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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    A couple of trees near us are coming back into leaf at the same time as they are dropping leaves.  Totally confused, poor things.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They're alive and they have plenty of water. I'm sure they'll sort themselves out. Some things are thriving in the weird weather. I have an osteosopermum that is in it's third year in the ground. It's huge. I suppose that's the way they grow in their natural environment.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • The rain has finally stopped and just noticed that the first blossoms are beginning to open on one of our winter flowering cherries 🙂
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Significant birthday this week and OH and Possum have finally twigged that plants and garden stuff make me happy so I now have a magnolia Butterfly (yellow flowers), a mahonia Cabaret (russet flowers) and an amelanchier Saskatoon plus some heat mats for germinating fussy seeds and Christopher Lloyd's book on colour.

    The less good news is I also have a new slipped disk as of Monday morning so serious pain and no way I'll get the trees planted for a while.  The doc who replaced my GP when he retired has been "de-frocked" for being too interested in lady boobs and nobody local is taking new patients but I finally found someone willing to see me this morning and prescribe some horse pills (literally ketamine based) to deal with the pain.

    Relief.
    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
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Happy Birthday @Obelixx - what wonderful presents (I love yellow magnolias). Sorry to hear about the back issues though - I hope it's sorted soon.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Thanks @LG_ How are the girls?
    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
  • Happy Birthday @Obelixx
    AB Still learning

  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Obelixx said:
    Thanks @LG_ How are the girls?
    Getting old 🤣
    Bow's in her 2nd year at college and Trill is now a sixth former. They're both doing well, thank you - so that's a reason to be cheerful 🙂
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Indeed @LG_  Good luck to them and you too.
    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
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