Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Red Kites sound good to me. Send me a boxfull when you get chance please?  

I like your shelves 2P. Slim, pretty, and properly useful!

My wee purple crocus out the front has disappeared... but I've a couple of creamy looking ones coming up in my pots, that bit of warmth and high pressure has shifted it all along it seems.

Going to a nursery this aft with lovely neighbour + Dog. Himself said I'm not to run mad in there cos "we aren't made of money!" The major curtailing factor will be that lovely neighbour drives a Fiat500 so there literally won't be room for lots of big stuff ha haa! 

Farway

Another hard overnight frost with bright sunshine & blue sky this morning

Lovely photos GF, I do miss not growing crocus, after you with the Red Kites 2P, although there are some over the border in West Sussex so maybe a day's picnic excursion for them to polish off my squirrels?

Don't know what your car problems is 2P, but if battery related I found a battery booster is a wonderful bit of kit to have in your glove compartment, despite their small size they have enough oomph to get a car started. The link is just to give you a clue, not a recommend

GF, second hand cameras, stuck for choice these days, and even ones over ten years old work well and are cheap, I bought my recent one off E bay and very pleased with it

And here's a pic taken with it, on my Monday jaunt round the churchyard, just some of the snowdrops I went to see

Farway

Back to sunshine + frost after yesterday's dull & grey

Managed to tidy up the front when I put out the garden wheelie bin, all the dead and brown summer stuff now in the bin, so once the daffs open up they can be seen & will sparkle in the sunshine, I hope so anyway

I still have the straggly buddleia to prune back, but I need the wheelie bin emptied first, so I can put the pruning into it. Hopefully tomorrow if weather holds

YoungBlueEyes

I’ve got your full and grey having had sunny frosty for a few days. Still not warm tho. 

The holey roamin’ terror is in fine fettle, he lept up my fence after a squirrel (that he didn’t catch 🙁) like he was bionic! I’ve asked lovely neighbour to stop feeding him cos my mouse is now a big brown rat, and the birds are scared off from eating. Well blackies and robins and the other wee ones really. Pigeons don’t care, naturally. I am not amused. 

We went to a nursery and a garden centre the other day, I’ve bought plenty so I need to get my erse in gear and do the big garden sorting out work so I can get em all planted. I got some soft fruits inc rasps, happily a LOT cheaper than freebears! I’m looking forward to it all coming together now but suspect it’s a long way off in reality….  

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So mild today, air from the south and 13C out back.
I've achieved a lot today ..... hard pruned an Eleagnus, Physocarpus (x2) and Sambucus, lightly pruned other shrubs too, laid 8 70L sacks of bark too ..... i love it when gardening season starts 😊🌲🌳

twopenny

Dry, white cloud and the smallest hint of an icy breeze.

So much to do inside I'm just looking and thinking about the garden.

Did notice that a disabled neighbour had the bulbs put in in clumps instead of here and there. A mass of Dutch Iris looks lovely and colourful. Unlike my attempt at clever potting ideas or following a dwarf hedge.

So I'll put labels in where my tons of bulbs are and relocate for next year in simple clumps because the colour on these winter days really shows up.

Totally envious of another neighbours garden. Photos to follow. She has pea shingle with inset runs of block pavers and a mass of tiny cyclamen round one weeping tree and a mass of small daffs around another. So clever and almost maintenance free.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh that sounds v pretty 2P, can't wait for photos

A mild morning here and not a breath of breeze, should be a good dawn I think. The mornings sure are getting lighter quicker, and I like that.

Didn't get a thing done in the garden, other than sitting all the plants I bought in the places that I think I wanna plant them. Yesterday and today are for sorting out the conservatory - the 4rse is dropping out of it! What I thought may possibly have been a little crack is now definitely a huge long crack right round the backside of it. And can you get a builder..?! Himself is good but he's not a builder. I hope it's fixable before it turns into a hole you could get your hand in....

Never rains but it pours eh.

Farway

Dull start, but mild, maybe a hint of sun?

Could be the day to get out the front and sort the buddleia now garden wheelie bin has been emptied & waiting to get topped up again

Yesterday while staring hard at my Cape Primroses, one of the older leaves broke off, so following my own advice on here I have used it as base for leaf cuttings.

I noticed it really is new growth on the cuttings taken last year, now I need to really sort out the conservatory space, no excuse now it's getting lighter & warmer

I like the sound of those cyclamen 2P, but round here it's squirrels that stop me, they use them a starter before tackling the crocus bulbs for main course. And miniature Dutch Iris are just a pipe dream, something to be admired on Gardeners' World but not here

I planted some when I first moved in and never saw them again , later I discovered how tasty they are to those grey rascals

YoungBlueEyes said:

 Yesterday and today are for sorting out the conservatory - the 4rse is dropping out of it! What I thought may possibly have been a little crack is now definitely a huge long crack right round the backside of it. And can you get a builder..?! Himself is good but he's not a builder. I hope it's fixable before it turns into a hole you could get your hand in....

Never rains but it pours eh.

Oh, that sounds bad & maybe expensive, would a likely cause be the dry summer & ground drying out under its foundations?
My front has large poured concrete slabs, and one has dropped quite a bit where the ground beneath shrank this summer. A few doors down has had to replace the lot, it was so bad

YoungBlueEyes

I’ve been reading various websites for help and the consensus seems to be the desperate heat we had has dried everything out.  I just wonder at the timing though. It’s only appeared since that last cold spell we had cos I was in there scraping the ice from the inside of the windows - I would’ve noticed it. Would it really have taken that long to show?  Here’s a coupla pics. It’s length is a dozen bricks, nothing shows on the outside… 

YoungBlueEyes

When did your and your neighbours damage appear Farway?