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Hello Forkers! April 2018

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  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    "I love herons Dove, I think they get a bad name."
    They certainly do here LP. It usually starts with "get away from my pond ya lanky big..." 
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Morning all.
    DD, hope your labourer turns up. Frustrating when your work gets held up.
    Cold and raining here LP.
    SW Scotland
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Love herons and haven't a pond in which I'd put fish so they're welcome, along with the local egrets and storks.   Gorgeous sunny day and a trio of chaps working inside today installing the ducts and stuff for the new air heating/cooling system.  Dogs confined to living room with OH for the duration.  He should be out playing golf but is practising housewifely home minding as I have a once a year outing to a craft and patchwork fair in Nantes.

    Good to see you taking a few minutes to yourself DD.  Peonies don't mind being moved as long as you plant them at the same depth so as not to bury or expose the point where flower buds form.

    Have a good time everyone.  Lots going on today.  I like the sound of your fairy hill FG.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited April 2018
    Obs: I'm confused ( again???, you all cry )
    "  Peonies don't mind being moved as long as you plant them at the same depth so as not to bury or expose the point where flower buds form."
    If the point where the buds form is not buried or exposed, where should it be?
    I've got my new babies to plant and want to get it right.
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Sorry all, forgetting my manners. 
    Good morning to you all. 
    Awake between 2 and about 6 but I managed to watch last week's "Civilisations" on iPlayer. I was very tempted to watch the last episode due for broadcast tonight, but as it was almost 5am , I thought I'd head back to bed just as the blackbirds were waking.
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all.

    Cold and miserable here.
    Love herons, the fish in our pond are all wild [ I suppose you would be too, if you were being eaten by a heron ] and constantly resupplied from the stream, so I don't mind them being eaten.
    Not sure of my plans today, very tempted to go back to bed, to avoid putting the heating back on.
    OH has not been offered a pay rise, but has been told there will be opportunities soon. Her response was, they had better be soon because I won't be here after June.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    "get away from my pond ya lanky big..."

    I believe this is the heron naming equivalent of 'Mr' or 'Ms'  and they are all addressed as such
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    edited April 2018
    @raisingirl
    I'm glad I got it right.
    I don't have fish (well 5 spricklets that I'm not even sure are there any more) but I've seen the lanky git standing for hours on end eating newts!!! 
    He is very beautiful. 
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845
    Hosta, there is a chap in Edinburgh who is a leading light in peonies. He wins masses and judges. My plants have never let me down and he is open for advice
    have a look at Binny Plants
    i hope this isn’t advertising☹️
    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    I'll second LilyP's recommendation and they will give advice over the phone.
    SW Scotland
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