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David Nicholson

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #450 on: September 18, 2012, 05:07:32 PM »
Just going into the back garden for a look ;D
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #451 on: September 18, 2012, 05:14:17 PM »
Sue trying to bring this beauty back from Lake Como ...
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #452 on: September 18, 2012, 09:08:27 PM »
With one hand?  Bravo, Sue!
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #453 on: September 19, 2012, 07:58:13 AM »
But what a waste - there's nothing planted in it!
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #454 on: September 19, 2012, 08:01:01 AM »
There would have been if Sue had been a bit stronger!!!
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #455 on: September 19, 2012, 08:03:59 AM »
May be it is already planted with plenty of spring bulbs!
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #456 on: September 19, 2012, 09:09:38 AM »
To think what I could grow in there  :D and its just at the perfect height, no sore back planting this one up.

Angie  :)
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #457 on: September 19, 2012, 09:35:53 AM »
At the Harrogate show a man was selling old troughs and making new ones
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When the swifts arrive empty the green house

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #458 on: September 19, 2012, 10:29:42 AM »
Quote from: John85 on September 19, 2012, 08:03:59 AM
May be it is already planted with plenty of spring bulbs!
I like that idea!
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #459 on: September 20, 2012, 01:02:22 AM »
Quote from: ranunculus on September 18, 2012, 05:14:17 PM
Sue trying to bring this beauty back from Lake Como ...

You rotten beast! Couldn't you at least have taken the other end? ;D
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #460 on: September 20, 2012, 06:59:47 AM »
Give me a break, Lesley ... I already had the larger of the two troughs on my shoulders and a camera in my hands.
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #461 on: September 20, 2012, 08:54:46 AM »
The troughs at the front of my house are crying for a makeover. They havent been replanted since I made them in 2005 - gasp  :o
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When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #462 on: September 20, 2012, 07:04:00 PM »
do you have a picture of that trough Mark ?
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Re: Troughs
« Reply #463 on: September 20, 2012, 08:17:07 PM »
My troughs? Yeah I'll look for them later
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When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

Lesley Cox

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Re: Troughs
« Reply #464 on: September 23, 2012, 10:30:06 PM »
Cliff could you not have put the smaller trough inside the larger? And I would suggest Sue would have been happy to carry the camera. ;D
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Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9
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