The Ins & Outs - Semen Trees & Jobs For July

Episode Date: July 16, 2024

This episode is sponsored by Tielle, the interior design professional's best kept secret for bedding. Trusted by 5-star hotels and designers for over 30 years, with Tielle you can enjoy the little luxuries of a hotel break at home. Shop bedding, towels and bath robes at tielleloveluxury.co.ukDiscount: INSANDOUTS15https://tielleloveluxury.co.uk@tielleloveluxuryIn this episode, Polly & Jojo run us through everything you need to be doing in the garden and in the home for July. Polly's got an update on her water feature, much to the relief of Fisher, Mr Jeremy & Minnow. Jojo wants to plant a meadow but has an issue with bindweed.Plus we cover super powers & semen trees.InstagramPodcast - @the_insandouts_Jojo - @houseninedesignPolly - @pollyanna_wilkinsonProducer Andy - @andy_rowe_WebsitesJojo - https://www.housenine.co.uk/Polly - https://www.pollyannawilkinson.com/Pod Rowe Productions - https://www.podrowe.net/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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So thank you so much, Teal, for sponsoring this episode. And listeners, they have very kindly given us 15% off with the discount code INSANDOUTS15 on their website. Today we are having a big old catch up. We're talking jobs in the garden for July, water features, superpowers and semen trees. Let's dive on in. Hello, my lovely friend, Polly. How are you, my darling? I'm so well. I've just spent the morning playing with plants, which always puts me in the best mood. Although, do you know what

my friend the hills are alive with the smell of semen the sound oh okay in the words that tree of julie andrews julie andrews julie andrews the hills are alive with the smell of semen. That's it. Have you not noticed it? To be fair, I don't get many of those trees around here, but I know exactly what you mean. Or it could come as a bush form as well, can't it? It's the sweet chestnut.

It's not so sweet though, is it? It's not. I walked out of my studio and I was hit with the smell and I was like, oh, that takes me back. No, stop it. I literally turned behind the studio and there is this massive, you'll see it guys, because it's a massive green tree. And then it's got these sort of very bright sort of yellowy green spiky flowers on it. You can't, what does it look like? They're sort of fluffy. Aren't they slightly fluffy? They're sort of fingers. Yeah, they're sort of fluffy green fingers,

bright yellowy green fingers. And that's the sweet chestnut. My God, this pungent stink. You can't say it's anything else. And there's nobody that could possibly say it's not. That is the smell. The old cum tree. Tis the time. It is a cum tree. So that's my news. Catch me up. This will make you chuckle because as for the house plans um finally getting my head around sort of doing up this garage which i've been talking about i think since the pod started and let me let me just tell you something about my about me i'm although this is what i do for a living weirdly if if something ain't broke i don't tend to fix it and i really happy living. I'm almost more happy living in a house that's really dated and

quite old. If it all works okay, then I am probably living. So I think that's probably why I'm in no major rush to get it done. But I thought I just to sort of entertain myself, you know, and actually sort of get something done within the first five years of living here um we were going to do this garage project and the idea is that it's going to have downstairs you come in we're going to extend out the front because we never we don't need it we've got a big driveway we can park the cars and i don't think many people park cars in garages anyway unless they've got like fancy little cars or something yeah so uh you walk in and i'm going to have a sort of living room

with which is i'm going to actually make i told you into a sort of little pilates studio or sort of a little zen studio for me to go and hide from the kids and then a sort of i want to do a really cool kitchen bar area at the back corner with a sort of little dining area and just make it but make it really feel like almost like a little members club i want it to feel like a really cool little members club that perhaps over time count the window it's actually got a window that goes out into the back garden which is where our sort of seating and barbecue area will be so i thought it'd be a really fun place to like serve drinks through when the time comes to do the garden with you and then you go up the stairs and it's got this the top floor is sort of in the loft so it's got this sort of quite restricted head height but at the end we're going to put this shower room in which is we're going to

stick a porthole window in so you can see out over this beautiful views a really lovely sort of shower room but then instead of actually doing doing a standard bedroom we're going to do some really cool bunk you know these sort of bunk beds along the sides to make it a really cool place for the kids later in life or if we have got guests you can pull them out like a trundle bed trundle bed is essentially a bed that you can pull out to make it a sort of double anyways i've got really fun ideas for it got the plans done need to go for planning but went to get the builder that i i know i want to use i really like using where possible local builders because i think i just think it's it's just a nice thing to do so and if they're good builders anyway i've, I don't know about you guys,

but I judge people on the state of their vans. And these guys have really good vans. They're always clean. Outside all of their properties, everything's really well kept. They've got really nice awnings. At the end of every day, everything's neat and tidy. That's a really good sign of a good contractor so anyway i've had my eye on these guys for a long time and i've seen them they

literally sort of circulate around our area and i keep seeing their vans around so i called them up and i was like guys right i want to start this project we want to get going in october and he almost like sort of spat his tea out and was like we are we're we're busy until um we're busy until spring 2025. So it's like sugar. Yeah. You've got to be organized with these things. So anyway, so I should have learned my lesson by now, but there you go. I did not.

And if you want the good guys, you've got to get in there early. So I think we're probably going to wait now until they come along so that we'll get our quotes in, but, um, I'm going to wait. But in the meantime, we thought, you know what, then if we're not going to be doing anything in the garage, let's try and get our paddock sorted. And we've got this beautiful paddock, which is currently, there's nothing in it. I know we talk about this all the tidied up. We're going to get our fences fixed and our gates to go into the paddock fixed so that we can actually really make use of it. And what we're going to do, I heard that apparently you can get a grant to do a wildflower meadow.

So the paddock, I'm going to turn into a wildflower meadow around the hole of the middle and then have a really cool track that goes all the way around the outside and then leads back to the stable block where we're going to have you know just do something fun down there but so that's that's essentially going to be our project is going to be getting our paddock sorted for the summer and making clearing a bit of space and having some fun so that the kids can use it as well because it's like a sort of extension of the garden it's a really cool it's a really cool beautiful space that we're currently not using because it's got grass like you know up to here full of ticks and you can't really get around it

yeah tricky it's quite an endeavor putting in a big wildflower meadow my friend let me know if you need any help with that i would love to have your help if you know if you know anything about it you let me know one of the things you'll need to do if you're going to seed it is you're going to need to strip it back because otherwise it's going to be competing with the turf so you're going to need like lots of yellow rattle which is parasitic and and will prevent the turf to do it properly and to get it really established is is not a case of just whacking a bit of seed around no we've heard because they're it's funny isn't it because you get these all these little seed bombs and you think you could just go and throw them in the garden and it doesn't necessarily work. Yeah, they're ineffective.

Look, can I ask you a question that I'm puzzling with? Go on. Complete segue, nothing to do with anything you've said. It's just I was admiring your lovely tan. It's all fake. I can't reach my back. What do I do? Do you know I've never had fake tans on my back, so I actually don't know. I probably look terrible from behind. If you slap a load of fake tan on and then you're too quick to put sort of, you know, trousers on or something, it does, your bum turns white

because it kind of rubs off. So you do actually got to... Do you fake tan in the morning or the evening? I'm not an expert tanner. I wouldn't like to say. I sort of slap it on as and when the time is needed. I don't like doing it before bed because it ruins your shoes. No, I don't like doing it before bed.

But then also you do stink during the day. So if I'm going to do it, I'll choose like a weekend where I'm not going anywhere. Where you're just going to walk around smelling like biscuits. Yeah, like biscuits, like mouldy cereal or something. Mouldy biscuits. Well, I haven't sort of figured out how to do my back. That's been the one problem. So I've got, basically, I've got a sort of,

half my body is brown and then I've got a sort of seam down my sides where I can't reach anymore. Yeah, I know. There's myths when you sort of go for a rub and then you sort of get, you realise you've just left a large line down. I mean, it's a real art.

Fake tanning's a real art, isn't it? It is. It is. One for us ladies. left a large line down I mean it's a real art fake tanning is a real art isn't it it is it is one for us ladies I had it's also I think now I'm in my 40s I get this I definitely don't like going in the sun as much as I used to I used to I think everyone was I used to go like I honestly used to go on like fake sunbeds like every week I'd always been I loved a sunbed full face in a sunbed and I think I stopped about sort of I don't know late 20s I completely stopped my mum was always like never put your face in the sun no your mum's been always been very good about that and you don't either do you no but I stopped I think probably the damage was slightly done but I then stopped I reckon

I'm in my mid late 20s stopped putting my face in the sun um stopped going on sunbeds and then started using fake tan but I but I still really enjoyed the sun I in the sun and stopped going on sunbeds and then started using fake tan but I but I still really enjoyed the sun I love the sun I'm definitely a warm person but I now have this funny thing wait I don't know if anyone else are listening out there when you get when you get older sort of late 30s early 40s and you look at your arm or your hand and you're like shit that's not mine that doesn't i don't have age spots and wrinkly forearms and it's like year on year you can see the damage that the sun sort of does then a year later you just look down again you're like no no no no no it is not having that so i think i now have a slight fear of the sun i've got a load of melasma on my face and it will not go away i'm working on it now

i'm i'm like but if i got in the sun what used to be these really charming freckles which i used to love is now just brown marks on my face if if i so much even with factor 50 if i'm not wearing a hat and i spend a day in the sun boom back they come again so i'm with this amazing cream which i will talk about at a later date but I'm going to ask you a really daft question because it's I think it's a fun question you always ask me silly questions I feel like you always ask me silly questions if you could be a superhero what would your superpower be what would probably super I've spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about this have you yes so what's the answer well actually i also listened

to a really fascinating study just to segue which was um people were given the choice between invisibility and flight oh flight all day long fascinating hearing tell you why i wouldn't like to be invisible why because i because i don't i wouldn't want to stumble upon somebody having a conversation about about me i don't think it's nice to snoop i don't like people that pry or like listening on people's conversations and i think if you're invisible that's kind of all you're really doing is listening to things that people are talking about that you shouldn't you know i think people need their privacy so i think flying would be wonderful but it was a really interesting psychological study which basically um talked about what it meant about you as a person if you

went from visibility over flight but to answer your question it was um i would be teleportation would be my superpower and if there was a niche superpower mine would be pairing socks together if there was like if you could only have a little one it would be um combining my children's socks they're everywhere oh I'll tell you what I would like to do actually I'd like to I'd like to split myself in two so I'd be exactly the same person but I'd be two people well imagine here I'm sitting here now on the podcast with you but I could also be out the road picking up zigs from school how cool would that be you would take over the world my friend I thought given we're deep in July now I would give a little summary of what we should be doing in the garden right now because there's much to be done yes I

think it's a great idea Paul because there's not a lot you can do in the house to be honest is there I think everyone's well you're not in the house that much this time of year are you you're outside it's all this is my moment it's your moment in the sunlight my darling you have it you tell us what will you tell us what needs to happen in july come on yes i will i will okay come on so here is your list and this is everyone's favorite so if you have lavender in the garden and let's face it a lot of people do now's a great time to cut it for drying but also to cut it so it doesn't get too rangy so you want to cut it before it goes all gray um because that's less good to

dry you want to cut it while it's still fresh and it has all the delicious oils in it um so what you do uh cut it at the base of the stem so not into the old wood in the fresh green stem and then you can gather it into bundles tie it with some string and just hang it in your airing cupboard or downstairs somewhere sort of cool and dry and then you have lovely scented lavender bundles don't do all of it because the bees love it and we're not trying to take away the bees food but you know if you want to harvest some because you like sort of lavender bundles which are just delightful aren't they shove them in a drawer now's the time to do it um feed your dahlias can i ask a question on the lavender yes you can i find it a really tough one i know it should be easy and i learned from you last week about it being liking drought so

that was a good one so you're not supposed to water it when it's in the ground but with lavender if you were to just leave it because it's so funny isn't it because for me i it looks like it's almost quite savage to go and cut it because it looks so lovely at the moment. If you were to leave it, what would happen? Well, if you were to leave it, I'd be saying in late August when it all starts going kind of grey and looks a bit like coral. So it ceases to be, then you need to cut it anyway. So then you need to cut it as close to the old wood as you can get into a nice little hummock. You're kind of too late then to to get

that real lovely driedness out of it but you know it still will have some fragrance so you can still keep it but the worst thing you can do is not cut your lavender at all therein lies the path to woody overgrown lavender but essentially if i cut it now then it's going to grow back in yeah so you're going to have a lovely idea being if you if you cut it now you'll get the benefit of the dried lavender as in you know we're talking about the oils you're going to get that if you don't cut it now you're going to cut it as soon as the flowers go over and it turns gray and the reason we do it in um sort of late august early september is to give the plant enough time to bush out again, put on some fresh growth,

and that's going to be like its winter coat. Got you. Do you know what I mean? That's a great tip. But it's also keeping it from getting all woody. So that's your big one for this week. July is also the time of pruning your wisteria, so you're going to prune the entire thing.

So every single whippy growth on your entire wisteria, you're going to cut back to about 20 centimetres from the frame. Five buds for 20 centimetres. I've got a reel about that that I'll put up because I know it scares people. If you've got irises, if you've got loads of irises and they're really, so irises have a rhizome. So they've got what basically looks like a giant piece of ginger that sits on the surface of the soil. If they get really crowded, which is if you've got a mature garden or if you've inherited them from a mature garden, they can get really, really crowded and you can dig them up, essentially whack a spade through them and divide them.

So now's the time to do that. You do that at this time of year after they've flowered. And two more for you. Feed your dahlias. If you have dahlias in your garden or frankly any sort of annuals, but also things like tomatoes, weekly feed, you need to be doing that constantly now. This is like prime growth time. And finally, if you've got hardy geraniums in your garden and they're looking a bit tired right now, or napeta as well, you can hack that whole plant to the ground. And people are like, no, it's still got flowers on but if it's looking tired and a bit straggly and the flowers seem to be slowing down grab it like a hair like a ponytail and cut it all the way to the ground it's going to do exactly what i said with the lavender put on loads of fresh growth you'll get more flowers and also if it's getting

like too big so don't be shy you can basically cut everything now and it will grow back um and keep deadheading as well deadhead everything everything. Cut, cut, cut. Cut, cut, prune. Amazing. Cut, cut, prune. Enjoy. So there you go. Those are your July tasks. And then also you need to keep on top of weeding. And this brings me on to the most hilarious message I received from my housewife this week. Jojo sent me a picture and she said, is this ground elder? And she sent a picture of bindweed that had got so overgrown that it was covering the ground.

So instead, is it bad news? Is it bad news? Is it bad news? Is it bad news? Yeah, it is bad news. I mean, it's bad news, but we all have it. It's like HPV. It'll get you.

It'll get you. So does it count? Does it'll get you so does it count does it come up does it so it doesn't grow up from the ground like ground elder i guess it's just spreads so you can get it back you can pull it all out easier to get rid of course it grows from the ground but it's um no i don't mean it i don't mean it like that i don't mean it it's not a ground it's's not a ground cover. Ground elder literally does what it says on the tin. It's ground cover. It's a terrible weed, really annoying. Bind weed normally does what it says on the tin, binds to other plants and sort of wraps around them

and almost suffocates them. It's an absolute bugger because you just can't get rid of it. It doesn't matter how much you dig it up. It can re-sprout from a tiny bit of root. It drives me wild. I've actually had a few messages recently saying that people have had luck by putting cardboard over it and leaving it for two years. But we don't all have the luxury of doing that if it's mine is in a hedgerow on the

edge. So I've got no chance. But it is just a case of digging it. So yes, my friend, what I would do is try and dig out as much as you can. Pull it off everything and then you need to dig it out. And you're trying to get all of the white fibrous roots. You're just pulling them out, pulling them out. But it's a lifelong hassle as a bindweed.

Okay. That's a fun job then, isn't it, for this weekend? Now, is there anything we need to be doing in the house in July? No. In the house in July? No, I'm going to say time in the house over this period. It's time to down tools and just enjoy the garden whenever you can. That's a funny one, inside the house this time of year, because I think opening a window can get quite stuffy. So I'd always say things like turn your beds down, change your duvets,

obviously to summer duvets. You don't need quite so much bedding on a bed um yes do you know what I mean I think I think hoovering like I know this is going to sound really nitty but hoovering is so important in the summer because you can get like moths this is when the moths start coming out the carpet moths I was just going about to say about. Yeah, you've got to really get them. If you start to see these little flat brown house moths or carpet moths, first when you see, you've got to literally start moving furniture, get your hoover and just start sucking every single bit of dust up from the corners that you can to try and get the eggs and things.

And then your clothes, you're actually meant to put your clothes in the freezer, deep freeze your clothes like wool and cashmere for for two days to stop the eggs if you see a moth if you see a moth basically you're supposed to go at it hard so that's why yeah and sort of keep i just think it gets quite sort of stuffy in houses doesn't it i always think it's really lovely in the summer to bring flowers in from outside to cut flowers at this time of year inside. Strangely, inside always in the summer for me feels a bit sort of, because it's sometimes that you're coming inside, it gets darker. So in the winter, you're inside and it's warm and light and then you go outside and it's dark. Whereas in the summer, the opposite happens.

You're outside and it's lovely and sunny and you come in and it feels a bit dark. So you just want to sort of lighten everything up, really. I'd be interested to know about that people are out there sort of doing DIY in the summer. I don't think they are. I think probably DIYing in the garden. I think people are less interested, aren't they? But then, interestingly, there's a fulcrum point where the garden becomes almost, you get garden fatigue in sort of mid-August. I always notice it.

Well, that's your quiet time, isn't it? There's a period at which you go quiet. August. We're now in our quiet time. So I think sort of July, August, really quiet for interiors. Should we, is that enough? I think it's enough of a little catch up.

Let's have some questions. This episode is brought to you by Google Pixel. I'm Jessie Crookshank. I host the number one comedy podcast called Phone a Friend. I also have three kids. I need help making every day easier. So I switched to Google Pixel.

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Just workouts and classes to strengthen who you are. So no matter your era, make it your best with Peloton. Find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at onepeloton.ca. Okie dokie. We've got a question from Rona. I have a farmhouse kitchen with black and red original tiled floor,

log burner in a stone inglenook fireplace. What colour kitchen would complement rather than the old oak I have now? Hmm. Ooh, Rona. Black and red tiled floor. Yeah, I kind of love that look. I love those old clay tiles. I think they're so nice

and if they're original then so nice to be able to keep something like that um see I would say in this instance in did she say it's a cottage I think she said it's a cottage farmhouse kitchen farmhouse yeah so I think where I'm thinking farmhouse kitchen where you've got red and black floor tiles that's two very very strong colors on the floor and with it being a farmhouse kitchen where you've got red and black floor tiles that's two very very strong colors on the floor and with it being a farmhouse I don't know if it's going to get a huge amount of light through the windows so if it's a little bit dark you want to really lighten the place up and therefore I might surprise you here but sometimes I think in a farmhouse kitchen you actually want to sort of really fun it up a bit so don't sort of necessarily go down

the route of like a light white kitchen actually lean into it and have a bit of fun with the color i'd always say go with something like a lovely lovely yellow maybe like a yellow kitchen would look fantastic um you surprised me i thought i might yeah i think i you've got to get those get those tones right but you need to add a bit of warmth because black and red is quite hard, quite cold. So I think you want to add a bit of warmth in here, which is where I think you want to get something with a bit of lightness to it. What colour are we talking here? Like the colour of English mustard? Yes, I'm talking exactly.

I'm talking more of a mustard yellow, lovely ochre yellow. A sort of deep colour i think would look awesome uh you could also go you know what i'm going to say you know you know what color i'm going to say of course it's going to be green a green but like a dark green so think again because you've got red and black go with a sort of more of a uh botanical green a bit more of an english natural green as opposed to going sort of bright sort of bright fun green go a bit more botanical green a bit more of an english natural green as opposed to going sort of bright sort of bright fun green go a bit more botanical a bit darker deeper no deep deep because deeper deeper green like a lovely dark racing green give be specific with me what kind of green no not

definitely not racing green because racing green's got a sort of... No, when I see colour, I see more than just the colour. I see like different layers of it. So the colour's got to be... When I say botanical, I think, I mean, it's got to be like a dark natural green, like an English green as opposed to going a sort of fun, sagey green. Are you with me? No, darling, I'm so far not with you.

I liken it to something. Gosh, my garden wife's annoying me I don't know what green you're talking about not racing green and not sage green give give me a green like is it like the color of a leaf no it's well that no because you'd say to me well there are all sorts of different colors of leaves there are all sorts of leaves yeah so I said leaf green, you'd be like, well, what sort of leaf? Which leaf? Nettle green. Which? Yes, exactly. So I can't say leaf. Probably I'm going to say more like forest, but without the freshness. Think, okay, here we go. It's like a sludgy green. It's going to be a dirty green. Thank you. I follow. Do you like that?

Do you like that? Dirty green. Yes. That's what you needed to say. I'm talking a dirty thank you i follow you like that do you like that dirty green yes that's what you needed to say i'm talking a dirty english forest green is what i'm talking that would go really beautiful i must say the yellow does appeal i love a yellow kitchen okay i've got another question for you from philippa so my living room is going to be longer than it is wide. Which direction do I run my wooden floorboards? Oh, right. Always tend to go with the length. You want to run the floorboards lengthways down the living room. So you wouldn't try and make it feel wider by running them widthways? No.

I mean, also very, very much depends on the width. So if we were saying, so for instance a hallway if you imagine a skinny hallway you would never flip the board sideways because you would literally have little pieces so but the wider you go you can tend to get away with turning the board lengthways understood yeah you don't but if you've got a room which is like double as long as it is wide or double as wide as it it could go easily away you run it the length of the length of it not the width of it you tend to run it the longest you tend to run it the longest yeah from you surprise me yes it also has a lot to do with where you come in the door and where there are doors and windows so not so much windows but where there's a window so say if there's a double door at the back

going into your garden you tend to run the boards towards the window as opposed to across it unless it was a much wider room and then you'd run it across so interesting because we'll often do the opposite to try and make a space feel wider but you're never using something that's sort of sometimes a meter and a half long you're using cobbles that sort of maybe maybe like you know 0.75 centimeters or something or 900 yeah so it tends to be that tends to be slightly different because they're kind of long and fat whereas floorboards are long and skinny but I have to say when it comes to floorboards it's an interesting one because there isn't really a there isn't really

a right or wrong way you can do any but i would tend to always run floorboards into a window into a door but we tend to look at the floor we actually tend to look at the floor plan and look at it that way around and then if it's sometimes you could literally do both there is no right or wrong it also very much depends where the boards are running outside so as soon as you step foot from one through one you know through the threshold what's happening on the other side if you if you want to keep the floorboards running the same throughout the house or do you want are you okay flipping of course you know so so there's a bit of consideration it's not really there isn't really a rule of thumb as such with that one okay right okay that's the garden that's enough about that. Out we pop. Oh, this is a funny one. This one here is from Susie.

Susie's asking, Polly, with the demise of your cock pond, will you be introducing another water feature in your garden? It's a very good question. I love how people show an interest.

Well, yes, actually. I am. So threefold. So I've got a sort of interest. Well, yes, actually, I am. So threefold. So I've got a sort of semi-temporary pond for the fish. For Fisher, Jeremy and Fisher. And Fisher, or Mr. Jeremy. I must call him Mr. Jeremy. That's his whole name.

Mr. Jeremy. Mr. Jeremy, Fisher and Minnow. So they are in a, I like to think of it as a temporary pond, sort of tucked away. in a, I like to think of it as a temporary pond, sort of tucked away. But yeah, I'm actually, talk pots are creating this beautiful water bowl for me at the moment because I wanted to have some low level water. It's great for wildlife, but also it's going to have a little bubbler in it. So a little white noise because there's, I can slightly hear traffic from the garden. Like a little tinkling, like a little tinkling? No, a bubble, not a tinkle.

Oh, we've done. A bubble. I love it. It's not like someone's doing a wee. Not like someone's doing a wee. It's like a little rippling noise. It's lovely. Oh, lovely.

And that's going to be a really big oversized bowl, sort of a metre wide bowl. But then also, actually, now that the house is coming together, the house is going to actually protrude out quite a lot in the middle and have two sort of coves either side so i've accidentally created a couple of courtyards by means of how the extension is happening so one of them i'm actually going to turn into a little courtyard and i think i'm going to have an above ground stone i'm hoping to find some sort of circular old stone trough

and have a bubbler in that and have that near the house as a focal point. So when I'm sat in the living room, which has got double doors, you'll look through to this sort of bubbling water feature, which I think would be lovely. So the answer is yes, I am. Oh, how lovely. That would actually be such a nice thing to hear in your garden is yeah it's something about the

sound of trickling water that is so therapeutic isn't it it's so soothing they can be water features can be a real pig they their maintenance they are high maintenance so i'm always reluctant to put in anything too high for lutin because they break quite frequently. However, you know, something simple like a little pump with a bubbler is always a really nice way of just adding a new dimension to a gun. I guess what I find interesting is that even, oh God, I had a right, oh, shitter the other week. This was the day before the kids' birthday parties and we had this great big paddling pool that's only probably about a month three weeks old it's probably had two uses and i was emptying it because you know obviously with the big ones you can't just tip it over but so we try and get as much of water out as we can to water the plants to go to water the plants

with so you bail it all out i bloody used a a bucket that had a little uh obviously had a hook on it i snagged the side and the whole i couldn't repair it it was a garner she was a goner um anyway what i was going to say i totally digress i know what i was going to say but what i was surprised by it and the sort of three times we've managed to use it was that i was i'm always amazed at how quickly the water turns a really gross green and it just has sort of and the whole bottom of the paddling pool goes that slimy green mildew it happens really really quickly algae and then the kids can't swim in it so the amount of times you have to empty it so actually i've resorted because I thought it'd be much better, to one of those splash pads that you plug into the hose and it squirts water up. Those are so fun.

So fun. So fun. Just go sliding down them. Okay. My darling, I've got one here for you. This is from Yvonne Lee. Dear Polly and Jojo, loving your pod. Binged the first episode and now I wait every week for a new episode.

Thank you, Yvonne. I have an outie question, although I would usually identify it as an innie. Good. It's all fluid these days anyway, though, so here we go. I love that. We have a beautiful west-facing garden with an uninterrupted view of the mountains. However, given our proximity to said mountains and being 350 metres above sea level, we're quite exposed to wind prevailing from

southwest. Any tips on hedging or other structures to shelter us from the wind while still maximising on those rare but wonderful

sunny days in Ireland? Please don't say glass because I 100% will never clean it. I can guarantee you would never say glass. Yeah, so we do quite a few coastal gardens or mountain, well, less mountain adjacent gardens, but coastal, same, same, windy. So the hedges we would probably reach for would be

laurel, different types of laurel, very good as a windbreak, very quick growing, good coverage, obviously evergreen, so you're going to be a wind break very quick growing um good coverage obviously evergreen so you're going to be a wind break year round or i never know how to say it probably grisselenia grisselenia um is another one and that one's quite good in a coastal spot as well but that can take a good amount of wind as well so that is a good wind break i don't think the solution is anything solid like a fence or a glass wall, that seems a bit much. What you could do, and obviously it's hard to do without seeing your garden, you could bring in some walls. And by that, I mean some low level ones with some hedge

above it just as an extra buffer, not that I'm trying to sort of block your views, but even having a sort of low sort of chest high wall can do the job as well. It can sort of direct the wind. But what you've got to be really careful with with windbreaks is it can create a bit of a vortex on the other side. So the wind kind of goes over and you need to watch it because it can sometimes vortex in and then make it slightly windier immediately the other side. So it's just all about positioning. So when you get your hedging, just make sure you sort of lay it out and just sort of double check that it feels right. And then it's not having a knock on effect in creating a wind tunnel where you don't have hedging. So positioning is key. Paul, are you right under a flight path?

Because it sounds like the plane's landing on your lawn. Do you know what? I appear to be under a flight path, maybe when the wind is going in a certain direction or something. But yes, obviously I am because I live within the m25 so we all are we all are um all right my darling right um that leads us to one very important question what is in and what is out this week in for me I'm having a little bit of a clothes moment and you know what I'm really loving which I resisted last year because this is classic me is to resist it year one and then get with the program when everyone else has already got them I really like those shorts that are a bit like pajama bottoms or like men's boxers

yes the only thing is about those they are comfy but you can look like you're wearing a giant nappy because I thought they look great I thought they looked great until I saw a picture of myself from behind and it looked like I was wearing a giant nappy like a toddler definitely a pajama thing going on at the moment though because I was I was somewhere quite shishy poo last weekend and all the ladies were basically looked like they were in their gym jams they had like pale yellow long trousers and a shirt with buttons down the back. It just looked like pyjamas. They looked great, but it was skating so close to pyjamas. I actually went to the Furnishing Future sale a couple of weeks ago that I was volunteering at.

And I picked myself up a pair of Soho Home silk pyjamas that were about half price. And I have to say I've never worn a pair of silk pyjamas but these are really quite special really do you feel like Hugh Hefner I mean no I don't know what he would feel like but I imagine not very sensuous I think he's dead he is dead yeah he is I don't know I didn't mean did you prior to me I'm sure he feels not very nice didn't he always wear silk pyjamas or robe i don't a robe he wore a silk robe you're right but we digress then again right so what's in is and also on the clothing thing i also caught up with i think it's not even a trend actually i think

this would be terribly sad if they found terribly old i finally got myself some covered birkenstocks you know the cloggy ones welcome what color did you go with suede i went with this you go with the like nice moles back the moles back exactly i went with those and i have to say i've never realized i love them i think i was and i like the fact that you can wear socks with them which again never thought i'd ever hear myself saying you could wear your t-store socks with the stripe oh with the burkos and And a pair of pyjama shorts. My God. Sexy. So on trend. Sexy. So on trend.

And what's out is... Well, it's semen trees, isn't it? Isn't it? Semen trees. The flowering sweet chestnut. Really... That's out in force. Giving it to us.

Giving it. What? Then it hands over to the ivies that like to start flowering. then it hands over to the ivies that like to start flat right on that note don't forget to like subscribe and review if you send a question you're more likely that we'll answer it if you review that's a lie it's not but do it anyway no it is now it's a new right as a review right as a lovely one and also don't forget the more you gush on your the more you gush on your question tell us how much you love us the more likely we are to read it as well but that needs to also be posted into a review into a five-star review

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