Awful weather - typical Brits talk

Farway

Spent a few hours up the volunteer border this morning, pottering and supervising the one fit person with a hedge trimmer

Enjoy your trip to Rosemoor Dusty

Oh dear YBE with mystery plant, what a shame, still happy thunder bugs . I hope the wineberry when it fruits suits your taste, be the final kicker if it wasn't nice, from a quick read it seems they do need to be really ripe for best taste, like Loganberries

Only personal gardening today will be to tie in the tomatoes out the front, the wind has blown them about a bit and they need securing

Now I've cracked panoramas, here is the Volunteer Border. The white daises were seed raised, the shrubs are the sort you find in £land, H Bargains & Morries. 

The evening primroses are self sown from some I planted at the beginning of covid

The ragwort popped up, but because there are not any animals around to eat it, it's left for the moths

Fennel far right, seed sown for use in the volunteer kitchen, sage & Rosemary next to it. None of them are used for cooking but at least we tried

twopenny

Got rid of 11 mouns of cats poo from my front lawn and cut it.
Another plop this morning so I plopped it on my neighbours lawn  we may get on but there's a limit. The cat had her back to me but knew! 
Nothing she can do to stop it but acknowledgement and removal would be good.

My enormous standard lavender blew down in the wind, away from masonry nails and wire because there's so much top growth. Had to put a trap down to lay on because of the remains of cat poop.
Trying to keep it upright and hammer I set the back/hip whatever off so that's a lesson learned as they say.

The wind machine seems to be facing this way so I've tied up toms. I've some fruit there but they aren't looking wildly healthy. Anything is fine with the price of toms what it is.
Ditto the raspberries. Think I'm going to have to cut out last years canes to give the autumn ones a fair go.
There's a lot of cutting down and tying up to do when I'm fit and get a chance. Hopefully this weekend.
Not sure about mowing the back lawn. The birds seem to be enjoying the seeding grass - along with my redcurrant and raspberries!

Geraniums still going strong, perennial wallflower coming back to its own after some rain. The other wallfowers are in the balance. Whether to plant new or just keep the rose and make a round bed. We'll see how it goes.

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Enjoy your trip to Rosemoor Dusty

Yes I did, thanks, though no panoramas from me, I'm afraid. It was mostly sunny and sometimes we found shelter from the wind machine.....Not very busy at all...

In the hot garden, things had definitely warmed up colour-wise from two weeks ago.

I had a good look around the plant sales. There were about 6 different raspberries, blackberries, and even some honeyberries, but no wineberries at all. Blue Eyes has a rarity!

YoungBlueEyes

Aye happy thunderbugs, so I'll leave them for this year and just not let as many grow next year. That's a cracking garden there Farway, lots of backbone

Will your lavender survive 2p? I bought 2 pots the other day in Lidl but one of them's already looking a bit ropey... hmm. I'd leave the back lawn for the birds, they've trouble enough from the cat (probably). I know the Holey Roamin' Terror is very trying for my poor blackies. He tucks himself into varies spots round the garden so blacky has to set up an alarm rather than feed He's out there now, squawking for all he's worth. He's gonna wear his little throat out. Damned auld cats.  

Dusty if the berries taste like wine I'll give it away to the first person that asks for it, rarity or no! Or I'll swop with whoever has a spare honeyberry. Or a Boysenberry! Not that I've ever heard of either but I'll risk it.

Hot and dry here today. Whoever's sat next to the wind machine plug DO NOT turn it off today! 28' they reckon. I'm only waiting for the shops to open then I'm away out, get back in the cool, then it's Wimbledon  

YoungBlueEyes

Oh and I like your pics Dusty, but particularly the first one, plain as it is. Very calming and Jane Austen-y. Makes me want to put on a long floaty dress and wander the path with my wrist to my head, lamenting Willerby

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Oh and I like your pics Dusty, but particularly the first one, plain as it is. Very calming and Jane Austen-y. Makes me want to put on a long floaty dress and wander the path with my wrist to my head, lamenting Willerby

Thy usually have some arty-farty sculpture or fountain at the end, but this year it's blank, so perhaps we're expected to create our own art....in which case your idea would be most fitting! 

Here's another 'empty' shot. A completely different mood here:

This was around 5.30pm, Mrs Dusty had retired to the gift shop, and I was beginning to wonder if I'd overstayed. Nope, it was just 'quiet.'

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh I like that one too. I can just see me sat with a book on the flat stone on the right, having released the dogs to go be dogs And if there was a stream behind the trees on the left there, that'd be pure heaven!

Edit - just had a look where it is, it's 320 miles away! You'll have to keep the photos coming. And Wisley too please Farway (mind, that's only 230 miles away.)

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Ooh I like that one too. I can just see me sat with a book on the flat stone on the right, having released the dogs to go be dogs And if there was a stream behind the trees on the left there, that'd be pure heaven!

The stream is behind the rocks on the right, so on a hot day you could dip your toes in it while reading, but 320 miles is a long way and you'll likely have good facilities for that locally!

I like the huge parking spaces in Farway's photo. I suspect there's some distortion going on, though knowing the clientele.....

Farway

Thanks for Rosemoor photos Dusty, by coincidence the Wisley "hot" garden is behind this year, I reckon another month should do it

yep, slight distortion on the panorama pic, the car park is OK for "normal" drivers, but the clients can be erratic at times, so car park is best avoided when any engine is running

Out early with my Friday Feeding watering can, it's getting hotter out there already and scorchio forecast today. I was thinking of starting to summer prune my fruit trees, but not if it's going to be melting, luckily it is not pressing urgent and can wait a few more weeks

The Regale lilies are really scenting the warm air this morning, after me saying the other day they didn't seem to be scented.

On fruit trees, my brown fingered son has bought three fruit trees, no idea what type but from the picture I suspect these are the dreaded mini orchard type from a well known and best avoided "speedy bargain" supplier. I despair, but hey ho, he'll live & learn, like we all do.

He's looking for large pots and I think we can mostly guess the crispy tree results come Autumn

Having completed my watering, but I may have to give a squirt later this evening to the runners & figs if the sun gets baking later. Apart from that, I have nothing urgent in the garden, try & get a decent pic of the Lucifer crocosmia

A Wisley pic, this is part of the heather garden, National collection. I liked the way they have used the different foliage colours. Ideal for those with space & dry soil

PS, just seen the MSE forums are changing next Tuesday, new layout etc, hmm, I wonder if new emojis will re-appear?

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

PS, just seen the MSE forums are changing next Tuesday, new layout etc, hmm, I wonder if new emojis will re-appear?

 Were they inclusive enough? Some might have been used to give offence too. Rainbows and unicorns are the way to go.

Considering Heather. I did that once before but I was only 12 at the time, and she wasn't keen. I suppose I have the space now, but maybe not a heath, like in your pic from Wisley. It's certainly more colourful than the Mediterranean garden at Rosemoor, which I don't like in any season.

Off to Marwood now, via Lidl, who have no idea what 'Large' is in shorts.