Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Effician

Farway said:

I forgot to bring in the hardening off lupin last night and slugs have noshed a lot of it by this morning, lupins are one of the plants I like but always struggle with due to pests. One day I’ll have a big show of them but maybe not this year

Isn't it strange how experiences with plants can be so different, somehow we ended up with a stowaway lupin that came attatched to another plant dug up as a clump from a friend, it grows like a weed, behaves like a hydra when you cut off dead blooms & is never touched by any pests.

Had a good dowsing of rain this morning & the garden looks so much fresher for it, a joy to see the small birds hopping around the garden feeding the chicks.

wort

Lovely pics .
@inmywellies 😂 it's always very tempting. 
I watered last night , now the rain is here today! 😑

Woolsery

Rain was biblical here as soon as I returned from the Far East yesterdy p.m.......that's far east of Tiverton, of course. Failed in my mission but returned loaded with other items that may be useful in the coming months and more liquid gold, without which the mowers would soon be toast. I think I may have said before, our nearest supply of E5 petrol is 15miles away.

Blimey lily, you're way ahead of us, judging by the hostas and that rheum! One of our rheums has survived by the stream, but it's just a single leaf at present.

twopenny

Love the sculpture Farway. Glad you had decent weather and got out.
Went to Greencombe again yesterday with a friend. Nice to find someone to share a garden perspective differently though I do love to wander on my own.
The kitchen garden I love so much but can't see any of it working on my small plot. Still maybe something sunk in that will creap out later.
Went to the supermarket yesterday and didn't buy any plants  so proud of myself.
Hoping to get back today with enough time to do the pots by the patio doors.
Hopefully a little at a time and a blast at the weekend.

liberty_lily

Woolsery said:

Blimey lily, you're way ahead of us, judging by the hostas and that rheum! One of our rheums has survived by the stream, but it's just a single leaf at present.

We are in quite a sheltered spot here, Woolsery although that didn't stop our gunnera getting caught by frost a few weeks back ☹️

That rheum is becoming quite impressive - we planted it in the first phase of laying out the garden in 2018 - but one of its two younger siblings (both planted in the same bed last year) isn't faring so well with just the one leaf whereas the other has several...

Twopenny, I admire your resolve not to be tempted by the supermarket plants 🙂 My intentions were definitely good this year - we need to concentrate on the building work and associated materials etc - but then I noticed it was the final opportunity to buy bare root roses at David Austin and one I'd been after for ages (Hebe's Lip - one of our dear departed cats was Hebe) was available,  so I succumbed. Slippery slope time, as I added another (Eustacia Vye) plus I've got plans to grow a banksiae lutea over the garden room when built and found one of those at Trevor White roses online 🙄🙄🙄

DH is an enabler, lol, as he suggested a trip to a local-ish independent nursery on Saturday where I was seduced by some home grown salvias (verticallata alba) that can supposedly survive the Welsh winter. We both love salvias but so far others we've tried have failed to thrive here so here's hoping, as these fill a convenient gap in the white bed!

carolbee

I’m visiting the World Garden at Lullingstone Castle on Friday, and by chance, Tom Hart Dyke was speaking about a mile away from where I live last night. If ever you get a chance to see him, do go, he’s fabulous, funny and interesting. I may buy a plant or two or Friday .....

in_my_wellies

A very welcome heavy shower today but not cold, in fact I felt colder inside the house this morning but I was sitting doing admin

liberty_lily Beautiful picture of a lovely garden. My hostas have to be kept in pots away from snails, not so much slugs. 

A common plant whose name I should know has been growing in a stone wall for several years. I cut it back to the wall because it's strong and I can't get the root out. Yesterday I noticed it's parted the pillar from the wall, the pillar is leaning and the top slab needed pushing back into place. The power of nature! (picture tomorrow)

A bullfinch is working its way over the plum tree but as it's so old and most of the fruit has maggots I'm not too bothered. The pigeons making more pigeons do more damage. 

I'm so pleased for you having a lovely day at Wisley Farway. I'm another who wishes I'd visited there and Kew more often when I had the chance - my son worked there for about 6 years and although I went once a year to Kew life and other children got in the way so I didn't see all seasons 

Farway

Sunny day ahead, and warmer is forecast for next few days, only gardening for today is trundle garden waste wheelie bin around the front for collection tomorrow, rest of the day is clerical stuff and maybe water some pots out the back

Highlight so far is delivery of Tom fertiliser in the Asda shopping delivery

twopenny

Amazing how quickly you can use fertiliser.

I potted plants yesterday. I'm going to regret that when I have to water them all in the hot weather but it looks pretty.......

More about mowing and appointments today. Some primulas many still blooming are going in the front garden where hopefully, they don't cross with my wild primroses.

The ground is still so hard I bent my trowel yesterday. So don't be too impressed by my lack of purchases. I intend to dig out wider beds when possible. The idea being to give the shrubs chance to grow and not swarm the smaller plants but, well, we'll see.

Woolsery

Only news of note so far...a Scutellaria incana has come up 16 months after sowing.

My notes say, "Slow but reliable."