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[Verdun]

Good morning everyone
Wet here this morning.........wet week to come. And strong winds so concerned about my delphiniums and lupins (they are big and lush right now)

 

[alp]

Yes, @Verdun my delphiniums are gorgeous. No neon blue one this year, My terrible mistake. Mine is compact and dwarf... so pleased with them. I'm worried about the wind as well. Keep our fingers crossed.

it's now sunny and glorious and rain is predicted at 4 .. Please rain..

 

[Logan]

Mr. Fothergills have got a seed sale, £1.00 a packet on selected seeds. Order for next year.
Got the house to myself in the mornings,all this week.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Good morning everyone, grey and very breezy here, but the sun is trying it's hardest to peep out every now and then between the clouds
The rain will be here soon by the look of things.....think I'll have a walk round the garden and enjoy the way it's looking one last time before it all gets battered down by the rain........that's life.....

Isn't it strange how ' having the house to yourself 'is so enjoyable and deemed something to look forward too......I had one and a half hours to myself on Saturday and for some strange reason thoroughly enjoyed it!!

Enjoy Monsoon Monday everyone ......better hunt for the wellies now!.

 

[Logan]

@Upsy Daisy, yes it is. I like the quiet.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

So do I ! Have fun ordering all your seeds for next year, sounds like there will be some great bargains

 

[Logan]

@Upsy Daisy yes thanks.

 

[alp]

You 2 better tell me what to order. It seems I have more seeds than what I know to do with them. Saw some rhubarbs reduced, but worried that there is no room.

Use my panny to take the followings:

More details for my trollius

Some of my own foxgloves self seeded itself

Quaking grass

 

[Upsy Daisy]

I've got loads too....the seed pkts seem to. be breeding!

Our rain has arrived....just as we have decided to go into town to IKea...not sure if we will now, see what I feel like after lunch.​

 

[Logan]

@alp your getting better taking those trollius.
What is that last one?

 

[alp]

Ikea is nice to look at and get ideas, but the quality is not that good, @Upsy Daisy. Rain is predicted here at 4 so I will go out and tidy up another weed, hopefully plant out all that I have bought and water some very dry bits around the helleborus.

@Logan Someone did tell me and I keep forgetting it. It could be dianthus - or a campanula .. I keep forgetting its name. It's a perennial and not invasive at all and the colour changes to purplish where the green bits are.. I quite like them.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

We go for coffee and cake.....yum!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

My Hellebores and Snakes Head Fritillaries are shedding their seeds now, so have been busy harvesting and sowing them........takes years to reach flowering maturity, but I have patience.....a titchy bit!

 

[johnny canoe]

Found some red cedar bark on sale had to stock up and refresh the front and side of my house with it. What a difference. Begonias are starting to bloom,sorry about my dirty paws.

 

[Logan]

@johnny canoe lovely begonias, so big.