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[Zenj]

Morning all
Cold and grey yes compost is in short supply got a couple of bags of this from our local gc independent .Seem s very good nice texture I will see what the results are like.

 

[alp]

Wonder how much seaweed extract there is! How much peat is there please, ZenJ? For me, it's easy. Just go to gc and get those ripped open. Those 2 bags were not bag. Not like those in B&Q. Would love to look at the ingredients of these composts.

Just finished twin scaling snowdrops. Really scared as my vermiculite is older than me. I microwaved it to kill the pathogens. So much fuss. I never worried when I was scaling lily bulbs. But this one involve methylated spirit, systemic fungicide. A lot of cleaning and wiping. Did 4 and I have really had enough. Glad that I changed some pots as there was one with 5 slugs around one. Bought tons of pond pots for this purpose. Now I can finally relax.

Incidentally, I would like to order by lorry load if I were Perki! Save all the fluff!

 

[Perki]

Its been a long day , didn't get back in the house till 10 .15 pm lots to do and the list seem to grow everyday. Emptied more pots today so I can plant some summer plants in. Potted up and divided plants for the pots for next spring show . Planted a couple of pots up, GH is slowly starting to empty .

 

[alp]

Good morning - too early. Supposed to have rain yesterday. One spit and that was it. Dressed up one basket and it weighed a ton. Hung it on the plum tree and yesterday I saw 5 foxes hanging around neighbour's garden. Neighbour's neighbour's daughter's partner smoked them out from his garden and now they shifted to my neighbour's. His lawn is now full of big holes - nearly 2 foot deep. Mine was dug about 8 inch deep and I quickly planted a dahlia on top and added some wood ash around it, a brick near the primula auricula to stop the plant being dug out again. They are a nuisance. And they thinned out my Blackie's feather.

Mother

Some serious accident down the road, just 10 doors away.

Debris strewn outside our houses. Someone had to be cut out of his/her car.

New alstroemeria that I bought. Upright and striking. I hope to get the seeds. Nearly £12!

Last Sibrica flower now

Centaurea

A thinking Immaculee! fragrant double peony from Lidl It just looked like trying to bloom the whole 2 weeks!

Bought this amethyst in the snow. Very pretty. £2

Planted it next to the purple one.

Upminster British gc is selling this, but too pricey for me.

Thank you for reminding me, Perki. I'm going to scale some daffs and tulips as well. I buried some tulips in the sand near a very hot spot and they came back like babies. I will dig up my Apricot twirl and see if I can scale the bulbs.

 

[Zenj]

Overcast rain due later planted the honeysuckle ,and a couple of New

ferns in a shady spot.

 

[alp]

Love that dove and the iris - stunning in different ways. Wrote this bit before ex came.

First time ex got out of his area.

Love the markings on the yellow iris. Looks like white petunias in one photo. Didn't do much yesterday except eating strawberries. This year's cherry supply finished 2 days ago. 2 trees with 5 cherries between them. But they were surprisingly sweet and blemish free. The variegated cornus Wolfe eye seems to be suffering. I watered it a bit.

BBC

Met office

No rain at the mo!

Need to plant out my water melons and Pied de Selnos. And I will devote one of the raised beds to flower. Saw 2 mulberries on my Charlotte Russe dwarf mulberry plant. Still in a tiny pot.

 

[alp]

No rain at all until half an hour ago. Been doing some propagating and planting out 2 dahlias, but worried that slugs might have a field day tonight.

Martagon lily from Farmer Gracy

Finally, I have an Art Deco and it's very pretty, probably because it is a cutting from the tuber! LOL!

 

[alp]

Good morning to a very grey day. Very little rain. Not enough to wet the ground. Very frustrating.

Heartbreaking! The golden opportunity is no more!

Such different predictions!

Penstemon Smallii - a lot of blooms for a new plant!

Supposed to be Yellow Mellow!

Tanz Sunseeker Magenta

Salvia Euphoria - it's huge! It must have thought it's a gunnera!

Saw a bird mucking about here. Then it flew off and there was a broken egg there and the other Euphoria got dug up.

I hope my twister in the allotment shows some sign of flowering. I have now paid good prices and counted the number of blooms before I buy plants. That way, I can guarantee to see flower before they die on me! Sadly, the same can't be said of Purple Delight agapanthus as it has no buds and it was the only one on sale that day.

 

[alp]

Very sunny here! Much happier than yesterday's miserable grey! And it's much warmer! I was freezing here yesterday. Wonder if heating is on in the north!

Very little rain yesterday, not even half an inch.

Even sadder looking at the BBC one.

Some perennial lilies which never fail me!

This poor rose standard in the allotment is suffering big time. Weighed down by tons of bloom and the top is now full of buds again. I can bear to trim it. Obviously, it's very happy with the soil there. And because of its collapsed state, I can make it to my oak leaf double hydrangea!

Emptied a whole bag of 75L compost onto this and one bag of 40L organic compost (£3) and sowed some beans Bolotto or bolotti beans and dwarf runner beans. Also mulched my asparagus patch.

Had a lot of veg for dinner last night - cos, pak choi, and some mizuna.. Going to sow another round. Bit worried about the hot temperature as it would make them bolt.

 

[Zenj]

Morning all
Raining still a high of 12 c today but starting to get warmer from tomorrow yes the heating as been on .

 

[alp]

Just eating my breakfast. This morning, I didn't feel the cold. Yesterday, out with 2 jumpers. Need to change electricity supplier. The present supplier has a tariff ending in September 2021, but refused to give it to me. I pretend to be on that tariff to do the comparisons. Instead they wanted to give me Flamborough which is more expensive and ends in July. Where is the justice of it all?

Last year was the same. They wanted to give me Gazelle and I found out Weasel was much cheaper. So I asked for that one and they said yes. All these animals have been confusing. Toying with the idea of switching to Shell with £30 cash back. Even some saving expert is pulling porkies, saying that M&S is cheaper. A look at the tariff tells me otherwise. In life, you really need to keep your wit about.

 

[Perki]

Its been a wet but warm day . Not much done other than picking bits up / pots etc after strong winds again . Been out and staked the lupin which took a bit of a battering but most thing are still standing. Potted on some eucomis bulbs as well while I were in the GH watering and trimmed back the petunia red velour which were trying GH take over .

Planted out a few plants the other day , some snapdragons - salvia - Cobaea - sweet pea and a lablab purpureus , with the amount of rain we had this past week the garden had a good soak and the plant well wetted in.

 

[alp]

Good morning to all!

Rain? What rain? Not even an inch for the whole day. I am staring at abyss. Not a rain last night either. Those sentences were written before 8pm. And it was almighty cold. I had to wear 2 tops to keep myself warm at 10pm. This morning, there was heavy condensation on the doors to the sunlounge. So it's not just a cantankerous geriatric moan!

Wind blew down my plum tree and a lovely Duke blueberry. If you see this reduced, you must grab one - the size of the berries are much bigger than the rest. My other favorite is a pink one. A Pink Lemonade. I repotted the plum tree and plonked it in water for half a day. Then I gave my friend's gift - a huge Afro Caribbean hairstyle root ball Trachelospermum jasminoides, a covid trim and now it is inside a 7l pot. Actually, a brutal sawing! Not sure if it will live. If not, bonfire material it will become. The rest of its hair is already binned to be dried and burnt.

I made loads of Duke blueberry cuttings.

Yesterday, I watched Springwatch and someone in Wales add a 2 minutes video Ultra HD and it was a feast for the eyes. Lovely programme!

I grew this veined lilac petunia from seed

So is this one!

Very disappointing peony - Immaculee from Lidl and I have about 3 to 5 Bowl of Beauty somewhere. No bowl or beauty. So Immaculee is good as least it remembers there is a party! Two years in a row!

 

[alp]

Talking about Cobea, I sowed 6 seeds. None of them have bothered to say hello. Huge Success with Salvia - Euphoria thinks it's a gunnera and I'm worried that it might swamp the other tiddy plants. To my extreme regret, the Purple Delight Agapanthus comes with no bud and at the mo, it's still budless, like a barren woman!

Bought a camellia Volunteer and it was priced £15.99. I said to myself: Wait till they reduced it further. Last time we went, the price stayed tenacious and there was only ONE left! I grabbed it and then hesitated.. and then I yielded..

 

[alp]

Well, I got the Camellia Volunteer at £8.49 - the price reduced and I thought they would be reduced further. Er, no. The price stayed the same and nearly 10 of them were gone.

Yesterday, we went to Enfield again. Went to Glebe and took a stab, bought 5 Dyke irises without photos or names at £2 each and a beautiful penstemon Black bird at £3.60. Saw the owner of the place potting up tiny astrantias into tiny grids and asked her where her compost came from. She said it was made up for her delivered from up north.

Got 2 bags of Sledge peat for £2.99 for 40L at Clockhouse. The organic version was gone.

Got 2 more white and blue agapanthus with buds for £7 each, and a 2 foot tall Rudbeckia herbstonne for a fiver in Clockhouse. A cherry red Phlox paniculata for £3 in Summerhill.

Friend bought me a toad lily and a eupatorium at Langthorn

As for rain, it actually was thunderous and raining for 2 minutes at about 6.10pm and after that the sun smiled again.

Today's weather prediction: Sunny and glorious!