Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

Good luck silvercar. I like fuscias, they always seem cheerful to me. Mrs Popple fuscia variety was among the first plants I learnt the name of as a variety, not just a plant....so I must have loved them when I was little.

Lawn mower repair man tried to sell me a new lawn mower too. He's going to try and repair the button but says that he thinks a new machine would be better too. I don't have oodles of actual garden garden at the new place, a decent size, but not huge...although we're stealing some field for a small orchard and some veg garden.. so frustrating to think of a new lawn mower. My dad wants to get a sit on lawn mower to use at our house, but although it would be ok, just, in the back garden, the front garden is just too wee, (its a long narrow band, would be about four or five swoops on a sit on mower, and LOTS of three point turns.). Seems rather stupid to me.

misskool

Davesnave wrote: »

Did they ever have a 'good' name? There have been several threads on their offers over on Greenfingered. Most folk, on receiving their plants, are underwhelmed.

I've had a few of their offers this year and as long as you know what you're getting it's ok. I got their busy lizzies and their lavender.
Just waiting for the scented pinks now.

Most gardening companies are much for much aren't they?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

the scented pinks now.

I've been taking cuttings from my mothers' pinks this year. I love hem and their clovey goodness A few years ago carnations in the shops didn't have all the cuttings removed. Some supermarkets still leave them on, not as lovely as scented pinks, but still....useful.

lostinrates

R.I.P. chick Alison.

carolt

Oh no...

What happened?

wageslave

I love pinks but all I ever seem to be able to get out of them is one summer.

I have lavender beside both the front gate and the back door but they seem to go woody really quickly.

I don't really know what I am doing with plants and it tends to be more miss than hit with me. I have loads of gardening books and have, in the past, followed every instruction religiously up to and including covering the roots of climbing plants with slates.

Made not a jot of difference.

lostinrates

carolt wrote: »

Oh no...

What happened?

Not absolutely sure. I think he/she must have found a way through the fence to where the dogs are. He was uninjured though, but there was a tell tale dampness, as i had been in a mouth :mad: but no tooth marks, and I am guessing died of shock...chickens do not cope well with stress. But I can't find a gap in the fence through to the dogs....our garden is dived into bits, and though the chicks can get into the back garden the dogs can't, but I think he could have wriggled through/under a gate in the back garden if determined.

Gutting, both for Alison to have a stressful end and because we had decided to keep him/her. In one very practical hard hearted way its easier not to have two cockerels in ease of set up. The other boys will not be staying either The harder side of breeding poultry is it is not all fluffy chicks and hatchings, but accidents and decisions of life and death.

lostinrates

wageslave wrote: »

I love pinks but all I ever seem to be able to get out of them is one summer.

I have lavender beside both the front gate and the back door but they seem to go woody really quickly.

I don't really know what I am doing with plants and it tends to be more miss than hit with me. I have loads of gardening books and have, in the past, followed every instruction religiously up to and including covering the roots of climbing plants with slates.

Made not a jot of difference.

I'm a very low effort gardener....everyone seems to go to more effort than me. I like self seeding annuals a lot, roses because I find them fairly straightforward...and ...stuff like that. I like this time of year, lots of de-heading making me feel industrious.I also like pruning. Feels...like brave gardening. I'm quite good with seeds. Picked the first bunch of sweet peas today, they smell better than any other bunch I've ever smelled.

tomterm8

Sorry about the chicken... unfortunatly, though, it happens.



I didn't think this warranted a thread, but apparently foreign currency indexed loans in Iceland have been declared illegal by their supreme court. That will help a lot of Icelanders.

wageslave

I tried sweet peas once and ended up with pathetic six inch little plants that just laid about and looked exhausted.

And yet some things tend to do really well. Far better than I want them to usually.

My mother does fuschias really well.