Picked up a new potted rhubarb crown to check watering as it was looking a bit peaky to find ants crawling around. Took it out of the pot and sure enough the ants had set up home. Now need to flush the little sods out before I can plant it out in the garden.
Some blighter has hit our slate house number plaque off its post and knocked it into the NDN's bushes. Not an easy thing to do as well, must have hit it really hard with a wing mirror presumably backing either in or out of the drive. Now, which delivery driver would that have been.......
My youngest son took the Mick out of me being veggie, when he was in his teens.The he got a job in a local village butchers where we used to live, said the smell of raw meat and making be sausages made him feel sick,! Now,in his 30s his diet is mainly plant based, that's nothing to do with me
Have you noticed how alike , to the untutored eye of the idle gardener, penstemon and gaura cuttings look? In the great scheme of things ( my garden has no scheme) I suppose it doesn't matter. They both like the same conditions and I must have liked them or I wouldn't have taken cuttings. Then there's the cutting poked in beside the salvia cutting. Could be an osteo but what colour? Then there's the l?????t?a faded label . Laurentia. It doesn't matter because they didn't germinate anyway.
I'm out and about tomorrow afternoon. If I plan things well I should just have time for a quick garden centre visit to get stuff for the weekend. I'm passing four different garden centres though and I can't decide which one to choose
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm on babysitting duty in the morning and then I've got two jobs to visit in the afternoon. If I can get the first one finished quickly then I've got a bit of spare time before the second. Of course if my wife's Zoom meeting runs over and I leave late then I'm buggered either way but I can but hope.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm on babysitting duty in the morning and then I've got two jobs to visit in the afternoon. If I can get the first one finished quickly then I've got a bit of spare time before the second. Of course if my wife's Zoom meeting runs over and I leave late then I'm buggered either way but I can but hope.
You haven't thought this through. All you need to do is edge the door open to the room where the Zoom meeting is happening, shove the darling children in, shut the door and you can hopefully leg it before she realises.
I cannot of course take any responsibitily for later consequences.
I'm sure there's some kind of convention against that kind of warfare.
Grump of the day: I've been trying to get hold of a particular sedum for a long time and finally got hold of a cutting last week. It's a hardy plant but I've been bringing it indoors overnight to stop the soil getting too cold while the roots establish. It was already a pretty puny cutting but today I dropped it and snapped it in half while taking it back out to the greenhouse With luck this just means I'll end up with two plants but my luck has not been good recently.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Received an order of Impatiens Dezire Mixed (90) small plug plants from Dobies. These were completely dried out on arrival and all plants were distressed and were quite clearly despatched to soon as the root system on most of them was non existent.
I expect to lose maybe upto 10 when purchased like this but I've had to dump 40. Half of the other 50 are going to be hit and miss. I've never received plants in this condition from Dobies. The cynic in me is feeling that these may have been despatched from T&M or Suttons and not direct from Dobies which T&M now own. After buying from T&M 2 or 3 times I never purchased again as there plants always arrived in the condition described above.
I've emailed Dobies for 40 replacements and asked them if they despatched them or if they came from one of the other firms in their group.
I've also got some Calibrachoa on order from Dobies I hope there going to arrive in better shape.
Pete8 if your reading this I know you get Calibrachoa every year can you advise where you get yours from please?
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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Then there's the cutting poked in beside the salvia cutting. Could be an osteo but what colour?
Then there's the l?????t?a faded label . Laurentia. It doesn't matter because they didn't germinate anyway.
Received an order of Impatiens Dezire Mixed (90) small plug plants from Dobies. These were completely dried out on arrival and all plants were distressed and were quite clearly despatched to soon as the root system on most of them was non existent.
I expect to lose maybe upto 10 when purchased like this but I've had to dump 40. Half of the other 50 are going to be hit and miss. I've never received plants in this condition from Dobies.
The cynic in me is feeling that these may have been despatched from T&M or Suttons and not direct from Dobies which T&M now own. After buying from T&M 2 or 3 times I never purchased again as there plants always arrived in the condition described above.
I've emailed Dobies for 40 replacements and asked them if they despatched them or if they came from one of the other firms in their group.
I've also got some Calibrachoa on order from Dobies I hope there going to arrive in better shape.
Pete8 if your reading this I know you get Calibrachoa every year can you advise where you get yours from please?
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'