The first rule of potting shed is YOU ALWAYS talk about potting shed. The thread continues.

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Here goes, and feeling bit cheeky as I didn't post much on the last one.

A fine autumn day here, with much seasonal clearing done. Now I come to think of it, is there ever a non-clearing season? :o

Hello Maud. We also have a plague of lesser celandine. Just a few little bits in the front beds which are pretty (and good for the bees) but it's all through one of the raised beds. They seem to have put up foot-long shoots from the old ground level and I'm doing no dig so I can't only hoe off the tops. I have mostly covered with weed matting. Luckily the bed is destined for squash and a brassicas this year so I'll be planting through holes in the matting rather than sowing direct in the soil.

Sweet peas have been the one disaster of my new propagator - I got three to germinate and they all got mouldy. Sigh. I think I'm going to sow directly outside (I have two square planters and I'm going to make a pyramid of four hazel beanpoles in each) and hope for better luck!

What does the foilage on lesser celadine look like when it's establishing itself ? And would it have flowered by now ?

I have something vigorously growing away in a shady damp bed .I usually find that vigour denotes a weed .

Celandine has clusters of shiny, bright green leaves (about the size and shape of violet leaves, but thicker and waxier-looking). Do you have a photo of your weed, peridito? I have plenty of specimens of my own!

I have plenty of specimens of my own!

I might have a go at a photo today ( too wet for any meaningful activity in garden ) My phone is v basic and its v fiddly to upload .

I keep waiting for my lovely gardening friend to make it up to London from Cornwall to advise ,but she's had a lot of car /weather problems .
Is lesser celendine common in Cornwall do you know ? Lovely friend may have unwittingly gifted on previous visits ....

It’s fairly ubiquitous, I think, so its tiny little bulbils might have arrived with other things, yes!

They're a bit like mini waterlily leaves.

wmswcd.org/species/lesser-celandine/

I live in Cornwall and the flipping celandine is VERY ubiquitous in my garden! Having said that, I allow it to carry on under the hedge (I have a native plants hedge along the length of my garden where stuff like this is permitted) and dig it up elsewhere. It is currently making a bid for freedom in the lawn (That's a laugh...swamp is more like it). It must be very fond of wet soil.

So fed up with constant drizzle. Turns out I’ve lost all the echiums and various big spikey cordiline (sp?) type things which were growing out of a dry stone wall. I’ve got seedlings on the windowsill that are up but seem to have just stopped at first pair of leaves. Ordered more horse poo and not looking forward to sorting that out in the rain. I’m hoping for better on Thursday which looks like the one dry day the whole holiday! Any one got any tips for cape gooseberries / physalis? I’ve got them germinated but v tiny. Do I just treat them like tomatoes?

cathpot IT'S SUNNY!
My mum used to grow physalis and just lobbed them in the garden and let them seed. They showed up every year. Sandy soil in the East Midlands though, not our clay.

Huh. Best I can say here is that it’s stopped raining! Still complete cloud cover, though.

The talk of physalis has reminded me that I had some - and some white honesty - when I first made this garden. I must look out for some more.

Ah white honesty - reminds me very much of my mum (from whom I get my gardening enthusiasm). It didn't transfer when I moved here though...must look out for some more.

fuzzy that made me laugh! I too am over excited about it- sitting outside now making plans. Didn’t realise physalis would self seed , thought they were greenhouse only - I’ll try some outside as well.

Well they grew very well in sunny Nottingham...and were so prolific in a corner of the garden they were treated a bit like weeds!

Hang on til Thursday cathpot - it'll be scorchio! (Allegedly)

Spent the rainy cold morning at the garden centr, browsing. 😁
Of course I came away with a fantastic perfumed Skimmia and a Honeyberry, an edible berried Honeysuckle! I’d never seen one before.
Anyone else got one?

morning all, can I join you?
I love gardening and this time of year...usually. Bit fed up of the bog that is my back garden at the moment though! And the mud, everywhere, all through the house every time I let the dogs out.
Anyway, I have a few days off work this week so have braved the weather and been out there. I've extended one border and tidied it. Accidentally bought a new lilac to go in it as well yesterday! Odd for a browse at my local little hit and miss nursery later! Was looking at a picture of the garden from this time last year and everything was so much further on
I am however very behind with my seed sowing due to a crazy busy March so that is probably just as well. Got some cosmos and zinia to get started today.
I love reading about all your garden exploits.

Hello and welcome, applelolly! I’m just off to inspect the bog that is my back garden, as this morning is forecast to be dry (with more rain this afternoon, sigh).

morning maud it is in fact NOT raining here at the moment either. The flooded corner in the garden is receding slightly...but will I'm sure refill shortly. I drove past a local field yesterday and saw 3 ducks floating across the corner where it had flooded!!
Since it is currently not raining I'm off out to the nursery!

I’ve just had a very pleasant couple of hours pottering in the garden. It always cheers me up to see the burgeoning new growth in the spring, although the big freeze seems to have caused a number of fatalities.

Welcome Applelolly.
Just watching the BBC weather forecast. Hope the cloud stays away from our corner tomorrow. Tomorrow will be NICE!

I had my usual garden inspection this morning,..there are one or two things emerging (paeony shoots) from the bog.

so, I have spent the day dodging the sudden torrential downpours! There have been moments of sun in between though. fuzzy I am sure the weather tomorrow will be LOVELY because I am back to work!!
I bought a couple of daphnes and a couple of skimias (which weren't on my liast but their scent caught me as I walked by!!) Also some sweet pea seedlings so I can ignore the fact I didn't get round to seed sowing early enough! Have potted up the sweet peas in the greenhouse, now need to go trudge through the mud to plant out the daphnes and skimia!

My baby agapanthuses I started from seed last year look dead. God dammit! I thought the were hardy?

It is sunny today as predicted. But chilly too.
I have tidied out my cold frame; chucked out all the pelargoniums that didn't survive and repotted the three that did. (Good job I bought some more!). And even planted a couple of hardy geraniums in the garden. Brave stuff!

Kids were keen to go in the sea but when we got there it was just a bit too chilly. My inland bought me two really beautiful hydrangeas to start to fill in snow induced dead patch in a border. Pea seedlings are about 10cm in greenhouse. Holding back another week I think before they go in the bed - possibly with some sort of Blue Peter style empty milk carton chicken proofing arrangement

In laws- not inland ...

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