2: Our gardening diaries - from latest toys, flowers to wildlife .. Please upload pics

[Logan]

@Zenj lovely flowers still.
I potted on my polyanthus, 36 of them.
Planted out 12 in the border, replaced some of the small ones. Put those in a place so that they can grow on.

 

[Logan]

Morning all

 

[alp]

Good morning to all, especially to @Logan .. So bright outside that I thought I overslept.. Well, brightish ..

I still have a lot of dahlias, zinnias, osteospermums and salvia going strong.. Will take a few photos later.

@Upsy Daisy Ham House is so interesting. I often visited it together with Osterley Park nearby, but Ham House is so full of history and the intrigue and politics played out there were fascinating. Osterley Park is grand, but it never speaks to me.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=h...pp_XAhUHtxoKHQR0CIYQ_AUICygC&biw=1396&bih=660

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_House

 

[Logan]

Yes it will be light for a week or so,then it will be dark. Just got back from walking Barley, don't need my torch at the moment. But not too cold.

 

[alp]

I hope you feel safer in the light and that Barley won't bark at the bush again.. Nice to have a walk in this weather, @Logan

Yesterday, I chopped up my bamboos which I bought for £13. It was a massive lump of concrete. I was perspiring profusedly and had to use a bread life and a mallet to carve out 6 lumps.. After that, my fingers had a tinkling unpleasant feeling as I hit the bread knife in the wrong place.

Hopefully, they all live. I also watered my outside plants and bulked up the soil for some potted hellebores. I sometimes wonder how much water hellebores can stand. They seem to love being soaked in it.

 

[Logan]

Yes thanks, @alp Barley's out of the dark.

Bamboo is quite resilient. Monty sometimes uses a large nife to cut up plants.

Hellebores like a lot of water, i plant them anywhere and they don't mind clay soil that gets waterlogged in the winter.

 

[alp]

Well, I know now. Whenever I look at my plants, they seem to be begging me, "Give me more water, please, please, please!" This is just after I HAVE watered them!

I don't want to look at them. Well, I will water them all now. As later, they don't need the water that much. I have 3 butts of rainwater left.

 

[Logan]

I wouldn't water them much now, unless they start drooping.

 

[Zenj]

Morning all bright sunny day here have a good one

 

[alp]

@Logan You don't know how droughty it is here in Essex.. Cry me a river for rain, more rain and more rain.. I know you have pinched my rain last week .. You lucky devil.. No wonder you have a wall of fruit trees now and they were laden with goodies this summer. We don't even have 1/3 of your rain. I wish I had built up my garage when the nasty neighbour tried to be nice to me to find out if I would object to his planning permission for extension. He didn't even have a proper foundation. When the JCB was rumbling in my front garden to do the paving, he told me that he was very scared that his extension might tumble.. How dangerous is that.. ? My ex called him a chancer! He didn't ask the council to come back to check and seal the approval for the extension and because of that he's still paying 3-bedroom council band tax!

If I had the extension done, it would have been shadier and cooler in my back garden and it would have blocked the toxic haze from coming into my house!

 

[alp]

We also have sunshine.. I thought we would be envelopped in fog .. according to the weather report!

Yes, have a nice day, everyone!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning to you all, how are you?

Quite a misty start to the day here, but the sun is lurking up there,waiting for a break!

I remember at Ham House I said to hubs as we were standing by a window looking out over the garden.....' just think of how many people stood here and opened this window ' I then touched the window latch myself..... spookily it made me shiver!!!

Houses seem to absorb their past/ history.....despite the look of our house now ....it is well over 100yrs old . It was it a right old state when we bought it....we lived without plumbing and mains water for almost a year..... thankfully long before the children arrived!! But before we started on the massive building project strange things happened....there was an old coiled type bell by the old pantry and that rang once......and it was disconnected!! ..I made jam and stored it in the old pantry...some vanished! .....At times a sweet floral perfume and cigar scent would drift through the ground floor rooms.

But for some strange reason I never felt scared...mind you if I had been here alone then I might have. But once all the renovations were completed nothing ever happened again...........hope I have jinxed things!!!!!

Have a Terrifyingly Terrific Thursday!!

 

[alp]

Yes, that did cross my mind when I thought about moving.. I said to myself, "Well, at least I know this house is cleanish!"

Oh, crumbs! Another requirement to the list for the new house..

Just to add - your thread is so successful .. I might as well cheat a bit .. LOL!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

 

[Logan]

@Logan You don't know how droughty it is here in Essex.. Cry me a river for rain, more rain and more rain.. I know you have pinched my rain last week .. You lucky devil.. No wonder you have a wall of fruit trees now and they were laden with goodies this summer. We don't even have 1/3 of your rain. I wish I had built up my garage when the nasty neighbour tried to be nice to me to find out if I would object to his planning permission for extension. He didn't even have a proper foundation. When the JCB was rumbling in my front garden to do the paving, he told me that he was very scared that his extension might tumble.. How dangerous is that.. ? My ex called him a chancer! He didn't ask the council to come back to check and seal the approval for the extension and because of that he's still paying 3-bedroom council band tax!

If I had the extension done, it would have been shadier and cooler in my back garden and it would have blocked the toxic haze from coming into my house!

Have to be careful with neaghours having extensions done.