How does your garden grow?

[Gruntfuttock]

 

 

 

Nice to have a bit of colour in the garden.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Sempervivums in the first pic!

[rb14]

That acer in full glory. Stunner. The bluebells are very happy in its shadow.

[A Red]

We've got bastard Spanish bluebells

[Carvalho Diablo]

[Champ]

On 01/05/2022 at 02:20, Gruntfuttock said:

 

 

 

Nice to have a bit of colour in the garden.

Where are you? Your garden looks fabulous!

Things are nowhere near as far on in mine.

We were away last week and at times I burst out laughing seeing things in flower that had barely pushed themselves above ground at home

[Champ]

On 01/05/2022 at 20:02, A Red said:

We've got bastard Spanish bluebells

Remind me again what I’m supposed to hate about a picture like that

[Champ]

21 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Hasn’t that come on since you planted it last year?!

 

One mark deducted for that dandelion lurking in the grass

[Carvalho Diablo]

10 minutes ago, Champ said:

Hasn’t that come on since you planted it last year?!

 

One mark deducted for that dandelion lurking in the grass

Haha good spot. Thanks.

[Champ]

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Haha good spot. Thanks.

They are bastard things.

 

I know we’re all supposed to be valuing our wildflowers these days but I just can’t get on board with these tap rooted fiends

[A Red]

16 minutes ago, Champ said:

Remind me again what I’m supposed to hate about a picture like that

They're Spanish, coming over here muscling in on our good old fashioned down to earth British ones.

[Champ]

18 minutes ago, A Red said:

They're Spanish, coming over here muscling in on our good old fashioned down to earth British ones.

Yeah, I know. But apart from that? Are they paler? Are they the grey squirrel of that plant world?

[Champ]

*goes out into garden to weigh up photo worthy parts

[Captain Willard]

I read today that the massive Mappiness study of human happiness has concluded that the 4 things that contribute most to individuals happiness are nature, exercise, cooking and gardening. You can see that from this thread, maybe not so much in the Breakfast one. 

[Champ]

4 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

I read today that the massive Mappiness study of human happiness has concluded that the 4 things that contribute most to individuals happiness are nature, exercise, cooking and gardening. You can see that from this thread, maybe not so much in the Breakfast one. 

There’s not one of the things in that list that I don’t enjoy

[A Red]

27 minutes ago, Champ said:

Yeah, I know. But apart from that? Are they paler? Are they the grey squirrel of that plant world?

I'm told the Spanish ones are a bit bigger but apparently they cause no problems to the British ones. To be fair I'm not really a gardener, I just cut the grass.

[Gruntfuttock]

2 hours ago, Champ said:

Where are you? Your garden looks fabulous!

Things are nowhere near as far on in mine.

We were away last week and at times I burst out laughing seeing things in flower that had barely pushed themselves above ground at home

Southwest Sheffield.

[Captain Willard]

This is my allotment today, still a good couple of months away from peak flowering. There are about 150 plots on the site and I am the only one growing solely fruit trees and flowers; mainly dahlias, roses, gladioli and sunflowers. Everyone else is growing vegetables but I can’t be arsed. I like flowers and ponds for amphibians. 
 

It is a little place of peace where I can do whatever I like. When you share your house with 5 kids, 2 dogs and a wife you need a space on the planet to call your own. Costs me £1 a week in rent. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

36 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

This is my allotment today, still a good couple of months away from peak flowering. There are about 150 plots on the site and I am the only one growing solely fruit trees and flowers; mainly dahlias, roses, gladioli and sunflowers. Everyone else is growing vegetables but I can’t be arsed. I like flowers and ponds for amphibians. 
 

It is a little place of peace where I can do whatever I like. When you share your house with 5 kids, 2 dogs and a wife you need a space on the planet to call your own. Costs me £1 a week in rent. 

Allotments can certainly be hard work but the fresh air, sunshine, peace and quiet and being at peace with nature, certainly outweighs the initial toil.

 

I love spending time up at our allotment.

[Captain Willard]

1 hour ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Allotments can certainly be hard work but the fresh air, sunshine, peace and quiet and being at peace with nature, certainly outweighs the initial toil.

 

I love spending time up at our allotment.

Agree. The key is to keep on top of it, at least an hour or two a week. Nature never stops growing so the worst thing you can do is leave it alone for weeks at a time. Then it just feels like hard work clearing the masses of weeds. 

[TheHowieLama]

Who was the guy who punched his shed?

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Who was the guy who punched his shed?

I accused @A Red of doing it when he was pissing me off. I was chatting shit of course. Unless he does punch it in which case I was right. 

[A Red]

59 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I accused @A Red of doing it when he was pissing me off. I was chatting shit of course. Unless he does punch it in which case I was right. 

I didn't understand it then and I don't now but I'm still fucking outraged.

[TheHowieLama]

You punched your shed?

[Bjornebye]

20 minutes ago, A Red said:

I didn't understand it then and I don't now but I'm still fucking outraged.

Hahahaha me neither.