Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

That’s quite a drastic ‘haircut’ for your toms, YBE, but I can understand the logic.

Shame about the black spots on your roses.

Out for a walk this afternoon and saw two different types of thistle. The more purple ish one was very popular with the bees 🐝



Also a lovely little plant that looked out of place where it was. My first thought was a Nerine?? Not sure though.



Another lovely evening here.

pink_poppy

Can anyone else see an elephant 🐘 in the top left of the more purple thistle?? Probably just me again... 🙄

LessImpecunious

pink_poppy said:

Can anyone else see an elephant 🐘 in the top left of the more purple thistle?? Probably just me again... 🙄

Yes! when I looked very closely... BTW your Nerine is a Ragged Robin - perfectly respectable wild flower! Nice thistles, but you definitely don't want the second type in your garden (Creeping Thistle) ... I speak from experience (and the first one is painful to remove after flowering too!)

LessImpecunious

YoungBlueEyes said:

Wineberry - 

Not certain, but don't think it's flowered yet, so don't give up hope!...the berries will look like orangey firm rapberries if I remember correctly (grew in a previous garden over twenty years ago), and tasted good too...

YoungBlueEyes

Yeah drastic haircut poppy, not as stripped out as Ziggy used to do his though. Once the flowers were gone and the toms were all going he remove everything - just left the main stalk and however many branches had bunches of toms on them. 
Nice pics, I like the little Robin one. Very elegant  

Less I thought they were the fruits... but come to think of it now I don't remember it flowering. Seems I'm an even longer way off tasting them then Did yours taste like wine..? 

 Himself is on fb duty, looking out for nice gardeny things. There's not a lot near us so far but I expect it's a long game... 

OT Cloudy and mild here so far, but warmer today than yesterday. Really low humidity this aft say the drunkards, around 40-45%   They're still giving heat for the weekend, but not like we have had, thankfully. 

Dustyevsky

Despite the arrival of a  walk-in chicken  run, ready for the next flock down, we're still going to Rosemoor today and building that some other time. We can use it for our new chickens while they grow to a size suitable for introducing them to the others. It's been a nightmare designing the re-vamped chicken orchard, so the winter run (expect more crazy restrictions on back garden keepers) fits between the two chicken houses, dodges trees etc. We have to put up new perimeter fencing too. We shall pay a fortune for the privilege of keeping chickens, but other folk spend more on cars....

Might get out to another garden tomorrow as well. We'll see.

Last time I was at Rosemoor, I spotted a Persicaria I'd not seen before, so I shall return and check it out again. I'm a big fan of that plant family, which has members for most situations. Here it is: Persicaria filiformis 'Compton's Red'

OK it doesn't have exotic flowers, just like I don't have big muscles, but it's still lovely!!!

OT: Overcast now and possibly a shower later, but the afternoon should be dry, sunny and warm-ish.

PS. Your wineberry is yet to fruit, Blue Eyes, but it comes with an ability to 'get 'about' underground, if you know what I mean.  I once grew a Bidens like that. Had to pin it between a footpath and a wall!

LessImpecunious

I don't remember the wineberry taste that clearly YBE (maybe it was winey  ); we left the house after the first year's crop, so never found out that it had tendencies to take over the garden!

YoungBlueEyes

They’re quite attractive leaves Dusty, does it not flower at all? 

Wineberry update. I’ve given them a gentle squidge and they’re not very firm so I’m guessing they are flowers. Jeez I hope they don’t taste like wine. It’ll be coming out if they do! 

So. The mystery plant that people were having guesses about. I’ve taken extra care of that area - extra watering and weeding, securing them when it was blowing a hooley. Bfb in case they were evening primroses as suggested.  

Reminder pic - 

Well they’re flowering now - 

They’re some tall extra strong class of a dandelion. All that for dandelions! I even snipped bits off other plants so they had room to grow! 

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

They’re quite attractive leaves Dusty, does it not flower at all? 

Wineberry update. I’ve given them a gentle squidge and they’re not very firm so I’m guessing they are flowers. Jeez I hope they don’t taste like wine. It’ll be coming out if they do! 

So. The mystery plant that people were having guesses about. I’ve taken extra care of that area - extra watering and weeding, securing them when it was blowing a hooley. Bfb in case they were evening primroses as suggested.  

Reminder pic - 

Well they’re flowering now - 

They’re some tall extra strong class of a dandelion. All that for dandelions! I even snipped bits off other plants so they had room to grow! 

Looks like a type of Hawkbit. Well, the insects will love 'em!

Morning's work done here, so off to Rosemoor in a mo. I will take another photo of the Persicaria if it's flowering. It probably won't be exciting

Blooming windy again!

YoungBlueEyes

Thunder bugs seem to love it. 

I hope your hens appreciate all the work that goes into keeping them! 

(Also - “flock down” )