I like Joe 

Baz posted:

I like Joe 

Me too 

We used to have a beautiful choisya tenants in our front garden ...Mr B dug it out for the new drive 

Baz posted:

We used to have a beautiful choisya tenants in our front garden ...Mr B dug it out for the new drive 

You new driveway does look lovely though.

Haha, top secret gardening 

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Baz posted:

Easier to get some from the garden centre 

 tbh used to make jam but CBA now chutney the same

 I haven’t made jam or chutney for a few years, and MrY hasn’t done any pickling either.

give up as well

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

We used to have a beautiful choisya tenants in our front garden ...Mr B dug it out for the new drive 

You new driveway does look lovely though.

Yes, but so did my choisya ...and it smelled lovely in spring 

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

We used to have a beautiful choisya tenants in our front garden ...Mr B dug it out for the new drive 

You new driveway does look lovely though.

its gorgeous yogi

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

I like Joe 

Me too 

me three

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Baz posted:

Easier to get some from the garden centre 

 tbh used to make jam but CBA now chutney the same

 I haven’t made jam or chutney for a few years, and MrY hasn’t done any pickling either.

give up as well

Nor me ...used to do quite a bit when kids were young , not done any for decades 

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Baz posted:

Easier to get some from the garden centre 

 tbh used to make jam but CBA now chutney the same

 I haven’t made jam or chutney for a few years, and MrY hasn’t done any pickling either.

give up as well

like buddleia

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

We used to have a beautiful choisya tenants in our front garden ...Mr B dug it out for the new drive 

You new driveway does look lovely though.

its gorgeous yogi

It is.

Rocking Ros posted:

like buddleia

Love them 

Baz posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

We used to have a beautiful choisya tenants in our front garden ...Mr B dug it out for the new drive 

You new driveway does look lovely though.

Yes, but so did my choisya ...and it smelled lovely in spring 

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Baz posted:

Easier to get some from the garden centre 

 tbh used to make jam but CBA now chutney the same

 I haven’t made jam or chutney for a few years, and MrY hasn’t done any pickling either.

give up as well

Nor me ...used to do quite a bit when kids were young , not done any for decades 

was an idea just in my last year at my original school - but hmmmm not now

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

What’s a manada ?

Rocking Ros posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Baz posted:

Easier to get some from the garden centre 

 tbh used to make jam but CBA now chutney the same

 I haven’t made jam or chutney for a few years, and MrY hasn’t done any pickling either.

give up as well

Nor me ...used to do quite a bit when kids were young , not done any for decades 

was an idea just in my last year at my original school - but hmmmm not now

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

like buddleia

Love them 

loads of butterflies and bees on them-loads of bees on my lavender as well

Baz posted:

What’s a manada ?

Never seen them before

Someone is having a party ....all I can hear is thump, thump thump 

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

like buddleia

Love them 

loads of butterflies and bees on them-loads of bees on my lavender as well

 The bees have been all over my lavender

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I quite fancy getting a greenhouse 

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I think the weather plays a big part in growing chillies and peppers

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

like buddleia

Love them 

loads of butterflies and bees on them-loads of bees on my lavender as well

 The bees have been all over my lavender

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I quite fancy getting a greenhouse 

I loved mine but the winds every winter caused so much damage

firtle around -not heard firtle for years usually used in a different context

Is that Carol’s garden, it looks lovely.

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I quite fancy getting a greenhouse 

I loved mine but the winds every winter caused so much damage

 only ever had the cheapy plastic ones -would love a perspex one

Rocking Ros posted:

firtle around -not heard firtle for years usually used in a different context

Tell me more 

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I quite fancy getting a greenhouse 

I loved mine but the winds every winter caused so much damage

I could put mine around the side , where it’s sheleterd 

Yogi19 posted:

Is that Carol’s garden, it looks lovely.

yes its gorgeous

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I quite fancy getting a greenhouse 

I loved mine but the winds every winter caused so much damage

 only ever had the cheapy plastic ones -would love a perspex one

I’ve only ever had that sort too Ros ....fancy a proper one ....

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

firtle around -not heard firtle for years usually used in a different context

Tell me more 

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Is that Carol’s garden, it looks lovely.

yes its gorgeous

Yes 

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I quite fancy getting a greenhouse 

I loved mine but the winds every winter caused so much damage

 only ever had the cheapy plastic ones -would love a perspex one

My first one was brick base with glass panes (when we lived right up north) but the second one was Perspex and the gales we get up here broke lots of panels every winter.

Yogi19 posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Yogi19 posted:

I used to grow chillies and peppers when I had my greenhouse. 

tried but wasn't successful - I can't eat either but OH likes peppers

I quite fancy getting a greenhouse 

I loved mine but the winds every winter caused so much damage

 only ever had the cheapy plastic ones -would love a perspex one

My first one was brick base with glass panes (when we lived right up north) but the second one was Perspex and the gales we get up here broke lots of panels every winter.

I had to give my mint a hard chop