3: Gardening Diaries ...

[alp]

Active combat would not be funny! I have a bit more rain than you.

You can understand there is so much rubbish coming in via the letter box. Unsolicited letters and horribly printed leaflets. Very quickly the paper pile builds up.

Son does have that talent. He would shout at me, Press HARD! Until today he realised that there was nothing wrong with me, but the camera. When he was holding it, he said PRESS HARD! Trouble of an autistic child!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Definitely not, he saw a lot of his friends fly off...never to return home alive .

Don't start me off on junk mail @alp!!!.... you won't be able to shut me up!
Feel so sorry for Posties having to carry the rubbish

 

[alp]

In a sense, your old man was lucky. Wars are such horrible experiences! In a way, we're lucky too.

All I need to do is to dig out my socks for the cold days ahead. I'm now wearing a top, but I can feel the chill. As Johnny says, cold days ahead. Mind you, 22c on Sunday! Hurrah!

 

[alp]

Good morning - cool and quiet and no sun. Supposed to be cold. Will dig up a pair of thick socks.

Guys - keep warm!

RHS WISLEY CONTINUES ..​

Some corms grown under a tree

Could be cochicum.

The following photos taken mostly in Rose Garden .. a bit late for most roses!

A beautiful Cornus Kousa Wolf Eyes with variegated leaves!

A pavilion overlooking the rose garden, affording a nice seating area and shade from the heat!

Now, we are in the Alpine Greenhouse where all the dainties and fairies chase one another!

Amazingly perfect!

Gentian! That azure blue!

Such an elegant plant and exquisite shape

This could be an oxalis! But I could be so wrong!

Cochicum

Poor nerine - all blurred!

This horrible pile yields such fantastic colour

Eucomis - love the coloured edges of the petals!

Out of the Alpine greenhouses to the rockeries

Tropical greenhouses but only a view. Not there yet!

A wonderful sprawling rockeries with a cascade of water dotted all the way down to some sort of canal!

There are so much packed into this rockery - the acers, conifers and various water features ..

Where the bench is is the lowest point of the rockery. It's a long stripe of canal with waterlilies and big carps .. ​

 

[Logan]

Morning all and Alp, lovely pics.
It's cold this morning almost time for my wooly hat.

Our roses are in their 2nd bloom, go on into winter with the last ones.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning all

We are in for a sunny day with a gentle breeze ,sounds perfect to me....fingers crossed

Might sow some seeds today, check on all the cuttings and try to sort out and identify the contents in my big mixed up bag of bulbs ready to plant out in Oct/ Nov.

We are out this afternoon so these are on my 'to do list' for this morning......
........ that's the plan!

Fabulous pics @alp

Have a lovely day

 

[Logan]

Forgot to say that i ordered 2 roses from Fryers Roses, should arrive in november as bare root. Been a long time since i had any and they're a lot dearer now.£10.00 for 1 and £10.99 for the other. Got to move one in the front because it's got covered by the other plants.

 

[alp]

Good morning to all! Roses are worth it. But I will only take cuttings of my existing ones. With the purple scented ones, they were so easy to root that I have been much encouraged. I really think you have had quite a few very beautiful roses, Logan!

@Upsy Daisy At least you know where the bulbs are. I don't even know where all my expensive snowdrops are. Some, yes, but no all. I bought some Leucojum autumnalis and so far none has flowered and only found one tiny bulb. Went to Wisley and saw how tiny they were!

Should have gone to Wyevale to buy some organic veg seeds. Why didn't I think of that????

Just shredded tons of statements and rubbishy paper. So much! Now my armchair can breathe. Going to collect a single headboard and might go to Wyevale on the way!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Hi there @alp.
Isn't it amazing how paperwork builds up !!! One minute there's none the next you've got a mountain!!.
My poor Dad is fretting that his refuse service won't take his recycling bin, not that it's overfilled ...it's only half full, but because he reckons it's too heavy! We brought loads of his papers/ mags home with us...ours is now heavier than his!!!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

@alp , do you add your shredded paper to your compost?

 

[alp]

@alp , do you add your shredded paper to your compost?

Sometimes I added them to the compost heap, but now I have to load one compost bin on top of one another so that instead of having 7, I now have 2 all filled up to the beams with you know what! WOODCHIPS! I wanted to buy a cross shredder from Lidl but that was £29 and son said no. I might use the material for packaging. Those are not newspapers, but letters from SSE and bank statements and they were very heavy duty. Amazing what the postmen have to lug .. The ones from SSE felt like a card!

The culprits are RHS and NT magazines as they have soooooo many inserts. There is a bit of snobbery with RHS and that's why they charge so much for tea and chocolate and because of that, they are the driving force of a lot of companies such as greenhouse, posh glass stairs, customised interior design and cruises .. All very snobbish and tons of glossy papers which should go straight to the bin or they will bury your armchairs and settee until they can't breathe or you have to site your bum strategically. See how tidy and neat @johnny canoe 's room is! I am too ashamed to move my camera an inch out!

I am trying though!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Must admit we do keep ours in check by chucking things straight away. But my Dad is a different story...he keeps everything that comes through his letterbox to ' read later ' !!!!. I did sneak some in the bin without him ever seeing it yesterday

Some of the rubbish that falls out of subscribed mags.is totally overload!!! Makes me feel like apologising to the postie for subscribing !!!!
A few years back some of our local supermarkets started leaving a collection bin near the newspapers and mags stand and you could shake out all the rubbish into them straight away.....sadly they seemed to have stopped this great service now

 

[Logan]

Roses are worth it. But I will only take cuttings of my existing ones. With the purple scented ones, they were so easy to root that I have been much encouraged. I really think you have had quite a few very beautiful roses,Logan!

Thanks Alp, yours are beautiful and you did well with your cuttings.

 

[alp]

A few years back some of our local supermarkets started leaving a collection bin near the newspapers and mags stand and you could shake out all the rubbish into them straight away.....sadly they seemed to have stopped this great service now

Yes, such a good idea. But I guess businesses having those glossy inserts must be fuming! Everybody is holding his/her purse close, and with business rates going through the roofs, life is hard for a lot of businesses! Not that printing glossy brochures will help. Funny how that hateful estate agent's advert Pur*** B has turned out to be so successful! One way to etch your business names in people's memories, I suppose!

Some of the adverts make me channel surf - cringy, stupid and embarrassing and squealing voice over .. Tagliatelle makes me channel surf .. so is Sally in Hot**.com, Unwatchable Nationwide and Pur*** B top the list ..

 

[alp]

Thanks Alp, yours are beautiful and you did well with your cuttings.

Why don't you do your cuttings and ask neighbours for some cuttings? I have seen such a lot of beautiful flouribunda white roses along the road. I even asked for fig cuttings and got some. Unfortunately, they are very thick, so I am not sure if they will take. I want to ask for walnut tree cuttings next. A lot on my hit list. I always give them my own cuttings in return! I bought two very fragrant ones @£2 each and thought it was a bargain until I saw Paul Scarlet which is cracking climber - I bought it for £1 in the poundshop! So I have to restrain myself. How I wish I had bought the viburnum plicatum shasta - only £2!