Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Apodemus

Farway said:

Rain's arrived as forecast, the only garden related activities today are waiting for my T &M seeds to arrive, according tho the post tracker they are "out for delivery"

Ha! T&M told me that twice and the stuff never arrived! T&M had such a disastrous year that I really can't trust them any more. Even the soggy red geraniums that I nursed back to health after they arrived in a state of decay, turned out to be pink when they finally flowered!

Black_Cat2

Farway said:

Rain's arrived as forecast, the only garden related activities today are waiting for my T &M seeds to arrive, according tho the post tracker they are "out for delivery"

I'm trying to get my garden related photos in some sort of order, at least in digital albums where taken.

One of the "blessing" with digital is the ability to take squillions of photos and then be left trying to sort wheat [rare] from chaff [common]

With lock down I decided I'd try and compile Autumn themed album, but have quickly realised there are only so many images of golden yellow leaves before it become boring, hence branching out to toadstools etc.

A work in progress but here's one from last week's Wisley visit that fits the Autumn theme

Blimey what a picture F!  So full of colour.  Wonder how long they took to put him together? Thought the base/shoulders might have been a pumpkin but that would've had to have been the biggest pumpkin in history! 😹

Black_Cat2

Apodemus said:

Farway said:

Rain's arrived as forecast, the only garden related activities today are waiting for my T &M seeds to arrive, according tho the post tracker they are "out for delivery"

Ha! T&M told me that twice and the stuff never arrived! T&M had such a disastrous year that I really can't trust them any more. Even the soggy red geraniums that I nursed back to health after they arrived in a state of decay, turned out to be pink when they finally flowered!

*makes note to never use T&M* 😁

Black_Cat2

Davesnave said:

My Screwfix order was actually screws for some trellis I'm supposed to be making, having had the wood sitting there since April. I nail the trellis together with galvanised nails, but often need to do a bit of 'working out' for the spacing first, and it's easier to remove screws than nails when I make the inevitable mistakes.

On Monday, her outdoors and I took down 82' of Cotoneaster simmonsii to base level and stuffed it all into the back of the van somehow, so now we have a heap larger than the van to dispose of. Bonfires are OK here when the wind is right, but it probably won't be sensible to attempt to burn our autumn stuff till December anyway. Ideally, I'd chip it.

The cotoneaster was a huge disappointment, as it wasn't even partially evergreen, the birds weren't that keen on the berries and individual plants died in summer droughts, leaving bare bits. I know now the only reliably evergreen cotoneaster is 'lactea' but it's hardly any use for a low hedge.

Shame about your cotoneaster D, I have one that is being gradually trained up our fence.  Don't know the variety but it's evergreen and has a fair few berries on it at the moment.  A number of blackbirds have been visiting it (or might be the same one coming back again and again lol) for those berries. Hope you won't be out off trying to grow another one? 

Davesnave

Black_Cat2 said:

Davesnave said:

My Screwfix order was actually screws for some trellis I'm supposed to be making, having had the wood sitting there since April. I nail the trellis together with galvanised nails, but often need to do a bit of 'working out' for the spacing first, and it's easier to remove screws than nails when I make the inevitable mistakes.

On Monday, her outdoors and I took down 82' of Cotoneaster simmonsii to base level and stuffed it all into the back of the van somehow, so now we have a heap larger than the van to dispose of. Bonfires are OK here when the wind is right, but it probably won't be sensible to attempt to burn our autumn stuff till December anyway. Ideally, I'd chip it.

The cotoneaster was a huge disappointment, as it wasn't even partially evergreen, the birds weren't that keen on the berries and individual plants died in summer droughts, leaving bare bits. I know now the only reliably evergreen cotoneaster is 'lactea' but it's hardly any use for a low hedge.

Shame about your cotoneaster D, Hope you won't be out off trying to grow another one? 

No, we've another 30  of another type I planted as a hedge when a neighbour  assured me he would be repairing his fence 'very soon.' That was 7 years ago. He's sold up and moved away, but the cotoneasters are holding the fence up now and gradually replacing it.

Davesnave

The rain wasn't as intense here as it seems to have been elsewhere south and east of us. Picked up the car from MoT garage this morning and met an 'interesting' 15' limb of a tree hanging down  vertically on my side of the road. Despite jumping on the limb and briefly hanging on it, Tarzan style, it wouldn't break off, so I phoned Devon Highways, who will get onto it, hopefully before nightfall.

It's not the first time I've had problems from a tree on that road. About 8 years ago, in a gale, a humungous branch literally swooped out of the wood and landed bang in front of me when I was returning to the garage with their courtesy car, an aged Rover 25. To be honest, the best thing that might have happened to that particular car didn't, because it stopped, though  with only inches to spare! It took a number of us to pull the big branch into the ditch. We then all went on our way, me still wondering how anybody, even British Leyland, could build a car with nowhere whatsoever to put your left foot!

Farway

I had tree / road problems years back, along a country road here, it was hire car& I was travelling on work business at the time, but managed to stop OK

A lorry had passed going opposite way just before and I think must have clipped the hanging boughs & down it came without driver being aware

Narrow road with high banks so turning round not an option.

Luckily some motor cyclists appeared from the opposite direction & between us we managed to get this lump of a tree back into woods

I thought afterwards those motor cyclists were very lucky, a few minutes earlier & behind the lorry & they could've been under the tree

BC2, those sculptures at Wisley, there are four located around the gardens, the four seasons. I saw the start of the frameworks before lock down in March, all now completed

https://www.rhs.org.uk/press/releases/Philip-Haas-s-The-Four-Seasons-to-go-on-show-for

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Davesnave said:

My Screwfix order was actually screws for some trellis I'm supposed to be making, having had the wood sitting there since April. I nail the trellis together with galvanised nails, but often need to do a bit of 'working out' for the spacing first, and it's easier to remove screws than nails when I make the inevitable mistakes.

On Monday, her outdoors and I took down 82' of Cotoneaster simmonsii to base level and stuffed it all into the back of the van somehow, so now we have a heap larger than the van to dispose of. Bonfires are OK here when the wind is right, but it probably won't be sensible to attempt to burn our autumn stuff till December anyway. Ideally, I'd chip it.

The cotoneaster was a huge disappointment, as it wasn't even partially evergreen, the birds weren't that keen on the berries and individual plants died in summer droughts, leaving bare bits. I know now the only reliably evergreen cotoneaster is 'lactea' but it's hardly any use for a low hedge.

Wow, that's a lot of hedge to dispose of !
Cotoneaster franchetii is my favoured one for a hedge and the berries are definitely liked by the birds, had a long hedge of it in the last place.
The worst hedging decision i made was escallonia, in my soil and conditions it got black spot each year and looked really horrid.
I think if i was going for hedging i'd go for a beech hedge now.

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Apodemus said:

Farway said:

Rain's arrived as forecast, the only garden related activities today are waiting for my T &M seeds to arrive, according tho the post tracker they are "out for delivery"

Ha! T&M told me that twice and the stuff never arrived! T&M had such a disastrous year that I really can't trust them any more. Even the soggy red geraniums that I nursed back to health after they arrived in a state of decay, turned out to be pink when they finally flowered!

Agree, hopeless company 🤨

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Evenin' all 😉
Rain for about 24 hours now, localised flooding soon methinks 😯