Compo 10,328 Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Love the Yucca flower in your garden, Rog...what's the secret of getting them to flower like that? More snow and sleet forecast for my area this weekend. I shall be in the Cairngornms and hopefully enjoy the snow from the comfort of a BR MkI carriage and a steam locomotive on the Strathspey Steam Railway for it fist operational day if the year. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,602 Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 Don't know if theres any secret Paul but the roots are under a permeable sheet with flint gravel over it so the roots are in a damp environment,the top is in full sun,when we get some,the main plant has now gone as it too overpowering and started choking other stuff but every year we get about half a dozen baby Yucca's coming up from the rhyzomes thats still left in the ground Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,602 Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 As a point of interest if you look at the picture with the Lupins in the foreground slightly to the left of them in the rocky part of the garden is a "striped rock" it is actually a Mammoth tooth that came up from one of the quarries I worked at, I did have a few of them but the grandchildren have took them all now and given them to the schools, there is one or two fossils still in the rockery along with quite a lot of "round" flint rocks,unusual to see round rocks (all from the quarries) so a good talking point if anyone is looking around the garden Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 22, 2018 Report Share Posted March 22, 2018 There's a fossil round here too, Rog. At least that's the way I feel most days just lately. Most things hurt and what don't hurt, don't work. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,602 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 Well I've done it now,I gave the grass it's first cut of the season so that means it'll be my job every weekend from now until the back end of autumn,only a light cut today with the blade of the mower raised a couple of notches,the strip of land that is in the field at the back of my garden I also cut down using my strimmer so all is looking neat and tidy apart from the moss in the grass,I have another petrol mower with a scarifier blade on that should take care of that though,greenhouse all tidy with sweet peas just poking through as is the blue trailing lobelia seeds,all my garden planters and pots have had a good wash with soapy water and are drying nicely,I fixed some fan shaped trellis to the front wall at the side of the living room window ready for the sweet peas to climb up,weeds removed from the flint gravel that's on the front garden although there was hardly any,footpaths swept,garden tools wiped clean and oiled and put away,mower and strimmer brushed off and put in the garden tools shed,time for a sit down and a cuppa,I'm knackered Rog 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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catfan 14,793 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 Anyone worth their onions would know that Bordeaux Mix is to stop bugs & flies etc. & I bleddy hate gardening ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 Ian your going to love me. Bordeaux mixture of exactly that formula was banned by the EU November 2015. I don't why as it is one of the best preventative fungicides going. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 No problem as usual. Just an edit ! Ok ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 2 hours ago, NewBasfordlad said: Ian your going to love me. Bordeaux mixture of exactly that formula was banned by the EU November 2015. I don't why as it is one of the best preventative fungicides going. A flame thrower is just as effective ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
plantfit 7,602 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 I was killing some weeds that had come through in my greenhouse the other week with a blowlamp,ended up cutting new pieces of glass to replace the ones I cracked with the bloody thing Rog 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 That'll teach you Rog ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 Reading this lot is like listening to Gardener's bleddy World ! Dear oh dear, I have phobia about gardening. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 Just for that, the Lord will probably put you in charge of a garden when you get there, Mick. I've already got first option on the kennels. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 Would be my pleasure Dave ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 He's probably got a Cattery needing a supervisor, just waiting for you and Mrs. C 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 She just said her name is on that job with Jill Sparrow assisting ! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 NO!! Don't yer know it's teetotal there. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 It might be teetotal for some but Jesus can turn water into wine, I will be his..................apprentice.... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted March 24, 2018 Report Share Posted March 24, 2018 I will be his wine taster ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,421 Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 They say you are closer to heaven in a garden than anywhere else on earth. Well at my age I'm too bloody close already so I've done away with the garden! 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 You know apprentices only get to mash tea and sweep up NBL. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NewBasfordlad 3,599 Posted March 25, 2018 Report Share Posted March 25, 2018 Perks Loppy, Perks of the trade 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 ARGH! Me bleddy garden is ruined! Flipping long cold and windy winter has turned all my bushes brown This is the first time this has happened since the long winter of 2010. Looks like being a sparse summer in the borders this year Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,144 Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 Never mind the borders, what about Caithness? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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