Many moons ago after a tour of the garden OH promised me that when he retired he'd learn the proper names of plants.
I retorted that that wouldn't be necessary but it would be really good if he could learn to identify creeping buttercup, thistle, couch grass, sticky bud and nettle so that when I asked him to weed a bed he would no longer just blitz the lot. His habit of removing absolutely everything meant that for some years we had the most expensive compost heaps in Belgium!
These days I take him with me to plant fairs so he can treat me to treasures - and carry them - and he's become a lot more discriminating.
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)."
I never did get alcoholic mollies. I know they're supposed to look enchanting after rain - little jewels and all that, but what about the rest of the time??
Me either. A gardening friend and keen flower arranger was horrified when I took the scissors to all those nasty yellow flowers when she was here once. Now I have more and more proper plants to fill the spaces the mollies are getting weeded to extinction in my garden.
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)."
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They will always be cotoneb******s to me now.
Me to Hostafan, me too :-o
B3 that's all I've ever called them since 1994 but I try to keep it inside my head.
I'm rather fond of my acoholic mollies but it's also going to be cotoneb******s from now on as well
I was talking about liquorice allsort flowers on another thread. Any ideas what they might be?
Many moons ago after a tour of the garden OH promised me that when he retired he'd learn the proper names of plants.
I retorted that that wouldn't be necessary but it would be really good if he could learn to identify creeping buttercup, thistle, couch grass, sticky bud and nettle so that when I asked him to weed a bed he would no longer just blitz the lot. His habit of removing absolutely everything meant that for some years we had the most expensive compost heaps in Belgium!
These days I take him with me to plant fairs so he can treat me to treasures - and carry them - and he's become a lot more discriminating.
I never did get alcoholic mollies. I know they're supposed to look enchanting after rain - little jewels and all that, but what about the rest of the time??
Me either. A gardening friend and keen flower arranger was horrified when I took the scissors to all those nasty yellow flowers when she was here once. Now I have more and more proper plants to fill the spaces the mollies are getting weeded to extinction in my garden.
I have a choice between the ugliest wall in the world or Alcoholic mollies. I'm going for the alcoholics.
Pp bellis? They look like the pink or blue ones covered in 100s&1000s