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Maryanna

Maryanna Report 26 Apr 2014 17:05

Our local Homebase is selling all it's Summer Bedding plants at half price.

Trays of 6 Geranium, Petunia, Lobelia, Begonia,Salvia,Marigolds, etc, etc, etc. all for £1.75 and £2.50.

Don't know if that is all branches but it might be worth a look if you get a chance.

M. :-D :-D

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 25 Apr 2014 13:59

Trouble is Maryanna it is not just the plants that grow, the weeds love the rain then sun routine. At least being away for the weekend looking after grandchildren we can't be looking to get out in the garden. Just as well if the weather in Gloucester is as bad as it was travelling here. It was atrocious, rain lashing down, roads half flooded and windscreen wipers that developed a squeak. :-D

Maryanna

Maryanna Report 24 Apr 2014 22:36

My surprise Tulips are out, which is nice as all the others are over.

They are a lovely golden yellow colour and as they come out have a very thin red vein inside them like a stripe. Seven of the ten have flowered the others just have leaves. Not bad for a penny each, I think they were either from Loseley House near Guildford or The Vine near Basingstoke.

The garden has been growing as I watch the last few days and had recovered well from the fence erection.

My Cherry is over, Ann but my Lilac is in full flower as are all the others nearby. The Sweet Chestnuts are all covered in Candles as well, very early.

Will see what is happening here in Somerset in the morning as it was dark when we got back earlier. I put in lots of seeds before we left on Maundy Thursday, I wonder if there is any sign of them yet ?

M.

SuffolkVera

SuffolkVera Report 24 Apr 2014 19:44

Yes Ann the hostas are getting quite big now, as are the lilies and 3 pots of agapanthus. We also have a Tom West fuchsia, some grasses, a peach and a couple of blueberries in large pots.

We weren't going to bring so much with us because it was adding to the removal cost. It meant we had to have a third van and another driver, but I am glad now that we did.

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 24 Apr 2014 17:08

Sounds very pretty Vera and I am so pleased that you are getting to 'love your garden' again. I expect your hostas are coming up in their tubs now too. :-)

SuffolkVera

SuffolkVera Report 24 Apr 2014 16:03

Thanks Lesley. I am going out to inspect my lilies now. I have them in two big wooden tubs. At least the lily beetle is easy to see.

I am feeling very pleased with the corner bed in our garden. When we moved in at the end of September it was just bare earth containing a lot of weeds and two small dead shrubs. We stuck in one of the witch hazels that we had brought with us but I wanted to underplant it to make it look better and keep down the weeds. I put in a load of Geranium "Ingwersons Variety" which has a small pale pink flower and two sorts of Heuchera "Binoche" and "Sugar Frosting". These are all now coming into bloom and the triangle of space that was left I covered in purple and white viola.

I thought it might be too shady in that corner but everything has taken off and spread, all the bare earth is covered and, when the sun was shining on it just now, it really looked great.

I was quite depressed about the garden when we first moved here but the difference a few months has made is unbelievable. I am now a happy bunny :-D

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 24 Apr 2014 15:43

Thankfully I don't have any but a timely warning Lesley thanks. Not seen you around for a while are you OK? :-)

Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend

Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend Report 24 Apr 2014 14:24

For those with lilies...I have just seen the first red lily beetles of 2014 grrrrr

Lesley x

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 23 Apr 2014 16:31

Flowering cherry trees are very pretty when planted in a place that doesn't inconvenience others. The bungalow at the end of our garden has one such tree. it is right against the boundary fence. (Also theirs). When there was some variagated ivy growing up the fence from our side, planted by their previous owner, she was cutting it off and throwing it back over to our garden.

The cherry tree drops its leaves all over our garden in autumn and now, in spring, it has dropped loads of its blossom all over our garden as well. The blossom is horrible because it sticks to the leaves of the hostas, has covered and stuck to the garden furniture, is all over the new patio and has covered the water feature and the slate beds. It is practiacally impossible to clear up so we have to wait for it to rot away. And this happens every year. It is so disheartening. So pleased I took the photos before it dropped the blossom. :-(

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 23 Apr 2014 09:23

Off out this morning to buy some more slate or gravel for one of the areas and some 'stepping' stones for the path through the lawn.

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 21 Apr 2014 16:00

More of my garden photos on the photo blog including the mirror. :-D

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 20 Apr 2014 12:02

Phew glad I got that sorted. :-D

Maryanna

Maryanna Report 20 Apr 2014 11:55

Yes Ann we came back for the weekend, even though we have now been abandoned by the boys who also all came home but have gone off doing other things like kayaking and snow boarding. ( no, the weather isn't that bad, they went to the snow dome, I think )

Just as well as we had two parties to fit in as well. Big family lunch tomorrow though then they will all be here before going off on their various ways.

Then I am back to work and we will head back home to Somerset on Thursday.

Our daughter is thinking of moving out. They have almost got enough for a deposit on their own house. They will stay around here as they both work nearby.

We will then have to have a rethink about what we are going to have to do house wise. Before they moved in about five years ago, this was our main house as we were both working here.

Oh well, I think their moving out will be a way off yet, they don't even have any furniture so have to consider that as well. My daughter being very fussy wont have any of our old rubbish or cast offs !!

M.


Edit. Will give the ant thing a go. We noticed some on the front path just as we were leaving on Thursday, I hope they haven't invaded by the time we get back home.

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 20 Apr 2014 11:42

You may have seen this tip on Ann Cardiff's thread on the general board. With her permission:

ANTS and how to get rid of them

sprinkle some cinnamon - they hate it and they'll clear off somewhere else

it really works - give it a try
And the following site backs it up:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2310653_get-rid-ants-cinnamon.html
:-) :-) :-)

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 20 Apr 2014 11:36

Now, let's see if I have this right. Surrey? Maryanna???
You are lucky to be surrounded by friends you have known a long time. We moved around with OH's job finally retiring here so I have no long term friends living in the immediate area and only a couple of friends at all really as when we moved here there were no children via whom to make friends and although I worked, it was for the military and most work colleagues were either military or military wives who have now moved on.

Luckily I don't mind my own company, just sometimes it would be good to have a female friend to chat to.

Maryanna

Maryanna Report 20 Apr 2014 11:24

Woke up this morning feeling a bit delicate, it was after 2 am when we got to bed. We had a lovely time there lots of friends and neighbours. We don't get to see so much of everyone these days now we lead a double life.

When we were younger we were all involved with the school and had children around the same age, there was always someone's birthday to celebrate and coffee mornings and toddler groups.

Some families have moved away but there are still quite a few still about, some we went to school with ourselves and see regularly.

Off to a 70 th birthday party later.

I was looking forward to coffee on the top patio overlooking my newly restored garden this morning. No chance of that in the rain, typical.

I keep trying to forget the patio still needs to be sorted out if we are not to have a repeat performance of the rising water if we have heavy rain again.

At least the dog is contained again, he has spent most of the morning trying to find a gap to get through. I won't be pleased if he manages to find one !

M.

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Apr 2014 17:56

Maryanna you are such a party animal!!!! Enjoy yourself. :-D

Maryanna

Maryanna Report 19 Apr 2014 17:40

A good day for bargains then Ann.

We have a Range nearby, it doesn't have a coffee shop though. It is very good for, Christmas decorations, curtains, cushions, kitchen stuff and garden bits. Keep your eyes peeled they often have some good reductions on plants. Mainly because they don't seem to look after them very well. I got most of my pot and tub bits in there last year. I think 24 lobelias were around £ 1.25 because a couple if them had dried up.

The fence is back up, I never thought it would be done in a day. It looks so much better, I had forgotten what the garden looked like before the gales.

Watching himself and Mally holding the panels right up over their heads to get them in the slots gave me a few heart stopping moments, I would never have managed that without ending up with them on my head.

I looked through some old photos earlier and the plants are at the same sort of stage that they were at around May 24th last year.

This time last year the Phlox for instance were just poking through, they are a good 18 inches high today. There are no spaces at all between plants so I don't have the excuse that I have some holes to fill !!!!

I pulled out loads of Celandines as well, they were getting everywhere. They start off looking pretty and giving the garden some colour and before you know it you just have a yellow garden.

Glad you got your mirror, I need to find somewhere to put mine now.

Next door is just horrible, he had got three nasty little boys as well, they are at the school I work at. They bully each other and other children and then cry if they get told off. They are always trying to get one another into trouble. We would gladly have given him the work if he had been more pleasant. Even asked him if he could source some panels maybe, but he isn't worth the breath. Luckily he was out this afternoon.

Have a good evening, we are off to another party later.

M

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 19 Apr 2014 13:06

What a horrible neighbour you have. If he is a fencing contractor and had been more pleasant he might have earnt a bit of money from you I assume. But to complain when you go on his land to put up a fence which benefits him is nasty. Mind you our next door neighbours have a problem with their other neighbour like that as well.

We went to a garden centre yesterday and there, hanging on a wall under cover was a garden mirror. It was £29.99 and just what we wanted. Shall take a photo later. It is now in position and looks good. they only had one, we think it was old stock because it was cheaper than any we have seen on line that we liked. We only went to that garden centre because son in law was feeling groggy having his two days 'off colour' from his last dose of chemo. Must have been meant for us.

We have a large new Range store opened near us, it was the second time we have been this morning, they have a coffee shop but their coffee wasn't nice which was a disappointment but can't win them all. It was just as crowded as it was on openeing day and the huge car park was heaving as well as there is a B&M store there too. Anyway we got some small log roll as ours round the gravel is a bit past it and that came up as only £2.99, l;abel outside said £3.99 so with four rolls that was four pounds cheaper. Also bought a £2.99 loganberry to experiment with and a French lavender for where we have extended one flower bed. £4.99. So it was a good morning. then stopped at our local Tesco Metro and made for the reduced shelf, lots on there because they are closed tomorrow of course so got some little pork pies, coleslaw, cheese, humous, all with tomorrows date on so well pleased.

This afternoon I shall be planting seeds in troughs, spinach, lettuce and baby carrots.

Maryanna

Maryanna Report 19 Apr 2014 11:49

Update, they have put eight panels up already !!!! Luckily we have concrete posts, which are sometimes a blessing although they were put in thirty years ago and apparently the fence panel size has changed since then and sometimes they are a bit tight.

Not too much plant damage apart from some self seeded Aqualegias which I have picked and put in a vase with some Tulips.

The other side won't be quite so easy as a lot of it is at the end of The Thugs garden and he will create merry hell if we dare to put a foot on his land,, even if that bit of his garden is just Dog poo bin, compost heaps , old toys, blackthorns and general rubbish tip.

There is also a broken post which will take some getting out. It would all be far too much to hope he might actually help, even though, for the second time in two years he is getting a new fence for free. He is a fencing contractor as well !!!!!!!!!

Men are having a very we'll earned cup of tea and psyching themselves up to do the next nine panels.

M.