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

[Maggi Young]

No, don't cut the leaves off, they will be okay soon and help get the plant growing to make roots.

[Lesley Cox]

Oh Angie, even I have never done that!!! Maggi's right, don't cut the leaves. Gradually they'll green up.

[angie]

Thanks Maggi and Lesley. I wont cut the leaves off . I wouldn't have thought that the leaves could green up. I cant believe that the leaves managed to grow in the soil,  I suppose the bulb wasn't willing to die so I better look after him now.
Nice to hear that I am not the only one to plant things upside down.
Angie

[Ragged Robin]

Good luck, Angie, don't be hard on yourself......I'm sure you will nurse your Boophane bulb back into good health - it certainly has the will to live    Perhaps it was heading for the skies down under

[angie]

Thanks Robin, yes I think it was heading home. It must have been thinking to itself  Oh I have heard that Scotland doesn't get much sun but this is ridiculous, its dark here all the time. Poor bulb
Angie

[TheOnionMan]

Three people (me, and my two daughters) sharing one digital camera, now that's something to moan about.  Usually it works out ok, but this morning, on this glorious warm crystal blue-sky day, some of the crocus clumps are at their peak, I went looking for the digital camera but discovered that my daughter borrowed it for her outing to the city (Boston) all day... grrrrr!

[mark smyth]

Angie, I think your plant may need a south window to green up fast

[Lesley Cox]

But be careful not to let it get burnt. That pale foliage will be very tender and soft.

[vivienr]

Three people (me, and my two daughters) sharing one digital camera, now that's something to moan about.  Usually it works out ok, but this morning, on this glorious warm crystal blue-sky day, some of the crocus clumps are at their peak, I went looking for the digital camera but discovered that my daughter borrowed it for her outing to the city (Boston) all day... grrrrr!

I share your pain, Mark. I am the only one in the family without a digital camera. When I want to borrow one I am always given the one with flat batteries and no memory card
The snowdrops and crocuses are flopping here now as we have sun and a warm wind drying them out.
I bought a little pot of Crocus 'Prins Claus' at the Loughborough Show the other week after your postings mentioned that they were fragrant

[TheOnionMan]

I share your pain, Mark. I am the only one in the family without a digital camera. When I want to borrow one I am always given the one with flat batteries and no memory card
The snowdrops and crocuses are flopping here now as we have sun and a warm wind drying them out.
I bought a little pot of Crocus 'Prins Claus' at the Loughborough Show the other week after your postings mentioned that they were fragrant

I'm getting lots of self-sown seedlings from Prins Claus, with lots of variability but with the similar general coloration, and the hybrids are also fragrant.  I have some C. chrysanthus seedlings of many colors, just snifted a posie of white ones that look akin to Miss Vain, but I have to concur with Mark S's characterization of the flowers smelling of dung!

[KentGardener]

Grrrr!   

Stepped out of my front door this morning to find my 10 year old pot grown CDIP halfway up the street and all the soil tipped out on the way. Had a note through the door from a neighbour who had gone out to work at 3am and chased a bloke off who was dragging it away.

A right bloody mess I had to clear up before work and now have to repot a BIG palm that probrably can't stay out the front any more due to the idiots in the world and will take up valuable space out back.

Bloody thieving scum!   

[Maggi Young]

Now, John, you know you should have sympathy for the miscreant, who likely comes from a broken home and was only trying to take the plant as a belated Mothering Sunday gift to his sick old mum.......   

By the way, what is a CDIP ? 

[mark smyth]

My thought too, Maggi

[mark smyth]

soil drying out, snowdrops almost over, crocus almost over, iris retics like paper after opening on Monday ......

[KentGardener]

By the way, what is a CDIP ? 

D'oh!  As I was walking back from the shops I thought "I wonder if anyone knows what a CIDP is" - and then got home and checked my post to see that my dyslexia has struck to confuse matters even more!     Sorry 

I meant CIDP = Canary Island Date Palm.  As tall as me - 4ft accross - weighs A LOT - and is dangerously spikey.  But that damn thief poor deprived youth still managed to drag it 100 yrds.