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Filled the bin , did 2 hours ,not sure anyone but me would notice the difference 😏 need to ask someone with a saw to go round the back of my fence and cut down the ivy!!! I have cut back where it has come through the fence , but it now stands a a foot above the fence despite chopping and pushing it away , its practically a tree🫣
today is cold and grey , I’ve been doing some financial stuff and my head is mashed. So after my cuppa I’m having a walk for a half an hour or so.
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They say it's 8' here but it bladdy ain't, it's so cold out there! The wind just whips the heat right off ya. Varying shades of dullness and greyness here too
Good job I looked in here before tackling my fuchsia. Thanks Dusty, I'll TEAR the twigs off. Doing that after my brew. I knew about the heel thing though, do I get points for that? It was the heel I spotted when I first walked past it.
And thanks for the Shirley comment Farway, it made me spit gingerbread man biscuit bits all over meselfI'm having another to compensate.
Never knew I am a galanthophile. Also daffophile and daisyophile. I couldn't tell you which bulbs I have coming up, they're very possibly daffs, but I didn't label mine either thinking my fully dependable and sponge-like brain would remember wot-went-where. It's evidently kicked those facts out to make room for something devastatingly important, which is very efficient of it and not at all annoying
Good luck with that ivy wort, if only you knew a chainsaw wielding devil-may-care sort...I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.4 -
Wort, I've grown mine into an ivy tree which the birds and little blue butterflies love come late summer.
Home for bats too.
Softens the edge of the fence.
Just trying to be positive
My neighbour grew hers all over my house wall and into the eves. Once my patience deserted me a threat made her take a saw to the base and it died. Took 5mins!
But peeling it off half dead is easier than living or crispy dead.....if you know what I mean.
Good work thoughI can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
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So far not a single one of the bulbs I planted last year have come up (a couple of types of snowdrops, bluebells and snakes heads) but I thought at the time they looked a bit old and dry so combined with the wet sludge that has been my garden this winter maybe not a surprise...I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.4
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twopenny said:Wort, I've grown mine into an ivy tree which the birds and little blue butterflies love come late summer.
Home for bats too.
Softens the edge of the fence.
Just trying to be positive
My neighbour grew hers all over my house wall and into the eves. Once my patience deserted me a threat made her take a saw to the base and it died. Took 5mins!
But peeling it off half dead is easier than living or crispy dead.....if you know what I mean.
Good work thoughYep, I like ivy as well, mine went up the side of the house, but I think I was living next door to your doppelgänger at the time. My neighbour moaned politely pointed out it was going into her eaves and I cut it at the base.I left the dead bits to fall off over timeI have left an ivy at the volunteer spot to scramble over a dead tree stump, here are some 2022 flowers, loved by bees etc.
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I don't like ivy myself. Granny always said "ivy is for death" which is why you see so much of it in graveyards. No I know but it stayed with me. The ivy in your pic Farway is the same as what's growing up and along the fence between me and Lovely Neighbour. All it seems to attract is hornets and wosnames, no nice bees or birds or nothing
Well I've seen the pigeons on there sometimes.
Your bulbs might surprise you Arb, all the squelchiness may reinvigorate your dry bulbs and you'll be away. Possibly
I got the bit-dropped-off sorted yesterday, it wasn't as productive as I thought it was going to be. Most of it was dry and dead, so I only got about a dozen twigs carefully torn off and either pot round the edges of pots or put in the ground. I planted the nicely heeled big fat main stem bit too, because you never know your luck. That cat thought it was great fun with all the wee dried bits blowing about in the wind.
Cold out there now, feels like -2, but warming up all day 'til bedtime and mild overnight and tomorrow. They say. That wind isn't helping the temps any but it's drying out the place, which I definitely need.
And that's January gone, hello FebruaryI removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.5 -
Also - who was looking for forsythia? They’ve got some in tescos.I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.4
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I do like Ivy, and have some in the garden , but this is proper gangster! Throwing itself about and creeping along and rooting plus it’s at the back of other plants and hard to get at.
I have stones on the spider plant now I’m trying to remember wether that had gnats or not 🤔 not £16 quid ones though.
when I was in the garden one of the plans was to dig up some plants that are straggling and bunch them together. I stood looking at the green growth and dead bits and trying to remember what was what . YBE I reckon my brain is doing what yours does, and has much more useful stuff to remember, like songs that it then plays 2 lines of over and over when you try to sleep.
Dusty my cat 🐱 thinks he’s a dog, follows me round demands attention. And needs to sit on top of me before I’ve half a chance to sit down.Focus on contribution instead of the impressiveness of consumption to see the true beauty in people.4 -
We don't get anything like that in our local Tesco
I got a pyracantha from Morrison's years ago for a pound or two, similar size and packaging to the (Bruce) Forsythia and that was great - grew to 5-6 feet tall. Those were the days...
I love that pic of the ivy, Farway., although I'm not a fan either. We are completely surrounded by ivy - it's growing everywhere in the garden and up the house - reminds me of Sleeping Beauty (??) in the castle, covered in thorns and her prince has to fight his way in - that'll be us soon.
It's looking a bit dreich out there this morning - more rain forecast - I really need to buy myself some wellies...'A watched potato will never chit'...4 -
Wow a lot of early birds here! Lovely to have gardening to read about first thing
Another grey day at 4c and the windows covered in condensation despite one being open.
Rained overnight so too wet to get out and do something but - there was my shadow on the wall when I got out of bed so the sun is getting higher.
Woke to the blackbird chuntering too.
Your very swift at getting the job done Blue. If it was me they'd still be sitting in a bowl of water.
Ivy is either a pain or a pleasure. I've had two that have grown upwards so they flower. Thats useful.
Two that grow down low and are just a nuisance.
Abs, I had a photo last year with my bulbs in a pot and a good 2" water sat over them for weeks. But the minute they drained masses popped up.
And this year hyacynths that had been chucked on the veg bed and forgotten, eaten by slugs, have bloomed after being optimistically potted.
So be patient.
Nothing exciting to report here. Perhaps the day will throw something up - like a bit of sun or the seeds I want. Hanging on for the 89p ones. All other stuff in and the thing they hang on. Just no seeds.I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
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