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

[Maggi Young]

We'll hold you to that, Maggi, but I don't think we'd fit in one bed

Of course you will......... the big erythronium  bed, behind the pond......

[ranunculus]

We'll hold you to that, Maggi, but I don't think we'd fit in one bed

Of course you will......... the big erythronium  bed, behind the pond......

Wow, 'en suite'!   

[Maggi Young]

Well, kinda..... don't really want pishing in my fond !

[Paddy Tobin]

Dianella tasmanica - is it time it was repatriated?

I, for one, would wish it so. There have been two big clumps in the garden for several years. The leaves always look tatty. The flowers are insignificant. The berries are pleasant for the short while they last and then the miserable look takes over again.

Today, I removed the second clump, three wheelbarrow loads, and made my best ever use of dianella - I put it in the compost bin.

As it turns out, there is now room in that bed for...

Paddy

[Carlo]

Well Paddy...I've grown it here as an annual--and it was fabulous as a variegated foliage plant for underplanting, and then conveniently died during the winter. No tatty leaves here!

[Lesley Cox]

We'll hold you to that, Maggi, but I don't think we'd fit in one bed
I'm looking forward to visiting already!
cheers
fermi

Lucky dogs!

[Paddy Tobin]

Carlo,

How fortunate for you. It is a good plant that dies well when it is no longer required.

Paddy

[Luc Gilgemyn]

We had a most wonderful and enjoyable time traveling around in England and North Wales the last four days !! (This should be in the I'm so happy thread really...  )
Until yesterday - the roads were quite busy but we got along quite well - until...., we spent 1.45 hours on the M25 in an "organised" traffic jam, just to "allow" us to pay a mere 1,50 £ at the Dartford Crossing !    What a shame  ! 

It made us miss a garden open visit in Kent... 

[Anthony Darby]

Should have come to Scotland. No road tolls here, although £1.50 is quite cheap compared to travelling in continental Europe!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Right on all counts Anthony ! 
My frustration was that for "only" 1,50 £ we had to queu for 1.45 hrs... 
Not that I want them to raise toll... 

[Lesley Cox]

Hope you had a good book with you Luc.

[Lesley Cox]

I'm going to KILL the little brute. This is not a moan it is a scream of horrified outrage.

While I was doing my usual morning thing on the Forum, Teddy, (Jack Russell, 5 and a half months old) was amusing himself with a package of seeds which arrived yesterday from Marcus in Tasmania. He has only eaten one packet entirely, including the little plastic bag and I have found 2 slimy seeds on the (needing to be vacuumed) carpet. The package was on the dining room table (chairs tucked well under but this morning he has discovered that if he takes a good run and a flying leap, he can just make it). Roger's blood pressure pills (I may now need them) and the bowl of bananas are untouched. My fault of course, I should have put the seeds elsewhere or kept Teddy with me or not ordered more seeds anyway.

I should be sorry for Teddy. He is very soon to be (micro)chipped and (testicularly)chopped and he'll get carsick on the way to the vet, but of all the seeds to eat!

Does anyone know if Iris sari is poisonous?

[johnw]

Lesley - I can understand your rage. Reminds me of a friend I took to the Rhodo Society Christmas party one year. Someone had collected Davidia involucrata v. vilmoriniana (the hardy form) seeds for the members and placed them in a lovely bowl for all to help themselves. My Dutch friend didn't quite get the gist of the announcement, picked up the bowl and proceeded to the buffet table with them.  Over the course of the evening she ate every one of the seeds and then had the audacity to complain that they weren't very good. Members were ready to chip and chop her that night.  She had to go underground for several months.

Your Iris sari seeds may sprout better than ever.  But where?

Poor Teddy! I always wanted a Jack Russell but know I hae me doots.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Where? very likely in the long grass where no way would I see them.

Your story John, in turn reminds me of one in which my elderly aunt, must have been 85 at the time, returned home from a holiday with my cousin, to find that her fridge was well stocked. She thanked the neighbour kindly and said how much she'd enjoyed the luncheon sausage. Also thanked the neighbour for looking after her little dog. You guessed it, the sausage was actually a chunk of dog roll which the neighbour had bought. I don't think he told her about that.

Thinking of Teddy and his present propensity for carsickness, I thought of making him sick and hopefully retrieving the packet but I couldn't face the prospect. We've had a major row since the seed episode, over my determination for both dogs to go out while I had my lunch and Teddy's determination not to go. I won but it was harrowing for both of us, a good smack for him and a bite for me and another smack for him. However, later he came in happily and sat on my knee so we're friends again. Dogs are wonderfully forgiving.

[David Shaw]

However, later he came in happily

What mischief had he been upto whilst he was outside, though!