Troughs needing a home

[angie]

One good thing about this forum is that we don't lose our friends...wherever they are in the world we can keep in touch and it will be great to see and hear about Anthony's new adventure.

Your troughs are lovely.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

I hope he doesn't go and do something silly like live in Auckland! No alpines there.

[David Nicholson]

New Zealand is the intention David (touch wood) - just a few 'is' to dot and 'ts' to cross.

Well done, I'm sure you will all be happy there. Will PM you over the week-end.

[Paul T]

Anthony,

Well THAT will dramatically increase the chances of me actually meeting you one day.    Good show!!  I think there is far more chance of me getting to NZ than the UK, although I would like to go to both. 

[Ragged Robin]

Good luck in your new venture Anthony NZ is a great country!  Looking forward to seeing you developing a garden and hatching some surprises there  - good to have met you  

[Anthony Darby]

Four down; four to go!

[Susan]

Is Auckland still in New Zealand, Lesley?  I thought they had gone their own way and we were all just contributing to their upkeep.

Glad to hear your news Anthony. Lovely part of the world to live - are you coming  somewhere hot and sunny - growing tropicals, bananas and citrus..................

Susan

[angie]

Four down; four to go!

Lovely troughs I got two, and I got all the lovely plants in them.

Mind you my dog thought he would have a go at emptying it before we got the other one in. Not to much damage, managed to save the plants that he thought he would thin out for me.
Thank you Anthony for them. By the way folks if you haven't met Anthony before, he looks a lot younger than he does in his picture  . Hope you didn't mind me saying this Anthony.

Angie

[Anthony Darby]

I was a lot older when that picture was taken Angie. It was when we beat the Egg Heads last March!

[Liz Mills]

Hi Tony
I'm maybe too late but would appreciate having another 2 or 3 troughs for my garden.  If there are any left, I could take one of the stone cattle troughs and a couple of hypertufa ones.  If all the stone ones are gone, 3 hypertufa ones would be great.  As you know, I can collect when it suits you.

Hoping all your arrangements for the 'big move' are going smoothly (do things like this ever go smoothly?) and that you and the family will enjoy your new home in NZ.  We'll miss you at our Shows but know that we'll be able to keep an eye on you from afar through the Forum.

Good luck, Liz

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Liz,
I'm afraid I got the two farmers troughs. Picked them up on Sunday. One was a real struggle it's the largest trough I have. We had to decant the compost and plants before we could get it in the car. I got the plants too. A new set for my collection.
Met Angie there while she was collecting her troughs.

Graham

[Anthony Darby]

The weather was kind to us. I'm glad the plants and troughs have found good homes.

[Maggi Young]

The weather was kind to us. I'm glad the plants and troughs have found good homes.

Sounds as if the troughs have gone to very good homes.
Anthony.... when will the Eggheads be shown.... I  haven't seen it yet though we watch when we can.....and I'd  be furoius if we'd missed it. 

[angie]

Graham hope you got them all planted up. Mine are looking good in front of my greenhouse. Nice meeting you again.

Anthony the views around Dunblane are lovely. We wished we had taken our camera.
I would have loved to have seen your garden in the summer you had so many interesting plants. It's so nice to have a garden that gets so much sun. Thanks again for the troughs, it was very generous 

Angie

[Maggi Young]

Angela, how nice you got the troughs.... dare I ask how Derek's bad back is now?