Let me introduce myself ...

[David Nicholson]

Nice set up Giles keep the pics of your bog garden development coming.

[Maggi Young]

Giles, those early days with the cut flower displays are fantastic, but how good that you have "seen the light at the end of the alpine house", and followed it!  There lies a life of more flowers and more colour for more of the year, for sure.   All you need now that all the materials are there for the bog garden is a strong back and industrial quantities of linament to get you through the work   Really looking forwrd to seeing how it goes. 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Welcome Giles ! 
Hope to see lots more from you soon.. 

[Lesley Cox]

All that lovely empty space just waiting for PLANTS! Definitely work in progress. I too look forward to further episodes of this saga. I do envy you your beautiful stone walls.

[cohan]

giles,i agree with others--nice space, great stone walls! and i envy you all day sun, here on the forest verge where my concerns are trying to find bits of full sun...lol

[Tony Willis]

Giles what wonderful sweet peas,I envy you the skill to grow those so well.

Nice to see your ideas on developing the garden

[tonyg]

Giles, like TW I admire the sweet peas.  My gardening started with sweet peas and other hardy annuals when I was very young.  I still grow them now   When you've got time you could pop over to Norfolk and give my garden that kind of makeover - it needs it

[Giles]

....ummmmh.
I grew about 1,000 cordons (you had to, if you wanted a reasonable chance of cutting 50-60 good stems on show day).
Getting up at 5am each day, to spend 2-3 hrs with the plants before going to work, then another 2-3 hrs in the evening when you got back.
Cutting the flowers the day before the show, arriving at the the hall about 10pm, setting up the vases overnight, for judging at 8am the following morning.
A rain storm, the week of the show, and your whole years work is down the pan.
This alpine lark is a breeze by comparison!

[ranunculus]

So are you planning to grow 1000 cassiopes now, Giles?   

Welcome to the forum!  I must have missed you at Chesterfield - we were probably in the pub - I was the one staggering about with my camera upside down and the lens cap still on!   

[Paul T]

All these welcomes make it sound like Giles is new to the forum..... he's posted more than 400 times!! 

[ranunculus]

All these welcomes make it sound like Giles is new to the forum..... he's posted more than 400 times!! 

... Welcome to you as well, Paul!   

[Paul T]

Why Thank You Cliff!!  Nice to meet you. 

 

[Diane Clement]

This alpine lark is a breeze by comparison! 

So we look forward to seeing your plants on the show bench Giles    

I have heard it said that you typically need 1000 plants in pots to stand a chance in a 6 pan class - it's to do with the odds of having 6 perfect plants on any one single day. 

[Maggi Young]

Nice to put a plant on the show benches if you have one suitable, of course, and where wouldthe shows be without the hardy souls who grow, primp, pack, drive, stage and exhibit ....... but there are folks who don't have that urge and, so long as they take their cameras to the shows and share.... that's fine by me!    Anyone of that persuasion free to cover the Aberdeen show?

[Arykana]

Hello everybody, I am Erika from Hungary
I found this site very interesting, but need time  "to gnaw myself through+ the topics.
Please forgive me if I am not use the suitable expressions, because my English is poor. I hope my garden and my Englis will improove:-))