Awful weather - typical Brits talk

pink_poppy

Happy Birthday Farway

Congratulations on your first rose, twopenny.

We don't get Bluebells here until May. Lovely white one - well spotted, Dusty.

It's very calm out there this morning after yesterday's whirly line snapping winds. Serves me right for hanging a heavy duvet cover out during Storm Kathleen...

pink_poppy

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm glad I'm not the only one rescuing bits of moss that the birds throw off my roof - I put mine into the trio tub thing that I'd planted bulbs in, in the hope they'd all join up and look amazing. Well it's slow going so far but they haven't died... 

My DD thought a dead clump of moss on my lawn yesterday was a hedgehog

YoungBlueEyes

Ooh a Whitebell, they're attractive Dusty, very delicate and elegant. They look like they'd smell sweetly  

I hope your duvet cover didn't blow away pp   Dead moss hedgehog   Should be about time for them to wake up now I reckon (if they haven't already).

YoungBlueEyes

Pear - it’s done a lot of it’s growing these last few days 

Ska + ladybird

‘Cherry’ - 



What was the other suggestion for it? Elderflower? Is it that do you think? 

Farway

Thanks for the birthday wishes, folks, even the sun is peeking out, and best pressie so far, my back is much easier this morning.

DS got the shed open , yay, and lugged the compost through for me :)Now if only I could find my trowel, it's gone walkabout again

Some great apple tree pics on here now, going to be a good year hopefully

Taff, later once it flowers, I'll post pic of my apple, freestanding and espaliered, donkey years old but a real asset to the garden now.

Honesty, Taff, easy but it is a biannual, like wallflowers, sow now flower next year

I have one to add, my new, taxpayer subsidised , Sunset apple tree, planted in Feb has blossom buds. I'll let it flower and maybe leave a couple of apples on to taste test.

YBE, pear, my pear as I've said took ten years, and i think this year I may have it nearly as I want it, wrong variety, grrr, but right shape.

If back holds up hoping to sow seeds today

Here is the one, not yet dead from loneliness, tulip. I had about ten many years ago, and slowly they have headed North

Dustyevsky

YoungBlueEyes said:

Ooh a Whitebell, they're attractive Dusty, very delicate and elegant. They look like they'd smell sweetly  

I hope your duvet cover didn't blow away pp   Dead moss hedgehog   Should be about time for them to wake up now I reckon (if they haven't already).

I couldn't get down and dirty in someone else's place to smell it, Bluey....and if I did, there's some doubt about my ability to get up again at present!

I'm not sure all our hedgehogs went to bed this winter. We've been finding their 'presents' for months!

Still calm, despite the Yellow Wind warning, and they've pushed rain back to 11.00 now. I let the hens out wearing no more than my PJs this morning; first time without a fleece this year. Apparently we 'might' see a brief partial eclipse as the sun sets tonight, but cloud is on the menu at present. Not too bothered. Still have the video we did of the full thing back in....whenever it was.

Dustyevsky

pink_poppy said:

It's very calm out there this morning after yesterday's whirly line snapping winds. Serves me right for hanging a heavy duvet cover out during Storm Kathleen...

And did you sing this as you brought it indoors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=833Peu3J-fg

ArbitraryRandom

YoungBlueEyes said:

‘Cherry’ - 

What was the other suggestion for it? Elderflower? Is it that do you think? 

Honestly, it could well be a wild cherry... could you read the description and see if the base of the leaves is red? Maybe have a quick look at the other cherry varieties linked to at the bottom of the page?



https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/wild-cherry/

Happy birthday Farway! hope you get exactly what you want - be that lots of gifts and time with friends/family, or a quiet day pottering  

Dustyevsky

....And here's a wild cherry I shot on Saturday, but which is it? I thought 'wild' would do!

Not to be confused with:

Sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) – wild cherry fruits are on longer stalks; bird cherry (Prunus padus); and cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera).

Anyway, yours is definitely a 'cherry,' Bluey. 

YoungBlueEyes

My leaves look like the ones in your pic Arb, they're bigger than the ones in Dusty's pic. The description kinda fits, I don't see 2 red glands at the base of the leaf but the bark has lenticels. The leaves are in clusters. I downloaded the app and it's given me 3 options - Chestnut, sweet or Willow, crack, or Willow, white. Hmmm

Here's a pic of the bark and a cluster - 



There's ants laying eggs on the underside of the leaves too If that's a help.