noooooo

[captainbovine]

:_| I've never seen so much rain as it's put down here tonight!!! good grief!! where on earth is the summer, I'm getting right fed up with this weather I don't know about youX-(

moosie, I'd watch your lavendars in this weather, they don't like it soggy do they?

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[bitsnknots]

It was raining this morning when I got up at 7am and it finally stopped about an hour ago.  It wasn't heavy just constant drizzle.  This weather is absolutely ridiculous.  As I said on the gardening thread, this time last year, our lupins were in flower.  This year, they're not even in bud yet.

[captainbovine]

I've bought three foxglove plants and I doubt I'll see flowers at this rate, if I do they'll be about 1" high:^O

[mandymoosie]

Mooos to you CB :-x

I've got me wellies on......was wearing me flip flops but me hooves were getting soggy 😉

My lavender is doing just fine, it's growing really well, think I've cracked it this time 😄 if it rains a lot I move it under shelter so it doesn't get soggy 🙂

Know what ya mean though.............I'm fed up to me udders with this weather 😞

Gawd.......all this talk of soggy..........I need the cooooo ladies room :^O

[bitsnknots]

We have a couple of foxgloves but we didn't buy them - we think that the birds brought them in. 

Hope that you manage to get yours planted soon - that is if the rain would stop.  If ever.

[mandymoosie]

Snap CB.........I've just planted some Fox Gloves too. Without sun though, not sure how they'll do ?:| :-x

[bitsnknots]

Mandy, I love the cow in wellies.  That's brill.  :^O

[mandymoosie]

Chris we have some flowers that we think the birds must have seeded. Got some lovely Snap Dragons just coming out into bloom now, a pale yellow colour.

It's lovely when we get little surprises like that 😄

[mandymoosie]

Mandy, I love the cow in wellies.  That's brill.  :^O

Oh you like them then Chris??

I wasn't too sure of the colour, was going to get black but then you wouldn't have been able to see where me belly started or finished 😉 :^O

[kiss*my*pixel]

Snap CB.........I've just planted some Fox Gloves too. Without sun though, not sure how they'll do ?:| :-x

I've tried several times with Foxgloves over the years, year before last, planted some seeds I bought at the Chelsea Flower Show, thinking they might be more successful, but nope. They grew, flowered, looked beautiful, never to be seen again!

I also love lavender - some grows for a couple of years, then dies off. I grew some from seed, seemed to be doing well, then ...................................... dies 😞

We have pretty soggy soil, but I do try to put it in the drier areas of the garden. Very disheartening.

[bitsnknots]

We didn't buy our foxglove seeds - we think that the birds brought them in and they come up every year.  Strange isn't it?

[10phizz]

My foxgloves grow in troughs, in cracks in the paving, NEVER where I want them, I transplant them to where I want. You do know they are biennials ?.............are you weeding them out by mistake ?

[bitsnknots]

Ours keep coming up in the same place year in year out. 

Must admit to feeling cold at the moment.  Methinks that I'll be going to bed soon so that I can warm up.

[*chez*]

Borrowed this from a neighbour.....

taken in our street ( a suburb of Croydon) no where near a pond, lake or river! Must be good weather for Ducks!

[bitsnknots]

Definitely good weather for ducks.  We sometimes get a couple of ducks waddling along our road.  The nearest water to where I live is a brook about a mile away.  We even get them when there's been no rain.

[captainbovine]

I saw a pheasant last year wandering past my lounge window...he looked like he was going the shops:^O gawd, they're daft birds them.....

It's still raining now...I'm off to bed for a sulk...well no a good sleep I hope, I seem to have joined the scaitica club:^O

[fishpieface]

Oh Chez, look at them daft ducks!  We have a pair that come to the green near us every year too, not that close to water although there are a couple of little ponds over the fields between us and the M25.

It poured down here all day yesterday, the sun came out just in time to set!

The weather has killed all my seedlings but I've some cosmos that have self-seeded but they're not doing very well, still very small.

With lavender, for those who have it, when the summer comes to an end (ie., yesterday!), no at end September/October, cut the lavender down ruthlessly, I mean chop off everything until there is only about 3/4inches of plant left.  The next year it comes up again prolifically (a lot, incase that isn't a word!), with less woody stalks and loads of flowers.  Cut dead flowers off and the lavender will probably flower again, sometimes twice again, in the season.  They seem to be able to cope with dry (unless we're talking desert conditions) but don't like getting waterlogged.  I learnt all that when I visited a lavender farm, tried it and it's worked.