Plug plants.

Don't talk to me about TalkTalk!

The estate where the Lodge is situated has just been "wire" (should that be glassed?) for FTTP broadband.  As it wasn't going to cost an arm and a leg more we thought we would improve the Internet for the guests.  Simple we thought notify our provider and arrange the swap.  So the arrangement was simple last week a new router would be delivered to us, then an engineer would come today.

A router never arrived and we contacted them over the weekend, we were promised a router would be delivered today between 8:00 & 1:00 then and an engineer would ring us and meet us at the Lodge.  So we waited in, at one o'clock we gave up and got on with the things we should have been doing.

The only bright spot in the day was I was able to get on with some "potting up".  We have bought almost 200 plug plants to start our wildflower meadow at the Lodge.  As I realise we won't be getting on with this for a week or two I decided they needed more room.  I wasn't wrong many of them would be described as pot bound had they been in pots.  Not having room for 200 pots I decided to collect some plant trays from Melkinthorpe Nurseries where they put out their used pots and trays asking for a donation to a current charity.  So the blip is a tray of 10 Devil's bit scabious, one of the 8 trays I managed to prick out today.

Just for my own reference, the species list is:

Betony
Yellow Flag Iris
Water Avens 
Water Figwort 
Skullcap 
Ragged Robin 
Purple Loosestrife 
Meadowsweet 
Marsh Marigold 
Lesser Spearwort 
Hemp Agrimony 
Greater Bird’s-foot 
Devil’s-bit Scabious 
Common Knapweed
Common Toadflax 
Field Scabious 
Perforate St John's-wort 
Oxeye Daisy 
Tufted Vetch 
Wild Carrot 
Agrimony 
Greater Birds-foot Trefoil 
Meadow Buttercup 
Red Campion 
Lady's Bedstraw 
Sneezewort 
Common Valerian
Musk 
Lady's Bedstraw 
Cat's-Ear
Meadow Cranesbill
Selfheal 
Meadow Vetchling 
Cowslip 
Birds-foot-trefoil 
Red Clover 
Common Toadflax 
Yellow Rattle