Awful weather - typical Brits talk

LessImpecunious

Oh, forgot, one from before the lichen pics - an unexpected spot of colour in the grass

-taff

Not that the rest of your photos aren't good but that tree is A Mazing...Love the flowers hanging in there too...

Great hog news Dusty....

I have finished hedge #2, someone kindly dropped off their apple tree prunings...#3 is about to start because apparently they have too many to burn...know what I'll be doing this week to avod digging the fruit cage..It's only a tiddler at about twelve foot..

Topped up the other one which is about 24ft

Those two beds in front of the long bed will be shifting across a bit towards the viewpoint, the long bed is for my tomatoes next year. 

I'm sorry I'm banging on about my hedges but I am really excited with them, who knows what gothy me would have said about that thrity years ago [ yes, it was me ybe] 

LessImpecunious

Thanks for kind photo comment taff -  dead hedges seem fairly appropriate for a goth 

Really just popping back (for Devonians particularly) to say that both Rosemoor and Hartland Abbey featured in the latest edition of GW, though I didn't recognise any of the former from your pics Dusty...

I used to regularly fall asleep in GW too, sorted by now watching it with a TV dinner...

twopenny

I love the tree too Less, took notes of the composition for future reference 😊
I saw the one on Hartland, didn't realise it was a Gertrude Jekyll garden. Got to go next summer for sure.
And I love the firey red plants. I keep looking up their name and keep forgetting 😕

Wort love the hedges. The birds and beasties will love them too.
You seem to have a lot of growing area. Do you have a family of 6 to feed?

It's been freezing here and a bitter wind , rain from the artic but I did get the toms sorted and found small purple sprouting broccoli plants hiding underneath which was a bonus.
Saving garlic chive seeds too in case I move. Soil is definitely wet enough for cuttings so that's next on the list.

Smothered the bird feeder pole with vaseline. I feel mean to the squirrel but not the rats 🥶 

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on World Sandwich Day  

I wonder what'll happen with your plums 2p, will they get big enough to ripen indoors at least? Any luck house-hunting? Anything taking your fancy..? 

Farway I can't decide if your Pinova looks like a tart little beggar or Golden Delicious-y nothingy fluff. Have you tried one yet?

Dusty it was me asking about your hogs, I'm pleased to hear they're all ok now. Fingers crossed you get a break in the weather to get to Rosemoor. 

Nice of people to be thinking of you while OH is traipsing about Thailand but you don't strike me as the lonely sort taff. More the 'ooh I spent too long sharpening me chainsaw and now I've missed dinner, again' sort ha haa. I like your dead hedges and could stick a lot of pics of them, I've never seen one in real life.

I agree with other about the pics Less, they're really good. The oak tree is a peaceful one and I like the larch+lichen one too - there's a crisp cold Scandiwegian feel to it. Lovely.

OT pouring in the rain out there and cool with it. My phone says it's 11'c and Feels Like 3'. Neither are true imo. As long as the rain stops before I set off for work I don't mind. Bluddy windy today, possibly. Gusting 35mph all day, they say. 

greenbee

Stinky, stripey cat and I have already been out - cold and damp. Cat is still out, I’m back in bed with coffee and the other cat as a foot warmer! Similar temps to YBE, and wind speeds. So not a nice day for squeezing in bits of gardening in between work meetings. 

I got some onions and shallots in over the weekend, and scattered broccoli and cavalo Nero between the rows. I know it’s the wrong time of year for brassicas, but all the stuff sown at the right time is over, and I’m hoping it’ll provide some ground cover. I’m also hoping to get a bit more garden time next weekend as the veg plot paths need clearing and cardboard/woodchip putting down, and I have several veg beds to weed, mulch and either plant winter crops in or sow green manure in.

Premium bond draw tomorrow. Hoping to win enough for retirement.

twopenny

Morning all. Shame about the the work Bluey. Maybe it will be a fun day 😉 
No properties coming on the market but I'm spending the winter clearing out, packing up and getting jobs done.

With the current weather and temperatures unlikely I'll get a plum crop but there's so many of them. I guess it's what wouldn't come in spring because of the dry. 
I had to dig up that tree when I d just planted it because neighbour replaced my fence with 6' panels while I was moving and it blew down.
Said she'd help pay for new then when done wouldn't so it's not the first time we've not got on.

Greenbee,, I sowed Dwarf kale plants in January when I moved in here and got a crop from them. You never know 

So wet here I've got to bail out my big pot pond because it's overflowing.
But woke up to a tropical 10c 😁

Dustyevsky

LessImpecunious said:

Really just popping back (for Devonians particularly) to say that both Rosemoor and Hartland Abbey featured in the latest edition of GW, though I didn't recognise any of the former from your pics Dusty...

I used to regularly fall asleep in GW too, sorted by now watching it with a TV dinner...

Thanks for the heads-up.    I've just watched the relevant bits with breakfast. The soporific music still had me nodding! 

Your last batch of photos is exceptional, especially the tree by the Wye.  You achieved what I failed to do with the beeches along the River Barle a few weeks ago. Admittedly, we'd lost the sun by then, and there was little time to compose, thanks to the pace my walking pal sets, but those are limp excuses! 

However, I've featured lots of Rosemoor Cool and Hot Garden photos over the years, so I'll dig out one of each, toot sweet. 

Hot Garden:

Cool Garden:

Time is pressing again  , so I'll hope to return later on today. It's due to be dull and windy, but not too cold, or wet...We'll see!

Farway

Another one with a wet & windy day, just suits a Monday in November, even if it is Sandwich day.

I'll have to congratulate Less on the Oak pics, I like the Galls + Leaves especially, but all are good 'uns

YoungBlueEyes said:

Farway I can't decide if your Pinova looks like a tart little beggar or Golden Delicious-y nothingy fluff. Have you tried one yet?

Tried one, mixed result. Very juicy but I don't think quite ripe, it was OK but a tad astringent, not sharp, but not sweet either. Maybe one of those late apples that needs to ripen off the tree a bit? I have more so I'll leave them a while longer

Just checked some on line tasting notes, they talk of juicy, Sweet & Tart. Seems my taste buds are still OK 

One of it's ancestors is Golden D, another one is Cox's so it has the breeding to taste good.

Had to pick them 'cos birds were pecking, so must be bird ripe anyway

Be fine in a pie with some sugar & custard

No gardening, too wet & windy, except maybe snooze in front to GW as they trot round Rosemoor. 

greenbee said:

Premium bond draw tomorrow. Hoping to win enough for retirement.

Me 2, well I'm already retired so I may get some fit young person to do my garden while I moan at them from my lounger, if I chose wisely, or foolishly, get one who can also rub Tiger Balm [other embrocations are available] into my achy bits 

-taff

Windy but only a tiny bit drizzly so far..

Haven't watched GW this week or the last of Beechgrove but when I do watch it, I also tend to fall asleep in front of it.

2p, it is a large growing area, it;s a full plot but I'm only feeding us two, last year was pants though so hoping this coming one will be better. I am planning on relocating lots of my plants to it though, pretties and usefuls, to make it more garden than plot or at least a mix. And there are some permanent plants hopefully, like three artichokes and a cardoon and some Asturian tree cabbage that take up lots of space. The bed to the left of the long hedge will be for carrots...that's made out of the sleepers that were part of my back garden. The rest of them will also go to the lotment to edge beds.

If I ever do get a glut, there are food waste initiatives round here that will take stuff, so I expect they'll be inundated with runner beans and courgettes next year  

The hedges, and it isnt clear in those photo's are stuffed mostly at a 45 degree angle so when it comes ot topping up I just push more in at that angle and it lays quite neatly. Chunky stuff went on the bottom and then I started layering. Less, I did laugh at that, I suppose it is  

Lov the photos Dusty, imagine having all that space and being able to experiment everywhere...I love how different they are, the trouble is , we'd normally only get a few gardens and the choices are so many and the space so few unless you want to be shifting stuff around non stop. And lookit the flooe in the second one! That I would love, something non dippy and holey and ready to break to your ankle..

On world sandwich day, I made a cake and toast so far, does it count? 

You need a point stick to point with Farway and a pith hat too if you're going to get a man/boy/slave in