3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

@MaryMary How's your project for the new house coming along?

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Spanish Flag is doing well ( don't ask me for it's Latin name)

 

[Upsy Daisy]

A few more.....

 

[alp]

That's lovely! I do remember seeing it. Are they from seeds, @Upsy Daisy ?

I so wanted to buy Helenium Moreheim Beauty, but that nursery only has Sahin Early and even that looked tatty, so I left with a Salvia Patens and a Thalictrum. Well chuffed. She had the label £7.25 before. Suddenly, I saw £2.75 so I chose one with tons of side shoots and they are now in form of cuttings. Glad that I did a bit of gardening even in this heat.

Please rain, rain, rain! Don't just get clouded over!

Nice photos and nice flowers, @Upsy Daisy ! The coral gladioli is just so beautiful. Love that colour and the pink daisy like flower is gorgeous. Very nice photos, @Upsy Daisy ! Even the silver dust comes out a treat! Wonderful!

 

[Perki]

Everybody seems to want Helenium Moerhium Beauty

Nice pics @Upsy Daisy is your mirabilis scented? I grow some before but the scent was next to nothing.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Everybody seems to want Helenium Moerhium Beauty

Nice pics @Upsy Daisy is your mirabilis scented? I grow some before but the scent was next to nothing.

Not sure.....hang on I'll go and have a sniff...................................Oh!! they've closed up, have to wait until they re-open

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Bit miffed really as these were the seeds I sowed...so far all are plain
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/mirabilis-jalapa-broken-colours/6729TM

 

[alp]

I have never come across a scented mirabilis. Perhaps after 5pm??? Hehe!

You have to say your Moorheim is very pretty. In the desperate search of that, I forgot to look for Achilleas.. I really love some of them.

 

[alp]

Bit miffed really ad these were the seeds I sowed...so far all are plain
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/mirabilis-jalapa-broken-colours/6729TM

How about my pathetic cannas. The leaves are ravaged by don't-know-whats and the flowers are pathetically small. Bought from the same company. After 2 years' of hard graft and waiting, it ends with a fart!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

!!!!

 

[Leeski]

Agapanthus strawberry

 

[MaryMary]

@MaryMary How's your project for the new house coming along?

Short answer - It's been sidelined.

Long answer - I thought I posted about that. I wound up quitting the part-time job. We had agreed (at two interviews) that I would be getting 20 hours a week. I never did. I averaged 14 hours a week. Finally, I got so frustrated that it occurred to me that I was losing my days off, and driving an hour (round-trip) just to work a four hour shift!!

I have been keeping my ear to the ground, and have been (more or less) offered two other jobs, both of which have told me I would get all the hours I want... I just need to choose between the two, and get off my butt and go apply!!

One job would pay an hourly wage that would look good on a loan application. They have told me that they would hire me in at more than minimum wage, with another dollar in raises within a year.

The other one would be waiting tables, which means that they pay half of minimum wage, on the understanding that I would make up the rest in tips. Counting tips, this job would give me MUCH more money. The problem is, the banks only see the hourly wage. "You can't guarantee that you will always make that money." (I've been through that before, trying to get a car loan.)

So, do I take the job with more money, in the hopes that a bigger down payment will sway them? Or do I get a year of "job history" at the job for less money, but looks better on paper?!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

The same happened when I was a hairdresser ..c **p wages based on the hope that we were tipped well

 

[Leeski]

View attachment 41489 View attachment 41490 Just been given these seeds and plant could someone please tell me what they are ?
Many thanks in advance

Just spoke to the person that gave me the plants the first one is a big boy Hosta

 

[alp]

Big Boy Hosta!?? I have never been keen on Hosta and I have to say it's amazing that they came with sooooo many seeds.

Have a look at this here!