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Dustyevsky

Bluey: there's a sore lack of dogs on this thread 🐕

OK I'll even things up a bit. Here's The Dog at Regency House. I couldn't get an action photo; she was insanely fast and quite bonkers when on the move! 😄

Don't think she's a breed, but I'm informed Patterdale Terrier is in there.😉 Here's an 'alert' image. Squirrel about?

A fine day ahead and the rest of the week looks fairly benign, but certainly nowhere near 30c Bluey. I predict barbecues at dusk, and not all of them across the water…..🤥

Farway

Morning all. Like Dusty, a fine day ahead is forecast, and improving every day next week.

Well done on "gardening" 2P. I know how hard it is to be sensible and stray but needs must, a nice tea set up as well. I don't have a sitting area, used to, but it's all too low for me to get up ever again and just CBA to sort it out for the few decent days when it would be used

Seeing geranium pics I noticed my Rozanne was in flower, but it was so windy yesterday the pic I took is out of focus, wind has eased to a mild gusts today, so I'll try later once the sun gets going.

Main job today is remove a lot of brambles and "weedy stuff" impeding my access to the cherry tree. I need to check if any cherries are left under my anti bird cages & a week of rain. I suspect not, wet & slugs, but could be a nice surprise later

If my back is still OK after that, I hope to hack back prune the Deutzia now the flowers have gone. It's garden bin day on Tuesday, and I want to get something out of my £150 a year. 🤑Which is a lot, but needs must, physically unable to load, bung it in my car & take to tip, but not so costly that the alternative of paying someone a few times a year to remove it would be worthwhile . And garden is not large enough to just pile it up somewhere out of sight & forget it.

My lady courgettes have not dropped off, so fingers crossed they are now in the early stages off pregnancy.

wort

Dusty my foxglove started out looking a bit yellow but went very white. I doubt there’s much left of anything now as the wind and rain has been horrendous.Like YBE the thunder has reached biblical proportions,huge claps of thunder that wake people thinking it’s bombs going off.
My poor potted Acer has blown over a couple of times so won’t need pruning ! I’ve tried wedging a few rocks around.
I’ve still not potted on, I need to get holes drilled in the buckets first.

It’s still overcast and very windy today. Yesterday I got home mid afternoon from work did a wash and got it dry in an hour, I was keeping an eye in it though as I thought it might launch across the field.

I’m fed up with being in winter clothing, the forecast shows warmer but still showers, and will someone turn off this wind.

LessImpecunious

YBE It needs to dry out in Lessland too so we can get some more cloud pics *nodding * Ooh and dog pics, there's a sore lack of dogs on this thread 🐕

As it happens I did try for a cloud pic today, didn't come out as dramatic as hoped, but does also show how much this bit of the "lawn" (different bit from my previous pic) has grown with recent rain…

Sorry, no dogs in shot....

Dustyevsky

wort: Dusty my foxglove started out looking a bit yellow but went very white.

Yes, the one I pictured has done similarly. We've lost a few foxgloves to the wind, but there are dozens, so that hardly matters. If only they'd grow where we want them! 😏 Most are now at the stage shown in Less's photo above, so not long till they start seeding.

Sorry, no more dog pictures here for now. We were with dogs last night, but I was far more interested in the barbecue. So were they! 😆 It was lovely in the warm evening sunshine, but around 20.00 it suddenly felt chilly, and by 21.00 we were shivering. Where have all the balmy June evenings gone? 🤔

I managed to cut most of the lawns grass yesterday, so I'm free to do weeding today, when it will be semi-scorchio, according to the beer swilling seers in Exeter. The rest of the week looks almost precipitation-free, which is good news for our club's garden visit on Friday. I hope members aren't too disappointed by its size. When I viewed on Gargle Earth, the neighbour's garden looked like it was included! 😗 Anyway, it wasn't my suggestion. 😇

Back to nature this morning, with a lucky shot at the pond. A dragonfly stopped to lay eggs at just the right moment. 😊

twopenny

Wow that's a smasher Dusty!

I'll have to see if I can photograph my friends rescue dog. She's a tiny white thing but pretty as and full of character.

Farway

Nice sunny day ahead, and warming up next week.

Good dragonfly pic Dusty, must be worthy of Front Page I'd have thought

Just in case anyone is feeling rich, Mr F has free P & P until midnight, with seeds offers etc, but they do start at OMG prices first. I went looking for nasturtiums to poke in late, but at nearly £3 a packet I don't think so, even with offers it's still over £2, so pass for me.

Checked on my cherries yesterday, as suspected, all gone or manky, boo hoo 😭, but such is the life of anyone with a cherry tree, bit like strawberries, the day you get to pick a ripe sun warmed one helps make up for the years of gloom

Raspberries, found a few ripe ones, but nothing like the original plants, small and bit tasteless. I remember when I first had them just how tasty they were, oozing raspberryness. I hear about virus & raspberries, I wonder if mine have gone over to the Dark Side, a halfway post before Norway.

Managed to cut back Deutzia, and get rid of broken foxgloves & honesty, hence my looking for seeds. I need to pirk over the compost in the tubs and then plant whatever I find in Morries tomorrow, if I get there of course. It is down to Morries, just needs to be larger, pot grown plants, not trays of small bedders, time is too short, but could even be Cos lettuce plants, not fixated on what goes in

Message from Post Office, my T & M offer seeds went on the lam to Dudley sorting office,very sorry, we will deliver on Monday

Now for the "Legal but Harmful" shot, Dusty look away

Grapes as trade for cherries

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all. I'm late on this morning, I've been tootling about the garden. Done some weeding, sprayed some thistles cos we've no rain for the foreseeable, and sighed at my roses. The wind's bu99ered them so I've lashed them to the fence carefully tied them up properly. That piggin' wind wants to die down, it's upsetting my garden.

Thank you kindly for the dawg Dusty, she looks a useful little beech 😀 I can see Patterdale in there, maybe a bit Jack Russel/mini Pinscher too. She looks well enough on it though eh *nodding * Your dragonfly is a perfect picture - I can see that on calendars and diaries n stuff 😎

Glad your ladies courgettes are up the duff Farway, does that make up for the lezbeans? I'm nearly sure I've got nasturiums/nasturtia (?) in my seed library, if I've got any will I send you some? 🪷

/me waits patiently for 2p's dawg pics… 🙂

Funny cloud pic Less, it looks at if somebody's taken against that one particular tree and set it on fire 😄 No Mow May has been good to you eh, what's growing in your grass? Owt lovely?

OT warm and hazy sunshine here this morning, even though they say cool and cloudy. Sun's got a bit strong now so I'm in for a run round the boards and a cool drink 🥤

wort

ybe I’m with you on the wind, had enough now. I’ve even had to tie my Verbena B up. Cracking dragonfly photo Dusty, luck you getting a bbq in. Farway looks like a good set of grapes on the way.

I went straight out in the garden after work today, got the potting on done. All the Gaura are finally out , I decided to pot the Thumbergeria (sp) and stood it near the arch way and untangled a few bit to hopefully run up it. Watered the pots added a bit of feed. Put on some blue sweeties ,how’s your Cafe au lait Farway ? Some of my leaves are looking like they have some black bits 🧐 I sat reading in the conservatory after tea with the door open till bed time,bliss.

Dustyevsky

Farway: Now for the "Legal but Harmful" shot, Dusty look away

Grapes as trade for cherries

Pft! …I have those. They just don't turn into anything edible! 😭

But I have these! 😊