Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Another rainy night with no gardening today

Now you've pointed it out Black cat, I can see the lady, time to send photo off to a newspaper & claim it's QEII come back?

The only gardening item today is the blackbirds have discovered my yellow pyracantha berries and are getting stuck into them with gusto, which was the intention with it, unlikely to get a photo though, too quick for my reflexes, but I'll try

diystarter7

The title of this thread, it's wrong

We been to several countries and when the weather is not as expected eG cooler, more rainy/windy/etc, they too bang on about it.

TBH, never been to Manchester but if it is true re the rain, I don't blame them.

Btw, almost forgot, it is peeing down here or it was now drizzle but expected to dry bup by noon, lol.

diystarter7

Davesnave said:

Well, down here in ever-sunny Devon it hasn't been too bad, as we've organised much of the rain to fall at night. I've been out chatting to the sheep, who are all newbies and shorn, but they seem to have their shelter area sussed OK........

Then her outdoors had me moving the small hen coop to pastures new.

I'll admit after that essential outdoor stuff I headed into the polytunnel, where there were hardy geraniums and geums in pots waiting to be de-vine-weeviled. As you'll know, there's nothing 'divine' about vine weevil grubs. I've learned that if you don't change the compost there's no roots left by December! The same applies to many other potted plants, especially primulas and fuchsias. I have an industrial looking microwave from the 1980s to cook the used compost up, grubs and all, and then I re-use it.

The trouble with polytunnels is that they're stretched tight like a drum, so rain is amplified. I have a mains sound system in there to cope with that, but after a couple of hours I'd had enough. The music teacher who lives across the lane probably felt similarly!

Davesnave said:

Well, down here in ever-sunny Devon it hasn't been too bad, as we've organised much of the rain to fall at night. I've been out chatting to the sheep, who are all newbies and shorn, but they seem to have their shelter area sussed OK........

T

The sheep look well smart and well presented like a good school that enforces the uniform rules.

Nice pic

Farway

Ta Ra, just had a go at photographing the blackbird on my pyracantha, and here we are, freshly taken. You can see the bare stalks where he's scoffed the berries, gone for the easy ones first

YoungBlueEyes

That's a cracking pic Farway

Woolsery

diystarter7 said:

The sheep look well smart and well presented like a good school that enforces the uniform rules.

Nice pic

Dave can't hear you. He was subject to digital discombobulation. It's not only schools that have enforcement y'know.....

But hey, with photographers like Farway around, who needs him?

liberty_lily

It's definitely Princess Anne, Woolsery 😆

Brilliant pic of the blackbird on your pyracantha, Farway 😃

Very little achieved here garden-wise over the past week or so. DH has been absent and the weather has been mostly wet/windy, so all I've done is clear a few leaves (loads more to do), shift some logs and tie a clematis montana into one of the courtyard walls.

Out in the main garden all is looking rather bedraggled and in need of attention. Friday is set to be a dry one so hopefully - if the decorating and/or upholstery project I'm working on don't get in the way 🙄 - I'll tackle a bit then!

A couple of our roses are still persevering, like this rambler (Lady of the Lake)....

twopenny

Oh I like that Lib! Already noted 

Having scrabbled on hands and knees to water the standard lavender on a slope through the drought it's leaves are now going a horrible yellow of too wet! 
I'm thinking of putting some tarpaulin down somehow to dry them out a bit.
That is if it will just stop raining 

greenbee

@twopenny - no, I don't think I'll be taking much with me in pots. Most plants here are in the ground, and I have so much other stuff to do and move that I can't face digging stuff up to take. However, I will steal a lot of stuff from my mum's garden. And I have taken a whole lot of strawberry runners back to hers to overwinter in her cold frame!

The last place I looked at had a long, narrow, north-facing garden. So despite the house being nice, it's off the list. 

twopenny

Greenbee, there was a viewers north facing garden on Gardeners World last week and they planted sunlovers one side a shade lovers the other.

But yes, I picked a south facing because that's what we always used to want but found it's way too hot and the very tall fence at the back casts a rain shadow.

Perhaps that would be a good thread. Aspect and gardens. Could be some useful tips.

One thing I've seen is with some houses/bungalows they can cast complete shade across a garden. I think that was a north facing. I'll have to walk round there with a compass