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Thanks for the advice, I'll try the DIY stores this weekend, I'm not too worried about getting prerennials as I am thinking of moving house before next year anyway
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lionreign
on April 18, 2013 at 2:53 AM
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Hi Taps I have been nurturing these all winter I gave a potfull to the lady who just lost her husband, well and a packet of ciggies. I did not thnk she would be worried about her health for a while.
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C_C_T
on April 18, 2013 at 12:15 AM
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Re: Wilwey
Wiley no it takes a bit of putting up with. You are not alone Broth.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 18, 2013 at 12:12 AM
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What an intriguing poem, and what a beautiful yellow flower.
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TAPS.
on April 17, 2013 at 11:07 PM
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ChiffChaff
Lovely plant, good for you being able to get at it every year, never was my specialty but I did try now and again, just for fun. I simply didn't find it fun.
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WileyJohn
on April 17, 2013 at 6:04 PM
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Well Lion you won't very often get cheap plants at a Garden Centre. If I were you I would find a few large containers and put them in a prominent position fill them half full of decent soil and then top up with a peat compost. Have a look around the Do It Yourself Stores sometimes they have bargain packs Petunias, Bedding begonias, geraniums, fuchsias if you are lucky, don't buy if they look half dead.The 99 store near here sometimes has packs, if you have one near it might be worth a look. Of course you could just buy a packet of dwarf marigolds and sprinkle the seeds in the containers, but the snails are a menace and will chew them.Don't believe half the pictures you see I suspect a lot of the plants are grown in pots and dug in especially for the shoot. If you want perennials it means big bucks, I am afraid.
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C_C_T
on April 17, 2013 at 11:13 AM
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Thank you FS, try not to get in a similar position.
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posted by
C_C_T
on April 17, 2013 at 10:43 AM
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It is interesting to read of how the temperature effects one's gardening...The speaker in the poem put a smile on my face.
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FormerStudentIntern
on April 17, 2013 at 9:36 AM
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Hillarious poem, I enjoyed it very much.
As an experienced gardener, can you recommend anything cheap and easy I can plant to give summer colour? I'd ask at the garden centre but they always want to recommend the most expensive things...
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lionreign
on April 17, 2013 at 3:24 AM
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C_C_T
on April 17, 2013 at 12:00 AM
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C_C_T
on April 16, 2013 at 11:59 PM
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Re: You always make me smile...
Ceil sometimes folk kindly give one a plant which is not wanted. My neighbour a dear old lady gave me a cactus plant. She was so proud of it, I put it in the greenhouse and it had a pink flower. I put it outside in the summer and it looked sad in the autumn, I just remembered it has died. I shall have to remove it before she spots it or remembers. 
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C_C_T
on April 16, 2013 at 11:57 PM
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Re: I do like the primroses, don't remember a bright yellow one like the
Hi Pat, an old friend of mine used to tell how his father made him help dig the allotment by moonlight in the winter. The old chap would stick a peg in the ground and say 'when we reach that we will go home to Mother.' Well I am a bit annoyed these primroses were supposed to be scented. I have some in the porch, but I can't even sense a whiff of perfume. A lot of plants are sold as scented, but I think one needs good olfactory nerves. Poor Old Wolfy she does not deserve this.
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C_C_T
on April 16, 2013 at 11:50 PM
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Thank you JS. The Pick your own does seem to have lost its appeal, a sniff of development and the land becomes too valuable to grow produce. There does appear to be a surge in allotment holders, inspired by television probably . Nice that your son takes an interest.
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C_C_T
on April 16, 2013 at 11:36 PM
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Well I do mainly grow flowers A. But I am putting up theis cage to keep the veggies safe.
posted by
C_C_T
on April 16, 2013 at 11:27 PM
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my mom had a nice garden where we grew up but this house we are in now doesn't afford us that luxury...we have a couple of sinkholes and lots of rabbits and squirrels that dig up seeds faster than we can cover them and not to mention all the birds ...sigh
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Annicita
on April 16, 2013 at 1:54 PM
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yes it is sad, there was a large farm up the road that grew strawberries and vegetables, you pick or they pick, i stopped by to see when strawberries would be ready - found a big for sale sign on the property and lots of weeks, better hurry on mine. then i went a bit further and cked out my sons garden, it is doing well.
your flowers are beautiful, good pictures.
the poem i understood perfectly, most fellows would not complain about the extra duty, or even wonder where the husband was. a sad poem really, but then lives can really be sad.
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jeansaw
on April 16, 2013 at 1:20 PM
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Sad that so many have to make or care for things only others will benefit from. It sounds as if you will eat well this summer!
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mariss9
on April 16, 2013 at 12:26 PM
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CCT
I love your adventures with Miss Wolfy Dunn...
And when I once got some tomato plants,
A practice I have given up, I confess,
I just sort of stuck them in with my hands,
And forgot about them, more or less...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 16, 2013 at 12:11 PM
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I do like the primroses, don't remember a bright yellow one like the
photo. We didn't know we had it so good, growing our own veggies seemed more like a lot of work to a kid who'd rather be off to the old smimming hole...
And again you have Wolfy Dunn -- it's a condensed chapter from Downton Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs, just a bit more up close and personal. What fun!
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Pat_B
on April 16, 2013 at 12:11 PM
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You always make me smile...
and the few flowering plants I have right now, more than half of them are primroses. Two, in fact. The third is a little pot of dark purple periwinkle. I have some lithops on the kitchen sill, but they aren't blooming.
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Ciel
on April 16, 2013 at 11:35 AM
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