Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

sss555s

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I bet the manufacturer's flush, though

Probably lives in a buy TOiLET all the same.

Spirit_2

I have surpassed myself today.

Old sewing machine is being given away so I cleaned it, it made a fizzing sound and there was a puff of smoke when i plugged it in. I asked Mr Spirit to look at it, and he asked me to unplug it. So far so good...he took a screwdriver to it and then things got a bit more exciting...I had unplugged the wrong appliance .

He got over the shock and saw the funny side....then I reversed his car into Miss Spirit's car...her car is new to her this month...to say I have some ground to make up here is an understatement.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

I have surpassed myself today.

Old sewing machine is being given away so I cleaned it, it made a fizzing sound and there was a puff of smoke when i plugged it in. I asked Mr Spirit to look at it, and he asked me to unplug it. So far so good...he took a screwdriver to it and then things got a bit more exciting...I had unplugged the wrong appliance .

He got over the shock and saw the funny side....then I reversed his car into Miss Spirit's car...her car is new to her this month...to say I have some ground to make up here is an understatement.

A new suitcase and a one way ticket might be the cheapest/cleanest solution for you. This will bite you for YEARS.

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

Any thoughts on a tree that will grow not too large (15-20 feet?) but look interesting all year and give some shade for the car without dropping too much sap or other nasties? I'm thinking cherry but may be something that will have leaves year round would be less stark in winter?

Anything but a flowering cherry then, as it will do nothing very exciting for 50 weeks of the year and it will make a mess on one of the other two.

There are no evergreens, bar Cotonester cornubia that fit the bill here, and that will be interesting, but drop stuff at different times. e.g berries and leaves, even though it's evergreen (ish.) Also, maybe, Holm Oak.

Most interesting small trees produce fruit. eg rowan, crab apple, nice hawthorns.

There are some nice deciduous oaks with big leaves e.g. Quercus rubra, though it will get big, eventually. What about a grouping of three tightly planted silver birch?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/17/dan-pearson-birch-trees-gardens

Last thought.....Gleditsia triacanthos...forgotten its English name.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Last thought.....Gleditsia triacanthos...forgotten its English name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleditsia_triacanthos

misskool

Davesnave wrote: »

Anything but a flowering cherry then, as it will do nothing very exciting for 50 weeks of the year and it will make a mess on one of the other two.

There are no evergreens, bar Cotonester cornubia that fit the bill here, and that will be interesting, but drop stuff at different times. e.g berries and leaves, even though it's evergreen (ish.) Also, maybe, Holm Oak.

Most interesting small trees produce fruit. eg rowan, crab apple, nice hawthorns.

There are some nice deciduous oaks with big leaves e.g. Quercus rubra, though it will get big, eventually. What about a grouping of three tightly planted silver birch?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/17/dan-pearson-birch-trees-gardens

Last thought.....Gleditsia triacanthos...forgotten its English name.

Silver birch is very allergenic, michaels might well be regretting that decision.

It's the week before christmas! :T

lostinrates

I love trees. Flowering cherrries are beautiful but just, as dave says in spring. Have notices some with good autumn colour this year though.


I've bought a burnt sugar tree for my front garden ....a little risky in the cold here ...never thought I'd say that in the sw....planted it in a house I lived in years ago,. the main feature is the smell. it would be happier in the warmth of greter london.

If there are already spring pretty trees in your road I'd go for autun colour.....liquid amber? or even better a small winter tree.......perhaps a witch hazel....beautiful scent everytime you come home...I'm thinking of a few of these for a less formal, witchier alternative to a formal box garden.

really good picures on the crocus website to look any of these I think.

lostinrates

O've been tryin to photo the tree but its not really coming out very well. It occurs to me taht most home photos of chrstmas trees seem to have been taken in the 80s or before...why don't trees photo graph well?

that said, as our decorations are most of te same ones as the last few years not sure why0sI feel th need to snap away....also, h pics are the same DH hanging things on a tree, the cat covered in that tinsel ribon stuff and trying to fish stuff out of a box culminating ina picture of a tree from the early 80s

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleditsia_triacanthos

Yes, but not the species, which is a big bu99er.

This:

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=884

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

O've been tryin to photo the tree but its not really coming out very well.

Arr, oi've bin doin' the zame. Don't work, do it?