Our gardening diaries - from latest toys, flowers to wildlife .. Please upload pics

[alp]

@Upsy Daisy You don't have to say gorgeous pics. I'm not worried about that! ER hmn.. How dare you comment on my beautiful flowers in an after thought! ! Did I sound vicious!? It's meant to be. Haha! No, it seems to be so silly that people feel obliged to say gorgeous pics every time I photo some flowers. Just take a like button. That way, I will soon be as popular as @zigs ! That's the idea!

Yes, I agree that the salad bit was very unexpectedly good as there were now so many different nutrients and minerals working in my system since last night's meal. Such a great variety. We paid nothing towards it and it is some kind of food academy initiative which has been introduced to a less well to do area. It takes an hour to go there on a bus.. When I inhaled and exhaled during the exercise class, the first half hour really frightened me as it was the air from my house.

I will take a bus to the park to inhale and exhale .. no laughing matter. It is very sunny now. You lie-in has obviously deceived you. Now, who's the lazy bone?

 

[alp]

@Logan I will believe it when I see it. I want to confiscate the Met Office £1m bonus!

 

[johnny canoe]

As I sat under my umbrella yesterday evening I snapped a couple pictures. My Apple tree's leaves are coming out, a couple Robins and a Sparrow.

 

[Logan]

Johnny, looking good now.

 

[alp]

As Logan said, Spring has sprung your way, tulips are out, apple tree covered with leaves and birds are out too. That Canadian robin seems to be bigger than ours.

Nice to see some wildlife here.

I have been sieving for 5 and a half hours and I'm off to the park to do some inhaling and exhaling. I hope no violent or vicious dogs there. I am quite scared of them. Some of them are weaponised. Last December, i saw a French bulldog pulling its owner down the road - you wonder who the boss is!

 

[Logan]

Alp, you've done well, Some people shouldn't have dogs. Remember if a dog runs to you, don't run away. Don't look into it's eyes, that's a threat to them. I'd just turn sideways and look at them from the corner of your eyes. If you can turn your back on it.

 

[Logan]

Just had dinner, corned beef hash with sprouts,peas,swede, cabbage and gravy.

 

[Larisa]

Tulips have just begun flowering here.

Someone got into the country house in the winter and made supplies in the shoes. So cute!
I'll leave more shoes for next year.

@alp I'm also afraid of big dogs. There is a law here. They should have a leash and a muzzle. But some owner ignore this.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

OK.......no more mention about lovely pics....I'll just keep quiet and hit the like button

Me..lazy bone !!... I left home at 9:40 , had an hours walk to my Dad's ( on my own). Once there I stripped and changed his bed , did all his laundry, hoovered and dusted from top to bottom .Then did some needlework mending on some items of his clothing. Washed the frames of his lounge windows, ironed all clean laundry and finally washed his hair before setting off for my one hour hike back home ,Arrived back at five in time to help hubs with cooking dinner, then watered all my plants !!.

Change of subject now, my Zinnias don't look very happy, do you think I should take a chance and plant them out and cover them at night with cut off clear plastic bottles ?

 

[Logan]

Daisy if you think that they won't do any better inside, but i would harden them off first. You could still get a frost. I only do the milk carton thing on hardier plants. Like parsnips and kale. You could try with 1 and see how it goes.

 

[Logan]

I think i might have lost my cosmos, they've been in the GH, because i couldn't get out, forgot to open it and dried out, all the leaves are shriveled up, but the stems might be ok.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Thanks for that @Logan , good idea about trying it with one....I'll pick the weakest looking one,
Shame about your Cosmos, but easily done even when mobile, temps rise so quickly in the G/house and before you know plants are frying

 

[Logan]

Yes thanks Daisy. I don't know if I'll be able to plant them out after I've got the plaster off, so i look at it this way, if they don't survive, i won't get upset that i can't plant them. OH said he would do it, but he's going to be busy in June.

 

[alp]

@Larisa Thank you for sharing the lovely flowers and the chestnuts. Spring has finally sprung in Russia. My double tulips couldn't stand on their stems as the flowers were so big. But this year, for some reason, they all stood up proud, probably because I topped up the soil and the bulbs were deeper in the soil and the stems stood firm.

@Upsy Daisy Sorry I should have used BUSYBEE! Sorry such a hard life for you, and you're still nursing yourself after your operation.

@Logan With hot weather like this, everything dies. I'm praying that it will rain tomorrow. Now I smell a pong, like the pig pong from the Netherlands. Such an odious odour!

I was supposed to go to the park to inhale and exhale. Took a bus and the driver never heard of the park. Got off and waited ages for another bus and the driver said the park was on the other side while his bus turned off before the other side. In the end, two stops away, I got off thinking that I could walk to the place. Had a look and realised that separating me and the park was a big lawn. Realising that it was impossible to go there, I tried to get a bus home. Took 30 minutes for the same driver to come around and before that my left leg hurt when I walked. Any way, came home and watched Facing evil.

I now realised that without a car, a person is like a cripple in this country. About 8 buses passed by my houses and yet 4 stops up the road, your better option is to walk rather than waiting for a bus. No wonder people say that my other car is a broom! Without a car, the prospect of getting a bus can be very dim!

 

[alp]

@Larisa A lot of people have dogs and yet not all of them keep them because of companionship, like Logan. They are like badge of status. Quite a lot of them look vicious. When I walked my son to school when he was 6, a dog suddenly rushed out very energetically and my 6 year old was so scared he ran into the street and the dog chased him all the way to the school and I gave chase. Thank heavens that there was a car coming. Normally, some parents drove their kids to school if they live far. The owner, another girl from the school told my son that it was harmless. Harmless or not, to be chased like that was no laughing matter. When my friend and I were walking along the park, a dog just jumped all over us, leaving paw prints all over my winter coats. The owner said, "He just wanted to say hello, by the look of your face, it's like you want to eat him!" How uncalled for was that. That's what they called add insult to injury! I love dogs as long as they are well behaved.