Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Lovely Blue!
Still raining so no gardening but my little birds have come back!! Just passing through but daily. I miss watching them.

Not a good look that indoor tomato Farway. Ripening has halted in my garden but I live in hope.

Woolsery. How did you photograph the rain? Tripod? Fast shutter?

Gutter running into a bucket, not dripping and I'm using it to flush out the soil from the driveway drain. Bonus.....

Woolsery

twopenny said:

Woolsery. How did you photograph the rain? Tripod? Fast shutter?

'Rain' is a lot easier to shoot when it's hailstones!

Farway

Nice rainbow shot there YBE, I've never been quick enough or had camera to hand at the right time, maybe today? Sunshine & showers for the day, with more during the week, at least it's going to be mild, so a few bob saved on the gas bill

Must be very mild, I have some purple clematis flowers out in the garden, looking a bit soggy right now but hopefully will dry out and be cheerful sometime during the coming week, in which case I'll try for a photo

Woolsery said:

Catsacor said:

☔🌧️☔🌧️⛈️ i am soooooo fed up with all the rain we're having here 😞
Day after day of it and the pattern's set for the week ahead too 😞😞

Just Mother Nature re-balancing the aquifers. The reservoirs are still well down.

No outdoor work here today, I fear, but I spotted some blue sky on the way home from my flu jab, given by my 'real' doctor. Now there's a first! Never seen him before, but he sounds exactly the same as Toby Buckland, so easy to ID.

'Waldo' was on the list for our new fruit area, along with 'Adrienne' and the old, reliable, 'Merton Thornless.' DB gave the thumbs down to 'Chester.'

They should give a nice comparison and harvest season once they start cropping. My Merton was a fail this year, due to drought  and me not watering they just frizzled up to seedy juiceless bullets, but plan B is getting a hose rigged up the garden for next year now lugging watering cans is getting harder

Here is a November rose, in the car park of my prescription chemist, the jobbing gardener responsible for the Pampas grass slaughter seems to have missed lopping the tops off this

YoungBlueEyes

Loving the pics 😊

I bought a couple of roses a wee while ago. They’re still in their tubs til I figure out what I’m for doing with the garden. They don’t look happy or healthy though… Next door has a wild (I think) rose and it’s in fine fettle! Lovely colour and a beautiful fragrance. Must see if I can get a pic so yous can see it. 

But I’m not jealous. I’m really not. Not one bit.  

YoungBlueEyes

So here’s my unhappy roses (which were perfectly happy and in full fragrant bloom when I bought them) 

….and here’s next door’s - pic taken over the fence with my arms at full stretch ha haa! But you get the idea. 

Woolsery

Neighbour's rose is very nice, YBE, but not so much the bindweed that's growing up it and also invading the ground around your rose pots. Strangely enough, I spotted some bindweed a neighbour has grown into my hedge just before lunch today, so you're not alone. With the wind and sharp showers we're experiencing, I'll have to exercise restraint, but as soon as things are drier and calm, I'll be up a ladder, painting that bindweed with systemic weedkiller.

As above, it's been another day of 'dodge the showers.' I've been clearing out the stream, planting in the wild area and trying to pretend I'm not feeling washed-out, as I often do after a flu shot.

With Farway's ivy flower photo in mind, early this morning I nipped out with the camera and took a pic of something similar. Can you guess what plant it is?

YoungBlueEyes

Is that the best thing then? Systemic weed killer? I’m just pulling it up as it (and other weeds) appear….. 

Oh and I hope you’re not waiting on me to answer your plant question 😁

Woolsery

YoungBlueEyes said:

Is that the best thing then? Systemic weed killer? I’m just pulling it up as it (and other weeds) appear….. 

Yes, but it's a bit late in the year. 'Systemic' weedkillers are taken in by the plant and inhibit their normal functioning: e.g. by closing down photosynthesis. Trouble is, in November there's not a lot of photosynthesis going on. Some plants draw back the nutrients in their leaves as they wither and disappear below ground in winter, so there's a chance they will absorb enough weed killer in that scenario to affect them negatively, even next year.

twopenny

Another wet day and the gutter is still leakin massively despite all my ideas.

I have however got 7 ripe raspberries on a cane.
Well they're not on a cane now. They're in my tummy so no photo.

Blue, could you re pot the roses into larger pots? They look a bit  over wet. Good sturdy plants though. What are they?

YoungBlueEyes

Thanks Woolsery, I'll put it on my shopping list and have a go.

Twopenny the only larger pots I've got are buckets, which are currently catching drips from my leaking conservatory gutter. The roses were in great shape a few weeks ago when I bought them, lush foliage and a few flowers and buds. I thought they'd be ok in those tubs while I plant them in the spring. They're sat on the soil there cos that's where the few miserable rays of sun still reach. I'll put some big stones under them so they can drain a wee bit.