Awful weather - typical Brits talk

twopenny

Didn't rain yesterday and from 4pm i managed to get the lavenders replanted, the boc planted and the wallflower seedlings moved.
Not as easy as you think because it involved gravel, liner, digging out turf etc.
And i managed to mow the front lawn!
Lots of moss coming so treatment required.

Today is clear but clouds puffy and hanging around. We'll see but I'm not doing the washing yet 

Farway

Sunny & warm here, collected my new specs earlier and the day has run away with me, can't see me gardening today

My Judas tree is from seed as well, takes a while, my kids grew up & had children while it was growing to it's present size, but very easy to look after and takes hacking about judicious pruning well

However, I did get the three remaining toms planted in the conservatory yesterday, so one less job, I need to get stakes in & tied up soon. I have five in pots, every one a different variety, so I have hopes of at least something

This rain seems to be full of oomph juice, everything is lush and green right now, even the new neighbours seeded by builders lawn grass is looking good

Neighbours the other side, their wild flower front garden from seed [just a dog pooing strip], grew an amazing crop of dandelions and other noxious weeds, only "decent" wild flowers were teasels. They've now dug it all up except the teasels and tell me they are going to try again

They try but are the ideal customer at GCs, buy plants, neglect till they die, rinse & repeat

The drunkards forecast a dry day this weekend, just maybe I can sort out the outdoor pots for my runners, they are racing away after a slow start

Today's pic is Little Gem, outside, from seed, so far surviving

YoungBlueEyes

I'm still looking for LG seed, might have to go to a proper place (ie not Lidl/Aldi/B+M) when I'm out later taking mum and dad some flowers.

The drunkards got it spectacularly wrong yesterday. They said 30/40% chance of showers for an hour mid aft. It started drizzling then raining mid morning, by lunch it was heavy rain, and by about 2pm it was a proper thunderstorm. Well, more lightening than thunder but it was great! Not a breath of wind so when we got it it just sat up there, rippling away. Jeez I love a good storm  

The only gardening I did was running my forest across to The Oracle when I saw her emerge. They've got a fete/fundraiser this weekend for their annual trip to Lourdes so they were most appreciated. "Ooh I can charge double now they've got so big".....

Still no sign of Mrs Blacky. I keep thinking I see her on the feeder but it's a bladdy starling

twopenny

You're weather app run by the same people?
So dark with white cloud here that I've got the lights on! I can guess the sun has risen but it's not obvious. Wind blowing too.
The sun is supposed to come out shortly but I have my doubts.
I've got 2ft thistles and grasses coming up in the borders. As Farway says, everything is flourishing plantwise. Just humans are not 

YoungBlueEyes

I've 2 weather apps, the met office one and the one that came with my phone - Weather Channel I think. They're as much use as each other  

It's overcast here, bit of a breeze, forecast on both is dry but windy later. It's not warm out there at all mind.

All flourishing here too, except the things I want to flourish. Fruit trees, roses, hydrangea... they'll get there.

pink_poppy

Dare I say it’s beautiful here 😎 forecast for sun, sun and more sun. Shame I’m at work...

I got my cress seeds... £2.15 for Mr Fothergill’s though 😱 put them in a Lurpak container on some damp cotton wool pads last night and they’re already starting to sprout this morning. Egg and cress sandwiches are back on the menu 😁

Dustyevsky

LG seed probably won't be in Lidl or those other consumer emporiums, and it's about £1.75 - £2.25 in most places like the garden centre I was in two days ago, where the rack was gently baking in the sun!  I get my seeds online these days. LG's about £1.10 - £1.45 there.

Yesterday, I wasted spent the morning on housework and mowed all afternoon, so very little of interest apart from the fact the weather while mowing was very sunny. Today began well, and we're promised sunshine, but right now, grey and windy. 

I dug out those photos of the Chaste Tree at the Wiltshire manor house. 2006 it was.....   Where did that time go?

And here's the sheltered courtyard it's in. Don't know why I'm worried about the levelness of my paths!

Farway

Dull here, and noticed a cold wind as I was putting my plants out for hardening off. Supposed to be 20C & sunny tomorrow, which is pencilled in as Runner Bean Planting Day

LG seeds at Mr Fothergills, with free postage in May, £2.25. And free packet of seeds as well, I always seem to get sent free parsnips, which I never sow because I have no room. I've never had any problems with Mr F seeds, seem prompt enough

Now I'm tempted by cress PP. Years since I grew some, I read somewhere the Commerical stuff sold as cress in supermarkets isn't really that, it's something else that I can't recall

I have a purple French climbing bean germinated, one of my emergency sowing. I sowed four but found a bluddy slug has eaten the others, that's inside the conservatory

I had the last laugh though, pelleted & duly killed it, a big grey one

Actually shouldn't complain too much, this morning in an attempt to avoid wall-to-wall Eurovision I switched Al Jazeera. My troubles are nothing compared to those in Afghanistan, where they have a literal plague of locusts eating the harvest to add to their problems.

I may sow a few more LG seeds later today, in cells to plant out once germinated, going to try that method as well as direct sowing

Just checked on my app, Ventursky, radar has rain over Kent & on its way to me for PM. Great, no wonder it's cold wind right off the North Sea

wort

Beautiful and sunny day here, bit of cloud occasionally which drops the temp quite a bit . Walked into town and back to run some errands. The lawn at the back needs cutting but may put off till teatime or tomorrow, a fantastic forcast for then, unfortunately for me I start work at 7am and finish at 4.30 , so maybe only a sundowner in the garden.

-taff

Moved some bricks in the garden form one bit to another to make space for the tree surgeons to take down the monstrosity at the back. I want to build some kind of shelter type thing at the bottom when it's gone, somewhere to eat, cook and sit around doing nothing. Ive been looking at chinese methods of quick building after tornadoes for example [https://www.archdaily.com/14623/ningbo-historic-museum-wang-shu-architect]  so am collecting materials for that. I collected quite a few clay roof tiles last year when I rejigged the front garden so I have those too and was just thinking we need the roof doing before long, so to keep the concrete tiles from that to make wallks with. And it must have a rocket mass heater too or a wood burner if I can find a free one. The broad strokes of the idea are coming but the finer details aren't yet Anyone got any building things to share?

I sowed some fenugreek seeds just on the off chance and transplanted some herb robert to the front to see if it takes. I love the smell of that.