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

[Verdun]

A quick viewing on the forum over lunch...
Upsy's mention of spooky times got me thinking....
I have never seen this but several have, viz. a woman crosses the road not far from here, drivers stop but nothing to see. Occasionally someone will call and then mention this ghostly apparition
On the towans leading to the beach there used to be a war munitions factory and a man and his dog are often seen patrolling the site. This I have seen.
Cornwall is the land of myths and legends and mysteries anyway and stories of poltergeists and the supernatural are common
Who really knows??

 

[alp]

Oh, crumbs! Please tell them not to come near me! That's why I never watched horror films at night or I would keep checking under the bed. The only horrors I experienced were when I rented a room (the whole flat to myself though) in an estate in north west London, which was famous for being rough. I heard people crying, begging and fighting all the times at night. Once or twice, people stole electricity and car screeched. The worst was a man was murdered near where my flat was... Blood seen around on the floor and on door handle.

 

[alp]

Have to be careful with neaghours having extensions done.

 

[Logan]

Morning all

 

[alp]

Good morning, Logan and all..

Woke up 4.45. I blame @Upsy Daisy for her Ham House experience. I was lying in bed and smelt deodorant and was thinking about something ghoulish .. Couldn't sleep again, so got up and loaded the dishwasher. Hope my son didn't think there's something spooky going on ..

 

[alp]

Surprisingly, I still have quite a bit of flowers

Last two or three of my echinacea. The drapy one is perhaps Echinacea Pallida

I still have masses of fuchsias ..

Salvia Dyson's Joy is still flowering. I have layered some branches for new plants, hence it is in a trough.

Wendy's wishes? Some Wishes

Carrot flowers, but no hoverflies.

Lots of yellow pompons

A lovely cacti dahlias

 

[Logan]

Redditch shopping centre has a ghost in it. It was built on a old grave yard. The cleaners have seen one late at night and early morning.

 

[alp]

Redditch shopping centre has a ghost in it. It was built on a old grave yard. The cleaners have seen one late at night and early morning.

Wish you told me when there was light. I am a bit scared.

 

[Logan]

Wish you told me when there was light. I am a bit scared.

Don't be scared, you're alright,it won't happen to you. You've got your son.

 

[Logan]

Surprisingly, I still have quite a bit of flowers

Last two or three of my echinacea. The drapy one is perhaps Echinacea Pallida
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I still have masses of fuchsias ..

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Salvia Dyson's Joy is still flowering. I have layered some branches for new plants, hence it is in a trough.
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Wendy's wishes? Some Wishes
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Carrot flowers, but no hoverflies.
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Lots of yellow pompons

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A lovely cacti dahlias
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Lovely flowers still. I wish i lived by you,so mild. It's going to be 0c on Monday.

 

[alp]

Shame you're too wet to have dahlias.. I do see a lot of snails, but I still have tons of Mystery Days, a brand new Frosty Tip, and some orange ones and the big yellow Kelvin Floodlight. I'm so pleased with them. The first year I have had so many dahlias.

I'm not scared now as the sun is out.

 

[Logan]

That's great.

 

[alp]

Today, I need to water my plants and take some cuttings for my violet osteospermum and plant some of my mums.. Wish I had bought more mum. Got a huge 10 or 13L pot for £1.69! Need to repot my Cherry tree and move my Frosty Tip Dahlia to a less dry place.

 

[Logan]

@alp you've got a lot to do. Finished off the net curtains. I don't have to feel guilty now.
Going to dig up some of the grass, to make room to transplant a rose. Don't know what to do with the grass. Can't put it in the grey bin, for the bin men, it's heavy already.
Might put it at the back of the Pyracantha where it can't be seen.

 

[alp]

Just clump it together facing themselves and let it decompose into loam .. so Monty Don said. But he obviously had a lot.