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Sorry forgot to mention that I do have a budget for the work

Anyone interested in chipping this lot. Its plum and cherry mostly 2-3" diameter. Chippings can stay on site as its a school and they want to use the chippings to create a path for the kids. Can you please let me know if interested and pm me to discuss. Many thanks:001_smile:

Mice can also do some serious damage if they get inside the hive.

Big thanks to the guys at Skyland Equipment,really helpful and friendly. Great to have an arb equipment supplier close by rather than buying from the run of the mill lawn mower specialists.

Been a bumper year for blackberries, bought some cheap vodka from Asia and got the gin from Aldi (award winning stuff). Will check the album out cheers for the tip.

Sweet, has the ink dried yet?:

Haha that's awesome:thumbup:

Just making damson port using mackesons, damsons n sugar

It's wild comb created by a swarm probably in the warmer weeks earlier this year. Sadly as the temp drops the bees die off because the comb is in the open and not in the more usual hollow of a tree or other void. Being in the open they can't sustain a constant temp between 32 to 35 degrees and so the bees chill and die. In the hive bees keep the temp constant throughout the year, they use any honey to keep up their energy and so if they run out of honey as a food they die off, we have to give our bees sugar solution in the winter to help keep them going. These bees probably died off through a combination of running out of food and the exhaustion through trying to keep warm.

:lol: remember to drink water before you go sleep

These are really cool.

Probably not the right forum but I did buy the ms150 as a carving saw. Not used it to carve properly yet but it has been truly awesome in dropping a mature cherry, thinned a laburnum hedge And took out mature buddleia:001_smile: that had overgrown the hedge. Next week I'm using it to drop a multi stemmed mature plum tree.

Remember always wanting a table top version where you knocked the skittles by swinging a small wooden ball attached to a pole,it was great fun as a kid. Also played skittles every night down in Somerset when leading a hedgelayin course,again great fun. Hope you get plenty of orders

Quality work mate well done.

I put half the flags down for my garage yesterday. Been trying to get the garage built for sometime now.everytime I get stuck into it work gets in the way.

Today was a kickback day so I collected in the damsons, apples and greengage. Made 60 jars of damson jam, 30 jars of greengage jam, 4 litres of damson gin and 2 demijohns of Cizzer. :thumbup:Christmas is a coming.

List from RHS has proved useful ANNUALS Borage (Borago officinalis); buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); Californian poppy (Eschscholzia californica); candytuft (Iberis spp.); China aster (Callistephus chinensis); larkia (Clarkia spp.); cornflower (Centaurea cyanus); cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus); forget-me-not (Myosotis spp.); Gilia capitata; godetia (Clarkia spp.); heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens); love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena); mignonette (Reseda odorata); Nemophila menziesii; Phacelia spp.; poached egg plant (Limnanthes douglasii); sunflower (Helianthus annuus); sweet sultan (Amberboa moschata); zinnia (Zinnia elegans). BIENNIALS French honeysuckle (Hedysarum coronarium); hollyhock - single flowered (Alcea rosea); honesty (Lunaria annua); wallflower (Erysimum spp.). HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS Agastache foeniculum; Alyssum spp.; Anchusa azurea; Arabis spp.; Aubrieta spp.; bellflowers (Campanula spp.); catmints (Nepeta spp.); cranesbill (Geranium spp.); dahlia single-flowered cultivars; fleabane (Erigeron spp.); Geum spp.; globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus); globe thistle (Echinops ritro); golden rod (Solidago spp.); Gypsophila paniculata; Helenium spp.; hellebores (Helleborus spp.); ice plant (Sedum spectabile); Jacob's ladder (Polemonium caeruleum); Japanese anemone (Anemone × hybrida); lambs’ ears (Stachys byzantina); leopard's bane (Doronicum spp.); Liatris spicata; lungwort (Pulmonaria spp.); Michaelmas daisies (Aster spp.); oriental poppy (Papaver orientale); Monarda punctata; Persicaria amplexicaulis; Rudbeckia spp.; Salvia × superba; scabious (Scabiosa spp.); sea hollies (Eryngium spp.); Sidalcea malviflora; thrift (Armeria maritima); Veronica longifolia; white horehound (Marrubium vulgare); Verbena bonariensis.

Dean get some Agastache, very nectar rich. Also try some Buddleia Globosa, We keep honey bees and these are two of the favourites not only for our honey bees but also the bumblers and butterflies. Add in red clover and you'll be on a winner. I have a list of plants for bees that I can post or pm you if you need. Good luck

Hey Big AL Not sure if this is the correct way to post pics but I go to the forum that I want to add a new post or thread to. I click on the box at the top of the page that says new thread and then add your title and your discussion or what ever you want to raise, scroll down on and you'll see an additional items box in there you'll see manage attachments and thats where you add your pics. Hope this helps, Im not that far from you just outside sunny Ormskirk.

Congratulations Mr B. Thoroughly deserved, the site is a credit to you and the hard work you put in. It has brought the industry together and is a superb source of knowledge, support and the occasional mickey take, most of all its a joy to be a part of so thanks again and well done.

Sea buckthorn has small clusters of orange berries and an awful lot of spikes. The leaves are also smaller due them normally growing in much harsher coastal environments. Google sea buckthorn images and see the difference

:thumbup1:hope they tasted great

I use the stihl not sure the model but its the mid range with the wind out hose and used with rotating nozzle will take the skin off your toes. Paid around £350 for it only to find that the NIlsfix is basically the same machine with the main parts made by Stihl and much cheaper. It's an awesome piece of kit. A must for block paving is the kiln dried sand mixed with the fine grain rock salt. Keeps the weeds and moss away.

Have picked the Damsons ready to go to make Damson gin and the Aldi Gin is the best.

Its a jewel of a park. Some facts about the park on here South Liverpool: Allerton (Calderstones Park)