It will not always be summer; build barns. The potting shed goes on...

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Please ignore my first, illiterate thread. I'll try again.

I hope this quotation from Hesiod captures the moment of movement from high summer to the splendours of harvest and the planing for the new year.

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I'm on the mobile app and still chugging through the correspondence. It is indeed very slow.

Hello chaps this is me again, formerly known a Baleigh, I decided to change email as well.

I never gave them my DoB

::vanity::

I never give my correct dob, aways a made up one lol. I quite like getting adverts targetted at another age bracket. So much more interesting.
I aways loose peoples addresses and phone numbers, no need to delete them.

maud what colour did your rose cutting turn out to be? I dont seem to have a green rose at all: that which I thought was Wimbledon has turned out yellow

Oh gawd.

It's just taken me about half an hour just to change my password (which I've immediately forgotten). Should I change to desk top version to do the rest?

I'm still me but have now deleted all previous messages with any of your details in and have a long and complicated password that I will never remember.

Slight name change. I can't get into my inbox though, it just goes blank.

I couldn't do any gardening today. What I really wanted to do was don a miners hat with a lamp on and travel to Poland with a metal detector and explore tunnels under mountains. You will appreciate that compared to that, the attraction of planting a surburban pot with pink and white fuschias paled.

I liked Carol Klein's programme on water lilies, though I couldn't help but feel that missing out the lotus filled lakes of Kashmir was a major omission. It must be amazing working with a travelling bbc team.

I haven't watched that yet, funny, but that does sound like a glaring omission.

We have a hedgehog! She has visited for the past four nights and last night was waiting on the patio for me to put out her food bowl. She had a very cute hoglet with her the first time I saw her, but not since.

I have started to do very end-of-the-summer jobs, like strimming back the long grass in the orchard and pruning the lavender.

Here is photo of one of my Woollacombe Old Hall roses, for funny, who suggested it. I'm loving them.

Woolacombe

Beautiful rose rhubarb

The garden and green house have survived my week away. I did miss the majority of the Victoria plums, they ripened whilst we were away so my sister ate them.

One delightful combo I am enjoying is quite a tall purple Linaria self seeded with a fennel plant.

yyy to fennel
That rose is lovely, quite elegant too!

So annoying when things flower and fruit while you're on holiday. The dc's sunflowers are gearing up to do just that.

You meant Wollerton old hall for the rose name.
Its sunny here today: good for cuttings

Goddammit yes I do. Thanks funny, I knew that wasn't right.

What beautiful rose, rhubarb. It would be break your heart to come to Melbourne and see the same boring white roses in every garden. Nothing to do with possums, just lack of imagination. You have to go into the regions to see anything different.

I have been doing not very much: on Saturday just collapsed in a chair in the front garden to soak up the sun, read the latest "Oldie", listen to the birds and have a wine.

On Sunday re-potted the brugmansia and osmanthus to their grown-up containers, bits of pruning, fed the apple trees.

Then collapsed, etc., though this time with some PG Wodehouse, and joined by DH.

Bliss, I tell ya.

Just back from MILs with some very nice greengages. Nice when you time visits right!

Bearleigh - trying to PM you but it's not letting me under your new name.

My birthday this week, trying to decide where to go for an outing. Quite fancying Parham after it featured on GW, has anyone been?

Hi Bertha thanks for your message - I have set you one - hope you get it, and can reply.

When I Googled Wollerton Old Hall I also got pics of the actual garden - which looks beautiful, as does the rose. I am taking this Friday off work and heading to Woolbeding Gardens, and possibly Parham House as featured on last week's GW about the sunflowers.

Have a lovely time SeaRabbit I loved the sunflowers at Parnham house on GW. So much so that I'm going to devote a whole bed to them next year. I'm rubbish at staking so liked the look of the munchkin variety.

Hello everyone. I had to re-register as I accidentally logged out and couldn't remember my password, then realised that the email address I registered with was now defunct. And this was before all the other stuff that had gone on. Still, I only changed one letter of my user name.

Just got back from Brittainy, saw lots of fantastic municipal planting. Never seen so many agapanthus thriving in my life! Also went to an amazing exotic garden in Roscoff, has anyone else been there? It was truly fabulous, with glimpses of the sea as a backdrop to all the planting.

I've been to Roscoff and seem to remember lots of very beautiful faded blue hydrangeas. About 15 yrs ago!
Loved all the crepes though
The hibiscus is dong well in the garden, more flowers than ever before!

I must move my poor hibiscus - in too much shade and it's quite dry. On the plus side it's not died - it's just now grown at all - sits there looking brave yet pathetic. I have resolved to move it and feed it lots and lots. I do love them especially the blue ones.

Oh yes the blue ones can be very impressive
Mine is white though, and has really only taken off this year: fourth year of planting: I think because I have been watering that section more than previously

Most things grew in the garden this week owing to a combination of Sun and Rain

I saw a white one this evening looking gorgeous. So luxurious-looking.

I've got a white Hibiscus, still in a pot and no signs of flowers. Reassured it took yours funny 4 years.

Where is maud ?