Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Wonderful plants I haven't seen before. Especially like the Daucus. Just glorious.

Nothing done today. Had a tooth extraction 5pm yesterday and seem to have probs where the needles went in at the back soft bit

Did pick a few raspberries. The new back ones have now reached 7ft and flopping over in places giving me problems with the washing line. Unfortunately lopping the tops off - seems they are flowering vigourously at the ends.

Ditto the overgrown tomato plants during the storms are fruiting really well.

 

But when you see these you see why I haven't started tidying them up.

 

And the Kale has gone supercharged as well. Should be winter/spring but it's ready to pick now. Yes it's to close together but it should be only pint sized and moveable when the beans came out. Too late now.

Mind it does feel like autumn, cool, cloudy, bit of sun and bit of mizzle and back to jeans and long sleeved stuff

Computer going into the shop for about 5 days so you know my posts will be short and sweet for a while but I am reading and admiring.

goldfinches

I'm really envying other people's lovely gardens and so enjoying all your photos.

I just popped over to say that I've spotted several of these trees simply laden with ripe fruit in the last day or so, they all seem to have ripened at once in different areas of the city. I think they're either cherry plums or bullaces and the most prolific one is completely inaccessible without abseiling off Magdalen Bridge.



I'm wondering about popping some of the stones in various sheltered little places to see what happens or whether I could try rooting a cutting next spring.

Davesnave

Nothing new to report, but I noticed this morning that the President of the RHS is now Keith Weed, so to celebrate that, here's a Rosemoor picture of heleniums, otherwise known as 'Sneezeweed'  :

Farway

Sunny after dull start. Up to the volunteer border first thing, watering the large pots for me and weeding for those more bendy than me

GF, think I'd try both stones & cuttings, at least cuttings will come true but stones will give you something to experiment with, either way I think it will be a few years before GF Jam is spreading on your breakfast toast

Dave, I'm another one who spotted the aptly named Mr Weed, I bet he gets fed up whenever it's pointed out to him, but at least it's an ice breaker as he hands out the begging bowl seeks a donation

Sneeze weed, my seedlings are coming on nicely although it may be a couple of years before they are as nice as your photo

Today's photo is of Stargazer lilies in a pot at the volunteer garden. I planted them near the road for all to enjoy, and the scent wafts on the breeze. However they are far enough away to prevent light fingers taking them home

Black_Cat2

Beautiful F 😸

Rain off and on today.  Neighbours silver birch dropping tons of those little brown things to clog my drains!

Not much else happening 🐈

Farway

Tipping down here, ideal summer's day.

I had planned to tie in the longer canes of the Merton Thornless blackberry but  not in the rain. plus the apple pruning seems to have "cricked" my neck where I was reaching up I suspect, so today is a nothing doing day

DD265

We're due rain from mid/late afternoon, so I've put washing out on the off chance it'll dry before the weather turns.

I've had the second tomato from my crop this morning, and there will be plenty more to come. The peppers have also started to flower, but it's looking very cramped in the greenhouse! It looks like my roses are coming back for a second round of flowers so I shall enjoy those. I can't seem to keep coriander thriving in my herb planter so I replaced it with a new supermarket one this morning.

Have been looking for an alternative to the RSPB high energy suet pellets. The birds love them and the quality is fantastic, but the price is eye watering for the quantity we go through. I bought some fruity ones and some insect ones from Dawn Chorus/Twootz on Amazon with a view to mixing them (the berry ones went down OK previously) but they sent me two insect ones - I hope the birds like them!

phoebe1989seb

Very cold, windy and wet here, so for the second day in a row I've forsaken the outdoors and have been concentrating on the piece of art I'm creating (acrylic painting on canvas) for the guest bedroom.

Hoping to get out there tomorrow and get more building prep done, but it may not happen as there's more changeable weather forecast 🙄

We actually had to light one of the wood burners today because it was so autumnal.....

goldfinches

I don't know whether anyone remembers the horse chestnut tree on my regular walk that overbalanced during this year's floods and was subsequently felled, I've shown some photos of the various stages in previous posts.

To my shame although I pass it at least once a day I hadn't noticed until late this afternoon that it is sprouting new shoots. Here they are.



Just to refresh everyone's memory here it is after felling on 20th May this year.



I'll be watching it much more closely from now on.

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Black_Cat2 said:

Beautiful F 😸

Rain off and on today.  Neighbours silver birch dropping tons of those little brown things to clog my drains!

Not much else happening 🐈

Ooops 😏    
I have a silver birch, as do neighbours .... little brown things abound here 😋🌱