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Post by Barbara on Oct 26, 2007 14:54:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2007 17:01:08 GMT
Checked on my Sweet Peas - nothing doing yet. Shoo'd off a horible looking cat who thought the border was a loo  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2007 13:01:06 GMT
Well, OH's small son (a budding gardener) is on a visit ;D, and he brought me Penstemon 'Sour Grapes'. So we planted it, which took quite some time - he decided where it should go, dug the hole, added compost, added seaweed fertiliser, planted the Penstemon, and then firmed the ground etc. Beautiful colour - I can't wait for it to flower next year, and I'm looking forward to taking lots of cuttings in the spring ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by isabella on Oct 27, 2007 15:19:06 GMT
I have been having a 'sort out' in the greenhouse! Cutting back the cuttings and taking more!
Picking over all the plants that will be in the greenhouse for the Winter and generally having a good tidy up ;D
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Post by Yakram on Oct 27, 2007 15:25:08 GMT
Doing battle with an ornamental blackberry which I train over an arch; taking out the old canes and tying in the new. It is supposed to be thornless but has reverted to one of its parents. Also had a go at the three grapevines. The proper grapevine actually produced bunches of grapes this year, instead of currants - must be all the rain! The two ornamental ones have been severely pruned and retrained into some sort of order.
That's more than enough for this weekend; we're off on a coach trip for a mystery tour on Sunday - wonder where to. I'm hoping it will be somewhere like Harlow Carr, where there is a Betty's Tea Room. ;D
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Post by isabella on Oct 27, 2007 15:35:31 GMT
Cakes ;D ;D ;D
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Post by andy on Oct 27, 2007 16:31:46 GMT
Did nothing in the garden today but i've been to loads of garden centres and i bought two gorgeous hedychiums (gingers)
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Post by Shrubrose on Oct 27, 2007 17:56:49 GMT
Nowt!  |
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Post by Chuckles on Oct 27, 2007 18:26:20 GMT
Same as Shrub NOWT need to get @ss into gear  |
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Post by Tig on Oct 27, 2007 18:33:30 GMT
Cleared away the last of my marigolds and nasturtiums and planted my tulips and a few more alliums (first lot of alliums I planted a couple of weeks ago have 3" of leaf showing  ). Pruned an overgrown potentilla, and a few other shrubs had a light haircut (once I get going with the secateurs it is hard to stop!! ;D) |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2007 20:39:12 GMT
i have done nothing.
i need to go on poop patrol before i can start and that some what puts me off.!!!!!
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Post by Tig on Oct 28, 2007 8:07:04 GMT
Howling gale and lashings of rain here this morning - just had to go and strengthen the supports on my purple sprouting broccoli which had blown over  - hope it will be OK! |
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Post by Weeterrier on Oct 28, 2007 8:26:09 GMT
Gales here too. But that means heaps of lovely fallen leaves to sate my appetite for them at the moment ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2007 10:29:36 GMT
windy here in the south too.
and very dark and grey.
feels like early evening.
xxxxx
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Post by Ladygardener on Oct 28, 2007 13:41:59 GMT
wet, windy cold and grey here today, picked some more tomatoes and that's about it.
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Post by Barbara on Oct 28, 2007 15:54:04 GMT
blue skies and sunshine here
it was a gale lashed start to the day, but got better by the hour,
so i cut down the dahlias in pots put the compost and leaves into the compost bin,
and cut down loads more iris, thats in the bin as well. can't believe the worms in there,
i've emptied my hanging baskets, and planted my tulips in pots,
knackered now but ;D ;D ;D
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Post by jean on Oct 28, 2007 20:28:07 GMT
Miserable day here as well, so I dashed out to the PT to pick some toms and dashed back and that was it for the day But I did spend an hour or so with the new Suttons catalogue  |
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Post by Dutchy on Nov 1, 2007 16:09:43 GMT
A quick nip in the garden today. I cut back the vine and topped a rose that grew stems over 2.5 m . I'll do the real tough cutting back in February/March but this way the winter wind does not rock it of its socks. |
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Post by Barbara on Nov 1, 2007 19:21:54 GMT
my sister visited me today, and went home with loads of plants, and bulbs, i showed her my compost bin and she is impressed, she going to start one now, i gave her acidenthra, astilbe, aquilega, she says she'll come back next week for stuff beginning with B ;D ;D ;D she's a cheeky *** |
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Post by Ladygardener on Nov 1, 2007 19:24:41 GMT
I've hardly been able to see my garden at all since I'm back at work, coming home in the dark every day. Roll on the weekend. |
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Post by jean on Nov 1, 2007 21:44:58 GMT
I know exactly how you feel LNG, I drew the short straw this week and haven't left work till past 6pm and its pitch black by then Weekend weather doesn't look to bad, OH working so hoping for a day on the plot and the other in the garden. I did take some pics this morning as I have still got patches of colour, can't believe it November already  |
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Post by Missredhead on Nov 1, 2007 21:48:00 GMT
Miserable day here as well, so I dashed out to the PT to pick some toms and dashed back and that was it for the day But I did spend an hour or so with the new Suttons catalogue I'm intrigued, what is the PT? I know I can be a bit thick at times.....well most of the time really ;D |
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Post by snowowl on Nov 1, 2007 22:14:45 GMT
Im guessing PT is a poly tunnel MRH.  |
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Post by Missredhead on Nov 1, 2007 22:35:49 GMT
oh I see, thanks SO told you I was thick |
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Post by jean on Nov 1, 2007 23:06:52 GMT
Im guessing PT is a poly tunnel MRH. Sorry MRH - PT is a Poly Tunnel same as GH is a Greenhouse and GC is a Garden centre. We do tend to use abbreviations quite a lot here so anyone shout if you don't know what we are on about |
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Post by Missredhead on Nov 2, 2007 14:28:41 GMT
I knew what GH and GC were it's just I couldn't think what a PT was, you wouldn't believe some of the things I came up with...some a bit too rude to say ;D
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Post by thecleaninglady on Nov 2, 2007 19:26:42 GMT
Well gardening is going to be out for longer than I hoped as I have to have another op next Tuesday However, My friend and I are doing a plant sale tomorrow for the local Stroke Club - got some wallflowers and winter pansies that we have grown along with some other bits and pieces. So although I can't do anything in my garden, I will at least be close to plants!! Bliss |
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Post by Tig on Nov 2, 2007 19:45:13 GMT
Hope you make a few bob at the plant sale tcl - and I will think of you next Tuesday, sorry to hear you are having problems. I have been pruning again - removed green growth shoots from a variagated elaeagnus - lopped the apple tree a bit - oh and I sprayed the purple sprouting broc with a light dose of soapy water to remove the grey aphids |
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Post by Ladygardener on Nov 2, 2007 21:26:38 GMT
hope all goes well for you thecleaninglad ygood luck with the plant sale. I did hear the weather will be fine at the weekend I hope to plant my tulips |
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Post by thecleaninglady on Nov 2, 2007 22:32:36 GMT
Thanks Tig and LNG
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- hope it will be OK!
