Prosperous soul embraces creativity & mortgage neutrality

savingholmes

EssexHebridean said:

Ahhh what beautiful colours in your garden! Love the aquilegia in particular - those are a real favourite of mine and I love the way they self seed all over the place too! 

I adore them. I've had black, purple, various shades of pink, white. They are so delicate they are stunning. As you say the self seed wonderfully so I have absolutely loads in my garden and they look amazing when in full bloom.

mark55man

Gardener's question time - will the aquilegia work well in heavy/clay soils - which has been my cross to bear since we moved in.  I love the sound of self seeding, its sounds like MSE 

savingholmes

Hi @mark55man - I started off with 'real plants' plus some seed. They have spread happily around my garden including to random areas. I also uplift some from time to time to help them spread. I think they are fabulous. Mine seed heavily each year - and I also take those seeds and sprinkle them around. I think they will be fine in heavy soils. They don't need to be planted deep.

Baileys_Babe

mark55man said:

Gardener's question time - will the aquilegia work well in heavy/clay soils - which has been my cross to bear since we moved in.  I love the sound of self seeding, its sounds like MSE 

Aquilegia thrive on our clay soil

mark55man

ok - I'll look into that.  Thank you both x

EssexHebridean

mark55man said:

Gardener's question time - will the aquilegia work well in heavy/clay soils - which has been my cross to bear since we moved in.  I love the sound of self seeding, its sounds like MSE 

Mine have come from a combination of a couple of plants bought a good few years ago now - I bought them solely because I wanted to take macro photos of the flowers - once I'd done I planted them into the garden with no consideration about soil type at all - and the self seeding from them, plus some seed from some my MIL has which I pretty much just chucked about and left to it! I'm assuming they're OK with clay soil - we're right on the edge of the London Clay ring - you could successfully make pots and plates out of anything more than about six inches below the surface in our garden!  

SH I plan to dig up some of mine when they've flowered and drop their seeds this year and relocate them! 

savingholmes

Thanks @Baileys_Babe @mark55man and @EssexHebridean

Sedum I find great for Autumn colour too. They can be easily broken into clumps and spread around the garden. I think I have killed off half my pots this year by failing to water them!! Oops. I need to trim my sedum from last year and sea holly - I leave the stems for the birds over the winter and they seem to really like them. I may do a bit later. I weeded about a third of what was my veg patch on Sunday so progress however slow. I might try and spread my red geraniums around as I love those. I've already spread the pink geraniums and blue forget-me-nots but the red is more my colour!

I've had a very spendy month it feels like. Not really sure why - other than a holiday loosening of the reins - plus less pressure as DF. Need to not get carried away. I have bought some items for stores like coffee when I've seen it on offer etc which soon adds up - plus some moisturiser that was a few pound off etc. I've also bought myself an extension lead and some other bits and pieces.

I got my first reward from MnS today for my CC - £2. Better than nothing! I might have a look at what other deals are out there as my credit score is back at nearly top rate. See if I can get more cashback. I need to pay my home insurance within the next week or so £150ish. I also need to sort my cat insurance - they want £72 more a year which is a lot.

I got a garage to look at DD's car. My assessment of it is correct. It needs nearly £2K of work. They said sell it quick for around £500 and cut your losses while it still has MOT. It cost her more than than to tax and insure. She should get some of that back though. He said it wouldn't pass by the time its due without the work. I'm gutted for her. She's hoping Ex will help her sell it! I'll watch this space...

Going out with DD for a meal in a bit to a really cheap pub. She's paying for herself so shouldn't cost much.

beanielou

Enjoy your meal.
Your DD has no luck with cars 

Mickyh-s

I just got a really good deal selling my car to webuyanycar. It needed 1.5-2k of work and was only worth 3.5k max if in good working order. They gave me just over 2K. All they did was start the engine to check milage and look at bodywork, tyres, etc. They didn't put it on a ramp or open the bonnet. If you have full service history they give you more for it.

MovingForwards

Sorry to hear about the car, hopefully she can cut her losses and get something else after passing her test.

It's normal to have spendy moments after being DF. You've gone without things and once it's all replenished less will be spent.