Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Ball dahlias - 

I forgot about this one - it was a rabbit hutch type thing in someone’s front garden. Made me giggle! (It was empty, sadly.)

Dustyevsky

Bluey, I think that dahlia is the same as one in my MiL's garden.....

She doesn't have that very fancy brickwork, though. That's what caught my eye.

A hooley's building here with the trees waving about wildly, but it doesn't look as if we'll get a lot of rain with it, so maybe shopping is still a good choice for today. I'm also delivering some manure to a friend who has an area still awaiting development under some weed membrane. Don't think we'll be digging it in tho'! :

The van's MoT fiasco continued yesterday. As I drove it to the garage, the blimmin safety system light came on again!   “Oh bother!” said I...or something to that effect. I rang the test garage and then re-routed to the other establishment that 'fixed' it on Monday, as obviously their spell had not lasted long enough. This time the Chief Magician had a go. He plugged-in and read the codes, soon pronouncing that the driver's airbag circuit was malfunctioning. Thinking that meant a whole new module, or similar, my expression must have startled him, because he said “Oh tidd'n that baad; tis probbly just what we call the clock spring!” And, sure enough, after a bit of heavy tweaking with a long handled lock-pick and some WD40, out went the light! Hurrah!

Then it was back to the MoT garage 10 miles away (only a few garages here can do big vans like ours) who, bang on closing time, gave me the hallowed piece of paper.

Next, it's the 4x4.....

“Butt nuggets?” I don't think those folk have a career ahead in the world of retail, but presuming that's a half-dozen, the price is right!

Farway

Nice dahlia photos, edible dahlias? I think the tubers may be, but please check elsewhere before you serve up roasted dahlia. Ah Ha, , just duck ducked, seems all are edible, but all may not be tasty, use like artichokes.

I suppose like fuchsia seed pods, some are tasty but the ones you try will be yuk

Warm and sunny, my sympathies to all with Agnes, but I'm alright Jack , Agnes is to North & West of me. Possibility of occasional shower here

I had to go to Morries this morning, actually I had to collect a parcel 'cos the speedy delivery man only had time to shove a note in my letterbox before he took the parcel to local collection point

However, there were fresh plants in, and among them were clematis, so duly bought one for £2.39,

But on the journey home it has become a Passion Flower. Yep, should've gone to Specsavers

Not really what I wanted but at £2.39 worth bunging in the garden, I'll try it out the front because it is quite sheltered and bakes in summer sun

Next visit to Morries I will try harder to buy a clematis

Congrats on MOT Dusty, mate of mine had airbag warning light always on, but his garage knew it was OK having checked umpteen times, so they used the Nelson MOT tester

Dustyevsky

Farway said:

Nice dahlia photos, edible dahlias? I think the tubers may be, but please check elsewhere before you serve

Perhaps look out for a good recipe from Dahlia Smith? ...... OK, I know where my coat is!

 

Well, Agnes has been a damp squib here, so far. We've had a lot worse this year, like the flash flooding I was caught in. Experiences like that show how localised these extreme events may be, though. To my knowledge, there were no leaves on the line or trees on the roads. Indeed, people seemed to be shopping as normal, so I still didn't secure many of Lidl#s stone baked rolls.

twopenny

Got to mention the cheap clematis winds it's way among plants and gives a few sprays of blooms. Still welcome if they're hardy imo.

I've not grown the more expensive ones that smother stuff......I'm carefully watching one of the new Montanas growing round the tea garden door. Red stems, redish leaves and deep red/pink flowers. It was a garden centre one so I'm making comparisons. I have to have tea and cheese scones while I study of course

Well it was sunnyish and not windy this morning. This afternoon loved the warm sun and strong wind. Got the garden mowed out back and started on the beds when it decided to bucket down. Very disappointing so another day of not getting it done.

Fabulous rainbow though.

Farway

Dustyevsky said:

Farway said:

Nice dahlia photos, edible dahlias? I think the tubers may be, but please check elsewhere before you serve

Perhaps look out for a good recipe from Dahlia Smith? ...... OK, I know where my coat is!

 

Oh No, that's awful, but inspired

Dull and mild again, only Agnes casualty seems to be one of the dahlias, not Delia, has a broken arm which I have propped up this morning

I have this sinking feeling because we have not had any rain that I will have to get watering again soon, but the last Super Moon 2023 is due on Friday night, so no doubt it will cloud over and maybe rain then

Now the garden wheelie bin has been emptied, next on the list is cutting back a laurel near my garage, it's just a tad too close for comfort when I get the car out and will surely spread next year if I don't tackle it soon

I also need to sort out, weed & tidy, the pots at the front now the lilies are dying back, a steady job for a sunny day

Dustyevsky

I have just received a letter from South West Water telling me the hosepipe ban 'will be' lifted on 25th September! What a huge waste of money!

Of course, they also take the opportunity to remind me the lack of capacity's all down to climate change. Well, for the latest on that, seek out Ivor Cummins, who takes on one of the more credible alarmists in his latest video, 'Net Zero in a Nutshell.' Cummins was pretty good on that other popular topic too, recently returning to May 2020 to see what was truth or fiction as we now understand things. Of course, nobody gets it all right, all the time, but it's amazing how wrong some of the right people were!

Out there today, it's calm, dull, 'nothing' weather, apparently culminating in downpours from 17.00 onwards. A bit of that might reach you around midnight, Farway.

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh that’s a nice dahlia, and a cracking rainbow Also, tea and cheese scones - mmmm  

Is a Passion Flower wildly different to a clematis Farway? Will it do the same job? Or have you room enough to go get a clematis as well  

Good news on your van Dusty, gotta love a Man Wot Can!  Yep I like that brickwork too. They’re new builds (well maybe about my age ish or a bit younger), but they’re in spitting distance of the Beverley Minster so I can imagine the developers were told ‘yes you can get some houses in there but you’re to build good stuff and make it fancy cos they’ll be dear with the Minster only there’. Or similar They are dear too… 

So Agnes didn’t damage any of us then? It didn’t come to anything much here really. It was properly breezy overnight but only for a few hours and no rain with it. The south of Ireland got a battering though, round Cork and all down there. 

Well I’ve been gardening like a demon, getting on top of the weeds. Had to get my big fork out tho cos the tree/ivy/thistle roots have grown back again  All I want to do is plant the things I have in pots (now that the patio will be too cold for them) and I’m grafting like I did at the start of the year. Disheartened doesn’t cover it.

And if anyone’s got an idea of what to do with the really rusty nails and things I’m digging up please let me know cos I’ve got a right pile accumulating!  

Farway

YoungBlueEyes said:

Is a Passion Flower wildly different to a clematis Farway? Will it do the same job? Or have you room enough to go get a clematis as well  

And if anyone’s got an idea of what to do with the really rusty nails and things I’m digging up please let me know cos I’ve got a right pile accumulating!  

Passion flower is a bit more picky regarding shelter & warmth, but down here they can more or less be interchangeable. Only problem for me could be roots, PF prefers dry, well draining, clematis is OK with clay claggy which I have

I've room to kill both of them

Rusty nails, maybe old gardeners' tale, but burying them next to hydrangeas to give blue colour. It's the rusting ferrous what does it

And maybe supply to Ir'n Brew?

PS, just subscribed to Ivor C for studying with nowt on TV

YoungBlueEyes

I can’t keep hydrangeas alive long enough to have any kind of influence on them, ferrous or otherwise 🙄 I wonder if IrnBru want ‘em… 

Given up for today. I’ve some potted stuff in the ground (hooray) but lovely neighbour came round with 2 more things cos she saw me out there (sigh) One is a wee holly tree thing, the leaves are diddy!