Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Sounds like a really productive day Farway. Don't like the sound of frost though.
Tescos have at last started getting plants in. There was a small prunus with white flowers. I dismissed it because most of my winter stuff is white. Then looking and planning I thought 'it would fit right there among the tete a tete an cyclamen lol. So looks like one might be coming home.
It's been dry but dismal. The garden like me looks sad and in need of sun. A very cold wind has blown up despite the forecast saying SW and rain cloud. I really need to get out there and shift stuff while there's still time.

Farway

And it’s back to driving wind & rain this morning so the best I can do today may be repot the fig, but even then it’s so cold in the conservatory I may not because I need to shuffle stuff about which will include temporality moving some pots outside

The weekend weather promises an improvement, fingers crossed

twopenny

Fingers crossed indeed but I fear it is still to wet for me to get on the lawn.
Driving hail storms between hail storms. The temperature has dropped too so I won't even be sorting the garage.
I am sloely planning though while looking out of the windows. Not sure I've got it right but only a short time left before it gets to hard and dry.
I'll just change it next year if so......a garden evolves I hope.

Farway

twopenny said:

Fingers crossed indeed but I fear it is still to wet for me to get on the lawn.
Driving hail storms between hail storms. The temperature has dropped too so I won't even be sorting the garage.
I am sloely planning though while looking out of the windows. Not sure I've got it right but only a short time left before it gets to hard and dry.
I'll just change it next year if so......a garden evolves I hope.

The hail has arrived here, looked like snow on the ground for a while

RAS

Yesterday was hail, sun, snow, sun, rinse and repeat. Plus high winds later.

Today looks glorious but am indoors teaching grafting. Need desperately to get on with my own. Have some hedgerow trees to propagate.

Farway

Sun's out, hooray. Maybe warm enough later to get out and mooch around the garden checking the buds are getting ready to pop for spring

Here's yesterday's hail, looked like snow on the ground for a while, but the daffs survived and are looking cheerful in the sunshine

twopenny

Sunshine and not too cold but I'm just going to potter the builders merchants for diddly bits around the garden because the lawn is too wet to puddle on.

Just hoping the plants I want are left in the shops/centres next week. It's half term so the town and roads are busy as and not worth spending a sunny day in traffic.

May go round the back and tackle the blackberry I can see wafting over the 6ft fence and the ivy tree I grow for insects and birds. The elder that I haven't been able to trim......oh and I expect there's more once I get there.

Farway

Lovely sunny afternoon yesterday and more promised this weekend, if true this afternoon its hack back carefully trim the buddlei. There's also a wild but tasty blackberry broken from it's mooring in the recent storrms, gone from on top of neighbours shed to overhanging path & poking me in the eye. My lopers will sort that out because my non gardening neighour never will

Sod’s Law of course, my neighbour who kills most plants has squirrel free crocus popping up in their lawn while the same squirrels bring JCBs along to dig my bulbs up.

Here’s a “Remembrance” crocus in yesterday’s sun, somehow missed by the squirrels

Farway

More sunshine today, managed to get the buddlia chopped back yesterday, and finished potting the fig up

Today is get the bow saw out to the really heavy buddlia wood trunks and then move round the front to attack that one

twopenny

Managed to get the blackberry/elder pruning done in the sunshine.
Also moved gravel an created a bigger bed out the front though still to be planted. 
I don't have the energy as i dig out a pond and rhyll yesterday, found it wouldn't work and filled it all in again! 
Slope left a lot of liner showing. For all my planning and level care i didn't see that one coming