Fairygirl, me too. I've given all my pelargoniums, fuschias, etc to my daughter in Canberra. She's not quite as cold as us in winter. The rumour is that the city, even though it's small by world standards, creates a heat envelope which of course we don't have here (not even street lights). So if plants can't manage with an unheated greenhouse, they're gone.
Planting things three times instead of just the once because 'it doesn't look quite right' - can spend a whole afternoon trying to plant just 3 shrubs - could never be a professional gardener.
Also find it really hard to throw away unwanted seedlings and cuttings. Much better now we have a village 'Jungle Drums' / email thing. One post that I have free plants and they are gone to a new home by lunchtime
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Pat - even a few miles from a city, and a few hundred feet above sea level, creates a whole new world. I laugh sometimes at the weather forecasts when they give the temps - always have to lower them by several degrees
I didn't realise how high you were till I saw it on another thread!
T'bird - I do that too - moving stuff a few inches. Then I eventually plant them, decide they're still not right, and dig them up to move them a couple of inches
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry to hear about your fencing Hollie H - can you put some form of bracing against the weakest bits to stop it being damaged any further?
Fairy - you're right - it usually is a matter of inches I end up moving stuff. I try to plant perennials in groups of 3's and 5's these days - and it's always when the 3rd or 5th one has gone in that I decide it's not quite right & the whole lot has to come out and be replanted.
Why do they never look the same in the ground as they do when you lay the pots out to try to get the right layout?
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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Tootles, I never empty my big pots, just change the top few inches. I never turn the compost, just takes longer. It's fine.
Pheeew. Thanks Busy!
I'm becoming more ruthless with plants. I simply don't have the time to faff about coddling them, so they have to earn their keep - or they're out!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Planting things three times instead of just the once because 'it doesn't look quite right' - can spend a whole afternoon trying to plant just 3 shrubs - could never be a professional gardener.
Also find it really hard to throw away unwanted seedlings and cuttings. Much better now we have a village 'Jungle Drums' / email thing. One post that I have free plants and they are gone to a new home by lunchtime
Pat - even a few miles from a city, and a few hundred feet above sea level, creates a whole new world. I laugh sometimes at the weather forecasts when they give the temps - always have to lower them by several degrees
I didn't realise how high you were till I saw it on another thread!
T'bird - I do that too - moving stuff a few inches. Then I eventually plant them, decide they're still not right, and dig them up to move them a couple of inches
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sorry to hear about your fencing Hollie H - can you put some form of bracing against the weakest bits to stop it being damaged any further?
Fairy - you're right - it usually is a matter of inches I end up moving stuff. I try to plant perennials in groups of 3's and 5's these days - and it's always when the 3rd or 5th one has gone in that I decide it's not quite right & the whole lot has to come out and be replanted.
Why do they never look the same in the ground as they do when you lay the pots out to try to get the right layout?
Ouch! - see what you mean Hollie