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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    We need a combined cheerful/curmudgeon thread.  One of my hostas needs repotting as it's completely filling the pot with new spikes, that's the cheerful bit.  The pot it's in is wider at the middle than at the top and I think I'm going to have break it to get the host out, that's the curmudgeon bit.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    We need a combined cheerful/curmudgeon thread.  One of my hostas needs repotting as it's completely filling the pot with new spikes, that's the cheerful bit.  The pot it's in is wider at the middle than at the top and I think I'm going to have break it to get the host out, that's the curmudgeon bit.
    Haven't we all done that?
    I'm sure we've all had to smash some perfectly nice pots.
    I try to find a pot which fits inside the pot bellied types without being visible. 
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I'm sure we've all done it Hostafan1.  I'll have to keep a close eye on the other pots as some of those are a similar shape.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    You can cut some pots across the belly with a grinder and glue them back together if they're really worth keeping.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Hello , back of hols and the sun is shining , garden looking good , g/h looked after well 
    Not been to allotment yet 
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited April 2019
    Just collected £300's worth of plants from the GC and didn't pay a penny!  Last year the GC was taken over by another company and the new owner told the Friends of Queens Park he'd put £300 "behind the bar" for the park.  So two of us volunteers have just been and filled a car with, oooh, astilbe, euonymus, ferns, erisimums, gazanias, digitalis, Euphorbias ....

    Also gave me a chance to spend a voucher I had at Christmas.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    That's a good feeling, Josusa :). Enjoy the planting.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    This has made my day, especially as we haven't had any frogspawn.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    i have looked it up on GW forum and a wise person seems to think  its Oxalis Enneaphylla Pattagonia.   
    I am hoping it will seed again. They are so tiny at present. 



    'You must have some bread with it me duck!'

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just checked yet again and my newish paeony has just started sprouting, I thought I'd lost it. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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