Awful weather - typical Brits talk

YoungBlueEyes

Glad your parents' visit went well Arb, and they were certainly well fed - look at your haul of produce! Jeez those tatties look good, and just  bit of salted butter is perfect You'll be knee-deep in everything next year Lovely bee too, I love the colour of the flower it's on  

Glow glare sure is working Farway, I wonder how many more you'd get if you stepped up to a full glower... I've looked them up and I deffo agree with Limelight hydrangeas, they're well named aren't they. Next to something completely different and brightly coloured, or something similar coloured? Lovely Neighbour has a climbing rose coming over the fence and it's a shocking cerise pink colour, how about that all wiggled up through one of them?

Old school is often better 2p. Mind having boys that listen would be even better ha haa! So did they charge you plenty for letting you tell them (twice) what was wrong with it? Hopefully that's you now for a good while  

Cloudy and sunny a bit here, nice and cool too. Sobers say solid cloud, drunkards say sun sun sun! Maybe that's their new system, everyone is a bit right, some of the time... High of 23', they say, which is more than plenty for me, I don't need any more than that thank you!

ETA lol at your Great Aunt 2p We’re worse off without these women, we really are. 

ArbitraryRandom

Today's pictures are a moody wetlands (nearby wildlife location we visited) 


An unknown wetland bird that I spotted while we were walking around: 


And their very impressive bug hotel (inc a hedgehog house built into the side: 

LessImpecunious

That wetland bird looks a bit like a Raven... and fabulous veg Arb, particularly jealous of the beetroot as the voles have found mine again this year ...

Working_Mum

Good morning everyone,
I went out last night - to our local big theatre and saw L0rd of the Dance - have to say it was ace. I got home later than anticipated so popped outside to fill up the hedgehog feeding spots and found this!! The feeding spot is an old wine box with the bowl inside to protect from the rain. I out food out every night and it is always empty in the morning - I never know if the foxes have scoffed the lot or if the hedgies are getting their fair share. Mystery solved!!


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hedgehog bum

This is from inside the box



Started out a bit cloudy this morning and showers are forecast - hope it warms up as I am hosting my Book Club tonight and we are sitting in the garden!!

Have a productive day everyone,

WM

YoungBlueEyes

They're good pictures Arb, I do like the first one. I wondering now where I can put a bug hotel in my garden...

Who knew voles ate beetroot  That's a new one on me Less

Hedgehog bum - that's brilliant  

LessImpecunious

I'm just guessing at the voles...never caught them in the act... Hmm, yes, hard to beat hedgehog bum...

Farway

Sunny start and warming nicely

First thing was up volunteer spot, watering. Rain is due later but can't rely on a forecast as we all know.

The lilies I planted up there, in pots, a few years back are just opening, they are scented ones, I'll try for a photo once they open a bit more.

After watering, it was up to Morries, mainly for a mooch but always on the lookout for bargain plants. 

Struck lucky today, potted Dianthus, lovely scent, reduced to £1.75, so I splashed out and bought the last six to replace the going over pansies in the trough near front door of volunteer centre.

It's sunny there and once the scent gets wafting should cheer up anyone entering. They'd have to be reet moody not to be cheered by them.

All being well, I'll pop back later & plant them up for rain to settle them in

Must be karma, 'cos once inside I found Morries had reduced the chicken poo pellets, down to £3.50, so bought a packet of those as well

Morries still have dead standard roses & dead potted bamboos , chatting to older couple who, like me, were lamenting the dead & neglected state of the plants. 

Like-minded souls, she saved Piccolo tomato seeds from shop & grows them. We are not alone.! If only I could find my “in a safe place” ones.

Love the moody pic Arbs, very evocative.

Hedgehog bum is going to be very hard to top Working M, I think you've won the internet for today

My grow glare has worked on my grapes as well , they are starting to swell at last

Luckily Dusty is banned, or it may have provoked a rude response

twopenny

Wow what wonderful photos all round today.

Those grapes look healthy Farway. If I can find a vine going cheap I may put it in the badger run. Probably as bird food but you never know

WM what a treat to see that. Some sizeable healthy hog there. Do they still eat the slugs and snails if they are fed?

Arb, that's a gorgous location and your photos really show it off well. Wish I was there.

And Less, try to think you're lucky to have voles - cute little critters and I'm told under threat (not from you) and perhaps put up some defences for the next plants..........

Cold and grey here today - again. Don't know what's gone wrong with our weather here.

Been on the puter all morning looking at cars, day trips by coach, the motoring forum etc

It's been booked in for Friday again but no guarantees

Frankly feeling a bit down with so much going badly and the dark, cold, no sun to buck you up so not feeling much like gardening. Brambles and branches to clear, lawn to mow, dead bits to prune. I always hope that it's in preparation for better more fun days but not so sure now. Perhaps November will be bright sunshine

But I will buck myself up with a coffee and chocolate, a hobble round town or maybe down to Morries to look for chicken poo. I don't think ours does that but worth a look. Thanks Farway for the mention. Our plants have been put under one keen person and it's looking splendiferous but tends to be plants she likes. I'll have to see if I can get a photo.

Meanwhile, do you remember the baby gooslings I posted

This is them now!

Farway

twopenny said:

But I will buck myself up with a coffee and chocolate, a hobble round town or maybe down to Morries to look for chicken poo. I don't think ours does that but worth a look. Thanks Farway for the mention. Our plants have been put under one keen person and it's looking splendiferous but tends to be plants she likes. I'll have to see if I can get a photo.

The poo is inside, where the fancy garden stuff, like grass seeds, bird food etc is.

Wish ours was under one keen person, I think we have the pant equivalent of Machine Gun Kelly

twopenny

Think a lot could be to do with the foul weather we've been having Farway. Cooooool and shady.

They do try but on days not covered the plants are locked in a plastic 'greenhouse' so excessive heat and lack of ventilation.

I'm off with my poles to see if I can get down there and back and still have some mobility (and dignity) left.

You've also got me eyeing up interesting plants around car parks. I have a plastic bag in my bag just in case