Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Lovely Farway 🙂 the berries and leaves that have survived have been astounding.

Dusty we have crabapple in the car parks here, all different colours but I couldn't get a good photo like you have.

I can't do much for colour but I have got plums coming and new blossom. It's truly weird as it's not sunny or warm 



Dusty, did you see that the West Somerset railway is on channel 4?
My stomping ground 😊

Been working on the house and clearing out, organising but it was cold and turned to torrential rain and freezing.
So even the little plant I was going to move didn't happen.

Dustyevsky

That's a fine Malus you have a view of, Farway. Sometimes, having a view of another's tree or shrub is almost as good as owning it, and there's no work involved, unless it's coming over the boundary, of course!  Neighbours' roses may be both a blessing and a curse. 

I did see part of the West Somerset Railway programme, 2p. Thanks for the heads-up.  Lots of drone footage there. Maybe I can catch up on the rest. Others have control of the TV currently!    .... Wow, you have a really optimistic plum tree! 

Our tractor guy did show up yesterday, and we struck lucky, dodging the showers while he was working. It's a relief to be tidy again along the roadside, especially when all the surrounding hedges have been cut.

Now I'll have to look at fence post replacement on the inside (above), and the chain saw will be needed to prepare for that, especially where there's blackthorn. We had a good crop of sloes this year, but they were small.

While Mr Tractor was cutting, I began clearing the polytunnel of tomatoes and marigolds. Hopefully, most of the whitefly went with them. I believe there were more of those on the marigolds than on the toms they were 'protecting.' 

Today, more sunshine and showers, but cooler, with a brisk wind around the middle of daylight hours. Still no sign of a Rosemoor trip.    

twopenny

They've only just been trimming the hedges around here last week Dusty so you're not late.

Sunshine this morning but 5c so another chilly one.
The garden is sodden, covered with leaves and not inviting. May wrap up and take leaves off tomato plants as there are still some desperately trying to ripen. No sweetness to them but a lovely tomatoey flavour.

Otherwise it's indoor stuff. Clouds are gathering as I post despite the 'dry all day' forecast.

Woken early by idiot son. Seems because I said 7am was more reasonable some year ago then Sunday at 6.45 from outside my bedroom is deemed ok so between no Sunday lie ins ever again and a heavy shower out there I'm going to be grumpy 😐

Farway

Woke up to hammering rain, but the sky is now blue, so I guess that lot has moved on, at least I'm now spared having to water 

No gardening today, too wet of course, but I did spot something, a fox I suspect, has tipped over a trough and the contents are over the path now

There were only some struggling muscari in there, which I was intending to move elsewhere anyway, just sped the move up a bit

Oooh, I'll have to have a look at my plum now 2P, only flowers I can see are some fuchsias and of course the stalwart nasturtiums

Picked the very last of my apples yesterday, Pinova. It's never done very well, dwarf rooting stock, in a large tub and probably not enough sunshine hours, Very tempted to move it if I had space somewhere

Here are the Pinova apples, only small, sort of tangerine sized, not tasted yet because it's never really fruited before the rats, birds, rot got them. The taste notes I've seen are mixed, Marmite reviews