October 2012 in the Southern Hemisphere

[johnw]

I see weevil damage to some leaves and Blue Peter is a weevil magnet.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for the links Paul. It seems Maggi is right - not that I would ever doubt her. Even if BP is a weevil magnet, I'd really like it, as well as 'Susan.' All my (few) blues are very small growing, such as impeditum, 'Blue Cushion,' thymifolia etc. It was blue Paul, but perhaps just not QUITE as blue as that. But none is REALLY blue anyway. We saw stunning plants of different forms of augustinii at Larnach Castle.

[Anthony Darby]

I miss Blue Peter.

[Maggi Young]

I miss Blue Peter.

Don't fret, Anthony, it's nothing like as  good as it was in the "old days" - so bad, in fact, I gave up watching years ago.  Their use of sticky-backed plastic had all but stopped....... 


(Note to puzzled readers: "Blue Peter" is the name of a UK childrens' TV programme which used to be famous for the models they made, the adventurous exploits of the presenters, and an imaginative the yearly charity campaign. )

[Lesley Cox]

And there was I about to tell him it should be easy enough to find and buy a plant.

I've yet to try it out but yesterday I went into a camera shop in town and with tears in my eyes, asked if they could fix the blue cast my camera was doing. I fully expected to be told I needed a new camera. The young man fiddled for about 10 seconds then said I just had the white balance on manual instead of auto and it would be fine now. Thanked him and departed. So I'm very pleased.

[Anthony Darby]

I thought it would have disappeared without a trace long ago.