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  • LowennaLowenna Posts: 88

    I'm finding it a bit confusing hereimage but I expect I'll soon find my way around. Looking forwrd to tomorrow's programme - it seems to have been a long time since last Friday image

  • Amazing2Amazing2 Posts: 16

    Bookmark this page. You can then read about who has joined and still access other threads.

  • GrayfleurGrayfleur Posts: 23

    Hello all.  I was sad to see the BBC board close, but thankful to receive all the info on where to go -- huge thanks to those who took the trouble to provide the info and links.

  • Alina WAlina W Posts: 1,445

    Hello, Grayfleur, and to all the people I've not said hello to. Nice to see you all image

    I'm sure you'll get used to here quickly - the "Latest Posts" at the top left of the page is very useful.

  • Gold1locksGold1locks Posts: 498

    Hi Grayfleur, Katiejane and all the other safe landings. image  Every time I see someone else make it here I wonder just how many of us have done so. Must be around 150, though I am not going to try to count everyone! 

  • Hi Goldilocks, Alina, Obelixx, and everybody else. Decided to sign up too, since you all left such lovely cheerios - already used this site anyway. Might not be on much but will read. Had to adapt the nom-de-plume but, yes, it's me, Loopyloo.

    Goldilocks, reason for 2 yr silence is I had a stroke just after my last BBC post. Your Orion geranium should split, according to a Telegraph article, but I multiplied Rozanne by using an old dining fork to prise away tiny sections from the edge of the clump in spring - each piece had maybe a couple of early leaves and a few hair roots. Potted up. watered and sat outside in my cool shady potting corner, they rooted quickly, grew on, were overwintered in my cold frame (in case the wee pots froze solid) and were planted out the following spring. To be safe, you could try that with Orion.

    Rozanne has a big, meaty tuberous root so digging out portions from the edge is the only safe way to propagate that I've found. Am now going to buy Orion too.

    Laughed at the info on your new garden. Sounds much like mine (spontaneous?), even though I designed it for minimal care/maximum effect (had little spare time then) 30 yrs ago! It's good to see you all chatting away still. Happy gardening.

  • Alina WAlina W Posts: 1,445

    Lovely to see you here, Loopyloo - hope you're well on the mend now, and able to enjoy your garden again.

  • Gold1locksGold1locks Posts: 498

    Hi Loopyloo, 

    It WAS Rozanne I was talking about. I have both I should have checked my spreadsheet list. From your description I can see why I have not been able to divide it yet. It does not form separate rosettes and is not fibrous rooted, and my soil is poor, so it hasn't got big enough yet to split in the way you describe. I will feed it and keep an eye on it. There are so few geraniums that flower over so long a period. 

    I have also found Aster 'Monch', after a three year search. In the end I found it at Barnsdale's garden centre shop. It flowers from July until October, very unusual for asters, and is mildew resistant. It regularly comes in professionals' top ten perennials (including AT) but you can't get it in 99% of garden centres because it is slow to propagate. Now mine is big enough to split. It will go well with Rozanne. 

    ANYWAY, so pleased to see you here, and I am sure a lot of other old acquaintances are too. image

  • Lovely to see you back,Loopyloo,ahh, this is nice isn't it. XX

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,049

    Hello Loopyloo.  ood to see you.  I wondered where you'd been and hope you are recovered now and can enjoy your garden.  I had back surgery in March and have had to lay off the gardening but I couldn't resist this morning and have been out trimming back a tatty fir hedge round my damp bed and clearing masses of nettles.  Too wet for box but the same idea for winter structure.

    It's so good to be out there and doing instead of just watching the weeds run away with themselves but at least nettles make excellent compost.  

    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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