Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on World Whale Day 🐳🙂

You found the pic resizer then 2p? Quite simple when you know how eh. If anyone else is struggling - tap on your pic and a little menu bar will come up, it's the 2nd icon from the left 😃 Your Daphne might be a paler variant? Or are they all new leaves? My new leaves are paler then go dark when they age a bit. I've yet to smell my one cos it hasn't dun owt 😕 What's in your pots..?

I agree about my StickTree Dusty, better extraordinarily late than extraordinarily never ☺️ I think my Lidl only had a 2 sided display for the seeds now I think about it. It was basically a V shape. And it didn't turn either, it was just sat on the floor. Maybe they were a loss leader and they can't afford to do them any more..?

Hopefully your apple tree is upright and scaffolded now Farway? Just in time to blow down again with the vicious storm/s that are (probably) yet to come 🙄What is it with useless doctors? Have they all got AI chips in their heads so they just trot out basic health advice no matter what you've presented with? Give up smoking, cut down the drink, get more exercise, lay off the buns and chips. Not a bit wonder people are turning back to home remedies/granny's wisdom again.

Gawd that made me laugh too Less 😄Imagine if it was ergininion wosnames just naturally blown and taken up residence, never to be moved again 😆

OT bit nippy out there actually. I've fed the birds and checked over stuff. Them facking pigeons/cats are trampling my daffs! 😡 I said some bad words no matter if it is Sunday. Honestly the don't let you have anything nice do they. When it's stops icy hailing I'll nip out and get them supported with bamboo canes and string. There's gonna be some bodies piling up if I'm not allowed my daffs I tell ya,

Farway

Summer's over, back to wind & rain here 😠

Better news is I did get out in yesterday's sunshine and crack [or maybe crick]on, looking much better now with the dead stuff cleared away, I even cut down last year's raspberry canes

Apple scaffold erected and secured, a mixed blessing, I used some of the poles from my flimsy cheapo blow away that failed a year or so back, and lots of string. No prizes for aesthetics, but should work

YBE stick tree, one in one out in this world. Confirmed yesterday that my plum has shuffled off it's mortal bark & snuffed it 😱. Bum, it was from Lidl, £2.49 in 2012, so it paid it's way. My guess is last year's drought was the final straw.

I have used it's stiff corpse to provide a tethering point for my sloping apple, it does have a clematis climbing into it so should not look too bad for a bit.

Next task is decide what to put in the large pot to replace it. I have a Jap Quince that could do the job, or may go for Hot Lips type of replacement, or wait & see if some fruiting thing catches my eye. No rush. I'd like a peach / apricot but I just know it will die from leaf curl so shan't bother

Sorry about your daffs Bluey, luckily I added supports to mine yesterday or they'd be flat now 😁

Pics today, one cheerful and blooming in my window, and the mystery seedlings. I had a think & wonder if they could be Evening primroses? I used to have them around but vanished last year, could these be seeds that lay doggo during the drought & are now waking up? Could be Shasta daises but not quite same leaf shape. Shastas are top right, Honesty far left

Red Arrows point to them

Ta for pic size tips, used medium

LessImpecunious

Pics today, one cheerful and blooming in my window, and the mystery seedlings. I had a think & wonder if they could be Evening primroses?

Sadly not Erxxxxxn then….😥 The one just above the lower arrow on the right looks a bit Evening Primrose like to me, but the bigger ones look more like Red Campion… My knowledge of garden plants very poor though,so hopefully Dusty or one of the knowledgeable lurkers will be along soon with a proper id!

Lovely Amaryllis/Hippeastrum, mine is still at dying-down leaves stage from last flowering…

Farway

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Red Campion would make sense, I have them in there somewhere.

It was the in line aspect that threw me, Deliberately in a row and not random as one [me] would expect from wind blown

twopenny

They look a bit like weeds/wildflowers I get. Rosette like and thin, shiny. Which I hesitated to mention.

Hope it's something more exciting.

Here's some erigiwhatsits. Seedlings for reference.

I've been fiddling between phone which is easier for photos and tablet which is better for writing 😵‍💫

It's been wet with dry spells, garden still sodden so no change there and mild which is saving on heating. I feel quite put out with all your hard work. Daffs blooming lovely out front, at the back just a couple. I've a fair bit of self sown lobelia in a big pot been happy right through winter. Pot currently proping up neighbors fence panel that's leaning towards my glass back door 😐

Got to say though the big daffs which have fallen already and the tulips from Poundland are doing really well. Bought some more onion sets from there to. Fresh in now if you're interested. A couple of primroses have shown their faces but its not the usual show yet. Just took much rain I guess. Bits of me are playing up and I'm due a hospital visit tomorrow, dentist Tues and opticians wed so not the most fun. Looks like it's all a bit as and when next week and no decent dry spell.

W

Had all sorts of comments to make on what peeps have said but can't remember right now except gorgeous Lilly Farway. That would print off nicely for a frame to cheer up gloomy days 🙂

Pots? What pots bluey? I have so many...... didn't mean to. It just sort of happened because there are so many plants in the garden.

I also have a stick tree. It was a £5 golden delicious. Thought of digging it up and putting it in yet another pot .

Dustyevsky

World Whale Day eh? The way things are, the whales are laughing.😆 They don't care if it's raining!

Between the downpours, it was mild and only moderately windy till a hooley started in the late afternoon. Then I felt cold and gave up, though I'd mostly been in the polytunnel building the last deep bed. The week ahead looks mixed. It's probably what we might expect for mid-February, but with what's preceded it, we'll no doubt feel hard-done-by. 😐️

The grandchildren are here, so it's a lottery what does or doesn't get done this week.🤨 I'm also helping with a removal on Tuesday, which is embarrassing, as the van roof has a leak. It's almost as wet inside as it is out of doors! 😕

I've no idea about Farway's mystery seedlings. I thought, “I'll look at ours,” but then realised, we don't have any! 🤣The Erigwotsits we have are maritima. Though they're tough old things, they don't seed all over the place like karvinskianus. I'd be frightened that would take over here. 😨

Seeing Farway's Honesty seedlings reminded me I took a photo of a very early flowering one in Rosemoor's Cottage Garden last week. As you can see, it was struggling a little! They're best in a group, or en masse

I know a whole steep bank covered in them. It's not in a great place to stop the car, but I'll try for a photo later, when they bloom.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on World Ice Art Championships Day ❄️

Sorry my StickTree has cost you your plum Farway, but it being a support sounds atttractive 🙂 Your lily is a belter, such a bright cheerful colour 😊 If it's any help I can say your mystery greenery isn't ergywosnames, cos I have some that look like yours in my garden and I am 100% totally and utterly devoid of and sans ergywosnames 😒

Gawd 2p, you've got them in path cracks ☺️ That's exactly how I would have them, wandering about the place as they see fit. Lovely. Fingers crossed today goes well and they can pinpoint what's going on with your recalcitrant bits 🤞 Would your £5 Golden Delicious do better in a pot? Is it not happy where it is..?

Good luck with the grandkids Dusty. Are you using them as slave labour diligently turning them in to gardeners? Honesty's another one I can't grow *sigh * Just one more for the list eh.

Right. no-one's owned up to self-identifying as a sensitive, so here's some more foreign pics. It was one of those 'you never notice they're there 'til you see your first one and then they're everywhere' things.

I'm sure we saw more than 3 but they're the only pics I got 🙄

OT not bad out there really. It's finished raining now and it's fairly mild at 4'/WoC -3'c. They've given a dry day with outbreaks of sunshine this aft 😎 Possibly.

twopenny

Morning Bluey, not a good read about horse dogs before breakfast 😲

Less I was listening to this and thought of you. Your cloud appreciation society man was on.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002kjvg

Sunny and cloudy, may rain 😉 wind and raining as I type 😏

Lovely getting up this morning and seeing some blossom on the tree outside my bedroom and a raft of Tete a Tete yellow outside the window and no cars!

Son comes for a meal each day and I've had 2 undisturbed nights. Yippee!! Not holding my breath though. There'll be something (like having to put out the bins) that he doesn't like 😏

May get around to wiring neighbours fence post but that will be all today.

Dustyevsky

I don't get the Polish adverts, though the middle one could allow the slogan, "Ride the dog!" or similar. Maybe they don't have the Trades Descriptions Act over there, 'cos it looks like the hamster wrap is a veggie option. 🤒

The grandkids will probably never be 'useful' here, Bluey. At the eldest one's age, their Mum was serving customers on our plant stall, but they've grown-up soft, probably because we were overly 'harsh.' As someone who grew up disallowed from learning useful things, like carpentry skills, I know there's more than one sort of harsh.😉 Yes, my alternative of reading weird stuff in the library as a nerdy 10 year-old came in useful, but I still struggle with woodwork, etc. 😪

After a dawn battering with rain from the west, we're sunny now, still with a keen wind, unfortunately. I'd like to fell a tree, but it's not safe. Back to the woodwork then, or maybe some seed sowing. The propagator's still barren.🙄

Dustyevsky

2p said:

"May get around to wiring neighbours fence post but that will be all today."

To the mains, perhaps? 😈