Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

More brisk winds & showers here, supposed to be even wetter come Thursday. PS, A waterfall has arrived, it's hissing down

Dusty We also popped into Morries on the way to the garden visited yesterday. Apart from the not watered, half-dead stuff, there was a 3fer2 offer on healthy-looking clematis, so Mrs Dusty bought 3 for £6. I thought that excellent value, considering the last two she planted, never to be seen again, cost £24.

I spotted those, but don't need any more. The one I have, that survived, is a cracker from Morries, as are the dead ones. I did see a white one while there, mmmn, maybe next time😁? Hope they grow for Mrs D, mine snoozed for a year before coming to life

Free T & M postage popped up on FB, so had a look and found some reduced seeds as well, thinking about my soon-to-be bare patch where the battered foxgloves & honesty are, I have pot marigolds on the way, along with white foxgloves for next year.

Hoping marigolds may flower this year, but time will tell. Sod's Law, the marigolds I sowed last year, to self-seed in Pet Poo border, they did self-seed, but moved into the neighbour's border instead. Can't win, my Liams went one way, the marigolds the other.

Managed to get out yesterday & have a quick check around the jungle, all the plums have now fallen off, so as usual, no plums again 😢

However, an advance for the Boysenberry, some colour on its cheeks

Dustyevsky

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82028371#Comment_82028371

It's a B&B too, so you could have a vicarious experience when you've recuperated. After all, it was originally a vicarage. 😉

Here's the NGS listing: https://ngs.org.uk/gardens/regency-house-ex1/

And the owner's website:

https://regencyhousehemyock.co.uk/

It also seems appropriate Mrs Jenny Parsons should live in the ex-vicarage too! 😄

twopenny

Checked it out Dusty. Nice. But right now don't fancy rummaging around for dinner for one. It's bookmarked though 🙂

Lovely day, early night. This tiredness comes on you like molasses. So been watching the beautiful white cumulus clouds drifting across a blue sky. Life in the slow lane 😉

Managed to pick some strawberries. One of the new varieties is huge. It's either rotted if touching the ground or partially ripe so treated accordingly. Just a few raspberries.

There is a little sprouting broccoli coming on a huge plant I'd harvested.

wort

Lovely house and gardens Dusty, and well done getting the clematis offer.All mine that are from supermarkets have done well.

Farway I have 1 very tall white foxglove, it doesn’t seem to have seeded at all unless I’ve pulled them out unwittingly.

Yesterday was supposed to be showers getting harder throughout the day, so I washed early and did some gardening at the front so I could run the clothes in if it started to rain . It didn’t 😁 I filled the green bin with the shrubs I’ve cut back. Just before lunch time I was in the back garden the sambucca was enormous also the weigelia so they have been cut down.

As I was grabbing a drink of water, I checked my phone and my friend was going to the plant nursery, so a quick change and off we went. Picked up another Phlox and Mondara to replace the one I lost ,I’ve got the pink not the dark pink this time. No idea where I’m going to plant them , I picked up a Thumbergia in yellow not realizing it needs protecting in winter.
I mowed the lawn when I got back. The wind had picked up even more, and a friend called with a birthday gift for later in the week so I called it a day on gardening.

The rain only started after tea, and it’s been raining ever since. I’m off to lunch with 2 friends today, I do have some potting on to do but may not get round to it.

Dustyevsky

wort: Farway I have 1 very tall white foxglove, it doesn’t seem to have seeded at all unless I’ve pulled them out unwittingly.

They do seed around, but maybe not as freely as the 'wild' ones. We tried introducing whites in the hedges, but they fizzled-out after a year or two. 🤔

And when they seed, it might not be where they're wanted. Here's one of ours, looking fine, but next to the water bins in the veg garden! It's trending towards yellow…..

This one's grown itself in a better spot:

Looks like we are in for a mixed, sunshine and showers day, with more emphasis on showers. Yesterday was dry enough to tackle the roadside verge, where the grass had grown to about half a metre, restricting visibility.🤨 That was brushcutter, followed by push-along petrol mower. Being our version of Farway's dog poo border, I didn't pick up any of the cut stuff, so it looks rather messy now. Neighbours can lump it.; they're the ones with dogs! 😛

Farway

Another damp day ahead, dry at the moment but showers due

Interesting about white foxgloves, see how mine do, the packet is "in the post" so I may well sow them soon. My wild style self-sown ones are getting really battered about now, so I think I'm going to have to oik some of them out where they are now just broken & wet plants overhanging a path. I have enough elsewhere for seed sprinkling

Wort I filled the green bin with the shrubs I’ve cut back. Cutting back and filling the green bin is on my list, but it needs the rain to stop first

Watched GW yesterday, Monty reckons nasturtiums will flower from a sowing now, ideal for the space I will have vacant once I remove the honesty etc, if only I had some seeds! 🙄 I think next week's trip to Morries will have to provide some larger plants for the spot, no idea what yet

Nothing planned in the garden for today, maybe get to pick some Manky Toots for the pot

Dustyevsky

Farway: Watched GW yesterday, Monty reckons nasturtiums will flower from a sowing now, ideal for the space I will have vacant once I remove the honesty etc, if only I had some seeds! 🙄 

I kept a couple of large nasturtiums in the polytunnel over winter to pop their leaves into salads. Not having tried that before, I didn't know if they'd romp away again this year.Anyway, I chopped them back. They did regrow a bit, but mostly focused on flowering, before becoming spindly and buying one way tickets to Norway. They're all but dead now, but they've left lots of seeds. 😊

Not such a bad day after all, but somewhat disjointed, after a mid-day visit to the dentist. It was another straight-outa-dental-school lady, which I don't mind, being NHS, but this one had no chairside manner, and her quiet voice, with strong Indian accent, meant there was little communication. 🙄 Having a couple of dozen Indian relatives, I'm reasonably tuned-in too! Goodness knows how some of the locals will get on. 😄 Anyway, I gathered my gnashers seem OK for another 12 months, which is nice to know….and cheap.😁

I'll be falling behind events in the natural world if the photos taken last week aren't posted. The plain Jane elderberry down by the stream was flowering wonderfully today. This 'Black Lace' up in the main garden was probably well ahead of it. We certainly haven't had a sky like that today!

Most of our chillies have fruit on them now and we're getting a few tomatoes. The weather can't have been too bad. Everyone here's complaining about the wind, though.

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all :)

Just a quick post before the place runs away from me.

Thanks for the rasp info - I don’t know what kind they are tbh, they just moved themselves in and got on with it.

Bluddy thing’s about twice the size it was last year. The only thing I do to it (as per The Loppa from Joppa) is cut down the canes that fruited last year while the fresh ones grow, then those fruit next year and this year’s fruited ones get cut out. I had maybe a dozen stems last year and look at it now! It’s a vigorous beast and no mistake.

OT they keep saying storms and we keep getting no storms. There was precisely one clatter of lightning and approx 4 rumbles of thunder the other day and that was it. Plenty of rain though, when it rains. Sun’s out lovely now, hazy through high white cloud and just a gentle breeze. It’ll do me rightly ☺️

greenbee

we’ve been getting your storms YBE!

LessImpecunious

Thanks for the rasp info - I don’t know what kind they are tbh, they just moved themselves in and got on with it.

Thought you'd said autumn but I just looked back and that was Farway (fruiting out of season)…😐️🌱 (can't find a faceplant emoji😄)…