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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2015 20:59:50 GMT
Eeeek!!! The ground elder has spread into another thread  |
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Post by spider on Jul 15, 2015 21:39:05 GMT
i think its my fault isnt it  |
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Post by scallywag on Jul 15, 2015 22:01:02 GMT
Eeeek!!! The ground elder has spread into another thread Haha Oooo hope I haven't offended , just didn't want your thread hijacked cause I posted a link on there and then it become a yopic of conversation on your thread. Shall I delete it ? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 11:56:19 GMT
No don't worry about it |
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Post by migsy on Jul 17, 2015 23:36:33 GMT
spider;your soil must be perfect for roses. Beautiful roses and peonies tonib!I love roses and was lucky enough to find some at a local garden centre a few years ago for about £3.50 each,they have beautiful perfume and I couldn't believe my luck.On asking why they were so cheap,it was because they were un named,I didn't mind one bit,I'm not a plant snob.My two other favourite garden flowers are peonies and blue scabious,and I love to have flowers in the house.I seem to have lost my Barnsley Lavatera,they are so pretty,it was only young so may have cut it down by mistake so will look for another.
After our hols the shrubs have gone crazy,its amazing,sadly my peonies were in bud when we left,and I had meant to tell daughter to make use of them,so most were finished after the fortnight.I find those spring up bags for putting clippings in a boon,I filled a large and too small ones and took them to the local tip to empty,simples!
Seem to have got the bit between our teeth with the tidying up the gardens,so if the weather holds,it should soon be done,fingers crossed.
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Post by smilesbetter on Aug 14, 2015 15:41:02 GMT
Been studying the Future Learn Soils course (albeit getting started very late) - very interesting and gives me a lot if ideas for the balcony garden. Been getting about 3 - 5 tomatoes a day now and about a strawberry a week haha. Also loads of chillies which we have mostly been freezing for making into sauce or something later. Kohl rabid have been threatening to become kohl rabid for ages but never achieved it so I might replace them with spinach. Also growing leeks and spring onion in the kitchen from kitchen leftovers  |
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Post by bectil on Aug 22, 2015 9:20:19 GMT
Autumn is on it's way! Driving to one of my gardens yesterday afternoon, which is in the countryside and I noticed the ferns in the side verges are starting to turn yellow, and many trees are now showing some autumn colour. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2015 3:49:23 GMT
I had just that same thought yesterday too! Walking home from work at 8.45am I noticed a couple of the small shrubs outside the vets were getting paler. Swifts have left us (Saturday 15th was my last date  ) and I've noticed the Robin have come through their summer moult and started singing their melancholy winter song again. A guy on the birdwatching site two weeks ago mentioned it being a possible really bad winter this year because of the El Nino in the Pacific.....but heck, they say that every year, don't they  There's been nowt in the Express yet and THEY are always right about bad weather, aren't they?  |
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Post by bectil on Aug 23, 2015 19:14:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2015 4:10:49 GMT
No, the Swifts have gone now but still loads of Swallow and House & Sand Martins The mornings are definitely darker though  I first noticed this last week as I walked to work at 5.30am last Monday - it was only just getting light. |
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Post by tonib on Feb 14, 2016 20:02:32 GMT
Can't believe the plants that are budding/flowering! Neighbour's flowering prunus tree dwarf narcissus in our rocky (north side of the house!) Hellebores snowdrop crocuses cyclamen hamamelis (witch hazel) daffodils magnolia (buds only) dianthus & dandelions Ok so some are expected now but some are early!!! |
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Post by smilesbetter on Feb 14, 2016 20:54:05 GMT
We had a flowering daffodil and Rose back home in December and January haha, weird!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2016 21:29:20 GMT
I saw a rose in bloom the other day - walked past it and then it registered and I thought ''Err hold on...'' and I went back a few steps to double check  Only saw my first flowering Daffodils last week but DID have Pot Marigold (Calendula) flowering in a sheltered spot in the allotment on 5th January. The couple of days of heavy frost did for it 11 days later mind. |
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Post by tonib on Jul 21, 2017 21:34:35 GMT
Everything seems to be growing well this year, I think some serious pruning will be in order as well as possibly some rethinking of positioning! Trouble is the weeds are also growing well We had a load of spikes on our 2 Phormiums - they made/make it difficult to go up the steps from the patio t the path , so we walk the long way round over the lawn!!! It would be a shame to cut them down but it won't be long before they're finished now so we can cut the flower stalks off.  Phormium flowering 2017_06_21 P1050094 by osiriscat, on Flickr  Phormium flowers 2017_06_21 P1050090 by osiriscat, on Flickr Last year's rose we planted, Penny Lane, has done well & the clematis, although not flowering (its a winter one) has got tendrils over the top of the arch The dwarf standard lilac has also proved it is repeat flowering they maybe small flowers at the moment but its had flowers on since its main flush in  ?  Dwarf Lilac repeat flowers 2017_06_20 P1050061 by osiriscat, on Flickr  Penny Lane 2017_06_20 P1050060 by osiriscat, on Flickr  Penny Lane 2017_06_21 P1050095 by osiriscat, on Flickr I was looking out of one of our upstairs window & spotted some colour almost at eye level & realised that the climbing rose & clematis we planted on that side of the garden in 2008/9 has wound its way past the support & up the branches of the cherry tree & is flowering well up there - not that we see much at ground level!!!!  over tall rose etc 2017_07_04 P1050118 by osiriscat, on Flickr  over tall rose etc 2017_07_04 P1050119 by osiriscat, on Flickr Last year we had the crown of our silver birch lifted & as a result we have had the best display of the climbing rose Ena Harkness, the honeysuckle & the clematis that have grown up there instead of just over the arch.  Ena Harkness etc 2017_06_20 P1050056 by osiriscat, on Flickr  Ena Harkness etc 2017_06_20 P1050058 by osiriscat, on Flickr |
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Post by scallywag on Jul 21, 2017 21:40:09 GMT
Thats a lovely lot of colour there tonib |
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) and I've noticed the Robin have come through their summer moult and started singing their melancholy winter song again. 
There's been nowt in the Express yet and THEY are always right about bad weather, aren't they? 
I first noticed this last week as I walked to work at 5.30am last Monday - it was only just getting light. 
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