You will be relieved to hear that I managed to leave Dubai and am now in Melbourne at last. I was so keen not to miss the flight this time that I went and sat outside the departure gate an hour before it opened. There is a tram stop outside my hotel but I quite like the distant dinging noise they make, it's like the sound you hear from boats moored in a harbour,
Getting back to gardening.......I usually grow runner beans and french beans. Each year I toy with the idea of giving up on runners because they have loads of flowers which don't turn into beans whereas every french bean flower turns into a bean. It is nice to have both though.
This year I am growing a variety of dwarf french bean with purple flowers for a change but can't remember what they are.
We've got a large number of GC's just around where I live for some reason. I only buy plants in Wyevale from the reduced section. There is a lovely local independent nursery which has plants at a much better price. They also have a v nice cafe with home cooked food which is always well worth a visit.
Sounds like you might have a pollination problem with your runners- they're insect pollinated, French beans aren't. But not much you can do about that right now! I'm sure the weather's better for you than the ongoing miserable stuff here, though we have had a couple of reasonable days recently.
I know I 'm going on about this but my wife liked the look of their bedding ("dwarf") dahlias. A snip at £3.99 each!! Even worse is the fact that they were in flower, so anyone taking them home and planting them straight out would have dead or dying plants within the week. A packet of 60 seeds costs, what, £2 - £3? And again, dead easy to grow.
You can probably tell I don't go to Garden Centres much!!
We've been given some tickets for Malvern on Saturday - I may have a stroke!
KG so relieved to hear you have arrived safely, we have been worried.
figrat you seem to have a good selection of GCs etc in your area, I can get to at least 8 different ones within 10 minutes, so many rescue sections to check out
Excitable Boy great news about the tickets, hope it is dry on Saturday. I agree about the seeds, as I mainly grow from seeds, but last summer I found some of those dahlias in the reduced section for £1 and I succumbed
Very damp here today so it may be ironing and packing. Geoff can you pick me up a roof rack and bin the beige, be bold wear pink even fuchsia.
Got the wood I went for and did that fateful thing of looking at the plants and the reduced section bought 2 packs of 12 petunias-one down to a £1 the other down to £1.50 less the 10%and another 25p off--now will have to sort them into the sick-bay.
Kate-your request came to late-and also I have to blend in-in hindsight I should have gone back to the fuschia
Sorry to butt in, but what are the flowers in the photo with prurple and white flowers and pink drumsticks?
do you mea this large plant pale lilac colour is called "cupids dart," the the bees love it.. hard to get rid of thou once you have it.. i have dug this up and moved it several times.. it keeps coming back.. very deep tuber root.. easy to grow from seed.
it sounds like thin paper in the wind.. lovely plant.
I only buy my compost at garden centres.. and their smaller 2.10 plants.. i do most of my garden from seeds, cuttings and splitting.. I sell what I or my mum dont want and it covers my costs.. I give some from it to charity .. last year Cancer uk and this year Air ambulance are the lucky ones.
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You will be relieved to hear that I managed to leave Dubai and am now in Melbourne at last. I was so keen not to miss the flight this time that I went and sat outside the departure gate an hour before it opened. There is a tram stop outside my hotel but I quite like the distant dinging noise they make, it's like the sound you hear from boats moored in a harbour,
Getting back to gardening.......I usually grow runner beans and french beans. Each year I toy with the idea of giving up on runners because they have loads of flowers which don't turn into beans whereas every french bean flower turns into a bean. It is nice to have both though.
This year I am growing a variety of dwarf french bean with purple flowers for a change but can't remember what they are.
We've got a large number of GC's just around where I live for some reason. I only buy plants in Wyevale from the reduced section. There is a lovely local independent nursery which has plants at a much better price. They also have a v nice cafe with home cooked food which is always well worth a visit.
I know I 'm going on about this but my wife liked the look of their bedding ("dwarf") dahlias. A snip at £3.99 each!! Even worse is the fact that they were in flower, so anyone taking them home and planting them straight out would have dead or dying plants within the week. A packet of 60 seeds costs, what, £2 - £3? And again, dead easy to grow.
You can probably tell I don't go to Garden Centres much!!
We've been given some tickets for Malvern on Saturday - I may have a stroke!
KG so relieved to hear you have arrived safely, we have been worried.
figrat you seem to have a good selection of GCs etc in your area, I can get to at least 8 different ones within 10 minutes, so many rescue sections to check out
Excitable Boy great news about the tickets, hope it is dry on Saturday. I agree about the seeds, as I mainly grow from seeds, but last summer I found some of those dahlias in the reduced section for £1 and I succumbed
Very damp here today so it may be ironing and packing. Geoff can you pick me up a roof rack and bin the beige, be bold wear pink even fuchsia.
Back from the beige day
Got the wood I went for and did that fateful thing of looking at the plants and the reduced section bought 2 packs of 12 petunias-one down to a £1 the other down to £1.50 less the 10%and another 25p off--now will have to sort them into the sick-bay.
Kate-your request came to late-and also I have to blend in-in hindsight I should have gone back to the fuschia
What will you do with the wood?
It was just some lengths to prop up the cover over the chicken pen-not that interesting but useful.
It is still raining
do you mea this large plant pale lilac colour is called "cupids dart," the the bees love it.. hard to get rid of thou once you have it.. i have dug this up and moved it several times.. it keeps coming back.. very deep tuber root.. easy to grow from seed.
it sounds like thin paper in the wind.. lovely plant.
the drums sticks are alllum drumsticks... very nice loved by bees and butterflies to.
I only buy my compost at garden centres.. and their smaller 2.10 plants.. i do most of my garden from seeds, cuttings and splitting.. I sell what I or my mum dont want and it covers my costs.. I give some from it to charity .. last year Cancer uk and this year Air ambulance are the lucky ones.