Sounds like a fair price to me @WonkyWomble .....its what we sell our home propagated plants for at our garden club (or we did, before the club stopped meeting 🙁).
We are now the proud owners of a new set of steps. Very pleased 😁. Now all we have to do is build a dry stone wall either side, but we’ll do that ourselves. Mr C likes a challenge. Not least of which will be lugging said dry stones down many flights of other steps from the driveway to this spot. At least its downhill. And I won’t need to do any weight training for a while 🙄
They'd be more than £2.50 in a 7" pot, I think, @WonkyWomble. That's an excellent idea with the bomb-proof plants - it's amazing how much GCs can charge for a Shasta daisy or Alchemilla... and you'll have the pleasure of propagating the plants as well as the financial reward.
Hope you find your non-standard width fridge freezer, @Hostafan1. Definitely worth an internet hunt.
A little "greenhouse" area sounds just the thing, @Pat E.
No moles in Ireland, @Obelixx, which does at least mean no molehills in the garden...
More weeding for me, I think. I'm finding a lot of wireworms in the current patch of ex-lawn; hopefully the birds will gobble them up...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Morning all/ afties Pat - that sounds a grand idea for your plants. Those plants would be a lot more than fiver in a GC here @WonkyWomble. Easily 7 or 8 quid, depending on what they are. Don't sell yourself short Wasn't feeling great yesterday, so didn't do much. Still feel a bit ropey today. Smirry and breezy anyway, so I would only be doing some deadheading or similar. Garden is very low maintenance at this time of year. Gorgeous steps @chicky. Will you be parading up and down them in a floaty dress at some point? Maybe when the navvying is done and Mr chicky has the walls done eh?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Just sat down with a coffee and croissant after a trip to pick up four tubs of exterior "crepi". Our nearest Bricomarche had run out so we had to go further afield. OH can now finish a wall - lets hope the colour matches as the shades can vary! Love your steps @chicky I can see Mr C is going to be very busy building the walls. So sorry to hear that your sister has lost her job, such a bad time for those in the travel business. I think it's more cucumber soup making today, I can't keep up. Still waiting for tomatoes to start ripening.
Afternoon all, Feeling a bit tired today, had the boys yesterday and lots of chasing, tickling and play fighting has taken its toll. Will see them again on Saturday and then they will be isolating for a week before travelling to the lake district to see their other grandparents. Was planning to do some weeding today but it can wait a couple of days.
Back from SM raid and all packed away. Very quiet in there. The only people not wearing masks were tourists - easy to spot wearing swimming costumes under backless summer dresses. Like you @Yviestevie , feeling tired so need a snoozle now I think and then I'll have the energy to dig a good hole for my yellow azalea Anneke before deciding where the other shrubs will go. Need to leave space for perennials and bulbs.
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Obelixx, I've just been to sainsburys, 3 people wearing masks, one of them me! Shame on the lot of them! With hubby having sickle cell, I've masked upfrom the start! Did I say I love being a gardener? Last week my arms looked like is bam self harming. The reason beingthat I had a customer worth some unwanted asparagus growing through her yew hedge. Our had been there neglected foe 35 years but survived and reproduced. I pulled out up.....hence the crosshatch effect of scratches on my forearms...planted it in my garden after lifting a strip of the ever decreasing lawn and bow a will in I have a healthy asparagus bed sending up shoots of gratitude! Rill on next May. I may well overdose on hollandaise sauce!!!
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We are now the proud owners of a new set of steps. Very pleased 😁. Now all we have to do is build a dry stone wall either side, but we’ll do that ourselves. Mr C likes a challenge. Not least of which will be lugging said dry stones down many flights of other steps from the driveway to this spot. At least its downhill. And I won’t need to do any weight training for a while 🙄
They'd be more than £2.50 in a 7" pot, I think, @WonkyWomble. That's an excellent idea with the bomb-proof plants - it's amazing how much GCs can charge for a Shasta daisy or Alchemilla... and you'll have the pleasure of propagating the plants as well as the financial reward.
Hope you find your non-standard width fridge freezer, @Hostafan1. Definitely worth an internet hunt.
A little "greenhouse" area sounds just the thing, @Pat E.
No moles in Ireland, @Obelixx, which does at least mean no molehills in the garden...
More weeding for me, I think. I'm finding a lot of wireworms in the current patch of ex-lawn; hopefully the birds will gobble them up...
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Those plants would be a lot more than fiver in a GC here @WonkyWomble. Easily 7 or 8 quid, depending on what they are. Don't sell yourself short
Wasn't feeling great yesterday, so didn't do much. Still feel a bit ropey today. Smirry and breezy anyway, so I would only be doing some deadheading or similar. Garden is very low maintenance at this time of year.
Gorgeous steps @chicky. Will you be parading up and down them in a floaty dress at some point? Maybe when the navvying is done and Mr chicky has the walls done eh?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@WonkyWomble - too cheap. £3 at least as you have to factor in your time and the compost and water if you're metered.
@Liriodendron you should have received your tree peony seeds by now. You have no snakes either whereas we have couvreleurs or Western Whip snakes.
Love your steps @chicky I can see Mr C is going to be very busy building the walls. So sorry to hear that your sister has lost her job, such a bad time for those in the travel business.
I think it's more cucumber soup making today, I can't keep up. Still waiting for tomatoes to start ripening.
Did I say I love being a gardener?
Last week my arms looked like is bam self harming. The reason beingthat I had a customer worth some unwanted asparagus growing through her yew hedge. Our had been there neglected foe 35 years but survived and reproduced.
I pulled out up.....hence the crosshatch effect of scratches on my forearms...planted it in my garden after lifting a strip of the ever decreasing lawn and bow a will in I have a healthy asparagus bed sending up shoots of gratitude! Rill on next May. I may well overdose on hollandaise sauce!!!