Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Davesnave

Don't like to boast, but it's been sunshine here, coupled with a bitter wind. Oil delivery this morning, probably for the last time around 30p per litre, but we're stocked for whatever winter throws at us now, including Brexit. If you wonder where all the spaghetti went, it wasn't me. We're still eating the stuff we bought in February!

Black_Cat2

Hi all

I'm with you F, definitely a day for dreaming about next year's garden plans, hasn't stopped raining here but at least we don't have the white stuff ms has.  Snow is always beautiful when you can see it from indoors and don't need to venture out into it me thinks! 

I wondered why there was a spaghetti shortage in the west country - now we know lol 😹

twopenny

We got sunshine! But we also got artic winds.

I thought about mowing the lawn/moss as it was dry for the first time in weeks but made the excuse that the grass needed to grow stong to compete with the moss. No idea if this was so but no one is seeing it at the mo.

Cleared out gutters briefly and did chores but there was no way I was going for my walk along the sea front. Once in the warm there's no leaving.

My gardening was buying an expensive pyramid Bay tree to go in a vacant pot by the door. Actually planting it in said pot is a job for another day. It's wedged in and decked in fairy lights so nobody knows. (I am growing my own Bay but it's taken 2yrs to get 1ft high. Life's short )

Farway

Dull breezy day again, and looks very cold out so I'll skip that.

I realised in answering a question about apple tree pruning that I should really put my own house in order and sort out my Pinova having picked the apples during the week, a job for a sunnier day than today

Farway

Sun sort of out but cold

Made early start & potted on the African Violets I grew from leaf cuttings, my first offspring from them.

Finished up with five reasonable size plants, which will be palmed off given as presents to younger relatives this Christmas

Also trying out my "new" vintage lens, at last I seem to have "Focus Peaking" sussed, can even see the hairs on the stem

It's the last Klingons on my Bloody Butcher in the conservatory

Paspatur

Hi can any of you please identify this shrub for me? It is growing in a hard to grow area of the garden that is backed by neighbours awful Leylandi hedge sucking the ground dry so I would love to grow some more

Davesnave

Paspatur said:

Hi can any of you please identify this shrub for me? It is growing in a hard to grow area of the garden that is backed by neighbours awful Leylandi hedge sucking the ground dry so I would love to grow some more

It's a pittosporum. A bit leggy at the top, but the growing conditions probably explain that. It can be set back by extreme cold, or even killed, but I've had no trouble with mine in S England in the past 30 years.

Davesnave

Went with DD2 to get their Christmas tree yesterday and managed to achieve that before the rain. They had pre-cut 'Covid Specials,' whatever they were, at £15, but we wanted to choose our own. As usual, we found the steep ground down by the river was the best place, as the wimps don't go there in case they fall in!  

Paspatur

Davesnave, thank you so much. It has never been affected by cold in 4 or 5 years and I am in North East Scotland so it has seen plenty of extreme cold and snow. I'll trim back the leggy bits as it will block my view of the planters which have spring bulbs in them to be followed with climbers

Paspatur

Sorry another question, should it flower? I have never seen flowers on it but it is a lovely green colour all year round