Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Alfie has an amazing example of a pot rose like that gone mad!

alfie_1

these i got from the 99p shop ..... they are BIG now !!

and the one below was the one LIR is talking about ... £1 pot for "indoors" knee high to a grasshopper ...now look at it !!!

alfie_1

personally i would grow the roses in tubs then if they dont do well in one place you just gotta move em ...........

lostinrates

I spent a lot of today wishing I'd been more productive yesterday as I didn't get outside at all.

I was trying to paint a pink stripe around a wall but the masking tape kept pulling the paint off. When it eventually worked I decided I hated the stripe so am now trying to paint it all out anyway. What a silly waste of a weekend. Pffft.

Its just the back lobby, and using up paint we already had, so the lobby is a greyish green colour with a deep painted 'skirting' border of a dark misty hills blue (prosaically so that dog and cat marks are less instantly noticeable). Its looks quite dreary, which is sort of what I was going for. The pink stripe I had painted in was too shabby chic for my taste. Pretty, but ....ubiquitous.

alfie_1

hi all..:D

well today postie came with his very big, very long trailer and i filled it with all the plants in pots/tubs etc from out the front of my house. got the really big tub with clematis and honey suckle up and out didnt realise i had so much and that was only half of them all... plus the stuff im going to dig up..:eek:

but i aint leavin nuffin...;) :rotfl:

feel like im getting sorted now, just got to keep up momento..:o

i will collapse in a heap when im moved 100%

Davesnave

Glad you received a really useful pressie, Rummer.

I hated the old living room carpet in our previous house and tried to keep it looking tolerably good while we were on the market. I figured the new owners would soon give it the heave-ho. Wrong! When I visited last year, it was still there, looking tattier than ever! :rotfl:

Squirrel fire looks good, Better Days. I'm sure you won't regret buying a quality stove. That was the easy bit, because now you need a supply of quality logs, seasoned and dry! That's not so easy where we are, but YMMV.

Roses....lovely in other people's gardens, but maybe my judgement is clouded as the person who used to 'find' most of the prunings my elderly Dad left around his! I also once owned a Zephirine Drouhin, one of the most grumpy and disease-prone roses there has ever been!:(

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

hi all..:D

well today postie came with his very big, very long trailer and i filled it with all the plants in pots/tubs etc from out the front of my house. got the really big tub with clematis and honey suckle up and out didnt realise i had so much and that was only half of them all... plus the stuff im going to dig up..:eek:

but i aint leavin nuffin...;) :rotfl:

If it makes you feel better, we did 5 trips down the M5 to get all of ours here. :eek::(
Then, about 1/2 of them died in the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11:mad:

Natural selection, innit?

Rummer

I really like the flowers on roses but intensely dislike the plants When we moved in here there were loads of them and hubby wanted to keep them but I dug out most of them and just kept a few. Every year I cut them to the ground in the hope they will die and then I realised that is what made them flourish :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I spent a lot of today wishing I'd been more productive yesterday as I didn't get outside at all.

Yesterday wasn't a 'going outside' day here. Today was, definitely.:D

I spent the morning wading about in the stream, or teetering on the banks, planting things. I must've put 50 small plants in, but when I finished there was nothing to see.

I was slightly encouraged by seeing some evidence of previous planting, but my species hydrangeas, which I thought needed woodland, just look as miserable.

Many of the small hellebores I planted disappeared during the nice bit of summer, but two more subatantial ones were there, just beginning to flower. I was surprised and heartened by that.

alfie_1

i must admit i seem to have success with most i plant. i have shrubs, roses etc that have moved 3 times ! i will add ,i dont follow the "rules" re planting/growing..... i buy dying/poor/scrappy/unwanted etc and bring em back to life....bit like some animogs...:D seems to work :rotfl:

i think theres always a big plant trying to escape from a little pot...:D