Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Blue sky & sunshine, but in true UK weather vein, [vane, geddit ?] rain is on the way this afternoon, along with blizzards, frogs & pestilence. It tipped down here yesterday afternoon, probably the spill-over from Dusty patch

Dusty, I think black clouds today are coming from ooop North

Due to above weather, zero gardening again, but I have poked my nose out and can report the Cloth of Gold potting on is alive, as are the California poppy seedlings

Bit worrying is the fact my Burpless cuc seedlings are yellow and not green. I wonder if this is down to carpy compost, again, but other seedlings in the same stuff are fine. I'll wait a bit and see what happens

If it ever gives over raining, I need to give the outdoor pot plants a feed, especially the apples now in blossom

pink_poppy

My phone has been playing silly beggars again...
twopenny, thanks for the new storage heater insight. That would certainly be the easiest solution to replace the ancient ones.
Hydrangea - we have a blue one here 💙 In a previous house a neighbour had a pink hydrangea ‘hedge’ - it looked amazing when it was in flower and then amused me when the dead flower heads used to roll up and down the road on a windy day looking like tumbleweed.
My solitary tomato plant (called Tom) is still thriving. Even if it doesn’t produce anything I’m just happy that it’s still alive.
 I sowed some pepper seeds last night - I used yogurt pots with holes in the bottom, a Pyrex dish to stand them in and a clear plastic mushroom container to cover them. The compost (from Aldi) was dry and fluffy, so when I watered them in they flattened down to about halfway up the yogurt pot... oops... it’ll be a miracle if they germinate 😂
Freezing overnight and DH had to scrape the ice off the car this morning 🥶

pink_poppy

My DIY propagator...

wort

Morning all, beautiful sunny day so far, been for a stroll to lidl and stuck some washing out.
Gawd knows what the weather will be tomorrow.
2p a lovely idea to plant a tree for your kind neighbour.
My wall flowers are out part of some bedding plant a few years ago , but still keep turning up. My Bowles mauve are looking fabulous, if a little drunk as it seems to want to come on the patio! Have attempted to prop up a few times. Mine came from my nieces via a cutting as we bought them at the same time but mine died after the first year, sadly my niece died last year so to see it in bloom is a beautiful reminder of a wonderful girl.

My heather is covered in very busy 🐝 bees, the small ones that look more like wasps.

I picked up a sad little Acer from the shelf at work , now I just need to find it a home 🤔
also from same shelf wayward white hyacinths. I had to cut off the flowers and pop them in a vase but the leaves and bulbs are outside waiting for a spot.
I did a second mow of grass at the back , and Ndn did the front ,she’s a bit more gung-ho than me, barely gets to a couple of centimetres and she’s out with the hover.

wort

I also was eyeing up the large rhubarb in FIL garden, and wondering if some could fall into the car.
I hopefully planted some sweet pea seeds, first time in years due to slugs 🐌 thinking I’m providing a buffet.
I did have a contorted twisted willow, but it grew ginormous so it had to go, I did love it, and my dgson was adapt at rooting the prunings!! So my neice and nephew have trees in pots in their gardens, so if I get too envious I can always ,snap a bit off .
My pittosporum seems to have suffered from the frost and all the top has gone brown, I am hoping I can prune it off when the weather improves. I tried to prune the brown leaves off my clematis and unfortunately broke off some big bits. So now it’s flowering on 2 weedy looking sticks.

wort

I love the colors of foliage around my garden , even when there is not much flowering, it brings interest.

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Blue sky & sunshine, but in true UK weather vein, [vane, geddit ?] rain is on the way this afternoon, along with blizzards, frogs & pestilence. It tipped down here yesterday afternoon, probably the spill-over from Dusty patch

Dusty, I think black clouds today are coming from ooop North

Not on the cider drinkers' latest interactive map. According to that, there's nowt spoiling your day today. A disorganised band of rain briefly crosses my area from west to east during the night, before more sneakily efficient rain turns up in the early morning, but none seems heavy. I don't think they know exactly where that will go, but the blobs join-up by tea time. So, I'm doing the weekly wash today and a spot of weeding between each load.

Your garden always looks well cared-for, wort. Love the combinations of foliage.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh wort, d’ya wanna come give my garden a going over? I’ll pay you in tom plants  

I took a pic of the raging forest this morning, I must start giving em away before they need proper attention :wow:

Been lovely and sunny here, the drunkards gave dark and occasionally drizzly. Someone let me know when they turn the cider tap off - until then I’ll use the one that came with my phone. Possibly “weather channel”? 

I nipped to B+M for a hoe before I went to Lidl, where I also bought more bulbs but himself didn’t see me do it so it doesn’t count 😁

twopenny

So much good stuff going on!,
Lovely garden wort, heck thats a lot blue.....

My teenage apple tree finally is covered in blossom. Wouldn't you know it, just when I realise it needs severe pruning 

But after 4yrs I'm thinking, I've got a proper garden with consecutive blooms. It's a great feeling and the aches and pains forgotten.
But of course I've been looking out the window through the rain this spring. See what happens when I have to dig the hole for the pond and turf to finish what I started.

YoungBlueEyes

Aye isn't it, I don't call it a forest for nothing! I've already given some of them away too.... Trust me to start from a state of pure ignorance, be completely unprepared, then turn out to have a green thumb

When do you prune apple trees 2p? Can you do it after the blossoms and fruit have finished, or is it a spring job? I need to learn these things now that I may have one or more apple trees

Remember the pic I put up of the queer little rooty plant thing the other week? Well I took a photo of em yesterday, they're galloping away too. I hope they produce something lovely looking/smelling. We'll see

How's the yellow cuc's Farway? Will they be very different if they don't turn green?

Wort if you're still looking for a home for your sad little acer, I'll have it