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  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Community Member Posts: 2,645 Trailblazing

    Beautiful flowers @michael57

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,073 Championing
    edited April 22

    @michael57 … beautiful colours on the Aqueligia

    I've only got self seeded ones in my garden, the purples and wish they'd last longer, such a pretty flower

    The white dianthus is nice too … not a lover of pink 'pinks' or pink flowers in general … except saxifraga. Love the daintiness of them

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    One has to let the boss have a few plants she likes and they do smell lovely

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,890 Championing

    Too cold atm to plant out my petunia plug plants and dahlia tuber

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    Pretty warm down south fair few of our dahlias have woken up and are shooting I don't take ours in tho so ours are a bit harder hanging baskets all up

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Community Member Posts: 3,890 Championing

    Bitter cold here

    Been 9 degrees all week

    I will put them out soon

    Only spring flowers open

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    Best not tell you what it is in our garden then double yours and some

  • SoapySoutar
    SoapySoutar Community Member Posts: 560 Empowering

    Was very cold this evening on my dog walk, a thick haar 'Sea fog' brought early darkness. I might have thought it was still February, but for the mating calls of the pheasant roosters. They strut about like they own the place, but soon realise my dog does!

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,073 Championing

    Has been just into the 20's here today … flipping chilly tonight though.

    Potentially still a risk of frost here for another 3 weeks. Taken a gamble and put a few Felicia, Brachycombe and Nonstop begonias into pots and planted a bamboo (non invasive). The more tender plants I'll let harden off in their pots a bit more

    Also planted up a box plant and a dwarf cypress

    @SoapySoutar the pheasants around here think they're kamikazee pilots, or they just love to see me ducking behind the steering wheel 🙇‍♂️

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    hot enough down here to have to water a few plants sunburn weather

  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,201 Championing

    I did that yesterday @michael57 as lack of rain, not that I'm complaining

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing
  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Community Member Posts: 1,073 Championing

    Dreading it. Already finding it draining not being able to regulate my body temperature.

    Either my body is dripping with 'fat juice' or shivering uncontrollaby when it drops a couple of degrees. But like rain … it'll be good for the garden. Anything over 24 and I'll be hibernating

    Really don't know how I worked on mountains lugging a saw around for 9/10 hours, all the safety gear, heat from the sun, heat from the ground …

    … actually maybe I do. I was mad, fit and young

  • SoapySoutar
    SoapySoutar Community Member Posts: 560 Empowering
    edited April 29

    There was a touch of ground frost here after 21:00. I find that by the time we lose last wiinter's chill, we are heading back to autumn again! I have been wrapped up at night since last September. 🐕️👨‍🦼

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    A good year for the ground cover phlox

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,590 Championing

    Are we conserving water yet? Of course we aren't! 🙄

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    Haha if they need it they have it the wind dries out plants worse than the sun

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,590 Championing

    I didn't know that.

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 2,767 Championing

    we have two identical plants in pots one was in the wind today and one was not and you would think it was two different plants

  • SoapySoutar
    SoapySoutar Community Member Posts: 560 Empowering

    I want to know what the farmer is waiting for, his FYM is steaming away, and getting smelly!

    Does a period of time heaped in the fresh air aid the microbial breakdown? Is he waiting for something else, or a date on the calendar?