Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Hello Bargain 🙂 yes I agree with you. And I love you the smell of rain on dry tarmac. Always have.

Someone kindly complimented my floriferous garden and it's nice to get compliments but what's posted is going to be something nice to make people happy.
The realism is a photograph of the grotty bits 🥴
The rose that was a horrible mistake. It looked and smelled lovely in the garden centre and I rarely pay their prices.
I've been meaning to move it to the badger run but weather has been against me.
This is what I mean 

Flowers to tight for bees, blackspot all over all season, flowers brown in rain and weak and weedy growth.
It's only good point is it's growing 🫤

-taff

That did make me giggle...If I showed you a picture of my garden at the moment, I'd win for ugliness...Anyway, everyone has a piece in their garden where some things just get shoved from pillar to post because they don't work or don't like it. I've moved some geums and some heucheras several times now, 

This year I have my eye on the russian sage, it's far too close to a philadelphus, which is very pretty and smels of bubblegum which I'm not that fond of really, I like the OG...

Also a fan of petrichor - lookit me using big words!

Dustyevsky

Careful, taff, there's a danger of contracting sesquipedalianism, or even logorrhoea using them big words, especially if you do it with some of Bluey's 'gay abandon!'   But you and 2p are right, most gardens I visit have a naff area somewhere. Ours is over the two septic tanks, but I won't go there.....and that's the problem!  Unspeakable, illicit growth goes on behind the cardoons. 

Farway's right too. My last insect was indeed a Bee Fly, not a Hummingbird Moth as I first thought. April's too early in the year for those. Here's a better picture: 

Apparently this nice wee creature is disguised as a bee, so it can enter the brood chambers of solitary bees unopposed and then lay its eggs inside the bee larvae.....The rest I'll leave to your imagination!  Shades of 'Alien.'   

OT: After a horrible downpour, lasting hours, in the latter part of yesterday, we have a dull, dry morning wet morning....spoke too soon!.  It looks as if others had things much worse, even as close as Plymouth, so I'm grateful. Yesterday, I did the big shop at lightning speed, so got home before things became a trifle difficult on the local roads. No actual lightning here, but I heard rumbles. That could have been live firing on Dartmoor, though. 

Farway

Dull with bit of a cold wind, however it's supposed to warm up & the sun is creeping out right now, so maybe the forecast is right. 

No rain or funder here last night, was promised but nowt come of it.

Should be easy ferry crossing for YBE, assuming today is return to mainland day

twopenny said:

Hello Bargain 🙂 yes I agree with you. And I love you the smell of rain on dry tarmac. Always have.

Flowers to tight for bees, blackspot all over all season, flowers brown in rain and weak and weedy growth.
It's only good point is it's growing 🫤

Hi Bargain, hope you find like-minded folks on here

2P, sometimes just growing is the biggest bonus, and at least it covers bare earth, or manhole cover etc.

I've been, unsuccessfully, trying to get a pic of the embryo grapefruits. They are near top of the tree and a bit precarious for me and my wobbles to get a clear view. Perhaps once [if] they get large it will be easier.

Out very early, feed & water the courgettes. It's the manky plum & good rhubarbs turn later today.

The mixed flower seeds sown the other week are romping away now, still too small to tell what is what.

Today's pic is Kelvedon Wonder peas, these are a bonus because they are the ones I started growing to eat as pea shoots, but found the taste insipid, so planted on into pots for real peas

Although not grown for the flowers, I think the flower is quite pretty

twopenny

Beautiful farway 😊
Makes me want to paint that pea flower it's so pretty. Who'd a thought.

Grapefruit is going posh! I do like an experiment and they did say on GW that the Med is coming to England. You're right in line for it too.

Waited for 4.5hrs for some doctor to ring yesterday at their request. No a peep or apology 😬
They were probably phoning from Africa and there's a time difference.
So I got a lot of rotten roses dead headed, a whole bucket full and that's only the front 🫤

We got the downpour last night but the ground still isn't wet.
Sunny spells?

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:
Our Drs are usually pretty good, twopenny. Hope you get your phone call and don't have to wait too long. Your garden is looking gorgeous.
OT, I'm still under the weather I walked to the pharmacy yesterday to pick up a prescription and it felt so humid, I was literally wilting by the time I got home. It feels a wee bit fresher today, but still quite sticky. Rain forecast, so hopefully that'll clear things.

Sorry, I missed your bunny post yesterday pp, and a few more.

While it might not be relevant, I hope you're keeping your Dr/NI fully updated, especially as you were hoping to return to work. None of my business, I know, but the following is why I mention that.....

Mrs D's very lucrative seasonal job elsewhere went bang five years ago, thanks to Covid. She then lost most of her mobility, and didn't foresee an early return to her kind of employment near here. She didn't register for any kind of benefit, either. That was extremely noble of her, but the decision meant she had to pay over £2k recently in NI stamps to achieve full pension rights. 

YoungBlueEyes

Back on the mainland now. 

Ok here’s some easy ID’s then. 

Diddy wee daisies and big fluffy purple daisies aren’t a bit hard to grow evidently. There were walls of them down there, walls of them - 

And some yellow summats they’re were growing out of a gap in the hotel car park wall 

OT ever so warm today. Be nice to back Oop Norf where the air isn’t so humid and muggy all the time  

Farway

Isn't the top one of YBE flower the Eriwhatisits that grow down steps and self seed everywhere, except Farway Towers

Second one, some sort of Cape daisy?

Third, dunno, good shot of Ladybird Bum though 

greenbee

I think the third is hypericum (St John's Wort)

YBE - it's still hot and humid this far north. We had spectacular thunderstorms last night, but it's still muggy. 

YoungBlueEyes

Yep the first one is those eriwosname daisies that everyone but me and Farway can grow. There were whole swathes of them, anywhere and everywhere fgs. The purple ones I don’t know but they were all over the place too. 

Just searched and I didn’t get a closeup pic 😲 

There were also quite a lot of these everywhere - 

And a fair few of these 

There were mare’s tails galore but I can’t find a pic… I’m sure I took plenty cos I couldn’t believe they let them grow into full hedges and just leave them. 

Anyway. I like you rose 2p, it’s a beggar the bees can’t get in there though eh. 

Nice peas Norma. Sorry I mean Farway ha haa! 

I don’t know how you’d check this, but it seems to me the whole country is under the same sort of clouds today. Fluffy puffy white ones, it’s all we’ve seen so far 😊

Filthy muggy still, sunshine and clouds. The humidity hardly dropped below the 70’s% on the IOW, I’d have thought the breezes would’ve kept it lower, but nope. 

Oh and I saw JackieO and gave her a shake and said would she start posting again please, and she has 👏🏻 (Joke, mods!)