Awful weather - typical Brits talk

kiss_me_now9

On Sunday morning I carried my little boy up to the veg patch and noticed a couple of buds on the cherry tree were in blossom. By 3pm Sunday afternoon the whole tree had sprung to life! It's covered in cheery white flowers now. 

And the pigeons have already started to attack it 

YoungBlueEyes

Well the drunkards were wrong (shocker!), it’s like autumn out there now - properly windy, really persisting it down, black as you like and cold with it. I’m sat here with me lights on 😳

Morries. There was plenty of everything left, apparently they’re reducing them to get rid (probably to make room for Halloween stock ) Now I only went there for petrol and a bag of soda crystals. I forgot both those things because I lifted a plum - Opal iirc - cos it’s big and tall, it has lots of bendy branches and leaves coming goodly. I resisted apples and pears and a cherry, also a few peaches and a few oranges. That really is it now though, truly it is. I’ve no room now my ‘cherries’ are cherries and have to stop I’ve hoiked the pear out for the space and plum’s in there now. Pear is in a big bucket with the rest of my JI no 3. At least I’ve no watering in to do ha haa! 

2p if all your seeds have drowned you can have as many as you want of mine  

pink_poppy

No sign of the eclipse last night, but we had a sliver of sunset underneath the cloud. Very windy at the moment and I have heavy washing on the fixed whirly - will it hold?! When it snapped the other day a towel got dunked in the manky pond water...   

Somewhere I'm going tomorrow and Thursday is forecast 18 degrees - whoop!! They have heavy rain today though and it's somewhere that's prone to flooding, so fingers crossed.

I hope you snaffled some of those half price fruit trees up, YBE. What a bargain. I agree with twopenny, I think prices of fruit & veg are going to be on the up. Other things as well probably - I saw on the news about flooding down South and crops have been ruined - not sure what they were.

Lovely baby figs, Farway, you do well with them.

twopenny, that rose covered seating area was just lush - you must miss that. I love the little table too.

I saw two adult robins in the garden this morning - one feeding the other with some food I'd just thrown out

Farway

Figgy update, found more labels, Brunswick & Napolitana, 

Just looked up Napolitana. I got it from Lidl pre-covid and have it in a large tub in the conservatory, it's not fruited yet, and TBH looks a bit barren, again, this year. 

The other side of the glass, outside, is my two-year-old cutting with figlets on it, I think this must be from Brunswick,

YBE, sorry, sun's out here, still windy though. 

Great on the plum, and quick Duck shows it's a good 'un, self fertile & regular cropper. I do hope it works for you.

Will you get those bendy branches down & trained?

My Stanley plum is in a large pot and grows small wizened prunes instead of juicy plums Hopefully Opal will be better behaved

kiss_me_now9 said:

On Sunday morning I carried my little boy up to the veg patch and noticed a couple of buds on the cherry tree were in blossom. By 3pm Sunday afternoon the whole tree had sprung to life! It's covered in cheery white flowers now. 

And the pigeons have already started to attack it 

My cherry has opened as well, pigeons s so far are too busy with next door's pear blossom.

pink_poppy said:

I saw two adult robins in the garden this morning - one feeding the other with some food I'd just thrown out

See you & raise you one magpie. 

Nest making this morning and taking stuff from next door's hanging basket right outside my window

wort

Wow, you’ve moved on a pace, not read all back yet, but glad you’ve ID the daff YBE , I had a rogue bulb in my tetes and when I planted it it’s the double you have only has a short stem though.
Been busy at work lately, but was off the weekend and did get washing dried quick with the sun and wind, spent an hour or 2 in the conservatory reading like 2p on Saturday before sil came to replace kitchen tap. Which became a bit of a saga due to the washer needing pulling out and then the hose getting a hole in🫣
Sunday I did a good stint in the garden, tried to split my zebra grass 😞 holy moly it was tough 2 hours and every tool in the garage was out including a saw! And I’ve only managed to remove a piece the size of a saucer🥵 when they show you on tv it’s a piece of cake done and dusted in 5 min.
I gave up and chopped back the viburnum , at least that’s what I think it is. Green bin is full ready for collection tomorrow. I will have to enlist the help of a fit and hefty guy to do the zebra grass. Got in as it started to rain.
Today is extreme wind and rain, so apart from some shopping not done anything else.
I got a 40 litre bag of compost at lidl for 3.49 . 

Asda had some nice acers green or red 5.00 or 10.00 for a decent size one. 

wort

Hope you had a wonderful birthday Farway, and the tomatoes plus your back survived ok. 

2p that a lovely reading nook, have you managed to recreate it ? 

Conservatory had rained in this morning, porous bricks I think are the culprit, happens when the wind blows the rain in the wrong direction.
Stopped raining now but serious winds going on, and chilly inside .

pink_poppy

Serious winds here too, wort. On a par with Storm Kathleen I thought. Whirly survived and washing was brought inside before it blew away. I have no idea what direction the wind is, but it's a cold one.

kiss_me_now9

@Farway perhaps I need to convince a neighbour to plant a pear or plum tree for the pigeons to attack instead. I can see there's already one branch bare from their pecks  

YoungBlueEyes

Ah I hope you get some left kmn, bladdy pigeons are a pain aren't they.

Wind yesterday was westerly turning northwesterly pp, lucky your washing survived in it! You going somewhere nice today or is it work..? 18' is just right imo. Hope you have a nice time.

I love violets and your pic is a lovely one Dusty. I'd love to have swathes of nasturtiums and violets all intermingled  

You'll end up with a fig forest at this rate Farway, good job figs are yummy and there's so many recipes  

I was watching some old Beechgrove Gardens yesterday aft, and George taught me a new word. A nice space to sit and relax (like yours 2p) is a sitooterie. Isn't that lovely, a sitooterie. 

Wondering if I should get me erse in gear and go get some more trees from morries while they're cheap... and where would I put an acer.... and where is my nearest asda anyway...

I'll get a pic of my plum in a min so yous can give me advice. 

OT - same forecast as yesterday - calm and mild and sunny now, it's a very pleasant spring morning. All going to pot after lunch. I hope yous with wind damage aren't too bad and don't get any more today :fingerscrossed: 

YoungBlueEyes

Plum, label front, label back. I picked it cos it says it’s self fertile, and it doesn’t look like it’ll take much to espalier  

If I struggle to get fruit off it (or if  when everyone else eats my share) at least it's a good big size so it'll not be long 'til it's providing a bit of privacy.