Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Dustyevsky

2P: Do you think Bluey got arrested for harassment of the council and she's in the clink or she's digging up the verge and planting a flower bed?

Farway: 😲I'm imaging scene of council workers & police wrestling her to the ground as they try to get handcuffs on 😁

I'm afraid it's worse than that. 😱

I've no idea why this happened. I'll visit a different medium later in the week to see if there's a message from the other side.😉

Meanwhile, expect this post to vanish around midnight!

twopenny

Ooops! I'll say no more. 😲 But hello 👋 take care.♥️

Was hot but almost pleasant yesterday with a breeze. Of course having been able to get properly organised with foil and blackouts we have a high wind from the north east and the path was freezing when I went out to feed the birds with bare feet.

I managed to trim some lavender, it's dying in clumps, and water thoroughly which it will need with wind and heat.

The apple and cherry are looking quite sick with a double whammy from the weather. The plums are coming to nothing being smothered in green fly and drought. Tiny deformed and hard. But the raspberries productive even if not a good flavour. I must get out and pick some before the birds do.

Got the fridge defrosted yesterday and found several packages of blackberry and apple and gooseberry that had been forgotten. If it stays cold and sunny I may make something with them. Been too hot to cook.

Today is an unknown.

Dustyevsky

Farway: Following my eventual success in getting a sea holly to grow, here in
same vein are alliums, never ever managed to get these before.. Not the
jumbo football sized ones, but it's a start

I think the jumbo ones are OTT. Anything above 5cm diameter starts to look clumsy IMO. Your 'start' will almost certainly lead to further alliumation, though with some species it can quickly become alliumopoly! I'm thinking of the wild garlic I let loose near the stream, and the decision taken to a few years later to stamp them out. ☹️

My best allium find was A. nutans, growing as a continuous border edge in a 'well-known' garden. None of the staff gave me a correct ID over several years of asking, nor was it available in the sales area, so it was fortunate a small offshoot dropped into my pocket one day. 🙂 Now, we seem to have a dozen pots with probably over 100 individual plants in them, so a border edging here is distinctly possible….if only we can kill off the Alchemilla first! It keeps returning…..

Speaking of micro tomatoes, 2p, we have always grown Cherry Falls in pots before. This year, planted in a deep bed, they’ve gone mad. There's no way all the flowers will turn into toms. 😮

These days of gardening very early and late aren't long enough for us to keep up, even if the grass isn't growing much. Last night, our new neighbour at the farmhouse was holding a party, and we were invited, but our arrival was delayed by watering until 21.00. Fortunately, they kept us some of the hog roast. 😇

Today's photo is of our walnuts forming on the tree at the end of the willow grove. Might as well record them for posterity. Last year, the squirrels found them. 😡

Farway

Another early start, out watering the "essentials" this time, the pots that are in direct sun most of the day & dry out quickly. Forecast is hot & sunny all next week, so best I keep up

Waves to any Blue Eyed lurker 🙋 Any takers on a newbie coming along? Old Red Eyes?

It's quite breezy this morning, sun just cracking through and cooling breeze, pleasant for now.

No gardening intended later due to heat, but the watering is taken care of at least

My posh large dahlias are budding up, not showing colour in buds yet, but high hopes.

Looking out of window this morning I spotted a visitor. 🤣

I can't quite make it out, but could well be a sheet off next door's whirligig [middle left]. If it is best of luck to them getting it down. It's snagged on my very prickly pyracantha which is well over ten feet tall

Artistic sunbow lens flare as a bonus