Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

choille

Rummer & Rumlet - really pleased that everythings fine. What a sensible pressie for you all. Nowt like a carpet, or change of paint to transform a room. Better than yet another babygro any day - I'll be bound.

Well a stove is a massive thing too & what a cracker always loved them - so good an investment. Lovely carpet furniture too - the doggie. They look happy.

CTC - missed your post before edited. Sorry to hear of smelly business neighbours. Can you insist they don't stink you out via a talk or environmental health or is it too delicate a situation? Could you move within the same area to a smell free zone?
Lovely pics of the flowers - gorgeous colours. I have various shrubs that I do pick the flowers from - will do it more when we are out of the caravan. I do like the mix of hydrangeas as they start to change colour. I also think roses are a good long season plant for buds. Cosmos - I bought some plants & the flowers just came all summer - I'd buy them again - really good show all season.
I love the scent of wall flowers & sweet Williams - takes me back to childhood. saw something the other day on using some herbs in posies, for scent too. I love borage as a colour - that gentian blue. We have a marvellous selection of wild flowers here & among one of my favs is Ladies Bedstraw - that would make a great, easy peasy filler - white & foamy & the perfume off it is lovely - hence the name.

Alfie - Great your Sis is helping you move. How long you been where you are at present?

FLW on ebay with a difference this weekend:- You can do a BIN too for free. That's where I've been this evening! & just sold some stuff after only listed it less that an hour previous - that's my record - wow I'm chuffed.

Rummer

CTC The first ones are gorgeous I would also add in some Sweet William as they are lovely and would blend in beautifully. It may also be worth considering some interesting house plants if you have indoor space too. I find that garden centres are so limited in what they provide it is always the same old plants and I would love the chance to buy more interesting ones.

Rummer

Oh CTC another thing that I have done for people in the past is to give them an edible bouquet made from whatever was ready in the garden including rhubarb, chives, sage etc and they have always been well received. Just worth a thought if you were having a stall somewhere.

We are lucky that our families are sensible and try to give us gifts that will last and a carpet is certainly what we need atm Our boy has decided that he wants to be carried or held 24 hours a day, mind you it is a nice excuse for reading the internet

OH and I were talking about the coming year and we have decided that we are going to focus on the garden this year to really make it a place for relaxing and playing. We will need to fill in the pond as it is foul atm and we want to create a den area for the children where the pond is located. I think all children should have a den/clubhouse in the garden.

I want to move the raspberries to the side garden and fill the border they are currently in with herbs and flowers. In my mind I put netting on the fence and have sweet peas growing up that with herbs and mixed flowers growing in the front. We want a balance of things we can eat and things that attract bees and other insects to the garden.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Choille its been going on since we moved in, So we had the LL and their agents to phone HSE and the council, HSE called last week and said even though there is a slight smell (its was f'ing honking) it was not illegal but they would put monitors in, so then I asked in her opinion I can now force my staff to work in that unit, as there was no risk to their health, she backtracked and said wait for the monitoring reports to confim it, the council are involved from a nuisance point of view...


Basically this has more or less crippled our business as we had one unit we are paying for which hasn't been generating income...My stress levels are through the roof, and I thought the last 2 years were bad, with work, and some twonk reporting us for everything up the ranch, looks as though 2014 is going to be added to that too..

COOLTRIKERCHICK

thanks for all the advice and thoughts on the flowers..


I have a friend who will help me start off etc, and also show me how to do Christmas wreaths with the holly etc..


Also sowing a load of runner beans, marigolds sprouts etc to sell in the farm auctions again this year...


I have thought that too Rummer, over the years the house plants have dwindled in our local Wyevale.. they don't even have the basic small pots of spider plants etc, that was great to buy and grow on..they only have flipping orchids and extensive bonsai trees and citrus trees lol...

lostinrates

CTC, some roses certainly do better as cut flowers. Sme are grown exclusively as floristry ones.

I'd have a google about for floristry roses and roses for cutting, bearing in mind that what you are after is an oldfashioned bloom look.

I've had a google for links for you but my connection is achingly slow this morning and I wasn't arou d yesterday evening.


Might be a good place to start. I'm not sure peterbeales website ( a fantastic rose resource) has a search function for cutting but worth checking, also worth checking David Ashton's site. If its a non David Austin rose, and potentially even of it is use the search function but check prices else where. They are VERY expensive sellers trading on their name. As some of the potted roses I have had from garden centres from David Austin have turned out to be full of bind weed I find this a cheek.
Only link loaded in the time its taken me to type all that is this, but I know a several of them and would agree.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3348651/Gardening-Top-10-roses-for-cutting.html

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Thanks LIR, I went on the David Austin website, and I must admit I was taken back by the prices... have been having a look on ebay too..


I like the look of this one


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cecile-Brunner-Fragrant-Climbing-Rose-Delicate-Soft-Pink-Hardy-China-Rose-/380648007115?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item58a063a5cb


and this one is in the link


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GERTRUDE-JEKYLL-DAVID-AUSTIN-ROSE-STRONG-SCENT-SHRUB-OR-CLIMBER-/380819387458?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item58aa9ab442




Thinking one of those roses would look nice climbing over the old ty bach, but it is shaded by that huge holly tree, so unless I can get more sun in that area, don't think it will like it, BUT thinking about it I do have another Ty bach on the other side of the house, which is more in the sun..... ???

lostinrates

She will want sun.


So e cope quote well in shade or partial shade though, but for selling cutting standard you'll want sun I think. I cannot access photo bucket still which is getting really annoying. . I have a few I'd show you for location.

This morning for example, my pear and pink / red rose boundary is in shade ....just time of year.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

If I do a bit of tidying up around the other outhouse on the other side of the house, then I could plant a rambling rose on that one...which I will be able to see from the kitchen window. But I think normal bush roses will be easier at mo...as I could just pop them in around the back boundary of the garden...

choille

I've bought incredibly cheap pot roses - miniature ones from Morrissons & LIDLS. They are like button holes & gorgeous. They do go outside even though they sell them as house plants, but they do need hardening off.