Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

No to black anywhere thanks. My niece lives on same estate as me , and has removed doors ,left stairs open plan, I have done the opposite. Too many house programmes from warm countries showing off ,It’s much too cold over here and then folk moan about heating bills. That build your house one always had rooms up to the rafters and windows everywhere. Beautiful to look at, wouldn’t want to live in them unless you had the money to heat it and someone with scaffolding to clean your windows !!

The rose came the day after 😍 currently in a bucket of water in the garage as frost here last night. Hopefully the fox can’t get in the back garden unless he pole vaults , but will take note thanks.

Verbena Bon still stood proud not cut back and only some gone black. Fingers crossed .

twopenny

Yup, open plan is all very well if you have money for heating and always maintain a clean and tidy house. No leaving the washing up or cook.

Also the fire risk. Saw a beautifully restored bungalow last time I was looking, but fridge is a frequent cause of fire and it would rip through.

Blooming freezing here and woken by neighbour before the heating came on so fed the birds now me. Bit of a shock this cold after the mild spell. Beautiful sunrise so guess they might be right about a dry day. Hoping it's warm in the sun. Indoor chores to do.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, and happy Valentine's Day ❤️

Ahh I've the same weather here 2p, the sun's just peaking above the Oracle's garage. It's meant to last all day 🤞Bad news the son came back but at least it's clarified things in your mind. We have Yellow Snow warning here too, and the little voice in my brain goes "right I'll not eat it then" 😄

Good that your rose came wort, how long have you to hide it before it's needed? You might love it and have to buy another one for DD's present 😄

Mr King is poorly then Dusty? If I was a dark + mean person I'd say you'll win this one by default 👿 What a carryon with Lidl's loo lights, d'ya think they did that to stop people using it, less work for them to clean it? 🤐I'll go and inspect my Confusa in a bit - I'm not sure it's happy where it is cos it only flowered just after I bought it and it's never done anything since. I think I've had it 2 if not 3 years…

OT cold and sunny out there this morning, just like they all said it would be 😲

Dustyevsky

Bootiful morning here. 😍 A touch of frost, but nothing to worry about. Oil man arrived at silly o'clock, but at least he made it. Third time lucky! Now I can stop worrying about the Straits of Hormuz! 😅

In other news, Mr King planted things in the hedge yesterday. No idea what, but I hope he remembered to add Viagra to the soil. 😏

Half-term for many, and grandchildren approacheth, so we'll be tidying up. I don't know why. It'll look like a midden in two days from now! 😲 Later on, I plan to take some large lengths of wood over to my walking friend, who's hoping we can make a new border in her front garden when things dry out. I'm OK with that, as my walking isn't great at this time of year. Discovered that yesterday. A couple of miles and I'd had enough! 😟

A silly plant today. This is a droopy triple hellebore in Rosemoor's newest winter garden section. It can only be viewed fully like this! 🤨

YoungBlueEyes

Christmas Box - flowering for badness cos I said it didn't do it

And my Daphne - absolutely not flowering

StickTree is alive and well 🤩

I don't know if this'll come out. My side gate is steaming away in the sunshine

Oh and I bought seeds yesterday in Lidl, the 5foraquid selection. It was a bit empty but I got what I wanted - nasturtiums. lobelia, cornflowers, lettuce mix, and nasturtiums. They'll do me rightly ☺️

Edit - for gawd sake, the size of those pics! And I clicked 'medium' too. Means it's a forum setting not a phone setting.

Edit 2 - they're all medium now 🙂

twopenny

Where do you find the medium thingy please Bluey?

My Daphne looks different. I thought it was sickening with yellow leaves but perhaps it's a variant. Don't know. Perhaps should go in a pot and somewhere I can smell it.

Found it 😁

Farway

Sun here as well, no frost, just cold.

Pic this morning from DS who is on half term hols down in deepest Cornwall, sunshine there, seems today is The Day. I'm waiting for it to warm up just a tad then get gardening

My heart MOT, usual advisories, lose weight and get more exercise. Trouble with exercise is that it is really aimed a fit people, walking more is not really practical advice if struggling for breath after crossing the road, climbing stairs or lugging compost

Sounds like the Voodoo doll is working with Mr King, and it must be very posh down there, Lidl with loos, pah, spoiled. 😉

Good seed haul there YBE, and seem like "doers" I had some cornflowers pop up last year from pack of Mixed annuals, I wonder if they will have self seeded? And a living Stick Tree

Hope the rose gets settled in Wort, and can spare twig or two for cuttings 😉

Dusty said " though Farway's head start on beans is making me nervous. My 'early' toms and chillies have not shown yet in the propagator." Phew, my beans may be on target but the couple of early start toms are still No Shows in the airing cupboard

Today's must do while sun shines, get my apple back perpendicular, which will require some sort of scaffolding to hold tree in place as the roots re establish after moving from it's old broken clay pot to new posh plastic one

Remove, or at least make look tidier, the dead nasturtium vines and general dead grotty stuff

One mystery at the front. I have a line of sturdy young plants coming up, no idea what they are, look sort of Shasta daisy leaves, but being in a line my guess is they are self seeds from something, or someone that disgorged in a line, all very odd.

Only know it was not me Guv! Just have to wait a bit to find out, probably some rampant noxious weed 😮

LessImpecunious

Farway said:

One mystery at the front. I have a line of sturdy young plants coming up, no idea what they are, look sort of Shasta daisy leaves, but being in a line my guess is they are self seeds from something, or someone that disgorged in a line, all very odd.

Only know it was not me Guv! Just have to wait a bit to find out, probably some rampant noxious weed 😮

On the bright side, could it be ErXXXXXn?!😀

Dustyevsky

Your steaming gateway was visible on my screen, Bluey.😊 Stick tree looks ready to really go for it this year, and better late than not at all with the Christmas box. 😉

I'm not sure what your daphne needs 2p, but apart from the BFB, you could try a little Espom salts.

Farway said:

Sounds like the Voodoo doll is working with Mr King, and it must be very posh down there, Lidl with loos, pah, spoiled. 😉

I'll not wish anything bad on Mr King, provided he behaves. No need to deploy the drone yet! 😄 As for loos in Lidl, it's a shrewd move, reflecting their awareness a significant % of Devon customers must travel a fair way from rural areas. They probably linger longer in store and spend more if not feeling uncomfortable.

On the subject of Lidl, their seed offerings have been rather meagre this year; just two sides of a display stand instead of four. Or are they going to restock with different things in a month or so, I wonder? That's doubtful because they already have later planting/cropping items in the mix.

The sunshine only lasted until Lunchtime here. It felt very cold by around 16.00, but they say approaching rain will head-off any frost tonight. Looks like ye northerners may get a bit of sleet, but where's the 600 mile wall of snow hiding that I keep reading about? 🧐

twopenny

That made me laugh Less.😄 But hopefully it's true. Though Erigwhatsit has lobbed leaves and Farway, if he had his glasses on, would know. Perhaps.

Got some seeds in pots and carrying out some experiment. One of each in a pot I've bought into the kitchen. I know that brassicas prefer it cool to germinate but who knows for sure in this climate. Early for tomatoes but we don't get hard frosts here. Idea is to beat the heatwaves as I've not got a good crop from last year.

I protected the outside ones from eternal rain with a canvas pegged on. It's all new these days.

We've had snow on the moors. Blooming freezing up there. Gritter was out. But the chill was last night. They seem to wait till it's been a freezing night and then grit the next day. Perhaps they don't trust the weather forecast either 😉

Lots of snowdrops on the road banks. Great drifts of them. One made me smile. An isolated cottage had them over banks, hillocks in masses in front of them. Really gone mad. So cheery. Wish mine spread like that. Wonder how it's done. Mine just struggled to survive.

There is lots of mimosa blooming, Camellias and catkins. Anyone know if you can keep a mimosa dwarf? So much colour in the cold months we've forgotten to use.