Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Yes, my rooms looked lovely for a while this morning. Sitting in vegetating it's messy again.

While checking I noticed that one of a pair of Rosemary bushes has several dead branches. It was fine last week.

Looking on google it seems waterlogging and root rot may be the cause but I won't be putting it right for a while with the rain and wind.

I'm mortified. The pair have been in round the bird bath one either side for 3yrs so I doubt I can get another anything like the size.

Farway

The wind has died down and the sun’s out with blue sky, calm before the storm if the forecast is to be believed

Shame about your rosemary 2P, I had trouble with mine, it seems to be one of those plants that just keels over yet thrives on neglect & drought, until it doesn’t! I had one in a pot near the front door, went on for ever then just popped its clogs for no reason

No gardening today, but have to hang about indoors because the locksmith for front door is coming and I need to be inside to hear the door and not mooching round the garden

twopenny

Mooching is good. You get some of your best ideas then or just appreciate what you've done.
I went to a garden centre for 2 more of the pale perenial wallflowers. Went round a second time to ask a question about a winter clematis and came out with a large rosemary, a choysia gold (half price) and picked up a couple of heathers on the way home.
This really has to stop!
But with a small place and enormous windows it is important to have colour year round.
If i move again I'll pick somewhere that doesn't look over the garden from every angle.

Farway

Another no gardening day, under red warning for grotty weather mid morning onwards, so I'll watch it from inside, there is a large ash tree on the roadside verge near my front. I expect a few twigs will be dislodged as they seem to fall off just by looking at them, at least it'll provide handy twigs for the pigeon nests

2P, buying plants is an affliction we all have, I'm fighting Strep purchase syndrome since I saw some & bought on line and started watching You Tube, there are even bigger & better.

And now I find that there's a cash market for named leaves, cuttings etc on fleabay.Who knew over £4 for a named Arican Violet leaf?

I think if I were younger and CBA it could be a paying venture, some pin money anyway

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Morning all !

North Somerset coast's getting a battering this morning, scarey stuff - it happens several times a year so used to it, don't like it though.
I feel sorry for the animals/birds etc that  live outside 😕

twopenny

Beautiful sunny morning but then the charcoal sky came over at 9am and I've been out in my slippers putting a stronger tie further up my litte plum tree.
Then I watched my kale and broccoli nearly ripped out by the gusts. Can't help the broccoli,6plants 5ft high but I put canes and string round the kale.
Took in my ladybird wind thingy before it was ripped out and flying off. I think i know the wind is blowing.
Nearly couldn't get back out of the garage for the wind!
A naughty thought crossed my mind. I wonder if some of the clematis I wanted will be damaged and on sale? Oh wicked woman!

Jaybee_16

Greenhouse isn't anchored to the ground so has been affected by the storm. During the previous storms it moved 6 inches, the door was further along the garden path and 5 panes broken. 

After todays storm, the greenhouse has moved about a foot and another 6 panes of glass broken. 

twopenny

Oh thats miserable Jaybee. Better than the house windows maybe. It's darn cold today, dsrk and gloomy.
So far everything has held up apart from my new beautiful Hellibore. A large stem of flowers has been ripped off.
My baby tree covered in blossom has flowers ripped of and the rest are looking bedraggled.
Wind is getting up again and rain for the foreseeable so there will be no outside for me again for the next couple of days.

Farway

Bad news about the greenhouse Jaybee, although I don’t use mine now I did anchor it down when I built it, mainly because it is a clear plastic panel type so not inherently heavy or solidly built

Not a lot of damage here, a neighbour’s fence panel but that’s about it, a few roofs off & trees down in town

Bright but cold, no need to go into garden today except to check if the one crocus the squirrels missed has opened yet

Meanwhile I’m planning for my new streptocarpus spot, I may re arrange conservatory & stand them on gravel trays; which means I may have to take a few trips to Garden Centres & Wilkos on research, let’s hope nothing expensive falls into my trolley as I walk around “researching"

RAS

Hmmm... this wasn't what was predicted when I left home. Was however gifted some very nice rooted cuttings as well as acquiring some interesting graft wood.