Gardening!

[Richard Brown]

BBC 2 is a feast for gardeners. 1 hour at Hampton Court Flower Show followed by 1 hour of Gardeners World with a visit to Cothay Manor, Somerset

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[55julie55]

Richard,I'm waiting till I can subscribe to BBC iview .it's rumored to be available to overseas clients sometime this year???
I have abc iview which is great.
Except you cannot view when out of the country.
Which makes it pretty useless for me.
I wait with bated breath for the release! 

 

[Hayles66]

Spent a lovely evening on the patio last night. My lupins are flowering again, my lobelia are looking gorgeous. I am surrounded by all my favourite flowers. Hubby has tamed the forest and I can walk down the garden path again! The only drawback is that my roses have black spot again! My gorgeous trailing pink Rose with 50 flowers has dropped all it's leaves and all the roses have gone. Hopefully it will survive again. I must have well over 50 Rose bushes now! Roses and lavender are my top flowers.

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[55julie55]

Have to say I love the self cleaning palms.it's just a quick pick up of the old fronds

 

[Good karma]

My garden is such a mess, it needs plenty of tlc, but i dont feel like doing anything, especially during the weekends

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[Hayles66]

Yup, duvet days are favourite when it's raining!

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[Williebye]

Greenhouse completed

Finally after a very rainy spring we finally got the greenhouse finished. Well this year it will be mostly tomatoes and peppers. When it gets a little cooler I start some lettuce but therese still lots to do in the garden. Who said retirement would be boring.

 

[Hayles66]

Hello Williebye! Long time no hear! Where have you been?

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[Williebye]

Hello Williebye! Long time no hear! Where have you been?

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Well mostly it has been yard work. Now that we are both retired we decided to put thi gs together out there. Hopefully there is just a week or so left of the weeding and filling in. We did goto Ottawa and St. Catherines to visit first my son and then my brother. All of my plants in the greenhouse this year are transplants but next year we will be able to start things from seed.

I have returned to my work on a casual basis and will do one or two days a week when needed.
Here are a few more pics of the rest of the garden.

Williebye

 

[Richard Brown]

I love your garden Williebye. As you say, gardening can certainly keep us busy even in retirement.

My next big job is to reconstruct the rockery. I'll be replacing the salvaged bricks with a mixture of rocks and brick, along with the odd large pot adapted to form part of the rockery.

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[Williebye]

I love your garden Williebye. As you say, gardening can certainly keep us busy even in retirement.

My next big job is to reconstruct the rockery. I'll be replacing the salvaged bricks with a mixture of rocks and brick, along with the odd large pot adapted to form part of the rockery.

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Thank you Richard, and I guess retirement allows us to take a day off whenever we like and I like the occasional rain day. That was yesterday when I took the pictures.

I'm can't say I know what a rockery is. You'll have to include a picture. the base of the greenhouse was made with paver stones that I picked up on Kijiji for just $110. there were leftovers as well and there scattered throughout the garden as well.

 

[Richard Brown]

Thank you Richard, and I guess retirement allows us to take a day off whenever we like and I like the occasional rain day. That was yesterday when I took the pictures.

I'm can't say I know what a rockery is. You'll have to include a picture. the base of the greenhouse was made with paver stones that I picked up on Kijiji for just $110. there were leftovers as well and there scattered throughout the garden as well.

A rockery is formed from terraces of boulders, stones etc down a steep slope. Pockets of soil amongst the rocks and boulders take plants. Lava or similar perforated stone is sometimes used so plants can take root in the stone

Some pics of our modest slope and a small rockery around a copper beech are attached.

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[55julie55]

Have been doing a very small extension to the back deck or the guest house.
The garden had been looking so nice in the surrounding area.
Now 3 weeks on it looks like a cyclone has gone through.
Boys must finish tonight.new guests coming in on Monday.
Cannot wait to wash everything down and sort out the poor garden
The ginger plants look like a flattened corn field
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[Hayles66]

Watering! Watering! Watering! Boring! Boring! Boring!

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[Richard Brown]

Watering! Watering! Watering! Boring! Boring! Boring!

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It'll be raining over the next 5 days

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