3: Gardening Diaries ...

[CanadianLori]

My greenhouse is no where near as pristine as yours @CanadianLori .....how do you do it? The half with all my stored plants/ cuttings isn't toooooooo bad , but the other side is a disaster zone I'm embarrassed to admit

That was a glamour shot... some days there's standing by the door room only

 

[Logan]

Morning all

 

[alp]

Alp, "kits" is short for kittens. I should have taken the extra effort to spell out the full word.
Cougars are a large felid of the subfamily Felinae that are also known as puma, mountain lion, catamount or panther. They range from Canada to South America, and have the largest range of any large mammal in the Americas.
One does not want to encounter a cougar, nor try to make a pet of it!

Why didn't ever think of that? Quite logical! Thank for the linguistic enrichment!
So they are puma. So good that you explained it, mar!

Good morning - very mild and no rain. Hopefully, I can finish the back and sow seeds for aubretias and a fragrant phlox.

 

[alp]

That was a glamour shot... some days there's standing by the door room only

I need to work a whole week to achieve this GLAMOUR shot!

Anybody ventures a name for this beauty

Corr! This website is so clever. I did a screen grab and pasted and got it on in FULL GLORY!

Well done to the unsung heroes designing this forum!

I have sown the seeds for the electric blue one.

 

[alp]

It could be SALVIA PRATENSIS 'INDIGO'

Oooops! Another thing to buy!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning , how is everyone today?

I'm sadly still suffering from this bout of backache, had it for the past 4 days hopefully it will gradually ease up.

Plan on a general greenhouse day and sow a few more seeds...( may even get to have a tidy up in there too, as I feel shamed by @CanadianLori !!! )

Apart from Thursday night the nightly temperature is set to be above minus for the next fortnight ...so let's get sowing

Terrific Tuesday to one and all

 

[Upsy Daisy]

That is a stunning colour @alp.....!

 

[alp]

Upsy: That's a shame. The only time I forgot the pain was when I was working in the garden. Hopefully, when you're sowing your seeds, the distraction and expectation may take your mind off it. Yesterday, I did another swivelling in the garden. Very dangerous.

Time to visit NT in June .. LOL! Can't wait.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

I'm sure it will @alp

If it stays OK then we hope to restart NT visits next week....can't wait!

 

[Logan]

Repotted the cucumbers

Some snapdragon seedlings

Erigeron

3 different salad leaves
One on the left is kale, the one next to it is black russian kale and the front is rocket.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Looking good @Logan

 

[Mark56]

Oh wow Alp, I didn't know they did a Patens in that colour. I've seen the paler baby blue one before

 

[Logan]

Looking good @Logan

Thanks upsy, i hope your back gets better.

 

[alp]

Mark56: I really like salvias with this shape and I like the electric blue very blue. Hopefully, mine will come out the same. This pale mauve colour is quite pretty as well, but I have never seen it in real life.

Looking at Logan's seedlings, I want to find a hole to hide, I am sooo rubbish! Can't even show my salvia seedlings to Mark as mine is like a sick joke! LOL!

Next week for NT, that's a bit early. I might still need my duvet to go with me.

Been out washing pots and salvage my strawberry plants. They were black and dying. I had a look at the centre of the plants and was surprised that they were still some life.

Planted the 3 double hellebores. I keep looking at the hellebores and the minute differences are driving me insane. And there are some very horrible wishy washy breeders' choice! How sarcastic! And I am forever the sucker!

I noticed an apricot colour inside a galanthus bud. I waited and waited and the thing just refused to open. I thought it was a disease, so I forced open the bud. I could be a disease.

If it's not, I could be in for a lot of money! LOL!

 

[alp]

Been out washing pots and looking at casualties. Sunshine has been shy and there was even a bit of drizzle.