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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    for me summer starts when it's warm enough to be naked in the garden. Autumn starts when it's too cold to be naked in the garden. 

    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Well in that case @Hostafan1, summer this year was a week in April.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    punkdoc said:
    Well in that case @Hostafan1, summer this year was a week in April.
    I certainly had a better tan on the last day of April than I have now
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    During the very hot dry spell in July I noticed our Beurre Hardy pear - planted last autumn - was suffering and losing its leaves so we started giving it buckets of water every day.

    It now thinks it's spring and is covered in blossom!   Even the William's Bon Chrétien a few feet along has a sprig of blossom on it and 3 pears ripening nicely.
    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
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    My birthday is 22nd March, and l can safely say the number of Spring like days on that date can probably be counted on one hand. (Let's just say l won't see 21 again).
    In other news, the neighbour who was putting his recycling etc. out in the early hours can't be arsed to get them in and they are now halfway down the road >:) .  
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Fairygirl said:
    I'm just going to say : hydrangeas. Quarts into pint pots.  :/


    I liken that to squashing Chinese females feet in tiny shoes. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53973270
    Let's hope karma is a thing.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    They did worse than that!  They bound their feet to stop them growing so they couldn't walk far without great pain - no running away from nightmare husbands and families!!

    Agree tho - hydrangeas and pots don't work.
    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
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s what I meant Obe.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I was making that previous reference about a certain current thread re hydrangeas, but I now have a sore head about another one with rhodos and azaleas   :/
     
    I donate to Maggie's @AnniD, and I despair of those who behave like that with any charitable organisation. I can almost feel some teeny, tiny spot of tolerance if it's someone stealing to fund a habit, but otherwise - no. Scum. 
    It's no different to the scum who were stealing hand sanitiser from hospitals earlier this year. Actually - they might be worse....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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