Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Maggi Young]

Question put to very experienced female TV gardener, in preparation for her planned discourse on annual herbs! Said gardener spells her Carol with an "e" 

[Sinchets]

Well I do hope the response was withering!

[Joakim B]

Maybe I am stupid but some plants reported as "annuals" do survive so lets hope that the producer had that knowledge and was not just plain stupid.
Annuals in Portugal and annuals in Sweden are different I think. Maybe they are not annuals if they sometimes somewhere come back? I am not thinking of non hardy plants but tricks to get plants to live longer by not allowing them to set seeds helps some to live an extra year. This does not work for all ofcourse.

Regarding the search facility
Maybe the search failure has something to do what browser (internet program) one use. I generally never finds things with the search but have to search my self for it. The latter digs up old gems so it is not all bad.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Carol Shaw]

Question put to very experienced female TV gardener, in preparation for her planned discourse on annual herbs! Said gardener spells her Carol with an "e" 

Say no more the delightful Ms B  I'm sure she was very gentle with him - which is more than Mrs Doctor Carole B would have been 

[Carol Shaw]

Maybe I am stupid but some plants reported as "annuals" do survive so lets hope that the producer had that knowledge and was not just plain stupid.
Joakim

Joakim some annuals can survive it is true - but not herbs, at least so far as I know 

[WimB]

I HATE mice:

this is what's left of a lot of the crocusses in my garden after what looks like an extended family of mice passed through it:

(Sorry for the bad quality of the photo but I was a bit angry)

[David Nicholson]

Looks as though they were pretty hungry Wim

[Michael J Campbell]

Update on the dead Buxus. Folks the joke is on me   
Believe it or not the new manager is after selling 15 of the dead Buxus at €20 each,there are just 4 left. Because they were inside and not exposed to the weather the leaves just dried up but were still green,they had not yet turned brown and only about 50% fell off, they looked like artificial plastic plants.
Now what I want to know,who is the fool?,the manager for selling dead plants, or the customers for buying them. Surely that is an offense to deliberately deceive customers even if they are partly to blame because of their own ignorance. The managers  did know that they were dead because I informed them on three occasions. 

[Sinchets]

My sympathy Wim-  we have been there too, but with voles. We found that voles don't like to dig too deep and  don't like digging through a stone top dressing. If you ever have the heart to replant crocus, these 2 facts are worth bearing in mind.

[maggiepie]

Update on the dead Buxus. Folks the joke is on me   
 The managers  did know that they were dead because I informed them on three occasions. 

Michael, that is just plain awful, don't the plants come with a guarantee for a year or two?
I am also shocked at the €20 price tag, they must have been very big plants??

Wim, I feel for you, maybe you need to get a cat or two

[WimB]

Simon, it could have been voles too but I thought they would eat the plants from under the ground, these plants were dug out and eaten from the top.
Helen, I like cats but since I'm allergic to them I can't keep them, maybe I could keep a couple of owls 

[Lesley Cox]

Wim, that is so tragic. You will have to go for mouse traps or some kind of bait. You CAN'T go on with this happening, and it will again, now they know about the crocuses.

Michael, the manager is criminal, the customers foolish. The manager should be reported to the fair trading people, or whatever equivilent you have in the Republic. In NZ a product - including plants - must be true to its ID and fit for the purpose for which it was bought.

[maggiepie]

Helen, I like cats but since I'm allergic to them I can't keep them, maybe I could keep a couple of owls 

Wim, bad luck you are allergic to cats, my younger daughter would love to have a cat but unfortunately, her hub is allergic too.
From what I gather, it is the saliva that causes the allergy.

[WimB]

Lesley,

I've put some bait near to the mice holes I found so I hope they like that more than the Crocus bulbs.

Helen,

it's the saliva that does it indeed and the skin can make you allergic too, but it's the same protein that is responsible for the reaction.

[Greenmanplants]

I find the mice and voles tend to eat different things in different years, once they get a taste for a particular think they will devour all of it.

Anemones one year, hellebore buds the next, Corydalis the next, trillium and paris the next...that was too much...now I feed them malteasers.....as that's the easiest way to bait a little snapper trap.  They never tire of chocolate....they never learn either...temptation is too much.



???They must all be female Mice!!???