Gardening!

[Richard Brown]

Did anyone go to the Chelsea Garden Show. Great TV viewing, but expensive tickets. Were the show gardens more restrained sculpture and hard landscape wise? A reflection on the economic times?

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[Hayles66]

Oh, heck, I forgot to watch it! I'll have to catch up. I bought some lovely herbs and flowers yesterday, Richard. Geraniums with leaves that when rubbed, smell of oranges and other lovely smells. They have lovely aromas when in the heat of the day too. I also bought two of my favourite herb, tangerine sage! They smell like tangerine and you can put them into fruit drinks as well! I bought a potted plant with 6 different plants for £5. My bargain for the day. I think he didn't want to take it home again. It was very heavy for me.

 

[55julie55]

Richard our garden is happy as the wet season has just finished

 

[Richard Brown]

Richard our garden is happy as the wet season has just finished

It makes you want to draw up a lounger and enjoy a rum punch or two. Paradise.

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[Hayles66]

yeah, that does look pretty! It must be hard to grow plants there though, surely. All that rain!. Okay! You guys have started me on this emoji thing now!

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[55julie55]

There was just sand here 5 years ago
Lots of hard work and driving into the bush to beg borrow and steel ( only joking) plants
It's winter here so not a lot of things in flower

 

[55julie55]

We have 7 meters of  per year

 

[Hayles66]

Yes, we forget you guys are in a different season. We are just getting hotter in our summer..

Wow that's a lot of rain. Our garden was just grass and now it's a flipping jungle!

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[Richard Brown]

yeah, that does look pretty! It must be hard to grow plants there though, surely. All that rain!. Okay! You guys have started me on this emoji thing now!

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You got your emoji working . 

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[Hayles66]

Yeah, you guys are turning me into a right little emoji girl! I love you guys though!

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[Richard Brown]

Just put a recycling idea into practice. After the torrents of rain a very large container flooded. After emptying out the sogginess, I found the drainage holes blocked, despite my having put broken crocks over them to keep clear.

I cut holes in 2 places in the rim of plastic seedling pots. Placed the pots upside down over the drainage holes. Put pea shingle around the inverted pots and refilled the container with fresh dry soil etc.

The drainage should work.

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[Hayles66]

Yes, we are recycle mania. Cloches are old windows, dustbins for potatoes, baths for ponds, basins for planters, pallets for decking etc... You don't have to spend a fortune to get good food and looks!

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[Good karma]

Pictures of some really nice gardens, impressed 

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[Richard Brown]

Here are some photos which I took at the Hampton Court Flower Show in 2007.

A good show, not as expensive to get in as Chelsea and more space to wander around.

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[Richard Brown]

Hayles you were asking about a White clematis with 4 thin petals to each flower. I think it is "Wilsonii".

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