Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Dull & drizzle and looking out to dead, soggy leaves, hardly an inspiring start to the day

wort said:

Pp I love to cook bramley apples but agree the price is getting ridiculous. YBE those apples are a fab colour hope they tasted good.  

I've never really seen the need for specific cooking apples, however, with DD in the market for one more apple, I had a look, given the price of fresh apples.

Blimey, the price of trees has gone barmy, £35, gulp + P & P. I've not really looked very far, but it does make even Morries half dead ones look a bargain 

2P and apricot tree. Lucky you to have a non Nordic one. 

Can't advise on re potting from experience, best time is supposed to be around now but not sure with new growth showing it may be too much for the roots. 

Personally I'd give it a bit longer, then do it beginning/ mid Dec when it will be cooler with longer nights & growth should really be slow

Lumme, the pic upload is working, here's some late begonias on my front steps, with the non flowering Canna behind and a photo bombing fuschia

Straggling hanging tomatoes & pelargoniums in baskets on the hand rail

pink_poppy

What a beautiful photo, W_M

twopenny and YBE, I've just remembered that Home Bargains sell wee packets of Lebkuchen in the shape of gingerbread men - they're really nice and were only 99p when I bought them last year.

Hope posh friend has recovered, YBE. I hate the morning after the night before    
Have you tried your apples yet??

I'm so glad your DD is in her new home, wort. My DD is still looking after pulling out of the probate house.

Yay to getting a photo on, Farway.

Bit of a miserable morning - grey and damp, but not as cold as yesterday...

twopenny

All sorts of weather now! None of it sunshine and gardening weather.
But one little ray of sunshine is Mr Jingle Bells is in flower 🙂
Much of it on the sunny side (the other side) but I may have chopped some off when pruning the roses 


Farway, a bit later for the apricot is really what I thought.
Stuff is still growing, just, and it's possible we get a mild spell shortly - she says hopefully.

YoungBlueEyes

Having another go! 

10'c 2p :clapping: I don't know about your apricot tree, but if it's throwing out shoots it can't be dying so maybe leave it for a wee while? Mr Jingle Bells is well named, is it fragrant as well as pretty?

Farway what's your T3sc0s like for fruit trees? That's where my apple came from, Plaino Discoveryus Gallus or summat. They were 2 fer £12 3 years ago so they'll not be that now but they'll not be £35 each Robbin swines. Or are you tasked with finding a specific proper one..?  Woohoo for your pic working btw That's a lovely front+center flower, delicate 2 tone colour to it  

PF is fully recovered thanks pp, she doesn't suffer hangovers :rolleyes: I dropped her home and she'll get the train back here Monday morning - that's our system. She was missing her own bed bless her, and there's nothing more comforting than your own bed. So is dd back house-hunting again then? That Doncaster one with all that garden is still for sale...

Is it taff or wort that's a goth? Are you going to Whitby for the celebrations? It was on my radio in the car about all the stuff they're laying on and hoping the weather behaves...

OT still mild, still windy, and the sun never really got going. I've had 2 loads out all day anyway but the humidity didn't lift tbh. Miserable. There's more rain to come overnight too, apparently.

Reading the news and she's not only got him out of her party palace she got his proper title off him too! I think it's time for Little Lugs to take a turn, thankyouplease.   While the site is up again, here's a link for a story about samhain and witches and stuff (now it's dark, seems more appropriate in the darkness) - https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/halloween-history-irish-accused-witches-dr-niav-gallagher-6860293-Oct2025/  I think they keep stripping the good stuff out of the comments sections, I've not read anything good for days now

greenbee

We're not thrilled that he's being moved to this part of the world YBE. I don't think there will be a welcoming committee somehow... 

twopenny

Love your hanging basket Farway. Lushious colour. I wish I could do that but it's not a skill I have.
Careful if you watch GW. You might want to cover your ears for some.

I've got a new tree I want. Saw a Sorbus at the GC. Wisley something. Beautiful bronze leaves with gold berries.
But then another cropped up on the telly, Sorbus small with white berries.
So that's another field I need, woodland to go with the orchard.

Good news on your friend Bluey. Hope it makes her feel better after a week away. 

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on the Day of the Dead

Not surprised there'll be no welcoming committee gb. I was just reading there that rumblings have started over street names - Prince Andrew Street type thing - and are they going to be changed. Hmmm. More importantly, how's AnonymousDog? Was that his first Halloween was it? 

I've never heard of Sorbus 2p. Just looked it up, how muckin fuch?! £325 Hopefully there'll be lots of 000's on our Rottery win cos we'll need em I do like a Mountain Ash though so lets get a few in every colour combo

Poss do gardening today, bit of tittivating and sorting. I've got begonias in tubs but I want the tubs now for daffs so they'll have to be planted. I can hear the slugs smacking their lips as I type, but #Shawshank. 

Oh and I haven't eaten an apple yet, that's pudding tonight with a chunk of cheese mmmm  

OT mild and breezy and a bit less damp this morning. 10'c currently and a high of 13 to come, they say. No rain either so the first load of himself's gear is in the washer. Rock'n'Roll ha haa!

greenbee

Yes, it was Stinky’s first Halloween YBE.  But he was unaware!

I have several Sorbus. Normal red ones in the wood next door, and my neighbour’s garden. Pink, white, and yellow berries in my garden ☺️

Dustyevsky

I'm still around, but somewhat busy, so I'll have a proper catch-up later.......

Theoretically we're getting our road hedges cut today, but the guy who does it isn't known for reliability, and I don't know if his timetable is am or pm. I somehow doubt he'll do exactly what we ask, because he didn't last year.    However, he's very neat and careful, so we keep him on, despite the drawbacks. 

I wouldn't think paying over £300 for any tree is worthwhile, when small ones establish better, unless you're landed gentry, with an army of diggers and personnel to operate them etc. I've never been able to grow a really satisfactory Sorbus, so I'd avoid those, and go for a Malus instead. They have similar characteristics. £80 is the sort of price to aim for in the GCs.

And speaking of trees with berries, if you're patient, there's no need to pay for a good display. This tree, and its relatives, all came from seeds picked-up on the grass by the toilets at Rosemoor. OK, that was about 20 years ago!     Forward planning!  OT: Sunshine and showers, 12c. Warming-up a little more again next week, but rain in the frame most days. 

Farway

Sunshine but very windy, best just to look out & not go out

YoungBlueEyes said:

Farway what's your T3sc0s like for fruit trees? That's where my apple came from, Plaino Discoveryus Gallus or summat. They were 2 fer £12 3 years ago so they'll not be that now but they'll not be £35 each Robbin swines. Or are you tasked with finding a specific proper one..?  Woohoo for your pic working btw That's a lovely front+center flower, delicate 2 tone colour to it  

I think I'm in the only spot without a large T3sco shed, there's one a few miles away but I'd be driving past Morries, Asda & B & Q to get there, so not worth the effort

Your apple, if it's Discovery, sound good, but not a keeper so I read, get tucked into them, with some nice cheese

I do need a specific root stock, M9 or M26 for DD, it will be near a fence in a confined space, so needs to be restricted & trained and not some wild mis-labeled monster from Trotters Trading 

I also would like some variety that you can't readily buy in greengrocers, leaning towards a russet but tempted by silly names, like Dogs snout, Bloody ploughman or Peasgood nonsuch

I can see those criteria costing more than a tenner, but it will last a lifetime & maybe in future years as DD is tucking into apple crumble she can think back to poor old dad who bought & planted it, and perhaps a tear will trickle down her rosy cheeks 

Talking of apples, I tried my solitary Sunset yesterday, only small with the summer, but excellent, I'll look forward to next year's crop, if all else fails it would do for DD

Nice berry pic Dusty, and second getting malus, crab apple, some lovely ones around, and if you got the larger fruiting ones, lots of jam / jelly to be had

While I'm on a roll, this is a crab apple to the back of me, laden this year. It's blossom helps pollinate my trees, no idea of variety, but it is picture in the sunshine

Lower half of pic, the red tree