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Daydream fund challenge part 4

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  • tori.k
    tori.k Posts: 3,592 Forumite
    Dave you not the only one that's run out of bedding. having a chat with a buyer from a local Garden centre and they are resorting to landing cyclamen and chrysanthemum from next week,:rotfl:
    I finally got some time off work next week so its off to the beach for some seaweed.
    my butts have finally run dry :o embarrassingly I have a IBC serving as a garden gnome until the workshop is built just need the birds to fledge so we can crack on.
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    edited 19 July 2018 at 7:56PM
    tori.k wrote: »
    Dave you not the only one that's run out of bedding.
    Bedding???:eek::eek::eek:

    Err....we don't do bedding, as such; we're perennials and shrubs. :A

    Those are our major interests, but also, we find they're easier. I did start out doing bedding, geraniums, fuchsias etc, but then I saw the potential to divide-up and sell our hardy plants, and yet still have them, if you get what I mean! ;)

    But we aren't snobby purists, so we do sell gap fillers.:cool: For example, we're doing nicotiana mutabilis and rudbeckia hirta at present, and I always do some marigolds for people to grow with their tomatoes. Somehow, we've ended-up selling toms to half the village, and they fill early season gaps for us too when not much is flowering.

    I'd do loads of dahlias too, but we haven't the space.:(

    In other words, we do a bit of everything, but lean heavily on the hardy plant side.

    Plants for flower arranging are big here so I'll give you a sneak preview of something that might be quite lucrative, if only I can bulk it up quickly. It's proving hardy here, but it's taken its time to flower.....a yellow arum lily that's undemanding and really well-behaved:

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    The smaller flower at the back has been out for a month! :D
  • lucielle
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    Don't know if I mentioned previously that the holiday house had been using quite a bit of oil and that was part of the reason for coming up this week. Once again ordered oil at the beginning of the week but also fitted a watchman to the tank so it could be monitered better.

    Oil company came to deliver today and wouldn't deliver because the tank has hairline cracks in it, therefore need a new tank. Just a bit bemused that they only noticed it now. Anyway cue lots of headless chicken running about. A couple of lovely people have got me a bunded tank and he's going to collect it tomorrow. I think that'll be the easy part. I'm fully booked until 28th September. The positive is at least I know why its been going down so quick.
    L
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  • Davesnave
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    lucielle wrote: »
    The positive is at least I know why its been going down so quick.
    L
    I don't get that......Do you mean you've had a leak???? :eek:


    We were hanging on for the summer price drop, which hasn't happened yet, and might not, because of tensions over Iran.
    The Watchman was on warning light for a month or more, but I have a trusty stick, which showed there was enough not to panic......However, they offered me a grouped deal @48ppl last weekend and I caved-in. :o
  • tori.k
    tori.k Posts: 3,592 Forumite
    Luicelle how much of your land is contaminated, your a lot calmer then I would be in the same situation.
    Dave our calla have done awful this year ended up pretty stretched due to the heat but the cuckoo pint did well :o
    im a hardy exotics girl myself but a general plant hoarder if im honest but cottage herbaceous pays the bills.
  • alfie_1
    alfie_1 Posts: 5,837 Forumite
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    we had an oil leak [[100yds away]and it ended up finding itself to the lake ! we had to get booms in and hay bales etc. im sure it was maybe only a gallon ? but my god it ended up everywhere . had to get professionals in , in the end ........
  • choille
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    Lucielle - glad the house let is going well & hope that not too much oil has leaked & it gets sorted.

    People seem to be busy with B&B here & the roads are really busy & fast. Chap killed on a bike yesterday down past the junction. The road was closed from 2.30 - till after 8 pm.

    It's been what I call soft rain all day - light mizzle but it soaks you & low cloud. The midgies are bad when it's dull & still so you walk quick when out with the dog.
    Don't seem to be getting much done other than the basics.
  • tori.k
    tori.k Posts: 3,592 Forumite
    We have Rain :j rephrase by the sound on the conservatory roof we've had rain :mad:
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    tori.k wrote: »
    We have Rain :j rephrase by the sound on the conservatory roof we've had rain :mad:
    Ah, that's because it's drifted up here! :D


    Nothing dramatic; just steady rain for a couple of hours now. :beer:
  • DaftyDuck
    DaftyDuck Posts: 4,609 Forumite
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    Grrr... WE HAVEN'T !!!

    It's now seven weeks since we had a drop. I've got a digital rain gauge, and it's demanding psychiatric counselling! Accurate sez there was only five mm in June, none in July, but three of those mils must have evaporated before I could measure them.

    Predicting six more weeks of this...

    My cactus are doing well, as are the figs and olives!
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