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What a contrast!
Today has dawned thick with fog. I can only just see the hedge at the end
of the nursery path! It rained last night but not a great deal. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... Today has dawned thick with fog. I can only just see the hedge at the end of the nursery path! It rained last night but not a great deal. -- Sacha No fog here. Overcast with sun trying to get through. So the fog is NOT widespread across the whole country. Anyone else got it? Mike -- .................................................. .............. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk |
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writes So the fog is NOT widespread across the whole country. Anyone else got it? Mike It's misty here today and I'll give it four for trying to rain, unfortunately barely wetting the soil. Janet Amersham, Bucks. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On 23/4/07 09:52, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote: In article , 'Mike' writes So the fog is NOT widespread across the whole country. Anyone else got it? Mike It's misty here today and I'll give it four for trying to rain, unfortunately barely wetting the soil. The rain here has laid the dust and that's about it. ;-( -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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"Sacha" wrote On 23/4/07 09:52, in article , "Janet Tweedy" It's misty here today and I'll give it four for trying to rain, unfortunately barely wetting the soil. The rain here has laid the dust and that's about it. ;-( Still dry and quite warm here in my corner of East Angular, although it is more overcast than yesterday. I hope we do get some of the leftover rain though, our light soil definitely needs it. -- Sue |
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On 23 Apr, 09:52, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , 'Mike' writes So the fog is NOT widespread across the whole country. Anyone else got it? Mike It's misty here today and I'll give it four for trying to rain, unfortunately barely wetting the soil. Janet Amersham, Bucks. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraphhttp://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Here in South Wales its also misty, but has been raining steadily since about 10pm only light rain but we have puddles formed on the track. If you listen carefully you can hear the weeds growing. I tried some rotavating yesterday, and it was like trying to break up concrete. David Hill Abacus Nurseries |
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In article , Sacha
writes At least nobody is out watering this morning! I'm having to water the pots with small plants in and also anything newly planted. Some pots are drying out during the day though I have shoved in a few of the water retaining crystals when potting up anything valuable! This time of the year I seem to have hundreds (well okay, 7) Plant sales that all want free plants to sell. By the time I've potted stuff up and got the pots and the compost I sometimes think I might as well just give a donation to the causes However I always try and take a lot to the NGS Garden stall as it is such a good day and you can chat as you sell plants to the visitors. Trouble is many only want stuff in flower it matters not that you are trying to flog them a really unusual or rarer type of plant that they'll love, all they see are the plants with flowers.......... -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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"Dave Hill" wrote after Janet Tweedy wrote: It's misty here today and I'll give it four for trying to rain, unfortunately barely wetting the soil. Here in South Wales its also misty, but has been raining steadily since about 10pm only light rain but we have puddles formed on the track. If you listen carefully you can hear the weeds growing. I tried some rotavating yesterday, and it was like trying to break up concrete. The bits of our allotment where I haven't dug it since the autumn are also like concrete, the rotovator won't touch it until I break it up and my fork is creaking well, just like my back. :-) Very light rain here for a good part of the middle of the day, my back got quite damp as I was out starting a total remake of our back garden. Broke my heart to prune the two smaller but still large Camellias down to near ground level but they just had to either go or be made small again, I'm sure they will resprout but if they don't it's not the end of the world. Raised the crown of the biggest to a clear 6ft so it's now a true camellia tree and I can plant beneath it. Hope it's dry tomorrow, we have arranged a group visit, with a guided tour, to Wakehurst Place. -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK |
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On 23/4/07 17:51, in article , "Bob
Hobden" wrote: "Dave Hill" wrote after Janet Tweedy wrote: It's misty here today and I'll give it four for trying to rain, unfortunately barely wetting the soil. Here in South Wales its also misty, but has been raining steadily since about 10pm only light rain but we have puddles formed on the track. If you listen carefully you can hear the weeds growing. I tried some rotavating yesterday, and it was like trying to break up concrete. The bits of our allotment where I haven't dug it since the autumn are also like concrete, the rotovator won't touch it until I break it up and my fork is creaking well, just like my back. :-) Very light rain here for a good part of the middle of the day, my back got quite damp as I was out starting a total remake of our back garden. Broke my heart to prune the two smaller but still large Camellias down to near ground level but they just had to either go or be made small again, I'm sure they will resprout but if they don't it's not the end of the world. My ex-fil was a bit of a Camellia expert and he had one huge specimen one on a lawn. From time to time, it was cut back to literally one leafy twig. The first time I saw it my heart nearly stopped but it never failed to grow again. Raised the crown of the biggest to a clear 6ft so it's now a true camellia tree and I can plant beneath it. What Keith Wiley calls "raising the skirts". ;-) Hope it's dry tomorrow, we have arranged a group visit, with a guided tour, to Wakehurst Place. Have a lovely day. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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Sacha wrote:
Today has dawned thick with fog. I can only just see the hedge at the end of the nursery path! It rained last night but not a great deal. Awoke this morning, in North Staffordshire to see what appeared to be good rain, the first for many a long day. However the bowls I have out have very little water in them, there certainly has not been enough to do much good. The weather forecast spoke of another high building yesterday, so unless we get a lot today or tomorrow I am going to have to use up my remaining butt water! |
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"Sacha" wrote: Today has dawned thick with fog. I can only just see the hedge at the end of the nursery path! It rained last night but not a great deal. -- It's raining in Peterborough this morning (23.4.07), not heavily, but we have rain At last! :-)) MikeCT |
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On 23/4/07 11:58, in article , "Malcolm"
wrote: In article , Sacha writes Today has dawned thick with fog. I can only just see the hedge at the end of the nursery path! It rained last night but not a great deal. Well, tell it go away, as we're visiting the Eden Project and Heligan later this week! Try coming back via Pine Lodge Gardens or drop in here and say hello, if it's not too far out of your way. The utterly useless weather widget on my Mac tells me it's bright and sunny in Plymouth today and will be wet and cloudy all week! Given its normal predictive abilities I'm almost confident in predicting another heatwave. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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On 23/4/07 13:45, in article , "Malcolm"
wrote: In article , Sacha writes On 23/4/07 11:58, in article , "Malcolm" wrote: In article , Sacha writes Today has dawned thick with fog. I can only just see the hedge at the end of the nursery path! It rained last night but not a great deal. Well, tell it go away, as we're visiting the Eden Project and Heligan later this week! Try coming back via Pine Lodge Gardens or drop in here and say hello, if it's not too far out of your way. I've noted where you are at Hill House. Pine Lodge Gardens look nice and we're staying in St Austell. Then that's an easy trip for you to Pine Lodge. We're just over an hour on from there, traffic depending, so you'll have to work out whether "il vaut le detour"! I'm doing flowers for someone's funeral on part of Wednesday and most of Thursday but Ray will be here anyway. The utterly useless weather widget on my Mac tells me it's bright and sunny in Plymouth today and will be wet and cloudy all week! Given its normal predictive abilities I'm almost confident in predicting another heatwave. ;-) The Beeb suggests it will be raining on Wednesday, fine on Thursday and showers on Friday. Metcheck suggest most of the week will be fine. As it's raining quite hard here today, who cares?! We're back to no rain but a lot of low cloud. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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On 23/4/07 17:17, in article , "Malcolm"
wrote: In article , Sacha writes snip Then that's an easy trip for you to Pine Lodge. We're just over an hour on from there, traffic depending, so you'll have to work out whether "il vaut le detour"! I'm doing flowers for someone's funeral on part of Wednesday and most of Thursday but Ray will be here anyway. If we manage "le detour", it's more likely to be Saturday as we head home again, but that's probably a busy day for you. Unhappily, it's the day we are - most unusually at this time of year - out to lunch, too. We're going to choose an alpaca throw for the latest grand daughter, made from some friends' alpacas' hair (fur?) We'll be here until about 11 and then back again after 4ish I'd guess. The other place that might be worth a detour for you or even an extra night's stay and said friends do B&B in an old manor house in a pretty Dartmoor hamlet ;-)) is The Garden House at Buckland Monachorum. It's not far from Tavistock and easy to get to after coming over the Tamar and entering Plymouth - follow signs to Derriford Hospital and then keep going towards Yelverton. You'll start to go across the moor and then will see signs to your left for BM and Crapstone etc. before you get to Yelverton. snip We're back to no rain but a lot of low cloud. Whereas we have rain *and* low cloud, though forecast to move away south this evening. Just over-watered (!) the polytunnel for while we're away. Everything else which was indoors sprouting on the windowsill is outside. I'd no sooner put the last tray down and two collared doves appeared out of nowhere! The trays are now covered with fleece. I like birds, but not that much :-) AKA The Spy in the Sky. ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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