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To often to be a coincidence?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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Have you noticed how when you give something the evil eye and plot when and how to get rid of it, it suddenly flowers, buds or shoots?
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    😂 Did you leave it there?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    @B3 yes I did. And I chopped the flowers off in fit of rage. That taught it a lesson! It's probably flowering now in a council tip.🤬🤣
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That'll learn it!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Funny you should start this thread B3. Four years ago I bought myself and a friend a cotinus. My friends one is a thing of beauty and a joy to behold, mine is s*****g pathetic and a disgrace to the gardening world. 
    I'm going outside this very minute and giving it a piece of my mind, telling it to get a grip or it's getting lopped and binned. I might even swear at it.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    See what I mean? The twiggy thing in front of the Solomans Seal. Anyway, it's just had a rousting so I'll see what happens when it comes into leaf this year. 




    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    An interesting experiment @Uff. What do they come from? Might you need to learn some foreign expletives. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • HoopsHoops Posts: 10
    I have 2 climbing hydrangea that my neighbour tells me have beautiful flowers. In the  2 years we have been here, we have seen not a single flower. So I gave them a stern talking to last Autumn and warned them I am planning to replace them with something more beautiful. Low and behold, both are about to flower
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Did your talking to coincide with a lack of pruning by any chance😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • HoopsHoops Posts: 10
    B3 said:
    Did your talking to coincide with a lack of pruning by any chance😉
    No, funnily enough this is the first year I have actually had time to prune them since we moved in. I was going for kill or cure 
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