Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

I looked at your haul very carefully Phoebe. Wonderful haul.

Lovely barge boards. I was looking for some simple corner flutty things for my 'bower'. I'm thinking I could cut some out of thin wood as I need it to be light visually.

Have fun with your treaures .

Davesnave

Well, the afternoon was a few hours of sunshine broken by one torrential burst of rain that lasted around 10 minutes, so the planned garden visit to Marwood Hill took place. However, I forgot that the site is steep-sided east-west valley and now heavily wooded, so the north facing slopes were in shade, as was most of the valley bottom from about 14.30 onwards.

Things certainly began well. But as the light began to fade and the wind got up, 'late summer' turned to autumn!

We have memories of the garden going back to the early 1980s.  At that time the huge eucalyptus and other Southern Hemisphere trees were small. Dr Jimmy Smart, who developed the garden from a greenfield site was an anaesthetist. My friend, who sometimes worked beside him in theatre, says he always had a gardening publication with him somewhere. I met him once or twice in the garden, but I remember his Jack Russell better and so do our kids!

Jimmy can still be found in his garden, but he doesn't get about much now and prefers one view in particular; overlooking part of the garden's national collection of astilbes.

Davesnave

twopenny said:

I've finally got brave enough to work out getting photos off my new camera so to brighten up those in the rain here's a memory of spring to come again - at Greencombe

 

Yes, we had a very memorable day out too, though the garden was the good part and the journey there and home, not so good!  We didn't know it at the time, but on that day we were just an hour or two behind you!

Farway

Very nice to see the spring pictures on this dull and soon to be very wet & windy day

I'm also in Spring mood, just ordered 30 garden ready polyanthus from Brown's, on offer 50% reduction [spring bedding clear out?] and free P & P this weekend. very much an impulse purchase and no doubt I'll find heaps on reduced clear out in Wilko when I go in next week

Apart from that no other gardening today

Found this sign of Autumn yesterday

twopenny

Rained all day and its chilly and grey. Flowers are rotting so a miserable outlook. But it does make you think about structure and shape instead of getting carried away by colour and enthusiasm.
Dave I remember that. We missed each other by a whisker.

Farway

It chucked it down yesterday once it started, today looks a bit better, even blue sky in parts

Only garden task is trying to get my grapefruit back upright but may struggle as it's blocking the back door

Other easier task is nipping out the shoots on the coleus I rooted the other month, now growing away nicely in their pots, soon have to consider winter quarters for them

Davesnave

No gardening of note yesterday and none planned for this morning, though a final delivery of logs means we're going to be  fully stocked with fuel for the winter.

With no new photos to add, here's another from Marwood Hill featuring one plant not found here. Like the forbidden riff in musical instrument shops* RHPs are banned by DB in our garden.

* 'Stairway to Heaven' 

Farway

Nice forbidden fruit photo Dave, I think on last weeks GW there was a chap with loads of different RHPs. I've always liked them but never grown them for some reason.

One of my very young childhood memories is in a very large pub garden where the centre piece was a huge RHP and I was fascinated with it, obviously it was ideal for chasing around it which no doubt was one reason it stuck in my memory, plus the crisps & lemonade of course

Only gardening today was the trip into Wilko while in town for eye test, eyes were good enough to spot a reduced 1.5kg pack of Growmore for 75p and duly purchased for next season

It was sunny but now it's back to rain, at least I managed to get my grapefruit upright again and can now get out of the back door

twopenny

Lol I used to have a rose like that farway.
Day away today and still raining but not too cold. Mild even. I'm saving myself for the end of the week when it should be dry and I can start moving plants - Monty says.
Did call at 2places with plants but they aren't cheap and nothing outstanding. Tried to buy a couple of heucras at otter nurseries but no one on the till. Went to the sale items but no prices on. No idea what's going on there. 

Blackjack_Davy

Davesnave said:

Well, the afternoon was a few hours of sunshine broken by one torrential burst of rain that lasted around 10 minutes, so the planned garden visit to Marwood Hill took place. However, I forgot that the site is steep-sided east-west valley and now heavily wooded, so the north facing slopes were in shade, as was most of the valley bottom from about 14.30 onwards.

Things certainly began well. But as the light began to fade and the wind got up, 'late summer' turned to autumn!

We have memories of the garden going back to the early 1980s.  At that time the huge eucalyptus and other Southern Hemisphere trees were small. Dr Jimmy Smart, who developed the garden from a greenfield site was an anaesthetist. My friend, who sometimes worked beside him in theatre, says he always had a gardening publication with him somewhere. I met him once or twice in the garden, but I remember his Jack Russell better and so do our kids!

Jimmy can still be found in his garden, but he doesn't get about much now and prefers one view in particular; overlooking part of the garden's national collection of astilbes.

Oh my goodness Marwood we were in there back in July. And yes it always seems to be rain whenever we visit too