they're fine in ordinary soil, and even in our dry herb garden.

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Speaking of name changes/wrong spellings/why can't they let stuff be, I saw this in my wee veg shop yesterday (forgive the queer angle, I was trying to keep me fizzog outta the picture ) - 



I wonder if they're a new something and I should tell them to avoid Shiftee Plants...

Those are just the sort you'll never see again after the next winter. But look on the bright side, it's a greengrocer, and there's no apostrophe! 

I like your running man. I bet when you were at school you got into trouble for looking out of the window and not listening to important stuff, like how to use quadratic equations IRL.   

twopenny

I love an iris. Would love some of those but nowhere to put them. My garden certainly isn't boggy!
I've got some regular ones of the tall rooted variety doing magnificently in this weather. They are too tall being behind the fence as planted when I moved but they are impossible to move so they'll have to work it out for themselves 🙂

My traditional iris, deep red costalotta, deep purple from roadside hut and the usual tough ones show no signs of flowers again.
No idea why, they've been in expected places. Perhaps if I do the opposite, shady, boggy they might buck up.

Bluey, nail brushes from local DIY store. Whales, penguins all sorts. Very tempting. More fun than your average 😉
Love those osteowhatsits. Look really healthy and colourful.
Seems said DIY store doesn't have plants. Their stock room is full of tourist tat 😬

Mainly trying to sort out paperwork at the moment. How can you manage to loose stuff when you only have 4 rooms? 😵‍💫

Farway you've reminded me again, must check sweet peas. My self planted nurtured ones barely came through. The ones I bought in a pot and didn't divide were growing space.
They are probably entwined with the rose/wisteria/clematis debacle in the reading corner.

Next job to try and dig in all that compost I got so I can plant out winter veg plants. At least they are big and sturdy because I haven't been able to fiddle with them.
Pot plant runner beans which I forgot. May see what the DIY store has. They are a cheap price, small supplier and for a small amount no more than seed.

twopenny

Feel like the last little duck......
Here's the irises. No idea what they are but they are going over quickly in the heat so this was my chance 

It's the wind that makes them fuzzy not my camera 📸 skills so here's a close up. Any one knows what they are called?

LessImpecunious

Think that's a Siberian Iris 2P, I think its the fairly standard sp. one.  I have one exactly the same that I somehow accidentally came back with a piece of when helping out with local school gardening club a few years ago, which I nearly took a photo of to share yesterday.... Yes, that was a Medlar Dusty; and the Peony was the one that was supposed to be white - flowers sadly only last a few days...

I can claim no credit for the Aquilegias, they've all descended from a few odd ones that were here in the garden when we first moved here many moons ago, amalways amaed by the minor variations in new ones that pop up (and surprisngly, contra poppular opinion, don't all seem to head towards murky pink...)

Showery today, happy to go back to dry weather now please...