Garden Waste (Les Barker)

Hi Sid
It has taken me years to organize my compost bin and I have outgrown it in my first year. I need about half a dozen bins, plus a larger area to burn branches.
I need a bigger garden to deal with the off-cuts.
We are supplied with brown compost bins in Glasgow and I have filled three plus five black bags to refill the brown bins once they have been emptied on the 24th March and six smaller blue bags.
I also have a large collection of slugs and snails!

Wonderful poem,fantastic photos, thank you for making me smile :o)))))

You have bin busy Les, and not just a poet you're pretty good at colour combinations too.

certainly did :0) Sid!

Lovely pics and brilliant poem, certainly made me smile, must look up Les Barker :-)))) I love your pokers, do you know their name?

Linda - you sound organised! I just about manage with 2 compo bins....plus fairly regular visits to the tip!!

Heron - thank you, but I'm not Les, I'm Sid. lol

Bornagain - thanks - the poker is 'Northern Lights'.

Very funny Sid, love your garden photos.

Is that the Les Barker who does the hilarious "guide Cats for the blind " ?
Your photos are beautiful. : o ) )

You have a really beautiful garden, helped no doubt by the compost you keep digging in. I loved your poem too but I have to say I couldn`t pick up a slug...lol! :o)

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Lovely pics aswell

lol i have just added another tier to my compost frame so that strikes a familiar chord

Loved it, Sarah - and the photos too...your garden looks fantastic! :-))))

Brilliant, really made me laugh. Lovely photographs of your garden, beautiful full flower beds.

Great!! Brilliant!! I love it!!
Beautiful garden pics.....would you like to come and look after my garden???

Brilliant poem! After a liberal spread of sheep manure on our vegetable garden I found myself yelling at the tomatoes and beans, one summer's day when my partner was on the balcony waving a G&T at me , "Stop Now! Let me rest and enjoy!" :o)) Thanks Sid!

From the magical corner in the first picture, I was stunned by this collection of photos. Nos. 1, 4, 5, 9 and even more specially Nos. 7, 8, 10, 11 must be the best I have ever seen. What a garden !

That was brilliant it made me smile, just what i needed on this damp saturday.
:o)))

I don't think even Lord Byron waxed so lyrical about compost bins.
Brilliant. Your compost works well, looking at your lovely garden in full growth.

Oh how I love your garden Sid, such beautiful planting.

Brill blog i find that no matter how many water butts i have they soon fill up, and could do with more, but it would be endless keeping up with them.

Very funny Sid, know just what you mean, I have four plus a council one and a shredder, also take some to our allotment compost bins, never ending,lol.
Lovely garden, so colourful, and everything looks really healthy, gorgeous :-)

I loved it Sid , LOL... I have two huge 4x4x4 compost boxes plus compost bins the council were selling and it still never seems to be enough ... your mix of flowers look stunning , I saw a snippet in todays newspaper saying that the Ghost Orchid which they thought had long since died out has reappeared in Hereford !! ...

Megan - yes it is! I love Guide Cats for the Blind lol ...also Stamped Addressed Antelope and the one about the zebra called Spot LOL LOL oh and the Y Files!!

Hywel - is that you? You were a fuchsia last time I was on GoY!

Gilli - yes Ok, I'd love to come visit BC ;-)

Gurthburns - thank you very muchly! I trawled through my garden photos from the last couple of years to find the best ones - it really doesn't look this good all over all the time!!

Clarice - yes, I have a lot of water butts too lol

Simbad - he he..you beat me hands down! I JUST ABOUT manage with 2 bins.

Amy - oooo that's very interesting - what paper was it? Maybe I could see it on-line? I know of a few orchid-rich sites and I'd like to do a blog about all the ones I see on my wanderings. Never seen any Ghosts tho lol

Lol...trust you to give us all a laugh Sid !

'Extinct' ghost orchid found in Herefordshire wood

The ghost orchid has been reclassified as "critically endangered"
A rare wildflower has been found in Herefordshire.

A ghost orchid, a pale plant with no leaves, has been found in an oak wood in the county.

Plantlife, a conservation charity, had thought the flower to be extinct in the UK, as the last recorded sighting was in Buckinghamshire in 1986.

A spokesman said the sighting was wonderful news but added one plant did not mean the species was growing in great numbers.

He added the plant had now been reclassified as critically endangered rather than extinct.

The orchid's location is being kept secret.

Hi Sid , I have copied and pasted the article for you , our local Newspaper is www.EDP24.co.uk

Thanks for that Amy - I know of Plantlife, they do some good work. But no wonder the Ghost Orchid is in trouble not having any leaves??!!

great poem and you have a wonderful garden

What a great poem - really made me smile!!

Glad to give you a grin Gs :-)

~ I have no where for a compost bin and have to throw all sorts of green stuff and soil from empty pots which does seem a shame..Love the poem and pics from your garden.

Great blog Sid, cheered me up no end and I especially liked the combo's with Miss Willmott. Wonderful planting. :-))

Arlene - thanks! Shame you've nowhere for a compo bin - I'd be lost without my 'dumping ground'!

Thanks Muddy - Miss Willmott pops up where she likes, so that combo was more luck than judgement lol