Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Davesnave

Knowing where my Mum was born and grew up, I think I share the same bias. Wouldn't mind a fishing holiday in the other place though!

Wild and wet here, but I foolishly promised housework today, so maybe it's not important. I was let off  yesterday as DB was painting skirting boards.

Farway

Wet, dull & gloomy here, with D's more wet & wild coming along soon so they say, which puts paid to any possible toadstool photos for the day, or even pottering in the garden

Davesnave

We had doom at noon, when you'd have thought an eclipse was going on. Housework was almost a pleasure. Then, for about an hour this afternoon, it was fairly sunny and quite warm....so that's when I did the rounds of the sheep, polytunnel etc and planted a few seeds that fell into my pocket the other day.

Loads of Selinum wallichianum in the Cool Garden this year. I remember when they used to be really rare, so the fact that seeds were just falling on the ground upset me a bit. Theoretically, I have half a dozen plants from bought seed overwintering in small pots as just a root, but umbels are tricky customers and often vanish, or maybe the evil weevils get them.

I'm rambling....it's the medicine.... quick, another photo before I embarrass myself.... How about an arty-farty one? They pop a lot of sculptures into the RHS gardens in winter. This one's Alice. She's stereotypical and v expensive, but I liked her because she went so well with the planting....

Black_Cat2

Doesn't look anything like Alice Cooper D 😘.  Oh... that Alice, yes... ofc!  😸

Love the plant over her left shoulder, do you know what that one is? 

Fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow which hopefully means a toadstool pic or two from F.  

Davesnave

Do you mean her right shoulder BC? The plants in the big planter look like Cineraria 'Silverdust' in quantity planted with Helichrysums towards the edge and hanging down.

Just in front of her nose, (so over left shoulder) I can make out a Penstemon, possibly 'Alice Hindley' but it's nearly gone over.

They had a Mad Hatter there too somewhere. He would have been good as an Alice Cooper lookalike!

Black_Cat2

Aah yes apologies D, right shoulder 😊.  Ty, silverdust looks lovely, googling it.. 

Farway

Black_Cat2 said:

Fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow which hopefully means a toadstool pic or two from F.  

No chance today, it's even worse out there than it was yesterday with strong wind blowing the rain, today would be ideal for fool hardy brave souls to go down the sea front for pics of waves crashing over, although normally the sea front is closed to traffic in this sort of weather, pedestrians can get though though

Tomorrow would be good for collecting sea weed I'd guess, not something I've done but only because of practical reasons, like lugging it home in my small car for one

Nice pic of Alice D, Wisley sometimes have V expensive sculptures around, but the most prolific around here is Hillier's near Romsey, they also have art inside, all helps towards the income I suppose & it is in keeping, so not like airport departure lounges

A success to report, mid summer I took some cuttings from a neighbour's rose, unknown variety but pink & lovely scent

One has taken after some worrying false starts, it is in my unheated conservatory for the winter, plant out next Spring I hope.

Here it is, in it's MSE yoghurt pot

Davesnave

Breezy with potential showers here, but sunny right now, so I might get out there later. Staying in risks having DB finding me things to do.....

Well done on the rose. Last year I planted  some seeds of one that had weirdly shaped hips and was probably a species, so that 'might' come up in the spring. If not, I have my own weirdly shaped hips!

DD265

We had an alright day from late morning onwards, so I put the garden to bed this afternoon. I'm not too worried about the heavy pruning on the roses as only one really got attacked (and it was suffering from black spot) but I decided to try and convince the peach tree to form a nicer shape rather than two rangey main branches so I went quite hard on it. Hopefully it'll pull through!

I need to acquire another pot (oh no, what a troublesome thing ) as I have a 'Arthur Bell' rose on the way next month. The original arrived dead at Easter, and I've had to wait for the replacement to be grown. I am hoping to cut back on the number of pots in the garden, but for now we only have two tiny beds at the back and one rather full at the front so limited growing space. Eventually I will need to find a design that works for both roses and grasses, as I'm not sure I could choose between them, though the current ratio very heavily favours roses.

I also need to finish transitioning the venus fly trap - which lives in our bedroom (it was on my desk at work last year) - into hibernation. Since I bought a lamp for it, it has thrived, and I've been trying to wean it off the light, but I still need to reduce the temperature by moving it into the conservatory.

Black_Cat2

Morning folks.  Another wet and somewhat windy night gone by, hoping today is dry 🤞

Great MSE tip F, yoghurt pots and toilet roll middles are handy for seedlings/cuttings, or so I remember someone on Gardeners World saying lol.  It's looking good.  If you could collect the seaweed are you looking to make it into a liquid or perhaps eating it?  🤔

I wonder if weirdly shaped hips will produce a weirdly shaped rose D, you might be sitting on a mini fortune if it does!  Second the weirdly shaped hips for me also 😸

Would love to sneak a peek at your venus flytrap DD, any chance of a pic?  Aren't they quite tricky to keep alive?

Enjoy your day everyone 🤗