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HELLO FORKERS 🐇 🐣 🐑 March ‘21

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Busy-Lizzie ((hugs)) 

    Yes @Hostafan1 we read that the other day ...  there's a beautiful Benin head just up the road at the Sainsbury Centre ... I love it ... but again, huge moral issues that need to be addressed.  
    https://www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk/art-and-objects/head-of-an-oba/
    It's a tough one. 
    If everything in the museums about the world of " dubious provenance" was returned  they'd all be empty. 
    Another issue is to whom items are returned? Do we return them to their country of origin, for corrupt politicians to grab and sell them? 
    Devon.
  • As promised earlier, a photo of my new seedlings. 🤔 I've got two definite clumps in two separate flowerbeds, in a nice circle, around 6 in each. They're in an area I'd like to have flowers, and probably did plant last year ( hopefully). All suggestions welcome. I do hope they're not just organized weeds. 🙄😅
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    @D0rdogne_Damsel That looks very much a beautiful dark stemmed aster Michaelmas daisy type of thing that I bought from Beth Chatto's place.  
    This is it https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/a-z/s-z/symphyotrichum/symphyotrichum-laeve-glow-in-the-dark.htm
    Could you have something like that?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I agree it could be an Aster.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • They're not where I expected my asters to be, but then I could have been very organised and split what was a very large clump from somewhere else. I did move ever so much around last autumn when I was emptying my big middle bed. Thank you both. Very relieved I'm not nurturing weeds, which is my usual trick. 🙄 
    • “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Just had a bonfire. I know it's not very environmentally friendly, but it was so much fun.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @punkdoc ... my late Ma often gave the impression of being a bit dour, but it was her oft repeated belief that ‘people should have more fun’ 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Some one near us had s bonfire the other afternoon all my windows were open and washing out,and it was windy, blasted phone, changing eords
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I've been having fun planting, out in the former cow pasture so no chooks.   Camellia Gloire de Nantes, azalea Alexander, rhodo Cunningham's White and a cornus alba sibirica.   One day they'll be in joined up beds with perennials between them but for now they're "islands".

    OH's new mower has arrived and he's busy putting it together.  Tomorrow he'll be able to tackle the meadow.   He has a big bonfire ready to burn but it needs to dry out a bit more and then we need a south west breeze so the smoke doesn't affect the neighbours. 
    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 March 2021
    We have been in polytunnel. 
    2 huge clumps of Canna growing in the beds have been lifted and split and put into pots.
    Under gardener has been meticulously weeding pots too, bless'im
    Devon.
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