Pink snowdrop

[Lesley Cox]

 I don't believe it- I just don't ... pink indeed, huh!    (Attachment Link)

I don't either, any more than I believe there is a "or rarely, blue" Weldenia as was posted recently, a quote I understand from a literary source. No chance!

[Brian Ellis]

Well we'll just have to wait and see.  If I remember correctly some of us heard about it a couple of years ago.  Assuming there was only one it will have to be bulked up - and it may not be an easy one to chip/twinscale so there'll be some wait as yet. As Wim said it's to be called 'Pink Panther' - I'd forgotten that, but like all these so called coloured ones (take 'Joy Cozens' for example) you probably have to see it to realise what and where the tinge is.

I knew I shouldn't have got into this one

[Maggi Young]

I knew I shouldn't have got into this one

Aww, don't fret - good to have the horticultural equivalent of the press "silly season" to cheer us up through the heat and rain!!

[Brian Ellis]

Aww, don't fret - good to have the horticultural equivalent of the press "silly season" to cheer us up through the heat and rain!!

What rain? 

[Maggi Young]

Oh dear - I've hit a sore spot- sorry! We had torrential rain all night and into the morning  the other day - wild electric storms too. The garden really looks so much happier after the downpour. I did think the storms had gone over most of the country...... but not Norfolk, eh?

[Brian Ellis]

Oh dear - I've hit a sore spot- sorry! We had torrential rain all night and into the morning  the other day - wild electric storms too. The garden really looks so much happier after the downpour. I did think the storms had gone over most of the country...... but not Norfolk, eh?

Apparently some areas of Norfolk have had rain, we have had less than a light shower and I am having to water anything that looks as though it is curling up its toes - and that's a lot of things!  The rain seems to happily avoid us most of the time.  I have phone calls from people who say how lovely it is that it is raining and we keep our fingers crossed that it won't fizzle out before it reaches us.  They've even had rain in the next village!  Our time will come no doubt and then I will be wondering when it will stop.  The worst thing is the humidity which I simply can't take.  Ah me!

[Mavers]

I'm filling the cracks in my soil with sharp sand.

Last night I watched six bags of the stuff disappear as I hosed it down the cracks!! 

Hope none of my snowdrops have dropped down them 

Raining a bit here now.

[Maggi Young]

Crikey! Those must be Big Cracks - have you checked on Saffi??

[Mavers]

Crumbs Maggi, I forgot about Saffi.

I wondered where she was this morning


Heehee............ don't worry she's safe round at her granma & grandad's bungalow.............I'll be calling in for her on my way home from work.


The cracks are various lengths but only an inch across at the most, They must have been quite deep to consume so much sand. I thought filling the cracks with sharp sand would be a good way to improve the drainage without having to do any digging....