Excerpts From A (recently discovered) Garden Diary (2)

I like the idea of the topiary rosemary globe David.

what lovely photos david.

I like the globe too, David! See the Blyton Tourettes is still there! Lol!!

Fascinating, David...
my recent photo of bird feeders shows my terra cotta apple in which I put dog hair for the birds... I like your picture of the magazine article with the blue tit collecting hair for its nest. :o)
I see you've reached 1899 now... a good year for Victoria plums.. Lol.

Another interesting blog with some great photos. Hughie is lovely, bless him.

smashing!!!

~yes what a sweetie!very interesting blog!

Lovely blog David, and some nice pics too....Love the one of you ang Hughie

The topiary globe was an idea from some magazine, and it worked well, I remember, Claire. :-)

Went back and read your caption in more detail, Tt! - Great!!!! :-))

But - what is meant by Blyton's Tourettes, and 1899?????? I'm in 1999 right now, and have checked all my spelling, and ticed all the boxes. :-)) Even Googled "Blyton's Tourettes", and an earlier comment from you, Marie, here on GOY, is right there at the top!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many Thanks, Seaburn and Alice - glad you liked this part, too! :-))

Many Thanks, Gee and Arlene!! - Hughie was a lovely dog. We rescued him, via my late uncle, from an owner who used to hit him with any "weapon" to hand. Took me several months to gain his trust, as he was just so scared of blokes. Sadly, he passed away on Boxing Day 2000 (another memorable Dec 26 for us). Just glad that we gave him longer than he probably would have got under previous ownership. By the way, he used to jump up, bark, and leap around to the theme music from "Ground Force" on TV!!!! :-D

You can get some very pretty wild life flowers, love the Hellebore and your wheelbarrow of ornimental cabbage , like the idea of the the topiary rosemary also Hughie cute.

Hee hee! :~))

Well may you laugh, Hen!!!!!!!! :-))

Many Thanks, Morgana!!! :-))

Yes I may!!! Hee hee!

Grea tBlog.........

Great again :o)
I like the idea of that rosemary topiary. I might try it sometime.

Many Thanks, Milky, Morgana and Holly!! :-)

Hi Hywel! I think that I might try this again, myself, next Spring. I always kept articles, etc., for garden DIY projects in a folder, too, and I still have it, although I'll never get round to actually doing most of them. :-)

Well it's nice to keep a note of things just in case, maybe one day you will get round to some of them.

Great to have kept such details David ..struggle to recall where I was living in 99 so really should take a leaf out of your book ..

Lovely blog:-)

Well, you never know, Hywel...... :-)

Bb - Just a pity I don't have photos of the birds and the nest box, but I did get it all on video. I should really try to dig those out and transfer onto DVD. :-)

Many Thanks, Bornagain. :-)

Another interesting blog with extracts from your diary.

I wish I'd known about the dog's hair earlier, now it's too late as our 5 little doggies have gone to the "Doggy heaven in the sky" as Elvis Priestly once sung. (I have the song on my computer & it, quite literally, brings tears to my eyes - & I'm not one for being emotional! We could have used the copious amounts of hair they shed.

I have had a couple of cone shaped hanging baskets on my balcony for years now & in the spring it's quite common to see the birds pulling out threads of the coconut fibre lining! They used to do the same with the other 5 round baskets, they all had coconut fibre liners till I changed them this year before filling them with Fuchsias. No, I didn't change them to stop the birds pulling out the fibre, I changed them because they were all breaking up & I couldn't use them another year.

That's interesting, Balcony, because same happened here one year. I had similar baskets and the lining got pulled to shreds, too!

Its my fencing they steal! Its rush matting type stuff!

I had some of that in my last garden, Marie and, yes, the birds took that, too!!

Lol! You did warn me they would!!

So I did, didn't I? Heeheee!!!! :-))

How you doing, stranger?

Hulloooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! Phew - getting there, barely a mo to myself lately but, hopefully, things settling for a bit now. Christmas done and dusted (aren't I a smug so-an-so? :-))

Oh god, not another one! I'm dreading it this year!
My dads having his do on 13th!
I'm working Xmas, which'll be fun, it usually is!