Doing more work on my neighbours' gardens.

Bev's having to spend a lot of time visiting her mother who is very and frail, so she's busy doing her mother's garden and has no time to do her own.

I'm gradually developing the front border into a blue and pink theme. It already had lavender and false cornflower - the latter donated from my garden many ( Read more... )

I don't post nearly as often as I used to, though I frequently comment on my friend's journals.

I think it's probably due to a combination of background stress, asthma and sciatica...

However, a new office chair with decent adjustment has made a noticeable impact on the sciatica, so that's good.

I'm going cold turkey on reading the news for a few days ( Read more... )

This is the first time I've tried DW's photo hosting (it's available to free users). It's a right pig's ear, but I've finally got it to work.

The trick seems to be to set the thumbnail size to around 1200 (or a bit smaller if you wish, but definitely not the default of 100), cut the thumbnail code and past it into the html version of your post.
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 the neighbours were mowing their lawn today and putting the clippings into a bin bag to take down to the tip, so I asked (as I've sometimes done in the past as well) to have the cuttings.  They are happy to give them to me ( Read more... )

 So many great suggestions!

Some favourites:

Desire is the root of all suffering, Roots on the other hand...  (A very strong contender)

Plant happiness   (Love it, but too short for the space)

Wander, ponder and weed - (has a certain charm)

Garden as though you will live forever - I like this one as well.

Still trying to choose between those four...

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 I glanced out of my front window just now and a passer by pointed to my rockery (which is currently a mass of flowers) and gave me a double thumbs up.

That was a really nice moment.

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 Chatting to the lady next door  who has a small pear tree.  It had one pear last  year when it had 12 the year before.  She had no idea why.

After discussion I discovered that she'd transplanted it from her mother's garden last year.  So transplant shock would account for a lot of it.

However, when I suggested adding some garden compost, she was ( Read more... )

 We dug up some hellibores from Molly's garden last week and they're now in our back garden.  They seem to be settling in, in spite of being transplanted while in flower ( Read more... )

 We have Allium triquetrum in our garden.


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 This is the planting season.  A bit later this year because of all the weather, but Richard has been really busy this last week (I managed to do my back in trying to move the shredder, but I'll be weeding again soon)

Broad beans survived the winter reasonably well, though we lost about a third of them.  A new double row of seeds has been planted ( Read more... )