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Our gardening diaries - from latest toys, flowers to wildlife .. Please upload pics
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Amazing flowers and veg as always @alp...very commendable.
Well I finished the first of the bedroom furniture makovers yesterday evening but was too tired to post...So here we have a small set of 5 drawers given the BigC treatment..more shabby than chic I reckon
Gone is most of that tired pine look and button knobs to be replaced with a more fresh grey painted face-lift with antique brass pull handles...I quite like the feel of it...with a few more sets to do of varying sizes, a bookcase and a large wardrobe, not to mention the curtain pole have I bitten off more than I can chew....and yes that's still the dreaded wallpaper in the mid-ground @Logan...its a definitive feature or so I'm led to believe....This is gonna take some time to complete.....Yesterday I also thinned out the greenhouse of all the remaining lettuce and defoliated some more of the tomato plant leaves.....the Chilli plants are still doing well.....
Well I finished the first of the bedroom furniture makovers yesterday evening but was too tired to post...So here we have a small set of 5 drawers given the BigC treatment..more shabby than chic I reckon
Gone is most of that tired pine look and button knobs to be replaced with a more fresh grey painted face-lift with antique brass pull handles...I quite like the feel of it...with a few more sets to do of varying sizes, a bookcase and a large wardrobe, not to mention the curtain pole have I bitten off more than I can chew....and yes that's still the dreaded wallpaper in the mid-ground @Logan...its a definitive feature or so I'm led to believe
....This is gonna take some time to complete.....Yesterday I also thinned out the greenhouse of all the remaining lettuce and defoliated some more of the tomato plant leaves.....the Chilli plants are still doing well.....
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@DeborahJane they all look good. The name will come to you when you're not trying.
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View attachment 26537 Verdon Banburgh Beach here in Northumberland takes the beach prize
How beautiful! I'm with you on this one, @zenji
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@zenji Love the ants and I hope your grandkids were with you during the visit. A good induction to wildlife and gardening. Love the way your captured the bee with your beautiful pink flowers.
Lovely camellias, @DeborahJane
@BigC I have the same pine chest of drawers. I wish I could do the same. What a dramatic upgrade!
Lovely camellias, @DeborahJane
@BigC I have the same pine chest of drawers. I wish I could do the same. What a dramatic upgrade!
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I have used two cameras again and I have tried to capture the stigma and anther of my two hibiscuses
I failed to capture the sheen on the top of the stigma. You have to be here to appreciate it.
My double osteospermum is very happy here it is.
so is this rudbeckia
Would you believe it? My cobea scanden has to open today, the hottest day of the year. There is only ONE flower. I was very disappointed to see the white flower, but slowly and surely, it has turned a bit purple.
I failed to capture the sheen on the top of the stigma. You have to be here to appreciate it.
My double osteospermum is very happy here it is.
so is this rudbeckia
Would you believe it? My cobea scanden has to open today, the hottest day of the year. There is only ONE flower. I was very disappointed to see the white flower, but slowly and surely, it has turned a bit purple.
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Not often do I get excited about an up comming project (hahaha now there's a joke) but I have been toying with the idea of a waterfall for the pond for some time now...anything I've seen was too expensive either to buy or to make until now..
I need a large rhubarb leaf well 3 to be exact
Woo hoo I'm gonna enjoy this one
I need a large rhubarb leaf well 3 to be exact
Woo hoo I'm gonna enjoy this one
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You will have to seal in the old first by painting it with http://www.screwfix.com/p/zinsser-bulls-eye-1-2-3-primer-sealer-2-5ltr/10136
Then paint it whatever colour you like when dry...(an ordinary matt emulsion grey works well when keeping the pine top intact use a small fine roller) apply a coat of acrylic varnish and add your new handles and bobs your uncle...
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Not often do I get excited about an up comming project (hahaha now there's a joke) but I have been toying with the idea of a waterfall for the pond for some time now...anything I've seen was too expensive either to buy or to make until now..
I need a large rhubarb leaf well 3 to be exact
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Woo hoo I'm gonna enjoy this one
Brilliant - I bet your mind is working when you're in bed! Hahahaha!
Very nice artwork, @BigC