B3 I agree with you. Rain is a pain. We had a week of beautiful sun and my coral oriental poppies started opening on the first day of rain. We are on day three of rain and I've had one poppy open for each day. I have 10 buds on this one plant and as we're scheduled for rain for the next week - they are all going to get soaked and ruined if they keep opening at the rate of one a day.
Pic is day 3 today. Fed up with this - although everything looks beautifully green and lush - even the struggling plant foliage looks good on a rainy day!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles doesn't like the rain either. The roses are heavy anyway and the weight of the rain is too much. I'm thinking of buying her an umbrella
B3, it was probably yourself I responded to the other day - I'm terrible at remembering names especially on such a well attended forum - about an umbrella for peonies and poppies. I meant to put something over these but keep thinking 'ah the rain won't be quite so bad' - I'll leave it another day. I probably will get around to it.
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B3 I agree with you. Rain is a pain. We had a week of beautiful sun and my coral oriental poppies started opening on the first day of rain. We are on day three of rain and I've had one poppy open for each day. I have 10 buds on this one plant and as we're scheduled for rain for the next week - they are all going to get soaked and ruined if they keep opening at the rate of one a day.
Pic is day 3 today. Fed up with this - although everything looks beautifully green and lush - even the struggling plant foliage looks good on a rainy day!
Tess of the D'Urbervilles doesn't like the rain either. The roses are heavy anyway and the weight of the rain is too much. I'm thinking of buying her an umbrella
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B3, it was probably yourself I responded to the other day - I'm terrible at remembering names especially on such a well attended forum - about an umbrella for peonies and poppies. I meant to put something over these but keep thinking 'ah the rain won't be quite so bad' - I'll leave it another day. I probably will get around to it.
No yarrow, that wasn't me. I'm the same as you. I can remember more plants' names than people's!
Who had pudding bowls on their plants?
Is this a Christmas cracker riddle
It sounds like it doesn't it? There was a picture and everything of little clear bowls.
I didn't see it. Was it to protect alpines or something?
http://image1.gardenersworld.com/img.jpeg?tag=065e8b81-2a18-4225-a3f0-d447ee9a33c5&width=1024&quality=80
HA! Found it! Sheer genius.
I wonder if it worked