Awful weather - typical Brits talk

greenbee

My courgettes are desperate to get out too Farway, so I'm waiting for later in the week. At least the ground will be wet!

My alliums are in pots with narcissi and tulips. No sign of buds yet, and all a bit wind-blown from when the tulips were all blown about and took the allium leaves with them!

Dustyevsky

We have some rain, but not very much. I was up at the crack of dawn Mrs Dusty's whip, readying wheelbarrows and the van for DD and DSiL, who've decided to empty more of the worldly goods container today. 😉 But… so far, it's a no-show. 😕 If they leave it another 45mins, at least they'll miss the rain.

I've nothing of great significance to post, so here's a photo taken this morning for any aquilegia nay-sayers who may be silently lurking. 😛

wort

I am back home 3.30 am 🫣 Holiday was a mix of weather, winds were a bit fresh, and sun kept disappearing behind clouds. But a good time was had, now time for a detox and diet !!!
Braving a bit of washing as the forcast is rain so only put a couple of heavy items out. Done all the post hol cleaning and putting away.
Good news my Cafe au Lait is sprouting 👏🏻 the toms that I didn’t give dsis to look after are still ok too. The garden is lush and full of flowers, and I didn’t miss my peony flowers as so far they are still starting to open. Fingers crossed they do as it’s been in a few years without any flowers.

Not yet caught up with your news, but saw YBE s cat/tree whisperer, the tree must have needed a bit of pampering. Lovely roses too. Taff I love the bed made of tiles ,what a clever idea. I would celebrate the tulips too. I have some pheasant eye narcissi that are only just flowering. They are in a pot with Dusty’s aquilegia.

wort

Grass needs a cut though !

wort

A couple from hols

greenbee

My pheasant's eye are only just flowering too Wort! And only one of them (which is also very short). But at least I know i'm not alone!

We're currently marking up new beds with old bricks so that we can start weeding/cardboarding/mulching them.

twopenny

Such a pretty garden Wort 😍 glad you had a good holiday. When does the detox start 😄

Saw alliums blooming here and thought of you. 🙂 What's a pheasants eye?

Pretty grannies bonnet Dusty. Like the colour but I personally prefer simple. Someone's been planting them on the moors which is annoying. So many wild ones aren't any good apparently 😲

Farway hope it was a good day, you sounded excited. Did he get your pot where you wanted? Did you get him to rearrange the whole front garden? 😊

The sun finally came out this evening when the forecast said heavy rain. 🙄 So they got the right things just in the wrong order.

My wall hydrangea is in bloom. I'm really surprised because it's living in a small space and not a stately home

Farway

Mixed dull & sun, with the inevitable rain on the way for later

No gardening today, I'm Hospital Transport after lunch for a friend, due eye drops so not allowed to drive for six hours after. being a hospital no idea when it's over, last time it involved an awful lot of waiting around. The hospital grounds are mostly tarmac, so no sneaking out to look at plants & roses, not even Car Parkii 😉

Some lovely pics as usual. Love that fiery red one Wort, and your garden. Tempted now with Pheasants Eye narcissus, added to my dreaming list along along with some red trumpet daffs. Need a quick win on the Premium Bonds first.

2P Farway hope it was a good day, you sounded excited. Did he get your pot where you wanted? Did you get him to rearrange the whole front garden? 😊 Pot moved, my he's a big lad now, just cleared door frame without ducking, must be that Brissle air. Made my large pot look like a tea cup, but it's in place now, just needs me and decent weather to get it planted up.

Some other good news from DD during visit, DGD Mk 2 is now "into" gardening, yay. She & BF have moved and BF has made her raised beds using old pallets, he's a roofer, so presumably old pallets are stock in trade? Another grandchild infected!

The mix of hydrangea and roses looks good 2P, do you get or birds and insects using the facilities?

No current pic, so here's one one of DGD Mk2 on Southsea beach, she has grown a lot since then 😄

twopenny

Well who'd a believed it. Wet and windy again 😬.

Too wet to do anything outside, car washers bunged up with the red sand we had. Salad leaves have come on with only one rocket and something has been nibbling at the tops of the leaves.

Any idea what causes this mottling? If it wasn't for the flavourless mush they call salad in the supermarket I'd give up. Think I need to try again.

Oh and I need to grease the pole holding the bird feeders. The pigeons sit on the top and fly at them to knock the seed out. I'm impressed at their skills to get food. They can squeeze into the bird table for the fat block too after a bit of practice. I

I just hope they get too fat to do it 😉

-taff

If only you had olives Dusty, the debris netting could be in use year round :) double hedgehog action? OO, maybe there'll be more babbies next year to use your social housing. Your cerinthe needs a medal then! Your aquilegia are pretty but for some reason remind me of my grans clothing and violet soaps…

Well done your GD for inspiring a cutting to grow Farway :) In fig news, I think I have 19 on the tree hanging on for dear life..Most ever…Shame about your volunteer border, I bet everyone else has noticed and are tutting in their heads. Lovely dappled foxgloves. You know you could probably hire out your dgs for general moving things about purposes? I remember the days when it took me ten minutes to do what takes me an hour now, it's very annoying…congrats on your continued infection of gc's with green fingers :)

I did laugh at your herb related incident washing 2p, thems the perils of gardening :) cooking or something more esoteric? Your roses and hydrangea look so lovely together..Your salad leaves look like my cimi da rapa leaves, combination of sun, cold and water i think, and maybe leaf miner

GB, it is blummin cold, I did try to put the heating on but I'd changed the settings and couldn't remember how to do it back, so the fleeces and blankets came out. There are some purple sensation at the allotment, not planted by me that have made a showing without my help for two years now. Perhaps neglect is the way to go.

wb wort, glad you had a good time..still probably warmer there despite inclement weather. That is a very spring is sprung border. lovely.

It's been weird weather, sometimes nice, sometimes rain, sometimes wind, sometimes all three at once..Been still hand weeding at the lotment, four compost bags full of mostly bindweed shoved down the bottom to make compost for next year, my foot is very angry with me, but it's not done yet. Today Im fetching a couple of pallet collars and treating myself to what used to be my local ma and pa garden centre with no frillies like a cafe hoping to get some celery since mine failed to germinate. I did find a few more toms in the greenhouse languishing in too small cell trays that I can put out when they're bigger, so the Roma is still a goer..I went to a plant sale at the weekend at a local farm, 4 quid for a Roma tom…one pound for three sprigs of dill growing in a tiny pot..I didn't tell MIL she could get a packet of seeds for 1.60…

Part of the front looking messy, putting teasels in as an experiment was good once, but not so good now, but I'll leave it [ and them lurking at the other edge and remove any volunteers next year :) I also did not realise the poppies were going to be that mahoosive but I should have really, I saw them paired with artichoke at Kelmscott Manor, both equally of a size…more oops…but I do like it being crammed and volunteered…and I don't even have to say avert your eyes from the liam Farway now that you have some one…The etal bits are to stop my plants being walked on by the postie, he does love to shortcut past the window.