5 Gardening Dairy: Happy gardening and happy snapping ..

[johnny canoe]

NO, not like that! I'll wear a loin cloth, I'm a Baptist for crying out loud!

 

[alp]

My mum went to a Baptist church and she asked me if I wanted to be baptised. I said no. Thank heavens as I am a total sinner!

Been watering all the houseplants. Nightmare! The amaryllis have long and straggly leaves. I don't even know how to look after them.

 

[alp]

The 16 'edible' flowers that may be deadly: Scientists name the plants used as cake decorations and added to salads that have been linked to heart disease and even cancer

• Found 16 out of 23 flowers commonly used in Nordic cuisine can be dangerous
• Yarrow is often made into a tea but contains the same compound as absinthe
• Viper's bugloss is used as a cake decoration but has been linked to liver damage

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Don't think anybody eats a lot of these flowers!

 

[alp]

It's going to be a cloudy day

Yesterday, son cleaned out the lean to as the rats had been fouling the whole room. They chewed up quite a bit of rubbish bags. Now the place smells nicer but looks like a bomb site.

 

[johnny canoe]

I had no idea about the dangers of those plants. Having had a large herd of cattle, dad and I were always on the look out for poison hemlocks throughout our pastures. I never found any growing but the department of agriculture was always telling us to look for it every spring and summer.

 

[alp]

the department of agriculture was always telling us to look for it every spring and summer.

Glad that someone was taking his job seriously. Think it's incumbent on Department to alert people. We used to have one cow and my dad would walk behind the beast to turn over the soil. We had caged hens and the eggs would roll into the trough for picking. We also had pigs. We had an acre of land and we always had wells on the two farms. Saw my brother and dad build the well. Quite scarely.

 

[alp]

Good morning to a very dull day.

Very dull, but should be warmish!

Christmas Cacti is flowering now - a real bonus. Will take a picture later. Divided a clump of Stipa Gigantea into 8 different plants yesterday. I'm worried about how to overwinter my Thalictrum and wonder if @Zenj can help.

Verbena Bonariensis is still going strong. Some of my tiny Cornus plants have died. and it's not even winter.

 

[alp]

Amazing how how very light weight plants can hold up this cute Squirrel

A lot of stunning photos here!

Bears where they should be!

 

[alp]

Around 'half a billion plastic plant pots go in the bin' because nine in ten councils refuse to recycle them, survey finds

• Millions of plastic plant pots in Britain are sent to landfill every year, study shows
• Local councils refuse to recycle cheap plastic plant pots that are thrown away
• The average British gardener has 39 plastic pots cluttering their shed at home
  
  Source

There is now an initiative to use taupe coloured pots to circumvent this problem of black pots not being able to be picked up by the recycling system.

Please don't give us single=use filmsy pots. One tiny squeeze and the pot splits!

 

[Zenj]

Good morning all very damp and miserable day @alp both my thalitrums survived last years very cold winter just mulch them .

 

[alp]

Yes, very miserable here as well, @Zenj ! Fair spits in the air and no sight of sunshine! I will do that. I am a bit worried as mine is in a pot. Yesterday, I split my Stipa and the root ball looked healthy. A bit scared as I love those 2 plants so much! I always end up killing the plants in pots.

Thank you. I will do that. The birds emptied 3 inches of suet pellets within an hour and they were not tits but Starlings!

 

[Zenj]

Starlings you don’t see them for a while than come in droves they cleared 4 fatballs within a couple of hours here ,not seen the goldfinches for a while the larger birds are here at the mo jackdaws crows and magpies so nothing is lasting long and about 8 feral pigeons come regular .

 

[roadrunner]

Around 'half a billion plastic plant pots go in the bin' because nine in ten councils refuse to recycle them, survey finds

• Millions of plastic plant pots in Britain are sent to landfill every year, study shows
• Local councils refuse to recycle cheap plastic plant pots that are thrown away
• The average British gardener has 39 plastic pots cluttering their shed at home
  
  Source

There is now an initiative to use taupe coloured pots to circumvent this problem of black pots not being able to be picked up by the recycling system.

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Please don't give us single=use filmsy pots. One tiny squeeze and the pot splits!

They've been telling us for years how easy they have made it for us to recycle, by reducing the number of bins for recycling, making it "user" friendly. However, now we keep hearing that we can't throw this or that in the bins

Here in Florida we now only have one bin for all recyclables, because supposedly the sorting machines are that good...I'd rather have more bins...

As of today I take a lot of various types of plastics and metals to other recycling facilities, because come to find out the municipal recycling facility can't handle but only a few types of these materials and I'm learning all the time that I'm doing this or that wrong

False advertisement.

 

[alp]

Starlings you don’t see them for a while than come in droves they cleared 4 fatballs within a couple of hours here ,not seen the goldfinches for a while the larger birds are here at the mo jackdaws crows and magpies so nothing is lasting long and about 8 feral pigeons come regular .

Been out since 11am and trim all the hellebore leaves. I don't really care about the consequences of whether they will flower or not. I just need the place to look neat for viewing on Sunday, not confirmed though.

Yes, the day it turned really warm, it was huge din in the back gardens and neighbours remarked how noisy the birds were. I have now determined that I will only refill the feeders once every fortnight. But yesterday, the huge bag of worms had to be dispensed with generously as the box holding them was too small! That's a clever trick to get you to buy. 5kg bag of dried worms. I hope I have done my bit.

 

[alp]

They've been telling us for years how easy they have made it for us to recycle, by reducing the number of bins for recycling, making it "user" friendly. However, now we keep hearing that we can't throw this or that in the bins

Here in Florida we now only have one bin for all recyclables, because supposedly the sorting machines are that good...I'd rather have more bins...

As of today I take a lot of various types of plastics and metals to other recycling facilities, because come to find out the municipal recycling facility can't handle but only a few types of these materials and I'm learning all the time that I'm doing this or that wrong

False advertisement.

It's true. Somebody even got fined for overfilling bins. ! In the end, the effort went to waste as the rubbish went to China which has now banned taking our plastic rubbish. Can you blame them. The crux is not to overpackage. But if items got damaged, people complained and that's why Amazon sellers packaged a belt with 2 meters of brown paper! LOL!

When you have more bins, the whole city looks like a ghetto! So much worse here as we are very built up in the UK