3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

Some photos posted on Virtual tour

https://www.gardening-forums.com/threads/virtual-tour.14301/page-2#post-152242

RHS Harlow Carr! I must have missed something. I didn't see the lovely places loaded here by @Perki ! I must be busy doing something else.

Love the dinosaur!

Echinacea heavens!

See this Acer - a most confusing entity! No wonder, @DrCase said the acer uploaded with a problem was normal! LOL!

Love a pond

None of my sweet peas bought for 50p came to anything!

@Zenj 's pic is much better than mine.

 

[Zenj]

Hi all cloudy but warm today here’s a few from today

 

[alp]

Wow! Stunning photos and beautiful and prolific flowers. Such a lot of flowers on the phloxes. I must buy some epsom salt from E!


@Zenj TONIC for a hot day! Don't think you know what hot means, just as you don't know what are water butts for. Talking about water butts. We are supposed to have RAIN!

I have several phloxes going, but not a flower. One aster with no flowers, one aster with one flower! Astilbes no flowers! I have to blame the heat.

In one of the recent episodes of GW, I saw Monty mention lily bugs. I think my double lilies had succumbed to it. They were open half way and I could enjoy the perfume. After the holiday, the flowers failed to open. I had to behead the flowers. I think I will have 2 more lilies and that's my luck for this horrible year.

I lost my keys this morning and son nagged at me no end. Then I lost my glasses and couldn't watch Pride and Prejudice on my TV as the old pair of glasses turned everything into a blur! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! I blame the heat! LOL!

 

[Logan]

Me being cheeky! Have you been brainwashed by your hubby!?? LOL!

Yes you are cheeky. No i haven't. But looking at the grey around my face and the rest 50/50 i thought I'd better keep doing it. Maybe until I'm 70. which is 9years from now.
I've coloured my hair since i was about 35, when I started going grey.

It's supposed to get cooler after tomorrow,can't wait.

 

[Leeski]

My agapanthus is driving me mad it looks like a rhino sat in the middle of it
Can’t wait for it to seed and to split it looks stupid in my small garden !

 

[alp]

Yes, it will be cooler! Can't wait. Can't even go out in the garden as it is being baked!

Incidentally, @marlingardener If you have iplayer, please watch Gardeners' World as they were talking about roses. You probably know more than them. I do know a bit more now - never really like roses, but very lately. Yesterday, trying to wait for the lady to reduce David Austin's roses. By a slip of tongue, I said Jane Austen. Hilarious and she noticed it. She reduced a Knautia from £3 to £1 for me. Bet the bees will be very pleased.

Unfortunately, David Austin's roses are often priced £10 even reduced. Wonder if @Perki can throw me some names. Criteria - very fragrant, floribunda - single or double and prolonged flowered. Hehe! I don't want a lot. I blame my greed on the heat! LOL!

 

[alp]

View attachment 42343 View attachment 42344 My agapanthus is driving me mad it looks like a rhino sat in the middle of it
Can’t wait for it to seed and to split it looks stupid in my small garden !

Don't you worry. They can seed even in September. You will have another month to wait. Think about something else, my dear!

Do you live in a house or ground floor flat? Lovely new house, @Leeski ! Please show us more before you move. Are you better now and have you caught up with your sleep please?

 

[Logan]

@Zenj lovely flowers and @Leeski they don't look too bad.

 

[Leeski]

Don't you worry. They can seed even in September. You will have another month to wait. Think about something else, my dear!

Do you live in a house or ground floor flat? Lovely new house, @Leeski ! Please show us more before you move. Are you better now and have you caught up with your sleep please?

We are renting at the min the houses you can seein the back ground are new builds not finished yet this time last year there was just fields behind us my landlord has lost 20k off the value of this house cause of the new builds .
No sleep as of yet feel a tad more comfortable as it’s not so hot today had a glass of wine which always help looking forward to a nice dinner then sleep

 

[Logan]

@Leeski glad that you feel a bit better and hope that you can sleep.

 

[alp]

Wine will certainly help you sleep! Glad that you're better.

I think we are wimps

STILL no let-up: 90F south will be hotter than Miami this week with three more hot months on way as drought makes parts of nation look like Mars

• Forecasters say this week will be hot with 90F (32C) today as high pressure continues to move over Britain
• Met Office issues a level three health alert, warning of 90% chance of heatwave for today and tomorrow
• Temperatures in South will soar again with lots of sunshine, but Kent and Sussex may face thunderstorms
• Met Office has predicted in its three-month forecast that the warmer weather is set to last well into autumn

Stupid newspaper scaremongering about 32c. Even @johnny canoe has 34c in summer! I hope they shut up a bit or I blame everything on the heat or the Met Office! LOL!

 

[Leeski]

We in a rented house is 3 bed semi buying a house in spring pics are from the bottom of my garden use to be fields the new builds are between £275k & £350k and there gardens are 7ft by 10ft I fell out with the builders about the fence as you can see there’s now no mans land between the fencing - had a lucky escape cause we were thinking of buying this house 2 years ago

 

[alp]

If my neighbour bought this house, he would pinch that no-man's land! LOL! He has been pinching land left, right and centre whilst the elderly neighbours looked on. No moral courage.. Even I haven't got it or I would report him to the council tax office as he had more than 4 rooms and he's paying 3-bed council tax band.

If you're buying a house, it might be a good idea to get one end of terrace with a bit of land and then you don't have to rent an allotment or get worried about people pinching or dumping stuff. Mind you, some people enjoy a lot of camaraderie in an allotment. So nice to have a new house to live in.

 

[Leeski]

If my neighbour bought this house, he would pinch that no-man's land! LOL! He has been pinching land left, right and centre whilst the elderly neighbours looked on. No moral courage.. Even I haven't got it or I would report him to the council tax office as he had more than 4 rooms and he's paying 3-bed council tax band.

If you're buying a house, it might be a good idea to get one end of terrace with a bit of land and then you don't have to rent an allotment or get worried about people pinching or dumping stuff. Mind you, some people enjoy a lot of camaraderie in an allotment. So nice to have a new house to live in.

For sure we have saved like mad to get our deposit for our first house at one point we only had £50 a wk to live on which looking back was kinda fun didn’t feel like it at the time - being a chef I use to spend my day off cooking the family’s meals for the whole wk god bless Aldi & Lldli

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Too hot to garden. so have finished the ice cream and made some seed/ plant labels from the empty container........bet I'll still end up with trays of unidentifiable seedlings......guaranteed