Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Gardeners World it is then, thanks 2p 🙂

I would definitely class myself as a beginner. I’d a lovely wee garden in my last house but it was pure luck there. Small square garden - square of grass in the middle with soil on 3 sides. I can make a hole with my thumb and pop bulbs in. I got one of those sprinkly wild flower box things, that was quite successful. I want to do it properly this time tho cos it’s a bigger garden and we’ve no plans to move again. 

I’m looking forward to getting on with the gig, just need to get my head round it first 🙄

Farway

Another grey & dull morning

For gardening programme I suppose Gardeners' World is among the best to watch, but I sometimes find it boring in parts, flower arranging is just not for me

I quite like Beechgrove, 'cos I can feel warm & smug in my Southern Hampshire armchair watching them struggle in constant frost, rain & snow, I do admire how they keep going though, and TBH growing far better tomatoes outside up there than I do down here, grrrr

I gave up watching the garden makeover type of programmes years ago, just too daft, formulaic and expensive for me, turn up with a mini digger, a couple of burly blokes and a lorry load of instant plants including trees, bingo, one morning later paradise & tears from a suitably needy person. I'd like to see follow-up programmes, say two or three years later, to see how it fared

Looks too damp to even prowl around the garden today, but I must soon attend to the winter fruit pruning before it’s too late

Eenymeeny

The old Beechgroves were much better. They've become too pc these days. I'm sorry but Monty Don and his dogs are just too irritating to watch for me. 

YoungBlueEyes

I only popped on to say that Spring must be nearly here cos I’ve a wasp/bee trying to crash it’s way in through my kitchen window! 

I’ll check out some old Beechgroves too then, I’ll prolly cherry pick between em. 

(Eenymeeny - the first line of your sig is something my granda used to say a lot “Keep your head well stocked for it’s the only thing they cannae take aff ye”).

twopenny

Despite the weather forecast of dry white cloud it's been raining again.
Seeing how dismal the garden is I went for a drive on the moors. The colours are amazing! Gold, bronze, copper, red ochre, orange, green and bright yellow. The foliage dense.
Thinking about the Beachgrove repotted garden a mass of plants I wonder why we try so hard to lay out gardens.

YoungBlueEyes

I used to drive across the north York moors a lot, I always loved it. 

Eenymeeny

YoungBlueEyes said:

I only popped on to say that Spring must be nearly here cos I’ve a wasp/bee trying to crash it’s way in through my kitchen window! 

I’ll check out some old Beechgroves too then, I’ll prolly cherry pick between em. 

(Eenymeeny - the first line of your sig is something my granda used to say a lot “Keep your head well stocked for it’s the only thing they cannae take aff ye”).

I love your Granda's quote. A very wise man   Look out for the Beechgroves with the older man, Jim on them, he was a fount of knowledge and a great partner for George  

Farway

A sunny day ahead, all being well I intend grabbing my loppers and lopping a few feet off the top of one of the apples before it touches the sky

I may get on a do some tidying of the Merton Thornless blackberry while I'm out there, and I've a new cane from the Thorn Free blackberry that needs tying in instead of just wagging around

Has to be done soon and rain back again for the weekend, so now or never I guess

YoungBlueEyes

Are those that have fruit trees are doing lots of wassailing...?

MSE_Laura_F

I took the liberty of compiling some of your plant photos into a collage for the end-of-year forum blog. I hope you like it.