Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Apodemus

Lovely!  Christmas came early for my one this year and it was all over by mid December!

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Morning Gardeners 🖐
Hope you've all had a nice few days 🎄 5 days off work for me and it's lovely to relax !

We've had several days of rain and it's absolutely sodden underfoot, not pleasant to be out there at all but it's okay for refilling all the bird feeders, they eat well 🌧🌪☔

Awful stormy conditions again today, crazy mild at 10C ..... on the North Somerset coast here, and at sea level, storms just rampage through the town when it's like this.

If we could get on with some proper winter weather that would be much appreciated - maybe someone could start doing the sun dance 😆🌫

Farway

raining here as I type, I was hoping for just a spell of drier weather to let me clear some of my large pots & troughs of the dead & sodden foliage

On the plus side, spotted green daff shoots poking through in the same pots, even more reason to clear the dead stuff out

twopenny

Catsacor, I'm on the west somerset coast and I was sat on the beach in the sun yesterday eating fish and chips!
Stormy today though and sodden underfoot. The chrysanths I potted round the patio remain rotting and the pansies eaten. It's just too muddy to do anything about them.
I've planted a couple of white Christmas roses in the border but even they are hunkering down in the dark and wet.
There are some roses hanging on. Noisette Blush continues to bloom all winter and summer, Cornelia bears some and Felicia the odd one.
You can't beat the old ones. I have some more in my sights. 

Farway

It's bucketing down again this morning, luckily I did manage to get out yesterday PM when it briefly stopped raining and rescued the begonia corms from their would be watery grave, now in the conservaory drying out for the winter, I'll  check them for vine weevils once drier, quick skim glance & they appear clear but the devils hide

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Well, the last 2 days have been a very, very, mixed bag of weather with temps at 15C, some sun, tons of rain .....  it's complete madness !

Yesterday afternoon it was 15C, very still, with high cloud allowing a watery sun through, you'd have mistaken it for spring time and not December.

The ground is totally sodden, lots of localised flooding, and now that the road sweeper no longer exists as a weekly feature the gutters and drains just can't let it escape so it's creating problems for some people's properties.
Not good, and the week ahead forecast predicts a week of rain, not good at all.

RAS

We've gone from a very cold spell last weekend to warm. But with the warmth came rain and low cloud. At least the cloud base has risen and there are even shreds of pale blue. But we're due more rain in a few hours.

Must get out although it'll only be to empty the compost bucket and hopefully clear a few leaves. Tomorrow and Saturday look dry.

Farway

It's still dull, grey & wet but the temperature is nearly tropical.

Nothing planned outside but I have been given a "grow a  Bonsia tree" set for Christmas , yep, I know but they didn't & it's the thought that counts right ?

It's basically some swell up when wet pots & packs of unnamed tree seeds. They need spell in fridge as well, but I'll make a start on New Years's say so at least I'll be able to time x weks in fridge etc without guessing it

twopenny

Farway, you could buy them the same thing for next Christmas. They would be obliged to try and grown them

Again it eventually stopped raining. They promise a couple of dry days but it's still so squelchy and sticky mud that I can't see me doing much. Even a tidy up would be better.

I did go into Morrisons to see if there were any Tete a Tete going cheap but there's hardly anything there and what is doesn't look healthy. The new company really needs to pull it's socks up.

Ditto Tescos and Lidl have almost nothing and the garden centre just their new idea which is expensive olive trees and such.

Hopefully once the weekend is over I'll take a trip to Otter, maybe a bit further but I don't have much hope for the season but it's as much of an outing as I get these days!

The charity stall has been reduced as she found it too hard.

On the plus side my lavender/choysia/myrtle cuttings are in one piece in the open ground. Hope they are putting down roots. At least I know they haven't dried out!!

Farway

A spot of sun just peeking out after the gloom of the previous days, but like 2P ,it's  still squelchy out there, too soggy to clear any of the pots at the moment

I wonder it the new Morries owners don't really care about the garden bits and are just letting it fade away? Be a shame if they are, Morries was one of the reliable see before you buy places around here, and a large car park

Apart from starting my Bonsai presents off I have two seed catalogues arrived, Brown's & Parker's to browse through, AFAIK I have all the seeds I require for 2022, but you know how it is once the pages start turning

Trying out my camera on B & W settings and a bit more photography than gardening although it is a new flower on my C Cactus