Foggy Days

                                        The beach

So , I've had three or four days of migraine misery and I'm now at the feeling washed out stage after it  .

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And the weather kind of matches how I'm feeling ....ugh .....

 It is foggy .........

                          Looking out to sea along the cliffs

                                 ......... this is day two of fogginess .

 It's not unheard of for it to hang around for two weeks . We didn't let it stop us from getting out for our walk .

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Anyway ,

 My new string has arrived !  I know that most of you out there won't understand ,  but look at it ! 🤩    Isn't it gorgeous ? !   😃  I'm in love !  

                   This little bit of string is making me feel SO happy !

Next year I will fix up this paracord before the cucumbers get scrabbling !

                    There are lots of flowers and fruits on them now .

 I fixed up the paracord and went round gently resting the cucumber vines on and around it . They can now climb up to the roof and over to the other side .

Everything is happily rambling , Epiphyllums ,  Bowiea volubilis , Tomatoes , Passiflora manicata , Hylocereus undatus , cucumbers .

             Wonderful ! There is a feeling of happiness in my greenhouse . 

            All is well .....

  So long as I can get in to water everything , everybody happy !

The cucumbers I'm growing ----

  Cucumbers - Merlin are about 7" and Carmen F1 about 13" to 16"                  

We are getting one every other day now . This is  Cucumber Carmen F1 . My granddaughter taking this one down to the kitchen . They are beautiful !

 My grandchildren have been great ! 

             They  have been so helpful weeding the gravel area for me .

         The garden is full of lovely flowers now .

We did have one lovely sunny day , but the wind was so strong and cold .

          The wind scorched back the leaves of my Voodoo lilies . 

....This Sauromatum venosum  voodoo lily had it's beautiful spathe snapped backwards .....such a shame ...these are fascinating plants .

Over in the shed ...

I am keeping a close eye on those Epiphyllum cuttings .

Epiphyllum Marilyn Monroe is growing away merrily, but not staying inside the plant support I gave her . No flower buds this year .  Maybe later on .

Nice new shoots and I have a cutting for my brother .🌿

Agaves again !  🌿

        Re-potting my bigger Agaves and potting up these tiny off shoots .

They should grow away happily now . 

                 Happy little Agave pups .

Some of the others that I tidied up . I really need more horticultural grit. It is so expensive . These need to have really good drainage .  This will have to do for the time being .

                      This makes me chuckle !

Disaster in the woodshed . Someone overloaded the shelving and I walked in to find it collapsed .

       I managed to recover most of the plants . Just one pelargonium smashed . 

    I want to get all of these plants out and into the garden as soon as possible .

 Cosmos , Hollyhocks , Pelargoniums and even the Dahlias if I can manage it .

           Another little job to do .   I'll show you tomorrow  . 

                            Cheerio fer now !  

                            Peace and Love  💐Debbie xxx

      No one's looking at this , you're all watching football !

                               

  

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Pottering about in the Greenhouse

I had planned to pull out my sewing things and do some patchwork , but I went up to open up the greenhouse window and ended up taking down the insulation from the greenhouse rafters and pottering about watering and checking on things and marvelling at things and making fresh plans and and and ... you know how it goes !

                      Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri 

 This was a small cutting from my mum's plant over twenty years ago ....and hers was a cutting from my grandmother's plant . 

It has been a blaze of red flame-like star flowers for several weeks now ! 

I think most people know this as an Easter Cactus .

 With those flame like flowers it is more of a Pentecost Cactus than an Easter Cactus . 

Up in the greenhouse the Tomatoes need watering , they're doing well .

 

  I am feeding them now at about every other watering .

I want to make sure everything has been watered before the up coming warmer temperatures this coming weekend .

 If we get more rain , that too will be good to refill the water barrels over night .

I may have lost one of the ferns under the end bench .  I need to pull that out and see if I can revive it . I have a very delicate Epiphyllum under there ... can't remember what it is . Might be Epiphyllum oxypetalum  🤔I need to pull it out and check the label . I'll do that tomorrow .

 

I still need to get my little fountain going in there ! That can be a job for my grandson when he next comes to visit .....also to see if there are any potatoes in my spud-tubs !

Everything is looking healthy and lush .

Bowiea volubilis is going crazy now along with my one remaining Passiflora manicata . The others were/still are outside , not sure if they survived the winter , need to check on them . Meanwhile Passiflora manicata in the greenhouse is very happy and I will sort out a more permanent place for it in there in due course .

So at the moment , everything is scrabbling about together happily ....and I don't mind !

                                  Plants of all nations !

                Polacanthus dinosaur on snail munching duty 🐌

Cucumber vine sneaking across to say "hello" to the Sweet Peppers . 

I took down the winter insulation from along the greenhouse rafters . That is now  rolled up and stored away to be reused next winter . 

 I leave the shade netting up along this side of the greenhouse , for the Epies , ferns and the more shade loving plants .

  This will give more light in for the cacti , sweet peppers and tomato plants on the other side .

The Cucumbers are doing brilliantly ..all over the place !

 I'm waiting for the postman to deliver a nice bundle of paracord . Then I can fix up some gentle support for them .

But it's o.k. I can still get in and move around in there to tend to them all .

I forgot to take that Cucumber today . I'll take it tomorrow for our salad .

A huge Nasturtium has popped up in one pot . Where have you come from ? 

I didn't sow any Nasturtium seeds ..I wonder what colour that will be ?

A few more Agaves to  tidy up and re-pot .This one is Agave americana .

 This is a beauty ! I don't know which variety it is . It is a very slow growing one .

But then Agaves stay small until you repot them and then they quickly grow to fill the new bigger pot ! 

  I might take this one out and give it a much grander size pot . 

If you plant them out into the garden ......

                       ...they can quickly grow to the size of a mini car !

                 That's all fer today folks !

               🌿🕊️  Love and Peace and a bit more sunshine ☀️💐🌿

                                          love Debbie  x

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Epiphyllums in the Greenhouse - update

 

                Epiphyllum Curt Backeberg beginning to fade now .

I always feel a bit sad when these flowers begin to fade and wither away .

                    Epiphyllum Clown

However , it will be exciting to see what comes from having crossed these two beauties .

The flower is withering away , but the seedpod is swelling .

                                       Epiphyllum Yellow

I also pollenated the bottom two flowers of this one . Named and sold to me as being E.Yellow , although it is actually very pale yellow on the outer petals and more ivory on the inner petals  .

  I would like to rename it Epiphyllum  Cornish Clotted Cream !

So I pollenated it with this one below ......

.....which was sold to me as E. Acapulco Sunset .  Sadly, as it turns out , I don't think it is Acapulco Sunset .  It is a Giant variety for sure and these giant ones are hard to find here in the U.K.

  These were the only flowers open at the same time .  I only pollenated the two bottom flowers of the one on the left. Epiphyllum Yellow . There was plenty of pollen .

And here are the seed pods forming .

The two unpollinated flowers dropped off completely . 

Very exciting to see these seed pods swelling !

The ripening can take between six and twelve months . Exciting ! 

 To be updated !  

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