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Awful weather - typical Brits talk

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  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,341 Forumite
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    PP, lovely philadelphus. I have the long leggy kind and a small bush type affair with I think four or five petalled flowers. Absolutely love love love the smell...
    2P, so then I had to go and look at the sweet peas, I quite fancy a Monty Don now and some Cupani...
    Dusty, Gladiator was quite good even if it did mash history about a bit. Love your polytunnela dn aren't some of your tomatoes huge!
    YBE, I'm glad we're just seeing the back of the death stare :)
    Arbsm also I have strawberry envy now.
    I went to Costco today and surprisingly stuck to my list but when I got back it was nap time. Not long woken up now, an I have stuff to parcel up for the freezer, but I have taken a tour round the garden, gawd, hot or what?! so I've come back in again untiil after. I don't know what it is about that mushroom compost, it really could be too alkaline, everything apart from the nasturtium and pelargoniums are dying two days after I put them in it. I did try and mix in some of my compost but it doesn't seem to be helping at all. Any words of wisdom for reblanacing the PH or any other kind of help I can give it? The stuff in the big made up bed isn't doing too badly, it is growing but the stuff in the long thin ned is not happy at all. It's aready killed some campanula, some scabious, some erigeron, the two fruit bushes, and it's thinking about killing the lavender and african marigolds.
    Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi
  • YoungBlueEyes
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    Ok the water can stay. Tbh I treat His Holeyness like a sort of small disdainful dog which works well 95% of the time, and I shudder to think what my dogs drank in their lifetimes... I'll keep filling his dish and he can drink it or not. His choice. #Shawshank - it's universal :) 

    Thanks for describing the smell of your philadelphus taff, I can cross that one off my list. Bubblegum - bleurgh :s 

    Cooler today, marginally, they say. It was up to 26'c yesterday and that's way too much for me :sweat: Beautiful here now, 16' with a gentle breeze and the sun just breaking the clouds. Nicer than when I got up cos it was misty and humid and thick air.
    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
  • pink_poppy
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    edited 26 June 2024 at 9:01AM
    Why is it when I try to 'quote' someone, I get stuck inside the quote and can't type anything outside of the box?? :(

    YBE, I was trying to quote you... mafted is a word I use too, so that made me laugh :D  Even before I got to the bit where you said it's heaven, I was thinking that exercise sounds soooo good. I'll give it a try, thanks. And you think it's bad that your Morries garden bit doesn't open until 9am... we can't buy alcohol here until 10am!! :D  

    Farway, maybe the mesh inside the pot was more for slugs and snails and puppy dogs tails?? I thought it was quite a nifty trick.

    taff, your bush philadelphus looks completely different to the other one - it reminds me of a clematis?? Anyone know why the one I have is called mock orange?? It doesn't smell of orange to me, although it does have a lovely scent.

    Lovely sky pic, Dusty. Shame the owl didn't turn up last night.

    It's looking quite nice out there at the moment, but we're forecast rain for the next two weeks from about 4pm today... oh joy...
    'A watched potato will never chit'...
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