I think your OH may have been communicating with my OH Punk, he is now moaning that there are plants everywhere......why do I have a greenhouse, haven't I got enough plants etc etc!!!
First its good to see you PD, always nice to know how things are with you.
Cannas - ffavourite for last few years but omg I can't keep em over winter! Used to be fine but lost them the last 2 winters. Will still buy and try again later in summer!
Lavenders - for ??6 its not worth taking cuttings, more in compost etc.. Will try to order when I get home.
work - new stresses starting up so will bury my head.
I'm planting out my Salvia patens,grown from seed last year and overwintered, then grown on in large pots. They should be in flower soon. I have four dahlias in large buckets to go in a piece of weed infested clay. Nothing permanent is going there until I've improved the soil a lot and got rid if the bindweed. Oh well, coffee over, back to the soil....
Clarington, you sound worse than me for over-thinking and that's some achievement! My OH always tells me I think about things much and also worry too much!!
The lavenders are a good deal, I am allowing for some loss though I but even if I lost 1/4 it's still good value.....well that's what I'll tell OH anyway
I've just been out doing a bit of this and that and have a strange combination at the moment. There are still 'Cheerfulness' daffs flowering and just beyond them some white Dutch Iris have just opened
MrsG - I stuck my Canna in the corner of the kitchen in the autumn and completely forgot about it as it was in behind a small chest. It had 2 or 3 leaves growing well by the time I remembered about it! Having been potted on, it's now out in a plastic greenhouse at night - about 2' high and full of growth.
Can you describe the plant a bit more OL?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Oh I am the champion of over thinking! It always amazes me I'm not grey already. Its a shame I'm not organised in any way because I think everything through yet forget to do so much! (Am I the only person to carry blister plasters and plaster spray in her bag ALL THE TIME even though I'm sat at my desk in comfy shoes? There's Kendel Mint Cake in my bag when we go out for the day even if its just to the garden centre!!)
But what is worse is that my GP (Queen of over thinking) even has a pregnancy / birth plan written for me despite
a) having no intention of getting pregnant
b) having a long term birth control solution in place
c) being under strict instructions to inform her a year before we even consider starting practising at making a family
She just sat down with me one day when I went in for a medication review and we went through ever potential "big thing" that might happen to me. There's what to do in the case of kidney failure, sudden collapse, and all sorts of random things in that file! Really did not have a good nights sleep that week!
I'm going to start looking for some metal food bins and a suitable metal box to use as a chicken first aid box this evening. Hopefully we can get some strong entirely mouse proof ones as I already know we've had mice in my shed I'd rather not them helping themselves to the buffet!
Fairy, the flowers/stems are a bit like Aquilegia in that they grow tall on thin stems and hang down, but there are several flowers on a stem (I think) and they are very delicate and heart shaped.
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I think your OH may have been communicating with my OH Punk, he is now moaning that there are plants everywhere......why do I have a greenhouse, haven't I got enough plants etc etc!!!
First its good to see you PD, always nice to know how things are with you.
Cannas - ffavourite for last few years but omg I can't keep em over winter! Used to be fine but lost them the last 2 winters. Will still buy and try again later in summer!
Lavenders - for ??6 its not worth taking cuttings, more in compost etc.. Will try to order when I get home.
work - new stresses starting up so will bury my head.
Did anyone see the Isoplexis canariensis on Chelsea last night, it was a beauty, and apparently easy from seed, although not hardy.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I'm planting out my Salvia patens,grown from seed last year and overwintered, then grown on in large pots. They should be in flower soon. I have four dahlias in large buckets to go in a piece of weed infested clay. Nothing permanent is going there until I've improved the soil a lot and got rid if the bindweed. Oh well, coffee over, back to the soil....
Clarington, you sound worse than me for over-thinking and that's some achievement!
My OH always tells me I think about things much and also worry too much!!
The lavenders are a good deal, I am allowing for some loss though I but even if I lost 1/4 it's still good value.....well that's what I'll tell OH anyway
Alliums are a type of onion......everyday's a school day
Do they smell of onions?
http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/allium-cernuum/classid.2000015021/?affiliate=bbcgwwebmay/
Love this one
Can someone tell me again what the heart shaped flowers that I like are called, I forgot to write it down. I think it was Lily that posted pictures.
I've just been out doing a bit of this and that and have a strange combination at the moment. There are still 'Cheerfulness' daffs flowering and just beyond them some white Dutch Iris have just opened
MrsG - I stuck my Canna in the corner of the kitchen in the autumn and completely forgot about it as it was in behind a small chest. It had 2 or 3 leaves growing well by the time I remembered about it! Having been potted on, it's now out in a plastic greenhouse at night - about 2' high and full of growth.
Can you describe the plant a bit more OL?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Oh I am the champion of over thinking! It always amazes me I'm not grey already. Its a shame I'm not organised in any way because I think everything through yet forget to do so much! (Am I the only person to carry blister plasters and plaster spray in her bag ALL THE TIME even though I'm sat at my desk in comfy shoes? There's Kendel Mint Cake in my bag when we go out for the day even if its just to the garden centre!!)
But what is worse is that my GP (Queen of over thinking) even has a pregnancy / birth plan written for me despite
a) having no intention of getting pregnant
b) having a long term birth control solution in place
c) being under strict instructions to inform her a year before we even consider starting practising at making a family
She just sat down with me one day when I went in for a medication review and we went through ever potential "big thing" that might happen to me. There's what to do in the case of kidney failure, sudden collapse, and all sorts of random things in that file! Really did not have a good nights sleep that week!
I'm going to start looking for some metal food bins and a suitable metal box to use as a chicken first aid box this evening. Hopefully we can get some strong entirely mouse proof ones as I already know we've had mice in my shed I'd rather not them helping themselves to the buffet!
Fairy, the flowers/stems are a bit like Aquilegia in that they grow tall on thin stems and hang down, but there are several flowers on a stem (I think) and they are very delicate and heart shaped.
Bleeding Heart - Dicentra OL?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...