Monday, 18 May 2020
Weeding the east end of the port was our plan for today, but due to strong winds that would make that the most miserable place to work, we reversed the polarity of the neutron flow, did a slingshot around the sun, and did Tuesday’s cosmos planting instead.
The Depot Restaurant
I planted some more cosmos, ‘Happy Ring’, in the barrel by the East window. Usually, I would plant some Agyranthemum ‘Butterfly’ there for an arresting blast of yellow, but this year, pickin’s are slim. I had forgotten last week to actually plant the bidens that were still in their pots. Oops.
The north garden (all photos by Allan today):
The Boreas Inn
I wish the beds looked fuller. What is taking so long??
Allan cleaned two wheelbarrows full of dead stuff out of a pampas grass.
The Red Barn Arena
We finally took time to give the little garden a good weeding. I experimentally planted some cosmos to see if they will do ok without much watering. Cosmo the barn cat helped.
Diane’s garden
I thinned out the California poppies on the septic vault to make room for some Happy Ring cosmos.
The roadside looks a bit sparse still, giving me hope that the Boreas will fill in.
The sweet peas are just sitting there…
I am getting impatient.
Tomorrow should be less windy so I hope to finally get to the east end of the port, after skiving off on it last week to build the Catio instead.
In the evening, we watched a BBC special about the canceled Chelsea Flower Show 2020, with clips from previous years. We found it on YouTube as BritBox Tv had not picked it up yet. A channel called “Tiger Tiger” seems to be uploading them in a timely manner, along with new episodes of Alan Tichmarsh’s Love Your Garden! All week long these specials will air; I do wish we had garden television here of the excellent quality offered by the U.K.
In Love Your Garden, Alan T went garden touring for inspiration. I would love a garden shed like this one.
I love seeing the team working hard and wish I could get my mitts on the kit that they used to make the series of moon arches.
It does seem like I’m about to go down the rabbit hole of garden telly watching for a week.
I did not realize there were new Love Your Garden episodes, oh oh…guess I will be comandeering the tv tonight!
The patch of lupins look lovely at the Boreas.
Pickins’ are slim at our local garden centres, or maybe other people are pickin’ what I am looking for. A local volunteer garden group is having a plant sale this afternoon, shortened from their annual, and popular, two day sale. I expect the lineup to get in, spaced six feet apart, and filtered and shuffled slowly, will be hours long. Hours. The new normal.
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Enjoy LYG. Played it on our you tube telly app and Allan loved it so I guess we might be rewatching some old episodes, too!
I will be interested to hear how the garden sale went.
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I got there a half hour before opening, and was sixth in line. Six foot distancing enforced, a one way loop past the tables of plants which were set up on one side of the loop only so no crossing back and forth, or reaching across a table that people could access from the other side.
Four inch pots of perennials were three dollars, but selection was generic, nothing choice. Someone did lots of little pots, tea pots et al, of succulents that sold for ten to fifteen dollars.
Bottle of hand sani at payment table, cash or credit card.
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Good ideas re setting up so not reaching across. I’m going to paint arrows on the Lawn paths for an in and an out gate for garden touring. Allan does not know this yet. :-D. My neighbor is all for my using her big parking area so I can make it so only one side of tables is available. Not even going to put out every little plant, just the best of. Debating whether to open it up to the local yard sale fb group, might just stick with friends and the gardening group because I just wanna get rid of a couple or three tables worth of plants to make my garden less crowded.
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I have found spray cans of chalk based paint at hardware stores that rinse away. Also spray cans of bright hair colour that will wash out – at dollar stores. I have used the hair colour ones on the grass to mark a new garden bed.
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I love that garden shed with the Hobbit door! I wouldn’t mind having one like that myself. 🙂 Cosmo the barn cat looks like a good helper.
It was clear at 36 degrees at sunrise here today, but should warm into the lower 60s. I am hoping the forecast for next week is correct so I can get plants in the garden.
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We have been unseasonably cool this week but not that cold!
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We have been watching the virtual Chelsea shows too.
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I would love to watch any of the British gardening shows, but I’m not hooked up for cable. BUT I can watch Doc Martin which is on tonight 🥰🤗.
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You can find a lot of the shows on you tube or daily motion and Tubi. I also subscribe to a BritBox and Inside Outside TV which have British gardening shows. Inside a outside specializing in garden shows and has a few free samples to watch. I can watch both of those channels on my iPad.
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