3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

Mmmm I've had my first attempt at hand pollinating some Lilly's.

Followed all the institutions about removing some of their delicate bits ( ouch!). Now to wait and see.....if it proves successful then they will be yours @alp.
But prepare yourself for failure.... anything else will be a bonus


Still dry and very hot......own up now, who's nabbed my drizzle

I'm totally innocent. I would definitely pinch your drizzle if I were near. You obviously have to do it again and again. I snapped one of my 4 iris seed pods yesterday! I wanted to kick myself.

Took some photos of my house and will upload them to the website.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Not that I'm nosey but.....I think I have found your house....if its the right one....phew! flowers everywhere!! Very nice indeed

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Ok, OK.... I AM nosey !!!

 

[alp]

Ok, OK.... I AM nosey !!!

You've said it. Perhaps, I should do it up, but my son is precious and keeps wanting to move! Millennials are very naive and entitled!

He measured the garden and he said it's 125 feet! But I want to have several acres, probably in Wales or Devon! There is one in Wales, but Japanese knotweeds have been sighted. And there is a stream flowing by. I wish I were that man who took his delphinium cuttings and washed them by his stream! Kelly Brooke has a stream flowing by her land. Imagine how people make money by removing their top! No wonder there were more people applying for Love Island than Oxbridge!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

....I think watching all these detective programmes are to blame!!

You're garden looks huge!....it's great, someone will soon snapped it up.

It was like watching that programme that was on TV years ago, you were given video tours of celebrities homes....then you had to guess who lived there. Your plants and flowers were a giveaway!!!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Ps....The house looked great..no doing up required!

 

[alp]

My garden is in a mess! You've seen it. To tell you the truth, I am really ashamed of my garden. Next thing before you know, @Zenj might be another detective and I hope @Perki has chucked my address as well. Gee, nothing is safe in this digital age! Now I am going to google yours. There are several holes in the garden as we have had several bonfires. Felt very upbeat when we gassed our nasty neighbour! I am now watering the grass to will the seeds to germinate. Of course, heavens have their own agenda - with the searing heat, what will grow, apart from weeds?

 

[alp]

Ps....The house looked great..no doing up required!

You need to go to specsavers. Like the shepherd shearing the wrong animal! Hehe!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

This digital age is scary really

I have friends living in lots of other countries.......love looking at their homes too. My theory is that I'm not really nosey.....just intrested in people I like.

I've just had my eyes tested

 

[Logan]

It was like watching that programme that was on TV years ago, you were given video tours of celebrities homes....then you had to guess who lived there.

It was called through the keyhole.

 

[Logan]

Picked my first blackcurrants 2lb 8oz

Raspberries 10 oz

 

[BigC]

Evening all..
Sunny and Breezy is how I would describe this evening...Cloudy tomorrow and cool then the thermometer is set to rise to a dizzy height again over the weekend and into the new week..cant wait lol
Feeling pretty jaded this evening so I just planted some Lupins in the dirt and gave them a mulch of ash...Really need to get this Phlox x3 in and the Clematis....but too tired...so plenty of work for the weekend...Got some Compost to pick up along with a nice red grass and the all important Juniperus...was temped by a Ceanothus still mulling that one over

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Picked my first blackcurrants 2lb 8oz
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Raspberries 10 oz
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Looking good @Logan, much prefer Raspberries to Strawberries

 

[Logan]

Looking good @Logan, much prefer Raspberries to Strawberries

Thanks, @Upsy Daisy i like all the fruit but don't get a lot of strawberries when growing them.

 

[Logan]

was temped by a Ceanothus still mulling that one over

@BigC Ceanothus is lovely, attracts the bees.