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| Andy Murrays Epic Match 30 June 2009 | 09:11 |
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Am totally exhausted this morning after watching Andy Murrays epic match at Wimbledon on TV last night. Lasted 4 minutes short of 4 hours and I swear I played every shot with him! Poor Andy, I hope he managed to get a good sleep last night ready for the quarters on Wednesday. Talk about Braveheart, he showed immense courage and looked very emotional at the end. Well done Andy!
Must try and get in the garden today (was far too hot to stay out for more than a few minutes yesterday, and it looks like it is hotter today) Have bought some expensive strong mesh to make covers for my veg polytunnels, hoping to keep the slugs and snails off my lettuces. They have managed to get inside the greenhouse and demolish many lettuce plants. Havent managed to find the right size covers for my tunnels, so decided to make some from the enviromesh i bought from http://www.gardening-naturally.com/ Will have to get the sewing machine out today I think before I dont have any salad crops left. My tunnels are 2 metres long x 1 metre wide and about 32 inches high, and I have looked everywhere for replacement covers (fleece and mesh). I also have some cheap smaller tunnels I bought from the Pound Shop, which are about 2m long but not very wide or high, just right for lettuces, so I think I may use the metal arches from these to make smaller tunnels for the lettuce, and make sure I dig some of the enviromesh down into the soil to stop those pests! Photos to follow hopefully!
| Heat & Hail | 12:12 |
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lower photo is a californian poppy, either champagne and roses or summer sorbet. Others are all papaver somniferums.
Has been very hot and stifling and at tea time when I was settling down to watch Andy Murray at Wimbledon on the tv when it decided to thunder down golf ball sized hail for at least an hour. Thunder, lightning and floods later, managed to wade through the water and take Max my German Shepherd into the garden. The garden was devastated by the hail and most of my poppies and roses were snapped off or bedraggled. My potato patch was completely flattened as I havent been earthing up as much as I should have but amazingly the sweetcorn is still standing upright. Luckily took some photos of the poppies yesterday morning so have a record of whats what. Will just have to be content with seedheads for next year now :( Well at least Andy Murray won and very convincingly too! :)
| What a month | 12:01 |
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Havent posted for a month because I ruined my camera..the usb lead was squashed and I forced it in only to ruin the camera port and losing all my photos on the internal memory. So have bought some memory cards now. But lost beautiful pics of some of my newer oriental poppies.
Last Sunday went to Brighton and spent 5 hours on a one hour coach journey. Two accidents and 27,000 bike riders on the London to Brighton Bike Race later.....Only 2 and half hours to come home, no accidents, just 27,000 bike riders put their 27,000 bikes on top of their 27,000 cars and all decided to come our way. Have you ever been on pavements and piers where all 27,000 bike riders seem to be going in the opposite direction to you? It wasnt nice...I was prodded and poked with more pieces of bikes that I care to remember!
Went to Royal Pavilion with dad and son Damon. Been before with Kate years ago. Cant take photos inside which is silly because it is so beautiful and striking. Took photos outside but doesnt do the building justice as you just cant fit it all in, but managed to get dad in front of one of the domes!
| Fish,Rain and Gertrude Jekyll | 17:02 |
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Torrential rain this morning and at 6 am I had to get 19 fish out of pond as pump was broken and they had been gasping poor things. I looked a sorry sight when I finished at 6.45, soaked with rain and dirty pond water!
The roses are looking lovely in the very strong breeze today. Gertrude Jekyll has about 100 blooms and buds,and Madame Gregoire Stachelin is so gorgeous. Souvenir du Dr Jamain is out, only two lovely dark roses so far (which are much darker than the photo), as I moved this rose along with several others earlier in the year. Constance Spry is just beginning, but Max my german shepherd chased a fox over the fence last night and the fox broke two large stems off.
Two slow worms decided to have a rest in the shade yesterday (beautiful and hot yesterday, what a change from today) One, the male I assume, has the females neck in his mouth.
Planted my courgettes and cucumbers into the ground in the greenhouse and potted on tomatoes, aubergines and various peppers today. Cant wait to try out my own produce this year.
| Anniversay of Mums death 23 May | 16:56 |
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On the morning of the anniversary of Mums death, her red oriental poppies flowered (which were seedlings from my ones) The year she died mine flowered on the day of her funeral June 16th and I placed one on her grave, so they are earlier this year.
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It has been a very beautiful day today in my little part of the garden of England. Except that is for the 3 half eaten birds that fell from the sky courtesy of the peregrine or it might have been a sparrowhawk (where's Bill Oddie when you need him!) Well, it was the one that hovers. And I was attacked by unripe cherries that flew from the strimmer and went like bullets in my head.... Max my German Shepherd had left torn parts of his footballs over the lawn the last time I mowed, and the mower is now redundant in the shed, hence the strimmer.
Constance Spry has started to flower, and Madame Gregoire Stachelin has quite a few blooms hanging their heavy heads from under the wisteria, their scent wafting in the light breeze. Sweet rocket is quite luminous in the half dusk and is quite beautiful in shades of whites and pinks. My original old dark red peonies which me and mum dug up from old Victorian houses which were being demolished 30 odd years ago are in full bloom, and peony Sarah Bernhardt is not far behind. Rose de Rescht has had one solitary bloom and Gertrude Jekyll just gets better each year. I moved quite a few roses late last year so a few are taking their time to settle, and sadly lost the huge Pauls Scarlet Climber that mum had stuck in as a hardwood cutting for me years ago. I have replaced it but it wont be the same, as I lost mum as well, two years ago this Saturday 23rd May. I feel closest to mum in the garden as we used to sit on the hammock and bird watch.
I am growing quite a few fruit and veg this year - havent grown veg since my son Damon and I moved here 27 years ago, when we planted lots of potatoes and onions and not much else! In the greenhouse courgettes are already setting, and ive planted out minipop sweetcorns today. Lots of different tomatoes ready to flower and cucumbers,peppers and aubergines coming on slower.Red Onions, spring onions, lettuce, runner beans,broad beans and peas all coming along nicely. Strawberries, raspberries, thornless blackberries, a single tayberry and gooseberries all beginning to fruit. I moved my large grapevine and hoping it will fruit.... Well daughter Kate has just said it looks like i am writing a novel, so i will end my first blog here
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