The daftest thing I ever did was to leave a paper bag containing a few daffodil bulbs on the kitchen worktop, knowing that my husband was going to cook our meal that day.
I didn't connect the slight tummy-upset with the meal, as my husband and son had both eaten it, with no ill-effects. It was only several days later, when I suddenly remembered the bulbs and asked if anyone knew where they had gone to, that the penny dropped. They had been chopped up instead of the onions. He swears that he didn't check the insurance policy first!
Going back to Bee Witched and her football rattle to scare of hares, my grand mother was being kept awake at night by an Owl which came and perched on the wash house chimney a few feet from her bedroom window. She got so fed up with it that one night she got up, grabbed her corsets and flapped them out of the window at it. I think it got the message!
I had a friend who died in 1976 (so a long time ago). I knew him as 'Uncle Charlie' but we wern't related. He once told us his wife wasn't much of a gardener but decided to grow some broad beans because she loved them so much. She couldn't understand why none came up at all. When he asked her how she had sown them she said about 2 inches deep. "Did you soak the seeds first?" he asked, "Oh yes," she said, "and I boiled them for 20 minutes before I put them in!"
Neither of my daughters were natural gardeners at first but over the years both have gradually 'caught the gardening bug' from their mum, and as they got places of their own became very keen.
One of them recently confided in me, however, that some years ago, when standard gardening practices were still very new to her, she wondered why she was not getting any flowers from her planting. She thought, 'I've been deadheading like mum does, why isn't it working?'
The trouble was, she realised eventually, instead of cutting the flower heads off once they were dying off she had been doing it as soon as the poor things first appeared!
Introducing the water buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis) to my small pond ,the pond is long gone but the buttercup lives on and on all over the borders a right pain , i also have the habit of breaking clematis shoots am i heavy handed or is there a right way to tie them in
See, I knew there would be other daft stories tell.
JH
Pattiuk, I do the same thing with clematis. Try to be so careful trying to entwine it and the next thing I know I have broken a bit off.
Birdy, eldest son, many years ago, asked if he could help with the pruning. Fine, says me, but pointed out one that I wanted left. Some while later, all plants were about a foot high, including the 'precious' one. Should have known that one of my offspring would take after me!! Fortunately, they all lived to tell the tale.
I introduced an ivy into my garden thinking it would hide an unsightly fence and now it is trying to take over my clematis and climbing roses..grrrr Does anyone know how to get ride of ivy?
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bluejan..loved that one
Bronze Fennel, then went in hospital the week it was seeding. That was in 2008, still digging it out of the border
The daftest thing I ever did was to leave a paper bag containing a few daffodil bulbs on the kitchen worktop, knowing that my husband was going to cook our meal that day.
I didn't connect the slight tummy-upset with the meal, as my husband and son had both eaten it, with no ill-effects. It was only several days later, when I suddenly remembered the bulbs and asked if anyone knew where they had gone to, that the penny dropped. They had been chopped up instead of the onions. He swears that he didn't check the insurance policy first!
Thought I would revive this. Must be more silly antics out there.
Going back to Bee Witched and her football rattle to scare of hares, my grand mother was being kept awake at night by an Owl which came and perched on the wash house chimney a few feet from her bedroom window. She got so fed up with it that one night she got up, grabbed her corsets and flapped them out of the window at it. I think it got the message!
I had a friend who died in 1976 (so a long time ago). I knew him as 'Uncle Charlie' but we wern't related. He once told us his wife wasn't much of a gardener but decided to grow some broad beans because she loved them so much. She couldn't understand why none came up at all. When he asked her how she had sown them she said about 2 inches deep. "Did you soak the seeds first?" he asked, "Oh yes," she said, "and I boiled them for 20 minutes before I put them in!"
Neither of my daughters were natural gardeners at first but over the years both have gradually 'caught the gardening bug' from their mum, and as they got places of their own became very keen.
One of them recently confided in me, however, that some years ago, when standard gardening practices were still very new to her, she wondered why she was not getting any flowers from her planting. She thought, 'I've been deadheading like mum does, why isn't it working?'
The trouble was, she realised eventually, instead of cutting the flower heads off once they were dying off she had been doing it as soon as the poor things first appeared!
Introducing the water buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis) to my small pond ,the pond is long gone but the buttercup lives on and on all over the borders a right pain , i also have the habit of breaking clematis shoots am i heavy handed or is there a right way to tie them in
See, I knew there would be other daft stories tell.
JH
Pattiuk, I do the same thing with clematis. Try to be so careful trying to entwine it and the next thing I know I have broken a bit off.
Birdy, eldest son, many years ago, asked if he could help with the pruning. Fine, says me, but pointed out one that I wanted left. Some while later, all plants were about a foot high, including the 'precious' one. Should have known that one of my offspring would take after me!!
Fortunately, they all lived to tell the tale.
I introduced an ivy into my garden thinking it would hide an unsightly fence and now it is trying to take over my clematis and climbing roses..grrrr Does anyone know how to get ride of ivy?