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On 11/10/2004 3:45:18 PM crackintackle wrote:
Hi Daisy - While I have my notes: Euonymus Alatus (burning bush, winged spindle tree) or Euonymus Alatus Compactus (same thing, but smaller and more compact) - well drained, sun or partial shade, prune for shape. Can be nasty if ingested. Easy to keep, low maintenance. They were featured in The Garden last August or September. Planted up over 500 bulbs at the week-end. My back was breaking - tulips, snowdrops, dwarf iris, crocus - the usual. I only lifted them at the end of last season because I knew I would be moving my roses. I left all the daffs in situ, so that was one job out of the way. My husband and I ordered a pretty big selection of lillies from an exhibitor at Chelsea. Personally I am not a lover of lillies - lillies, lillac, death and all that - but my husband really likes them, so we made a small wager on who could produce the best show. Because of the summer weather conditions, the grower cannot lift the bulbs until spring 2005. Daisy, I simply forgot all about these blasted bulbs, and so when they do arrive I have absolutely no where to put them! Probably end up next door in my daughters garden - it is like an overspill in there..... One of my re-sited roses has actually flowered! I am amazed. Naturally I gave them a light pruning before digging them up, but this 'Princess of Wales' (creamy white with a lovely scent) had budded. As it's about it's third show this year the flower is very small, but it is a flower none the less.
So Daisy - Christmas trees - are they to be real or fake. Having a small Cav.King.Chas. called Nuggett I opt for fake. I have hardwood floors and the needles, as much as they are better than they once were, still fall into the cracks between the blocks. Am
I a cheater and very environmentaly unfriendly? - sorry....
Took my grandchildren (aged 6 and 2) to the big famous toy shop and they picked out small gardening kits - bless them.
The baby was distraught that firework debris had fallen on the 'pretties' - It took me about an hour to clear up all the small bits of cardboard and plastic in my garden - and my car looked as though it had been parked in a war zone.
I am toying with planting some winter pansies - last year I did and they were rather disappointing.
Keep smiling Daisy - Crackin'----------------
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On 11/10/2004 3:45:18 PM crackintackle wrote:
Hi Daisy - While I have my notes: Euonymus Alatus (burning bush, winged spindle tree) or Euonymus Alatus Compactus (same thing, but smaller and more compact) - well drained, sun or partial shade, prune for shape. Can be nasty if ingested. Easy to keep, low maintenance. They were featured in The Garden last August or September. Planted up over 500 bulbs at the week-end. My back was breaking - tulips, snowdrops, dwarf iris, crocus - the usual. I only lifted them at the end of last season because I knew I would be moving my roses. I left all the daffs in situ, so that was one job out of the way. My husband and I ordered a pretty big selection of lillies from an exhibitor at Chelsea. Personally I am not a lover of lillies - lillies, lillac, death and all that - but my husband really likes them, so we made a small wager on who could produce the best show. Because of the summer weather conditions, the grower cannot lift the bulbs until spring 2005. Daisy, I simply forgot all about these blasted bulbs, and so when they do arrive I have absolutely no where to put them! Probably end up next door in my daughters garden - it is like an overspill in there..... One of my re-sited roses has actually flowered! I am amazed. Naturally I gave them a light pruning before digging them up, but this 'Princess of Wales' (creamy white with a lovely scent) had budded. As it's about it's third show this year the flower is very small, but it is a flower none the less.
So Daisy - Christmas trees - are they to be real or fake. Having a small Cav.King.Chas. called Nuggett I opt for fake. I have hardwood floors and the needles, as much as they are better than they once were, still fall into the cracks between the blocks. Am
I a cheater and very environmentaly unfriendly? - sorry....
Took my grandchildren (aged 6 and 2) to the big famous toy shop and they picked out small gardening kits - bless them.
The baby was distraught that firework debris had fallen on the 'pretties' - It took me about an hour to clear up all the small bits of cardboard and plastic in my garden - and my car looked as though it had been parked in a war zone.
I am toying with planting some winter pansies - last year I did and they were rather disappointing.
Keep smiling Daisy - Crackin'----------------
Hi Crackin,
thanks for the info. Will definitely try burning bush, but not until I have:
a) planted all of my bulbs (still over 200 to go!)
b) cleared all garden debris
c) sown all the seeds I hope to get from the 2005 seed list, if I ever make my mind up.
Obviously you should receive a DHCAGS (Daisyheadcase Award of Gardening Stardom)for managing to coax your transplanted rose into flowering, I'm sure you were absolutely thrilled.
It's lovely that your grandchildren like flowers and gardening, do they really live next door to you? You must get on with your daughter very well. If I lived next door to my mother, I think we'd drive each other mad! Although I've done a little bit of gardening for her this year, especially the front garden. She has what is basically sand in the front border, I planted cerinthe major purpurascens, dahlias (dwarf), calendual officinalis "Indian Prince" and centranthus ruber (which self-seeds in mygarden until it's coming out of my ears!), and they have all done really well, despite not being planted until late July. Of course, now it means that I have to go round and lift her dahlias, especially as it looks like we are probably going to have our first ground frost tonight. I haven't checked the weather forecast, but it's been pretty cold yesterday and today, substantially colder than recently. I have the promise of a day in the garden tomorrow as my partner is going to amuse the children for me, do I'll probably be lifting dahlias and then filling up the spaces with bulbs!
Christmas Trees:
This is a very important question. I don't think it's a question of being genuine or fake, I think practicality is the guiding principle. When we lived in a small pokey flat with wooden floorboards we had a plastic tree. My partner always wanted a real tree, but it was just not practical. Now we have moved back up here and live in a house, he insists (he doesn't get his way often!) on a real tree, which I have to pick, pay for, load into the car, bring inside and decorate every year. Oh, and hoover up all the needles. Luckily, I have a dyson (my second favourite purchase ever, after my felco secateurs) so I don't mind too much. And the kids love it. But I think a large plastic tree would be just as good for them, it's the decorating, the lights, the chocolates, the tinsel that they love. It's surely more environmentally friendly not to buy a real tree. I was reading that so many million tons of trees end up just being disposed of, although some areas do have tree recycling schemes, unfortunately a lot of people just don't bother.
I've already planted pansies - I don't normally like them but these are a beautiful deep red colour, with a black blob in the centre. In fact they are apparently called panolas, which I presume are a cross between violas (which I've also planted) and pansies. I find some of the brightly coloured bicoloured varieties just too garish, but obviously it's personal preference. Maybe you could just pot some up, if they're rubbish it's easier to dispose of them.
Anyway very late now, take care, hope you get everything you want done, wish me luck for my day in the garden tomorrow, let's hope it doesn't rain!
Daisyheadcase
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