Awful weather - typical Brits talk

RebekahR

Helloooooo! First day in the garden of this year for me! Cut a bush, trimmed a few potted things. Think i've killed a potted rose its all brown. SOB! Cleaned out the chickens, planned veggie patch - gave up - just planted loads of seeds in the window sill with DD6 - and did a £90 shop on Wilkinsons!

RAS

The apricot wasn't a planned purchase; it was a gift from a from a friend who'd grafted a few. So very much need to learn how to manage it. Plans are to get the greenhouse frame up and house it there. 

Existing structure suggests it can be made into a fan. Meantime, it going to have to live in a pot.

Glad the streptocarpus plans went well Farway. B... pigeons got my African kale 2p; couldn't really net it in the high winds so will cut it right back and hope to resprout, plus take a few cuttings. Rebekah' hope the seeds oblige. 

Must get more in myself, as time has flown. Spent time yesterday grabbing some free manure and digging up a couple of large redcurrants that sprouted where the branches reached the soil. Replaced with a smaller pink currant that's now large enough to fruit well. Might put in the little White Pearl white currant I got from the £ shop last summer. At least long enough to see if it is what it said on the tin.

Farway

Sun’s out, and definitely signs of spring, the flowering cherry tree opposite my house has a pink haze on it now with blossom about to pop, and my fruiting plum is also white in parts with blossom buds ready to burst

2P, I feel the same about runners as you do with your broad beans; I wasn’t going to grow any given the snail disaster last year but hey ho, New Year new disappointment, or maybe new year bounty?

RAS, currant what it says on the time, fingers crossed, always a first time I suppose? And free rooted currants.

Rebekah, seed sowing time nearly here for me, itching to get going now, especially with what I hope is better compost this year, last night I was day dreaming and sowing beetroot in modules, tried it last year with miserable results but being a gardener we all know this year will be better

My newly potted on fig is starting to show green shoots, always a plus after potting on, the fig cuttings I rooted in water last year and subsequently potted on appear to have survived the winter outside, and they have green tips just showing now. Soon need to find them a home

twopenny

Good going farway.
Thought i should mow the lawns today but a biting cold Easterly wind so probably not.
Still so much to do. Past my seed sowing time but it's constant rain or cold.
Enough already!

Farway

Another sunny day but no gardening, I have an Asda delivery around noon so that'll keep me busy

This morning I found some bright red seeds I'd collected from a shrub up the road have geminated, picture in due course once I identify the shrub, it's variagated but not sure if the seed grown children will be

twopenny

Sounds interesting. I like a bit of adventure in the garden.
Sunny when I was out socialising this morning but cold and cloudy now.So probably nothing more than mowing the lawn when I get back before yet more rain arrives....hurumph.

The blackbirds have made a mess of beds and gravel. I don't mind but not sure if it's worth sweeping as it will probably be back tomorrow.

So got out and mowed the lawns not that you'd notice. Bumpy and tufty from the weather and tidied the front beds. Trimmed the poor old Hidcote lavender. It's not as sturdy as the others I have. Looking a bit leggy despite attention but is growing from the base fingers crossed.

RebekahR

Wilkinsons came! I got a 50cm pot, 2 pairs of fleece lined gloves, and 3 packets of flower seeds!

goldfinches

I managed to get into the Botanic Garden at lunchtime today and had a coffee sitting on my favourite bench in the sunshine. Things are really looking up, all the magnolias are about to flower, the potentillas are just opening in the sun and all the bulbs were dancing in the gusts.



Here's the magnolia soulangeana that's always the first to flower, if we can only get a couple more sunny days it should be gorgeous, I've got my fingers crossed that the clouds skip over us for the next fortnight or so, it's such a pity when the rain or a frost ruins the flowers. I even spotted some dark blue dutch hyacinths that had opened in a very sheltered corner so spring is really moving now.

Farway

Bit dull weather and my car has flat battery so no mooching today round Home Bargains for plants etc.

On a brighter note here's a pic of the seeds I sprouted, I've identified the parent as Euonymus, could take a few years, can you check back in 2030?

I'll pot these up this afternoon and grow on

phoebe1989seb

The weather's been mixed here with a few dry, sunny days, but unless you count wandering round the garden making plans, I've not actually achieved anything out there 🙄

Apart from the green roof and adding some astrantias to the rose beds, it's unlikely we'll make a great deal of garden progress this year as we're about to embark on the next phase of major DIY (but still stupidly expensive) building work, but it's fun to make plans 😁 

At the weekend DH did make a start on removing the 25'+ overgrown laurels that I abandoned cutting with a saw a few weeks back. He'd bought a new (electric) chainsaw for the purpose, but after only an hour the blooming thing stopped working 🙁 That's being returned tomorrow and we'll revert to a petrol one....

Our huge clump of trachystemon orientalis is flowering and I spotted some blossom on one of the ornamental cherries. The cyclamen (which I believed had died) in the vintage enamel baby bath are looking lovely and there's loads of buds/green shoots popping up everywhere including some of the many persicarias I transplanted from the rockery 😄

I did a head count of Purple Sensation alliums in the rose beds but fear these have succumbed in the same way as the ones I had in a different part of the garden - I know it's early days, but out of 60+ planted, only six are currently visible 🙁 However, the potted Globemasters are doing fine as are - most of - the few Mount Everests I planted in the white bed in the autumn. 

Those bargain daffodils are full of buds too, so that was definitely £4 well spent!