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  • Re: Top tips for enjoying RHS flower shows

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 18 Mar 2010

    Chelsea (as above) - too busy by far to be enjoyable and you can't buy any plants Trollies (as above) - they never look big enough to carry everything you want anyway. Note pad and pen (as above) - invaluable, though you will look back on your scribbles in bemusement New stuff - Showguide - There's a lot of "stuff you don't need," but the map is essential and it will have details of all those nurseries you want to order from Digital camera - Take pictures of plants and their Read more..

  • Re: Idle chat

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 18 Mar 2010

    All of our christmas parcels "went missing" because the relief postie couldn't be bothered to carry them around or post those little cards of lies through the door so he left them in the van and then took them back to the depot. No one at the Royal Mail noticed until after christmas. Read more..

  • Re: Idle chat

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 05 Mar 2010

    Must visit forum more often. Especially if we're talking hellebores Read more..

  • Re: Idle chat

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 05 Mar 2010

    I think I'm OK, Digger... well... could be worse Have bought the book you recommended, look forward to reading it. Read more..

  • Re: Idle chat

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 11 Jan 2010

    Actually, my post above reads as quite rude. I was looking at the garden, which just happens to be white at the moment, and thought of you lot. Apologies. Read more..

  • Re: Idle chat

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 10 Jan 2010

    Hello folks, staring at the blanket of white reminded me of you all. Is everyone OK? All OK here, though lacking a bit of enthusiasm (even when the weather's warm enough to venture out of doors). Take care. Phil Read more..

  • Re: Geoffrey Smith

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 28 Feb 2009

    ' Gardening, he believed, put the world to rights. "Some people go to the whisky bottle," he said. "I go into the garden." ' Read more..

  • Geoffrey Smith

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 28 Feb 2009

    RIP Very sad news, but 80's not a bad knock http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7916174.stm Read more..

  • Re: Idle chat

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 23 Feb 2009

    *Pokes head out of pile of leaves and blinks away the sleep in the late winter sunshine* Hello again. I trust all are well. Trying to raise entusiasm levels after all hope* was dashed last autumn. *over-dramatic way of saying our allotment plan was defeated. Read more..

  • Re: Idle chat

    Forum post by filippo lippi on 30 Oct 2008

    Smileys work well :( Read more..