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 😁