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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    To be a bit more precise, the clue should be ‘Hex, we hear’ (11)
    Rutland, England
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Saw some unbelievable roses at Dobbies, Gloucester today.  Sadly unbelievable for all the wrong reasons.
    May be an image of flower and outdoors

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    This is the kind of hex I like - https://www.hex.be/en/   I've bought some cracking plants at plant fairs there.



    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
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd go back soon to investigate the dead trolley if I were you. You might pick up a few bargains! @KT53
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    I'd go back soon to investigate the dead trolley if I were you. You might pick up a few bargains! @KT53

    When the plants which are 'actively' on sale are this bad I don't think there would be much hope for those!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2021
    Those roses will be ok. It's just rain damage.
    However, standard roses are an abomination! Excuse over-reaction  but it's my word of the week.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    Those roses will be ok. It's just rain damage.
    However, standard roses are an abomination! Excuse over-reaction  but it's my word of the week.

    I agree it's mainly rain damage, but they have been left like that for many days.  We were there on Sunday and they were already like that, and from the state of them, had clearly been like that for some days.  Even rain damaged flowers don't turn black overnight.  The photo was taken today - Tuesday.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's a shame.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Perhaps they’d appreciate a volunteer to tidy them up. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Early blight,  I  have just ripped out 3 San Marzano Tom's they were black.  I do grow other resistant,  cultivars,  but the San Marzano are best for sauce and soup. Ah well. 
    AB Still learning

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