You are all so lucky in England with such a a good choice of GCs. We only have Jardiland, but 1/2 hour in the other direction is Gamm Vert, but they stock the same sort of things, very few actual varieties of the same plant. Verdun raved about Agastache last year. I found one pathetic specimen, orange, in Jardiland. I sent to a mail order company for a pink one, but none of the ones that Verdun mentioned. I usually buy plants on trips to England.
Had a good evening yesterday. Son rang up and asked me to a meal out in a Vietnamese restaurant. He also wanted to show me what he'd bought for his new house, sofa and dining table and chairs. OH was at choir practice.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
KEF I think the sleep was a good idea unless you wanted a swim! It certainly wasn't pleasant first thing this morning. Still it means the mud from the driveway (and there is a lot of mud) is getting washed to the borders!
Tracey - I grew strawberries for years in baskets out of the way of the slugs and animals. They hung off an old apple tree in the garden and there was something extra satisfying about picking them!
Thanks Clarington, I've actually just been looking out of the kitchen window at my garden trying to decide where to get OH to put me bracket for them!! It's windy and rainy so not going outside to look I'm going to order the free ones and then decide.
I put two posts into the ground then a length of 3x2 treated timber from post to post then fixed a length of deep plastic guttering to the wood put soil and strawberry plants in it. Then fixed a length of netting on the other side of the wood to pull it over when strawberry are needing protected from the birds works great hope this helps you.
Don't forget to wear your cossie stracey, when diving Brrrr would be a bit chilly tho.
Morning all. Oooops afternoon
Ive put strawberry plants in hanging baskets too, looked great trailing down and like Clari says easy to pick too, i lost mine last winter tho so will have another go this year.
I'm going to put 2 varieties of cherry toms (Tiny Tim - yellow and red I think) in hanging baskets and my strawberries. Although, I quite like Andy19's idea above and I could put that on my veg patch near the wall so it doesn't shade anything and still grow veg under/to the side of it. Ideas, ideas.....no wonder I'm dreaming about plants growing!!!
Snowing in Cheshire apparently but none here, very cold though and still windy.....bird table has gone again!!
By the way, I meant to say this morning, I was reading last months magazine as I hadn't read it properly and saw a few of my new 'friends' quoted in there
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Morning all.
You are all so lucky in England with such a a good choice of GCs. We only have Jardiland, but 1/2 hour in the other direction is Gamm Vert, but they stock the same sort of things, very few actual varieties of the same plant. Verdun raved about Agastache last year. I found one pathetic specimen, orange, in Jardiland. I sent to a mail order company for a pink one, but none of the ones that Verdun mentioned. I usually buy plants on trips to England.
Had a good evening yesterday. Son rang up and asked me to a meal out in a Vietnamese restaurant. He also wanted to show me what he'd bought for his new house, sofa and dining table and chairs. OH was at choir practice.
Just seen the j Parker's comment oh no got astrantia, heuchera, clematis sieboldii a fern on order
KEF I think the sleep was a good idea unless you wanted a swim! It certainly wasn't pleasant first thing this morning. Still it means the mud from the driveway (and there is a lot of mud) is getting washed to the borders!
Tracey - I grew strawberries for years in baskets out of the way of the slugs and animals. They hung off an old apple tree in the garden and there was something extra satisfying about picking them!
I'm soooooo cold today
I put two posts into the ground then a length of 3x2 treated timber from post to post then fixed a length of deep plastic guttering to the wood put soil and strawberry plants in it. Then fixed a length of netting on the other side of the wood to pull it over when strawberry are needing protected from the birds works great hope this helps you.
Snow here in Lanarkshire Scotland the now but don't think it will come to anything well hope not.
oh great headed up that way soon. Hurrah I like snow but don't want to dive in it
Don't forget to wear your cossie stracey, when diving
Brrrr would be a bit chilly tho.
Morning all. Oooops afternoon
Ive put strawberry plants in hanging baskets too, looked great trailing down and like Clari says easy to pick too, i lost mine last winter tho so will have another go this year.
Snowing in Cheshire apparently but none here, very cold though and still windy.....bird table has gone again!!