Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Morning all, on the longest day of the year 🙂

Lovely and cool here this morning after a cooler night. I've all the windows open to let the breeze through but it's turned a bit misty out there. They never give you it right do they.

Gawd what I wouldn't give for a field of gold like those nasturtiums (nasturtia?) Dusty, I know they're only common but I was always think they look exotic - like they should be floating on a lake in Thailand. And bu99er the mods naysayers, I really like those cakes, very festive and apt. And all those wee babies too, brilliant 😃

Farway that's looks a good haul of boysenberries, I hope they taste good enough to be worth all your effort. I am deffo-lutely doing mangy toots next year. I was steaming after the council episode. I don't like the staff in there at the best of times, they treat the public like they're an annoyance to be suffered rather than having any notions of doing a good job. I kept my mouth shut though, mostly. Complaints section utilised on a previous occasion, I think they redirect into a spam folder and are ignored. Shipbags.

Gb your magnolia sounds like it liked the spot you moved it to but maybe an external influence got to it? Bugs or critters or spores of something…? I hope you get an answer cos it'd be a shame to lose a magnolia. I know what you mean about forsythia, it's nowt special is it really but I like that it puts flowers out before leaves, like it's a bit rebellious and doesn't care what 'the norm' is 😝 Councils behaving the same way is Not On though. More on that in a minute.

Sounds like you live in a little slice of heaven mw, apart from the public and traffic n stuff. Mangy toots a-go-go at yours, and toms too 😃

Good to hear you're up and about 2p, and woohoo for no pain in 7 years! ☺️🥂👏 If it's any consolation your cherries are better than mine - I got 3 small stones-on-stalks, no flesh or colour or nowt. They looked like country currants 😄 Jeez look at your poppies! I only recognised what they are because of the leaves, I was gonna say how about your beautiful camelia flowers 🙄 I'll have a look at your link in a min thankyoukindly.

What's for growing up your arch then wort? Or is it a structural thing rather than pretty? Be grateful you've got the kind of weather conditions that necessitate a vest, the rest of us are to be melted 🫠 ←— that should be a frowny face but they don't do 'em. What's up with your toms that they haven't given out flowers then? I wonder what they're waiting for..?

OT 19'c currently and a high of 23 to come they say. Cloudy and breezy and lovely at them minute but that sun's to come out this aft, possibly, but if that's the payoff for a cool morning I'll take it. Better than what's to come 🥵

Right. Forsythia Saga. I was up and out early yesterday (sans himself, the lazy pig) for food shopping and hazard tape buying and this is what greeted me -

🤬🤬🤬 So I went into the council, again, and got the same response, again. This time I asked who'd been granted a licence to remove the bushes (thanks again for your tip gb) and was told to ask PoshTown county council. She wouldn't even answer if it was the council wot dun it. They're lucky they were closed for I was pure raging. So that's where I'll go next. If they give me a load of nonsense about road safety and splay I do have a pic to prove how far back it was, so that's something. I'm only sad that I haven't got any pictures of the nests/birds, all the ones I've taken are sideways on and you can't see them. This is my new Mission.

Farway

YBE So that's where I'll go next. If they give me a load of nonsense about road safety and splay I do have a pic to prove how far back it was, so that's something. I'm only sad that I haven't got any pictures of the
nests/birds, all the ones I've taken are sideways on and you can't see them. This is my new Mission.

Gawd, are they in deep poo now, maybe start the Jaws shark theme 😂, dah, dah etc

Scoot over to Google Earth and grab the street views, 360 degree walk round, should show the shrubs, and has grid, measurements etc. Maybe even history, last ten years etc.

Maybe your job is the "right one" for this, perhaps it's fate after all

Get some poppy seeds and bung them on the bare soil in memory

YoungBlueEyes

I've bookmarked your page 2p, that's pure brilliant ☺️ I'll have to get it on my phone as well cos I'm out of the habit of putting my laptop on in the mornings.

Sadly BBM wouldn't be a bit interested Farway, he wasn't a blind bit of help when I asked him about the stadium neighbour's lights last year. He does property transactions with the more noughts on them the better and that's it. I've had more help from messaging people on here for help about different things, and when I work out the right person to ask I'll be doing that again. Google earth is a good idea, I hadn't thought of that. Thankyoukindly :)

Anyway. Speaking of jam and that Robertson person I saw some keyrings for sale in a tourist tat shop at the seaside a wee while ago

wort

Dusty, SIL coming to do the job is always appreciated,tbh DH wasn’t handy at diy but would have enjoyed the demolition! YBE not sure the arch was moved about as I couldn’t work out where it was going, in the end I said just bung it in!!! It was going to support the jasmine cos the post rotted, but think that’s coming out now.

Weather is up to 36 on Thursday 🥹or rain depending on which drunken fools we believe.

Farway

Hot sun with a very welcome breeze keeping it sensible for now. Been out watering the back pots already, especially my runners now I have flowers open on them.

Tomato tapping continues, no babes yet.

For anyone [Mrs D] growing Morries clematis, good news. I found another Lazarus one at the front yesterday. Planted last Spring to scramble up & over the manhole bush, and it promptly headed North and I assumed that was it. But yesterday I found two thin stems growing through the bush, no flowers yet. I've re routed them to more daylight & sun and next watering I'll give it a feed

Moral of the story is don't give up on Morries clematis, even if it's wearing a horned helmet

Job still do do is plant the last clematis in a pot, to scramble up my front steps handrail. I'm oiking out the Lessbeans from that pot, I'll try & do it this morning before the suns gets round to bake there.

The courgettes have settled now, some fell off, unrequited love, but others are really in pudding club 😁

And these are reliable geraniums, but unnamed, grown from seed.

Dustyevsky

Bluey: Gawd what I wouldn't give for a field of gold like those nasturtiums (nasturtia?) Dusty,

And don't forget they're edimentals….the latest garden buzzword. 😉

Farway: Get some poppy seeds and bung them on the bare soil in memory

I second that. They'll keep coming back. 😊

Councils (and some other institutions) changed during Covid, having found life easier without the annoyance of dealing with the public. The world of low accountability widened. Even before then, thousands of children suffered at the hands of evil adults, and nothing was done. As recently as last week, one of those kids, now an adult, was told by ITV before live interview, "Don't mention the race or religion of the perpetrators." She did anyway. Good on her!

It's a different, obviously lower level, but good on Bluey for seeking accountability. 😇

Right, off the soapbox and back to the good news of Morries' clematis. Quite a few do have AGM status, so it's only the small size which might mean extra nurture initially….that's if they get the Danish trolley the right way round, and you can spot them! 🤣

It was blooming hot yesterday and I forgot to see where the sun set on the solstice. Doh! 😫 I did grab a quick shot from the front door when it was too late…

The forecast today is for even greater hotness so it'll be bikinis and sun cream for all the other oldies joining Mrs Dusty and me at the garden visited a couple of weeks ago! ….if they find it.😄Last year, we lost a few en route to a garden in the same area…..🙄

greenbee

We're due to be travelling from the east to the south-west over the next three days. I think I'm going to cancel as it's too long a trip to be able to avoid the risk of getting stuck in traffic with an elderly passenger and a black dog.

Also I'm still tweaking the veg plot irrigation system to work out the optimum schedule and ensure that the water is actually getting everywhere (I think I might have to replace the soaker hose next year, but don't want to have drippers outside as they'd need tweaking every time I changed the contents of the beds). And not all the drippers in the greenhouse are dripping (I did take them all off and descale them, so next job is to check the micro-hose for blockages. Something I clearly should have done when I packed it up… Patio irrigation system isn't yet installed.

Squash need planting - I've cleared one bed (will take 2-3 plants) but need to remove pea sticks and build some kind of climbing frame for the squash to ignore. And then build some more climbing frames to go in the bit of the veg plot that's outside the raised beds.

Still, too hot to do much really. Might stick some washing on to use up some of the solar generation!

twopenny

A little warm but a pleasant northerly breeze passing down the side tunnel.

It's clouded over now so although 25c it's just warm and not blistering. The breeze has dropped.

Well done Bluey 😃 I second the poppy seeds. LITM too seeds everywhere.

Wort congratulations on getting the arch in. Who cares where,. It's easy to readjust the planting later to make it blend in if it bothers you.

Farway I'm sure I had one of those in my last garden. It was a good doer so it stayed.

Dusty that's a perfect mid summer photo. You can check the sun setting today.

Greenbee you've probably decided by now but you could always check for cloud cover on the satellite maps. And don't forget that opening back windows of a car cools it more quickly as you're driving.

No garden work going on because I'm just so tired all the time. But some watering to be done this evening in case the sun appears tomorrow.

The Miracle Grow certainly sends the plants into hyperdrive! Almost scarily so. The geraniums are enormous. So I'm thinking of mixing the Poundland stuff with the MG to eeek it out a bit and s o the plants don't outgrow themselves.

One thing that's come up trumps this year is the Morrisons Pinks. I gave them a jiggle in the spring and they seem to have appreciated it. The smell is gorgeous 😍

greenbee

The upgrade to a red warning for half the country means I've cancelled the trip. If anyone else wants to go they are welcome to, but I'm not going (and I'm the driver). And if they want to reorganise, they can do that without me too - it wasn't on my list of how I want to spend my time anyway (which is probably why I was procrastinating about cancelling).

twopenny

Fur enough.

It's warm here, touch of a shower when I organised sitting outside, bit of a breeze. But driving you don't have the option of getting out of the sun.

They'd probably only be complaining anyway 😉