The Good Life (gardening chat)
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Planting out is a fucking mine field. I've spent weeks tending marigold and cerinthe, cosmos and cornflowers, and between the heat and the slugs, it's a bloody turkey shoot
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Bloody squirrels have dug up a load of my bulbs, again.
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They are such gits for this! Are they gifting them to your neighbours do you think?
Mine sometimes rearrange my bulbs within my own garden as if they're critiquing my design skills. This year two alliums have popped up in the middle of the japanese anemones. There have never been any there before.
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I have also had some bulbs I definitely didn't plant turn up. One year I got daffodils in the middle of my (black) lilyturf - it was very nicely designed. However more often they dig things up by planting their nuts right by a new plant, where the soil has been loosened. I'm protecting new plants with a triangle of bricks around them so they physically can't dig them up, but there's not always room. And yes, what they haven't buggered, the slugs have had.
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I have had a couple of random things pop up. My neighbours have no pots so who knows where mine go.
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I was going to ask, you're a few floors up aren't you?!
I do not get squirrels here. Just foxes and cats.
I do not get squirrels here. Just foxes and cats.
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Three. They climb the tiny stones on the roughcast finish of the building, I've had one peek in the bedroom window at me before. I didn't think they'd come up this high but they have delighted in proving me wrong.
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Wow, cheeky buggers!
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That's amazing
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They are such amazing, naughty little acrobats.
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My front garden is having its moment. Roses, peonies, foxgloves, verbena, black sambuca, some iris type thing I nicked out of my sisters old garden That peony smells amazing.
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It really is! It looks fab.
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It looks glorious Smal.
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That looks beautiful!
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Oh, those poppies. It's all looking stunning.
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The poppies are amazing, I've got another clump of the same one at the back. The bees LOVE them.
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That looks so good, Smal!
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So pretty!
My veg plants ordered months ago have arrived. That’s my evening sorted then.
My veg plants ordered months ago have arrived. That’s my evening sorted then.
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Exciting!