Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

That's going to be a good haul of rasps, Bluey!  I don't know why we haven't any yet, when they're so easy to please. 

twopenny said:

Hmmmm my last post has vanished 🤔
Don't think I said anything controversial.....

Maybe the site was misbehaving, like Bluey said? It appears OK now. If you have a post removed for nawtyiness, there will be an email from the friendly mods to confirm you have transgressed. Don't ask how I know! 

Anyone could mistake Abbotsbury for Hartland Abbey....they both have connections with abbots, but only the latter has a 4-part walled garden and a fairly level walk to the Atlantic if you fancy the beach as well. 

Farway said:

Managed to get a pic of my grapefruits, on the bush from seed sown by DS about thirty years ago

It flowered eight years ago but fruit never set. Flowered again this year & fruit seems to have set.

From here on, its new territory.

I don't see why not. I've been minding a lemon tree belonging to DD2. It has fruit. It sat wrapped in fleece all winter in the polytunnel, but we didn't have a lot of frost. I kick it out as soon as I dare because it has bugs, but the lemons persist, regardless. Fortunately, it will shortly be going to a new home. 

Yesterday's trip brought us in close contact with some recently mentioned plants. Here's Mrs Dusty contemplating a Madeira-like Echium that's slumped handily against a buttress in the walled garden, no doubt after a battering from the sea winds there. Will we get away with one here?  I have 3 on the go. 

Farway

Hot already, not looking forward to the 30 deg supposedly arriving end of the week

Can't identify your weed Wort, but it's lovely. Def a touch of antirrhinum [sp?] in there.

Perhaps it could be a sub for us Eriwhatisats fails. I wouldn't mind it creeping around my steps.

Another one getting the error messages, backwards & forwards.

Nice lot of rasps there YBE, and a weedy trough. 

Odd how troughs get weedy, I have one. They start life as a magnificent display and overnight become infested. Wouldn't be too bad if they had Wort's pretty striped rabbit weeds.

YoungBlueEyes said:

That sounds like a queer going on with your figs Farway, what's occurring? Is it a bug or something?  Woohoo to the grapefruit though, I bet the squirrels leave them be! Which perennials did morries provide? I better not plant any foxgloves then, if they'll only choke out my non-existent LiaMs and erinigiwosnames.

No idea on fig troubles, never had it before. I haven't cut one open, if I spot another one I'll cut open & check . Could be global boiling heat related, like a million aphids now love buddleias, which have always been bombproof for centuries.

My Morries perennials, 3 for 2 = £2 each, are Tanacetum,, Gaillardia & Eryngium Planum. 

Commonly known as Tansy / Painted daisy 

https://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/tanacetum-coccineum-robinsons-red/

Blanket flower https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-gaillardia/

Sea Holly https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-eryngiums/

The border “soil” is rich yellow brick clay & dog poo, but I did find a worm as I was excavating a planting hole 

A Rook crowbar would help with hole making 

The plants are robust, if they get going, and a self sown nasturtium has popped up, so with luck I may get a reasonable display there next year, if not later this year

The digging has however mucked up my back, I'm hobbling about this morning, which is a bummer because I wanted to water the pots before it gets really scorching later.

They'll be OK for a few days, just wanted to get ahead of the game for once

Good luck to all job hunters / haters. 

A DGD started her first “proper” adult job this week. No idea what, but she passed whatever is Law at Uni, so she could be legalling at Winchester, or following the fine examples set by YBE & 2P 

Today's pic, Geranium Rozanne, I bought a young ones last year after coveting her for years. Still in pot & not in final spot.

Maybe a place in DP border?

Dustyevsky

wort said:

Can anyone identify this weed? It's working its way across my gravel , it has thin roots that break easily! 

It's Striped toadflax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linaria_repens

The Common toadflax is also pretty, but it can be quite invasive too.

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/common-toadflax

-taff

I have some of that Farway, the gaillardia, I was hoping to make more of it for next year after it's done it's business this year.. This is the pot where things got shoved in so they didn't die..No thought is behind this display at all. 

About the watering, can you not just stick the end of the hose in instead of carrying cans? Or as I have seen Emma, she of the Allotment Diaries do, get one of those extendable hoses with a gun on the end so you can point and shoot..

Your rasps are enromous ybe, bet they'd make a nice jar of jam...or on some meringues. Yes, I can let it regrow but now that I've ungrowed it, I might just keep it that way. Plans are affot to remove the keyhole bed and turn it into dead hedging to give some protection to next years crops. I have the same problem with OH. I have to hide anything I want to eat [or dirnk if it's alcohol] because it just disappears..."Well, it was in the fridge for 2 days" Yes you moron, I can wait to treat myself sometimes...[as long as it's not plants that is]  I also have a weedy trough. 

Dusty, shame about the escapees but you gets what you gets sometimes.  Especially if you don't hav google maps on your phone. Or what3words. And that's an impressive specimen...Better than a sports car anyway. 

wort, pretty! I used PictureThis  

Hot here, two loads of washing out drying, four more panes of glass cleaned, some seal returned to the greenhouse, and I'm going out with my tape measure to square it off after my cup of tea. the tomatoes are wilting every day because they're in too small pots now so the long running argument between me and OH about mirrored glass in the greenhouse is about to come to an end because I need it for my tomatoes. Now.

-taff

Errr...I also have some in the front garden I forgot about and they're starting to spread now, which I'm very happy about. They've been flowering for the past four weeks so far. Boutgh from a stall selling plants for drought at a fair three years ago, i grew some from the seed last year, then left the two plants that survived to it and that's this year, so hopefully, they will spread more. It's a definite thumbs up plant from me

Farway

-taff said:

I have some of that Farway, the gaillardia, I was hoping to make more of it for next year after it's done it's business this year.. This is the pot where things got shoved in so they didn't die..No thought is behind this display at all. 

About the watering, can you not just stick the end of the hose in instead of carrying cans? Or as I have seen Emma, she of the Allotment Diaries do, get one of those extendable hoses with a gun on the end so you can point and shoot..

I hope my gaillardia turn out like yours, tough & get on with it, make a nice bright patch at the front

Watering, I'm OK with hose at the back, which is what I use and is ideal. 

The watering cans are for tubs / pots at the front of the house, no tap out there & don't want to drag mucky hose through the house, it's terrace so no handy side entry work round either.

It's about nine or ten trips, maybe twice a week.

A rod for my own bad back, but I knew that when I decided to green & brighten up the front with pots. So no one to blame but me.

What I need is Ernie to cough up, then I can employ an urchin to do the job while I organise Rottery Acres

wort

Ybe that’s an impressive raspberry plot. I did try a couple of raspberry canes but only ever got a couple of pinhead sized fruit. I think I should have watered them. Thanks for the offer.

2 p my nails do grow but in recent years they get ridges length ways and split down which makes them split all down so you can’t cut and file off. So I need gel polish now to hold them together. Otherwise I’d need plasters on every nail when working as they catch constantly.

Dusty Linaria looks a good shout, mine don’t have the yellow bit though and I noticed it smells nice whilst I was down there getting the photo.

Farway grapefruit for breakfast and rhubarb for tea, with your plums it’s 3 of your 5 a day.

Managed a walk not too far today with friends stopped for a drink then walked back. Started warm and sun out then clouded over, a couple of spit spots now. Nicer tomorrow they say.

wort

Maderia waterfront 

pink_poppy

That patterned path would have me falling over, wort 😳😂

YoungBlueEyes

Ha ha 2p so these places are all the same? Maybe it's people that are all the same...  Hopefully your got your strimming done at the right time?

I'm too late to ID your weed wort but I'd happily be knee deep in them They look as if they'd taste like a blackcurrant/menthol sorta flavour. I can't get toadflax growing here. For your nails have you tried a glass nail file? They're much gentler so take a little longer but they don't rip at the nail edge so much. I can recommend them    Madeira front looks very inviting, as long as I didn't need to use that path to get there *gulp*

That's a drunken looking echithump Dusty! That song said that "threee is the magic number" so I reckon yours will be alright. Does lemon tree have a moving out date..?

I've had all sorts in that trough Farway but they never make a go of it.  Lavanders, marigolds, pansies, petunias, you name it, they all refuse to grow in there no matter what. So now it's full of whatever that little-leaved thing is I've got all over the place and it's thriving *sigh*  I like your 3 morries selections, I could definitely go for them. Except the gallardo, there's certainly no room on the front for one of them ha haa! Congrats to DGD on her proper job. Daddy always spoke very fondly of the courts at Winchester so I hope it's the same for her

Your no-thought display looks rightly to me taff, and I like the ...container.. they're in   Will you need OH to move the mirrored glass? If not I'd just keep my mouth shut and do it. It's alright having equality and 'everyone's opinion matters' etc, but not when some people are wrong Your toms need it! Love your tricolour plant, and the roof tiles. They do look well together  

Apparently none of us have the rottery, a ticket in Ireland got it, so if it's one of my lot we're sorted! Odds are slim mind, Cissie would rather eat her own feet, Beloved Cousin might have, and Adored Grandson almost certainly won't have. But you never know! :fingerscrossed: 

OT too bladdy warm even this early. The house is all opened up but I'm really doing is swopping heat for humidity. 16'c currently and a high of 23' to come. There is a bit of a breeze though thank you god. 

Oh and I got called upstairs to Big Boss Man yesterday. I admitted and apologised for using a bit of bad language and he wasn't at all concerned. "Ignore them, they lock horns every so often and then it dies down again. Were there any clients in reception?" Nope just me and the other phone-answering chai-walla-ette. "Good. Well, get kettle on then poppet. Coffee, milk no sugar." So that's how bullockings work when no seems to actually care about resolving problems, there's no effective command structure, and it's the 1950's