Outside plants come indoors

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Cheers to Debby H for letting us know that she’s now brought in most of the tender plants from her garden what with the weather starting to get a lot colder now. In the above picture, on the left are all of the tender plants from outside and on the right, a view of the rack with house plants on it. As Debby said “Most people use stools to eat at their breakfast bar. We have given our stools over to the larger plants!” Brilliant!
The outside plants in more detail, nearest to the camera the canna lilly, an orange tree, two lemon trees and the two strelitzias furthest away.

Above are the two strelitzias, which she said are not that overly keen on direct sunlight when outdoors, “Strangely they like being outside, but they don’t like full sun. We have to keep them in the shade or the leaves go brown and crispy.” The actual plants were grown from seed as well and we do love the moveable circular platforms that the pots are standing on. It’s a great idea for moving plants around to follow the sun. Our mate in Berlin, Phil Harmony uses the same method with all his plants on a platform so he can wheel them about his patio.

(Above) “This shows the orchid and cactus with the plant rack behind them. Again, the orchid must be kept out of full sunshine.”
“It’s a bit cramped but we have managed to squeeze everything in.” she noted. We think the plants will thank you with lots of growth and flowers next year for keeping them in the warmth Debby, they will! Great stuff and thanks for sending us the pictures!

Waiting for gobbo

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Was feeling in need of a cheer up this week so we went to the theatre to see that feelgood classic Waiting for Godot...(!) Yesterday we got into conversation with someone and asked “If Beckett was into punk what would have been his favourite band?” (Samuel Beckett does look a bit on the punk tip in some photographs). We came to the conclusion it may have been Wire. What do you reckon? Would he have liked the Pork Dukes, Sham 69 or The Stranglers? Answers on the back of a postcard (preferably one with a pink haired mohican punk on it) please.

The Blue Peter Garden at the grass roots of dub

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Here’s a new mix from One Deck Pete called “An introduction to Dub Gardening” and goes out to all dub gardeners everywhere and we welcome contact from (dub and non dub) gardeners wherever they may be. Dedicated to the late Percy Thrower.
The mix features:
Augustus Pablo – Melody Dub
Soulware – Augmented Seed (Dub Version)
Biggabush – Beat Dem in Dub
Jasmine Tutum & Madtone – Return to the Branches (no hams mix)
Vassell Meka – Flowers Dub
Madtone – Compost your mind

We’re not completely sure where the Dub Gardening phrase originates from but it may (or may not and we apologise if it was somebody else) have something to our good friend across the pond Dr Strangedub (alongside DJ baby Swiss) who brings you the The Echo Chamber which is broadcast on KFAI every Wednesday morning from 8 am-Noon UK time here.

A good few ago the good doctor put together a gardening related mix called In The Garden of dub which is below and has also been featured up on Weeds a few times but well worth posting up again! Features lots of artists inluding Singers & Players (ft. Prince Far I), Earlyworm, Madtone, Finn The Giant, Juno Gad Allstars meet Earlyworm, Leroy Sibbles, Jah Wobble, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Bakshish, DubXanne (ft. Ranking Roger) and lots lots more. Big shout to all dub gardeners.

Gathering a beat for a cold thursday morning

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Cheers to Gerry Hectic for sending this over, a track with nice vibes for a cold Thursday morning here in SE23. It’s Leaf Erickson with The Gathering (featuring John Robinson, D Strong & Wildelux). Great stuff Gerry!

Cosmos taking over

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Hi to Debby H for sending us pictures of the state of play in her garden when it comes to continuing cosmos flowers at the moment and it is really crazy stuff. All the garden borders have the plants in them and the volunteer/self seeded one in the north bed has the most amazing colour (above).

“I have borders on 3 sides of my lawn, and there are cosmos flowers in all of them, including the northern border where I didn’t even plant any!” said Debby. They really are brilliant and as we said a few posts ago we ask our readers to send us some cosmos pictures next year, wherever you are in the world. Cheers Debby, you’ve started off a growing cosmos trend hopefully!

Redistribution of gardening wealth

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One of the best things about this gardening lark is when people pass on things and we’ve picked up all sort of stuff from out in the street or left on garden walls with a “Take me” note on it. We’ve found gardening tools, a very strange coatstand that works as support for climbing plants (here) and even our silver birch that is growing so tall now (here).

In the last week we’ve kindly been given some seeds (Cheers Debby H!) and the other night we happily received a couple of bags (pic above) of Russet Apples (Cheers Adrienne!) which we’ve never tasted before and were very pleasantly suprised when we had them with some frozen berries (found at the bottom of the freezer) with a sponge top.

So keep that circle-a-turning and if you’ve got something that you don’t need, pass it/them on!

There’s a cat in me firebowl what am I gonna do?

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We had a bit of a burn up in the firebowl last night alongside £30’s worth of Lldl fireworks thet seemed to go in about 5 minutes. We got rid of a lot of old tree prunings and the side of an ancient shed that was plonked by the compost heap for the last year or so (below).

The top picture was what we woke up to this morning! Our cat had been there for hours we reckon and spent a lot off today there too. It must have been warm at one point…

Custodians of the cosmos

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Cheers to Debby H for influencing us here at Weeds to grow that plant with a lovely flower called cosmos. We’ve only got one flower on ours at the moment (above) but we’re not complaining, as it is November.

We had a daft idea here, to make 2025 “The year of the cosmos”. So next year we’d love to see lots of cosmos pictures and we could even do a cosmos from around the world feature. Spread the word to “Make the cosmos come alive in 2025” (and boy do we love a cliche here!)

And here are 3 great cosmos tracks:

 

 

Now here’s a view!

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Cheers to our man in the Lake District Rich R, for sending this wonderful picture from when he visited Hawes in North Yorkshire last week. As he wrote “This is on the main street!” Blimmin’ eck, what a view. Beats the usual McDonalds, Asda and the like and imagine that as the view out of your front room window. Excellent stuff Rich.