Just sent an email to enquire about the price of the nomacharis.. Should have phoned. Got delivery of Farmer G. Mos potting up today. Going to have lunch now. Very sunny here. Warmth - no!
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Hubby just cleared some of the left over snow that was in a pile from clearing the drive. He said some of the wallflowers are in bud. About 4 of them.
Something to look forward to. I have potted up all the 2nd batch of Farmer G. They gave me 2 or 3 extra of Fritillaria Michailovskyi and that is 2 or 3 x 10 bulbs.
I really like the yellow bit of the flowers. Very pleased.
Went to the garden and saw elderly neighbour's waterbutt dragged out, leaning towards my garden .. Someone has been active at night and I can't see why people would want to do that to them. Such senseless vandalism. The butt was like 45 degrees leaning over my dwarf wall and the down pipe is still hanging out.
Very quiet on the hellebores .. and to my absolute horror, all my meconopsises were nowhere to be seen. I went there to stare at the spot again and again. No, no meconopsis for me this year, AGAIN!
I really like the yellow bit of the flowers. Very pleased.
Went to the garden and saw elderly neighbour's waterbutt dragged out, leaning towards my garden .. Someone has been active at night and I can't see why people would want to do that to them. Such senseless vandalism. The butt was like 45 degrees leaning over my dwarf wall and the down pipe is still hanging out.
Very quiet on the hellebores .. and to my absolute horror, all my meconopsises were nowhere to be seen. I went there to stare at the spot again and again. No, no meconopsis for me this year, AGAIN!
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By what? @Upsy Daisy ? I wonder what ate my meconopsis? I have 2 very healthy ones before the snow. Now they are nowhere to be found.
Squirrel, slugs, snails, rats???? So unfair
Squirrel, slugs, snails, rats???? So unfair
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Slugs don't eat my helebore flower buds.
Don't meconopsis die down in winter?
Yes Alp their lovely.
Don't meconopsis die down in winter?
Yes Alp their lovely.
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Never, ever had mine eaten before either but apparently they are very partial to a nibble,.....the little s**s
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Have had a lazy day. Doing some testing of different materials to use for capillary matting as the stuff from the garden suppliers is pretty pricey. Thought I'd be potting up my carnation sprouts but they're still not far enough along to need pots.
I have to give you a like as this post has given me HOPE! My years of trying to grow meconopsis.. YEARS AND YEARS!
Yes, that's what I thought. I thought they were indestructible .. Now you put fear into my heart. Perhaps a bit of offerings to the little s**S might helps! A bit of bird seeds, a bit of slug pelletts, a bit of a cage ..
Two or three years ago, I bought some lining for hanging baskets. I think something like that might help. I bought loads of them as they were priced 10p each! I nearly had the whole lots. Just as I bought the achemea bromiliads. The cashier said, "You've bought the lot!" 75p is peanut if they can cleanse the air. I think any old woollen blankets would be useful..
Lori: see if you can go around shops when they clear their stuff end of season .. Once I despatched my son to buy me 4 bottles of Tomorites at £1 each.. And he was so proud of himself ..
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Yes, will have to do something tomorrow, they are pretty chewed up
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We bought up all the hanging basket linings from Wilko this summer too as they were reduced,
You know I bought them two years ago and buried them in the workshop. Of course, when it came to using them, we couldn't find them!
I still have tons of the linings. I also have a good piece of capillary mat but it is quite small. A lot of my hellebores are so soaked that they die on me.! This woman up the road gave me some spider plant and asked me for a purple veined hellebores. I so wanted to tell her that I didn't want the spider plant any more. And I also wanted to tell her that it took years for hellebores to show flowers. She blamed me for lack of contact.. I so wanted to tell her that, despite her being a Christian, she is giving me alloy in the desire of getting gold .. Haha! I've found it really hard to tell her that. At the moment, my stalling remark has been I don't know the colours of my hellebores.
I thought you have tons of hellebores, Upsy. Have you let the seeds self seed. Sometimes, you can have 20 of them under the foot of the mother plant .. if the mother plant is south facing..
Lori: Are you a hellebore's fan?
I still have tons of the linings. I also have a good piece of capillary mat but it is quite small. A lot of my hellebores are so soaked that they die on me.
! This woman up the road gave me some spider plant and asked me for a purple veined hellebores. I so wanted to tell her that I didn't want the spider plant any more. And I also wanted to tell her that it took years for hellebores to show flowers. She blamed me for lack of contact.. I so wanted to tell her that, despite her being a Christian, she is giving me alloy in the desire of getting gold .. Haha! I've found it really hard to tell her that. At the moment, my stalling remark has been I don't know the colours of my hellebores.I thought you have tons of hellebores, Upsy. Have you let the seeds self seed. Sometimes, you can have 20 of them under the foot of the mother plant .. if the mother plant is south facing..
Lori: Are you a hellebore's fan?