Awful weather - typical Brits talk

RAS

I was in Northumbria at Howick. You'd need a month to make sense of the place so a morning barely registers. Away from the house there are huge trees underplanted with shrubs. Fascinating to see common species like berberis, viberunum, deutzia and cornus growing as unrestrained shrubs/small trees.

Anyone into rhododenrons would love the species tucked into the woodland walks. 

I liked this seen early in the day, Philadelphus maculata I think




Anyone have a clue what this is? Spindly shrub about 5 metres high, sorry, haven't yet learned to size images

twopenny

Beautiful but no idea. The flower shape looks similar to something you see in gardens but much smaller

If you want to size the images Ras then tap on the image, tiny squares come up at each corner and each side.

Hover over a corner and you see a double ended arrow. Click and drag that corner down towards the other corner. Not far enough, just do it again. You can correct any errors in our intended size in the same way.

goldfinches

@2p - thankyou for the instructions on sizing ones photos. I've tried it out with this photo of some single hollyhocks by the bridge at Osney weir that I took today.



Aaand it doesn't work like that for me, must be my browser. Oh well.

twopenny

I love hollyhocks. I tried once but they got covered in rust and I never tried again.

Saw some today that were deep red and I was tempted but with it so hot at the back and so windy at the front I'll just have to admire these.

Goldfinches, it's a standard way to size pictures so shouldn't be your browser. Did you get the squares and the arrows to drag? You can put one of yours on a word document page and practice. Same method. Easier because you can see the whole thing and whats happening.

goldfinches

twopenny said:

I love hollyhocks. I tried once but they got covered in rust and I never tried again.

Saw some today that were deep red and I was tempted but with it so hot at the back and so windy at the front I'll just have to admire these.

Goldfinches, it's a standard way to size pictures so shouldn't be your browser. Did you get the squares and the arrows to drag? You can put one of yours on a word document page and practice. Same method. Easier because you can see the whole thing and whats happening.

Hi 2p -  thanks for trying to help. No, when I click on my picture the whole thing is highlighted in blue as if I'd done CTRL A and there are no squares or arrows at all. I tried assuming they were there but not visible but that didn't work either. Hey ho, I might try editing the photos before pasting them the next time. 

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Morning fellow garden lovers 🖐🌱🌺🌼🌷

We're having too much rain in short spaces of time here, in Somerset, anyone feel like swapping their weather for a couple of weeks ?😉😏
@Black_Cat2, are you washed out too ?

The weekend's looming and it's going to be a another wet gardening weekend 🙄   

I'm working on a small project (the rest of the garden is maintenance free), the first section of my rear garden, which is 4 narrowish strip-like borders along fence lines (about 15' long, each strip).

Thoroughly clearing those 4 borders there that have become untidy looking, i'm hiking out the scruffy lower growing stuff, that's harbouring snails, and leaving a handful of shrubs there - this will 'open' the look of it whilst removing the snail-ness ...... i'll top if off with ornamental bark i think. 

Nothing exciting here then but therapeutic nonetheless 😊🌺 

Happy gardening folks 🖐🌺

Farway

GF, seeing the hollyhocks has jogged me to going and looking for mine, I suspect slugs have done for them because by now they should be like yours. A new addition this year having been given some. Previous ones like 2ps went rusty so I also never bothered

Sunny & warm today, up at the volunteer spot first thing watering all the large pots, apart from watering most things up there are doing as planned & just getting on without a lot of attention, I did dead head / prune roses & hoed the rose patch but that only takes a jiff

One plus I do see now the flowers are taller the drivers don't squash them when they park, could it be at last they are aware of living plants?

goldfinches said:

twopenny said:

I love hollyhocks. I tried once but they got covered in rust and I never tried again.

Saw some today that were deep red and I was tempted but with it so hot at the back and so windy at the front I'll just have to admire these.

Goldfinches, it's a standard way to size pictures so shouldn't be your browser. Did you get the squares and the arrows to drag? You can put one of yours on a word document page and practice. Same method. Easier because you can see the whole thing and whats happening.

Hi 2p -  thanks for trying to help. No, when I click on my picture the whole thing is highlighted in blue as if I'd done CTRL A and there are no squares or arrows at all. I tried assuming they were there but not visible but that didn't work either. Hey ho, I might try editing the photos before pasting them the next time. 

GF, that's what I do, with a bit of cropping etc as well if needed

Here's some pics of my currants taken yesterday, red & white, very apt considering England footy time

twopenny

Beautiful the way the first pic is black and red. Is that on purpose?

I have no idea why one click selects the photo instead of giving the drag squares. Guessing you do it before you've posted the comment. I was chuffed when I found I could post and alter photos on here.

So, yes, not as much drizzel as expected here in my part of Somerset. Just enough to stop me doing anything useful but I did get the strimmer out and pruned the plum tree that was making for the skies. No idea what I'm doing but something had to be done.

The enormous £3 Ceanothus that has reached 6ft in 2yrs has been pruned flat but the wealth of bloom resulted in a wealth of seed pods which had to be removed and is tedious.

Been picking broad beans, a £2 bargain and  they've thrived but seem to be tasteless. No idea why so if anyone has please say.

And the raspberries are abundant, autumn fruiting allowed ot go on for a 2nd yr and I've been picking all summer. Delicious.

Only problem there is they are crowding out the tomatoes that have gone crazy with growth in this mild damp weather.

So a lot of replanning to do this autumn.

Farway

Drizzle to start the day, not enough to do any real good but enough to make me think twice about watering the pots as I intended to, I'll see how it goes because it's also liquid feed time this weekend

The drizzle has caused another change of plan, it was stare hard at the Judas Tree and reduce it a bit, there is one large branch getting very wayward and starting to shade out my Merton Thornless blackberry. Intention was to lop a few bits off the branch but with the wet leaves it will be very heavy and soggy so maybe not just yet

The manky cherry I removed the netting from didn't take long for the birds to strip the lot, all gone by yesterday afternoon, far better the birds have them than just rot on the tree, they weren't fit for this humans consumption, too badly split, snailed & mouldy

twopenny said:

Beautiful the way the first pic is black and red. Is that on purpose?

YES - I have an image editor program, Luminar 3, which has magic in it that does it for me, something with green filters I think, can be overdone of course but the occasional one adds a bit of zing to a picture

Been picking broad beans, a £2 bargain and  they've thrived but seem to be tasteless. No idea why so if anyone has please say.

Could it just be down to the the variety?

A lot of stuff these days is bred for things other than taste, eye appeal, travels well, disease resistant etc, which is why older varieties are sometime better for the amateur.

Davesnave

Brightening-up here now after overnight wet, so maybe not too bad for our log delivery late a.m. As with food, I'm getting plenty of reserves in for the coming winter. Word on the bush telegraph is of increasing cyber attacks and inflation, so theoretically it'll be sound investment, but do I really want to eat all that spaghetti and beans?

Yesterday I dug a 1/2 metre wide trench in the front garden to take about 8m worth of box hedging sitting in pots. Every year a friend gives me box to use as cuttings and a lot of them take, so I'll be overwhelmed if I'm not careful. They'll be forming the edge of our car parking area in the re-designed front garden...'one day'.

I've never tried the Lumix program, Farway, though I must have it somewhere judging by the number of dead Panasonic cameras I own!

OK another 'odd' plant: an arum lily that's about as tough as a dahlia, so often hardy here if planted deeply. Its colour makes it hard to place! (Zantedeschia pentlandii.)