Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Davesnave

Apodemus said:

...and sunset due at 16.48 here! 

Ha, we get an extra 14 minutes, if there's any sunshine then.  

Not a bad day at all here in the middle of Devon.....oh, hang on, there's rain battering on the window behind me now!

Just a light shower, I expect.

Apodemus

Davesnave said:

Ha, we get an extra 14 minutes, if there's any sunshine then.  

Better break out the Factor 50 then!

Black_Cat2

😸 Dry here today so I got out there and clipped back the roses. I think I'm a bit late doing it but nevermind. Blew the weather around the counties to you lovely peeps just so I could get some stuff done lol

Davesnave

Black_Cat2 said:

😸 Dry here today so I got out there and clipped back the roses. I think I'm a bit late doing it but nevermind. Blew the weather around the counties to you lovely peeps just so I could get some stuff done lol

Thank you! Apart from 5 minutes of intense rain we had a fine afternoon with the wind in the right direction, so I burned that huge pile of hedging we cut last week. Oh, and I sold a wardrobe just in time. It had sat on the Bay for a few weeks, so the bonfire was looking increasingly like its final resting place, but it was really too good for that.

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Morning Campers 🖐

The weekend here was quite decent weather, Sunday absolutely gorgeous
Yesterday, almost all day, rain and overnight, and still    😯☔🌧

So, being a Tuesday ..... i'm off up the wotsit again  ........😆😋🚗

Black_Cat2

Morning peeps from a rainy ole Somerset ☔

D, was tempted to burn a bonfire for the first time ever this year just to pee my neighbour off (I know not very adult of me) who lights his bonfire on the hottest days of the year when he makes sure you have your washing out and windows wide open!  Instead decided to still take my garden waste to the dump.  Quite lucky here, it's not that far away.

C, look forward to your M5 weather update lol, have fun 😸

Could do with some advice from everyone please.  I'm a fairly new gardener and green when it comes to even the most basic of plants... 

My buddleia(s) are confusing me atm.  I have a purple flowered one which has finished flowering after a summer of outstanding beauty.  I think it may have been all the sun it got.  I also have a new edition of a white flowered one, which is still flowering and has been a bit of a disappointment in so far as butterflies have been concerned.  Not sure why they don't like it?  Anyway, can you lovely peeps help with a plan on how I should be tackling them for next year? Do I wait for the white one to finish flowering and then look to trim it? How much do I trim off? right down to the ground or just snip off some unruly branches?

I also have fuchsias which are also still in flower and I have no idea what I need to do with them!

Would like to get my timings right as I don't want to kill any of them. 

Davesnave

[Deleted User] said:

So, being a Tuesday ..... i'm off up the wotsit again  ........😆😋🚗

I go up the wotsit as little as possible these days. It takes me 40 minutes just to get to the wotsit, and then it's anyone's guess what the wotsit will be like, especially around Weston Super Mud and the Almondsbury Catch-You-Out ("Off to Worcester with you!" "But....." "Too late mate!" )

I have a horrible feeling I'll be going up there tomorrow. It's mother in law's birthday and I can see us all congregating in sixes, (socially-distanced of course) in a car park somewhere like Burrow Mump, singing Happy Birthday in the rain....

Davesnave

You won't kill buddleia, Black Cat! For now, just cut both back by about half, then cut harder next April rubbing out some of the shoots if you get too many to make a sensible framework from there. That's what I do, but it might not be entirely right.

Fuchsias....are they in pots or the ground? Toughies or more lavish?

Apodemus

Davesnave said:

You won't kill buddleia, Black Cat!

...but in my view worth every effort to try! Definitely on my hate list that one!

Davesnave

Apodemus said:

Davesnave said:

You won't kill buddleia, Black Cat!

..but in my view worth every effort to try! Definitely on my hate list that one!

Depends on your situation, I guess. We have a couple of wilder, wooded areas for wildlife, so planted n the fringes of those they're great, especially the Devon variety 'Dartmoor,' which is undoubtedly the best butterfly attractor I know of.

I also like the little one 'Buzz Raspberry.' and the clear coloured 'Pink Delight,' but I'm just a sucker for anything that brings in the insects.

Speaking of pollinator plants, the very best we've had this year is Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve which literally keeps on flowering until it dies from exhaustion!

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91464/Erysimum-Bowles-s-Mauve/Details