Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Must be miler where you our, our soil is like rock today.

I walked around the garden this morning, the snowdrops are still rampant, but perhaps not as good as last week. My beautiful, beautiful poppies foliage has been frosted, i have probably lost them . Daffs have been out for a week or so in the local town, and my tulips are popping up, i have a daff almost ready to open. I took the last buds off the roses recnetly, to try and send strngth to roots not buds that wouln,t have opened. Weird old year.

Different areas of the garden have different climates: the one I was in is surrounded by concrete, catches the sun, and hasn't quite got down to negative temps... it is just wet... most of the rest of the garden is colder. Some of it has a hard frost.

It spent five hours snowing yesterday, but the ground wasn't cold enough for it to settle for long.

This bed has spent the last three months looking really weird... it still has marigolds in flower from summer, but it also has hellebores, winter pansies and crocuses... and a bush in front of it that has pretty white flowers and is supposed to smell like oranges, never seen anything like it, it's almost like a midsummer murders bed, full of things that are normally never all seen together.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

Different areas of the garden have different climates: the one I was in is surrounded by concrete, catches the sun, and hasn't quite got down to negative temps... it is just wet... most of the rest of the garden is colder. Some of it has a hard frost.

It spent five hours snowing yesterday, but the ground wasn't cold enough for it to settle for long.

This bed has spent the last three months looking really weird... it still has marigolds in flower from summer, but it also has hellebores, winter pansies and crocuses... and a bush in front of it that has pretty white flowers and is supposed to smell like oranges, never seen anything like it, it's almost like a midsummer murders bed, full of things that are normally never all seen together.

Your white thing, is it philadelphus? Mine is budding nut no where near out! We have last years marigolds still, a couple of snap dragons, the osteopermum has not stopped. I said a couple of weeks a go it looks like a movie or photogrpahic set..the kind that gets gardeners tutting, sayig..that would never be in flower at the same time as the plant next to it:rotfl::rotfl:

vivatifosi

George_S wrote: »

A note to the captain of the Concordia:

Claiming that the rocks you collided with were not on your GPS plotter when you were miles off course is simply not good enough. You know, it's a bit like attempting to turn your car into your driveway, missing it completely and ending up in your neighbours driveway, hitting a bicycle and then saying "That should't have been there!"

Blimey George, I have to say you are consistent. What's this, the 7th, 8th, 9th thread you've picked with Concordia links to post that on?

Wheezy_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

Blimey George, I have to say you are consistent. What's this, the 7th, 8th, 9th thread you've picked with Concordia links to post that on?

haha...George S wants to share his joke with as many people as possible on MSE, and carefully selects concordia related threads to post in.
All the signs of a NP, welcome George S

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Your white thing, is it philadelphus?

Probably, but to be honest, its name has faded from memory:D It looks like the wiki pictures of a philadelphus, though.

vivatifosi

tomterm8 wrote: »

Probably, but to be honest, its name has faded from memory:D It looks like the wiki pictures of a philadelphus, though.

Are you talking plants here? I saw lir's quote and wondered whether it was a very posh chat up line:o.

purch

vivatifosi wrote: »

Blimey George, I have to say you are consistent. What's this, the 7th, 8th, 9th thread you've picked with Concordia links to post that on?

Personally I prefer the Blackberry joke he has posted on about 427 threads :eek:

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Are you talking plants here? I saw lir's quote and wondered whether it was a very posh chat up line:o.

Rofl. Yes. Mock orange blossom. A really beautiful and easy thing. I love it. Very envious of tt's being out.

purch

Put it away tommo :eek:

lostinrates

Grrr. There is a problem with dh's contract apparantly, thoguh he hasn't been told what it is. As far as we knew he started imminantly. He is overseas for our court case then off again for new job to somewhere else for a fortnight it looks like. Noone told him that wasn't in uk either. the new hed of dept boss turns out to be from just down the road from him though, and now works near where we used to live in italy, so instead of finding out the hiccup with the contract they talked about the best icecream places in milan and tuscany, and types of fruit that outside italy do not exist they believe.