What a difference a day makes.

Peet, it was bad enough to realise that I had started 'blogging' when I came onto GOY and you tell me that I am also 'social networking'? You guys will have me texting next (not much chance) :-o).

Poor crocus flowers ~ all flattened.

Peet, Peat, Pete ~

I'm glad you're enjoying Grows On You and Grows on You and GOY and GoY. Lol.

Seems your garden records are going to be very impressive.

Enjoy GoY. :o)

Sorry, Bulbaholic. Stop. But don't worry. Stop. Texting isn't so bad. Stop. It's just the equivalent of a telegram. Stop. 8-)

After the heavy rain we had a heavy frost too. I think I've lost a lot of my fuchsias this winter. I don't mind rain but I hate frost and snow. I hope we don't get any more now.

GoY/GOY is an education in itself. I've learnt some new words - lol, omg, lamo ( or is it loma ? )
And I've learnt there are little faces that look sideways at you. I have a permanent crick in my neck from trying to look them in the eye. :o)

Welcome to GoY . Oh and I nearly set the house on fire a few weeks ago because I went to look at the photos on this site and forgot I'd turned the oven on.

Best wishes, Hywel.

Hi Peet - it's lovely to meet you. Yes - we've got awful weather down here as well. Like you, it tipped it down yesterday and the wind screamed!!! Today started sunny but noew it is SNOWING!! No gardening for me I fear, and I have plenty to do out there!

You are so right - I've been a member for what seems a lifetime - and I use the 'my garden' section as a catalogue of plants. Very useful to check back and find out what did well or what didn't. I have an awful lot of garden photos too -

I have had messages from poor souls who have tried looking through them all but have passed out and needed a large brandy to recover! LOL ;-)

Hi Peet,

I only joined GoY last month and I love it here. Im gradually uploading my plants too and its making me realise just how many species I have actually got - I just didnt realise.
We had the wind last night as well - really fierce gusts so loads of sticks to clear up! -

Love your spud picture!!

Hi peet welcome to GOY

This morning our crocus etc were laid low by the snow. Since then it has been generally bright and sunny, though cold, and most of the crocus have recovered well.

Hello Peet....Welcome to GOY..GoY...gOy...goy. Glad you are enjoying it here with all us wacky gardeners.
Sorry to hear about your nasty weather....please don't send it this way....my snow is finally just starting to melt.
Your crocus look sad but at least you got to see them standing tall and looking lovely for a while before they got flattened. :o)

Hello Peet, Welcome to GoY. I'm also new & did my first blog yesterday, but your's is much more interesting. PamD.

Hi Peet,
I've just been looking at the Garden section of your homepage. I can see it makes sense to list things you have growing and it is interesting for others to know what you have in your garden.
The reason I haven't done it is because mostly I don't have a clue what the common name for a lot of my plants is, let alone the proper name.
However, you have prompted me to have a go, so tomorrow I shall have a look for an 'A' to begin with.

yes Peet...our crocuses were flattened too ! : (..Snow here tonight too,but only a flutter...oh well...lets see what tomorrow brings !

hi pete, i have also started listing mine. it is the kick up the bum i needed. i have tried several times of the year to do it in a nice book but always fell by the wayside. i have tried grouping mine by genus as i have several varities of the same species.
enjoyed your blog and your photoshop? picture. my hsband does things like that. i thought it was just him.
cheers

Good to see that a few more people have been prompted to add plants to their garden section. I think that the more information there is, the more everyone can learn from each other: if you have success in a particular area of the garden (shady/wet etc), that is always helpful information. I wonder if a 'garden plan' section on the site would be useful?

As for the avatar (picture of me), once you start messing about with Photoshop, it's very difficult to stop. You can get some great effects with very little work. I'll upload a few more in the next day or so...