Glad you're doing ok @herbaceous. Easy to take good health for granted. I wish you well and good luck for your continued recovery It always annoys me when people start whining at this time of year about not having this or that for a dinner, when they should just spare a few minutes to thank their lucky stars that they're well, and have a roof over their head, and food to eat. Not everyone has a lovely time at Christmas. I expect the family of the young girl killed yesterday, by a suspected drug driver, are having a great time. Not.
Sorry. That should be for the Curmudgeon thread.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thank you for your good wishes @Fairygirl and you are so right about taking good health for granted. I hope I never have. Anyway fit as a flea me until July, can't remember the last time I was really ill, then Pow! Daughter joked I was just getting my money's worth from the health system - but thank goodness we have one.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Hope your recovery is swift @herbaceous - sounds like you have had a rough time of it.
No pictures from me, as my contributions are all a bit bedraggled. However, they are all still definitely flowers so hope they count. 15 altogether:
Iberis, Primula, Lithodora, Vinca, Cyclammen coum, Heather, rudbeckia, 2 roses, Rhodochiton (should have been felled by the frosts, never mind about flowering), viola, viburnum bodnantense, viburnum mariesii, mahonia, nigella, and winter honeysuckle.
Disappointed that my daphne has not started yet - plenty of buds and nearly there. Its normally out by Boxing Day. And my euphorbia characias is looking as determined as @Plantminded ‘s. I love it too 😍
Disappointed that my daphne has not started yet - plenty of buds and nearly there. Its normally out by Boxing Day.
And when I say ”disappointed”, I should clarify that it is only a very minor sense of loss - it has not led me to forget my overwheming good fortune at having good health, people who love me and a great house to live in 😉
Disappointed that my daphne has not started yet - plenty of buds and nearly there. Its normally out by Boxing Day.
And when I say ”disappointed”, I should clarify that it is only a very minor sense of loss - it has not led me to forget my overwheming good fortune at having good health, people who love me and a great house to live in 😉
All of it well deserved ( apart from the non flowering daphne )
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It always annoys me when people start whining at this time of year about not having this or that for a dinner, when they should just spare a few minutes to thank their lucky stars that they're well, and have a roof over their head, and food to eat. Not everyone has a lovely time at Christmas.
I expect the family of the young girl killed yesterday, by a suspected drug driver, are having a great time. Not.
Sorry. That should be for the Curmudgeon thread.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
No pictures from me, as my contributions are all a bit bedraggled. However, they are all still definitely flowers so hope they count. 15 altogether:
Iberis, Primula, Lithodora, Vinca, Cyclammen coum, Heather, rudbeckia, 2 roses, Rhodochiton (should have been felled by the frosts, never mind about flowering), viola, viburnum bodnantense, viburnum mariesii, mahonia, nigella, and winter honeysuckle.
Disappointed that my daphne has not started yet - plenty of buds and nearly there. Its normally out by Boxing Day. And my euphorbia characias is looking as determined as @Plantminded ‘s. I love it too 😍
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.