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Ariel
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Welcome to your newly planted gardening thread for the coming year!
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If things carry on as they are I'm thinking of growing rice...
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Chamois
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Steady on! We're in the middle of an official drought, you know.
Possibly the wettest drought on record, but still.
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Ethne Alba
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our garden is usually waterlogged.....all the gardens along here suffer the same affliction.
the dampness i can live with, it's the liverwort that's slowly driving me nutz. it's like a rash, all over the place.
ideas?
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Kyzyl
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The way 2013 is going, I won't even see grass nor garden until, oh, April.
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Traveller
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Our lawn has a nasty crop of mole hills. It is so wet out there, I nearly feel sorry for the moles. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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ThunderBunk
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Originally posted by Traveller:
Our lawn has a nasty crop of mole hills. It is so wet out there, I nearly feel sorry for the moles.
It's when you see bubbles or snorkels emerging from the top that you can really feel for them.
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by FooloftheShip:
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Originally posted by Traveller:
Our lawn has a nasty crop of mole hills. It is so wet out there, I nearly feel sorry for the moles.
It's when you see bubbles or snorkels emerging from the top that you can really feel for them.
But you'll probably still want to put a cork in the top of the snorkel.
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jedijudy
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Things are growing, here! I think all my Phalaenopsis orchids have flower spikes! One has four of them! Hopefully the Cattleyas and Dendrobiums will think about putting out new shoots, soon.
And...I have tomatoes!! I believe I counted ten, all but one on the largest plant. I'm hoping they last until they're fully ripe. The nine are a black heirloom tomato. I've never eaten a black tomato, and am really looking forward to tasting the thing! The other is a pink and white striped heirloom. It's only shooter marble sized right now.
The dill is of a size to use, and so is the mint. There is a teeny-tiny pepper on a little pepper plant.
It's very exciting at the Jedi Temple! We will hope that there are no freezes this winter. So far, so good!
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Jack the Lass
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Back at the allotment this weekend - apparently someone has dropped out and they didn't have the full complement of numbers anyway, so the 2.5 plots which were originally going to be divided up into 10 quarter plots are likely to be divided up into a smaller number of bigger plots. So we'd better get planning our veggies ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
It really is a massive job clearing the site, as it's really not been looked after. I keep telling myself how much easier it will be next year as we won't have to do all this again!
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First really good session in the garden for 2013. Mainly clearing out fallen leaves from the borders and lawn, but also pruning hydrangeas, checking on overwintering plants in the cold frames (one rather confused geum has decided to produce a flower) and planting some sweet pea seeds (indoors).
Rather disappointed that so few of the snowdrop bulbs I planted last spring seem to be doing anything, but I think I am not alone in this. Also wondering what is putting holes in the leaves of my brassicas. I don't think it is slugs, as slug pellets and copper tape around the raised beds should be giving them a decent amount of protection.
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Chamois
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I've definitely got slugs eating my brassicas. I've been catching them at it. Hopefully colder weather this week will stop the little so-and-sos and I can pick some sprouts without holes in their sides. We're expecting a frost tonight and maybe snow tomorrow.
I'm very pleased with my leeks. I hadn't tried them before and wasn't sure if I could cope with the earthing-up, but they've turned out really well. A definite must for this year!
I was out today spreading compost on the raspberry bed and around the gooseberry bushes. The mild weather means lots of weeds have sprouted but the soil's too wet for me to pull or hoe them. The bottom of the garden is no longer flooded but still distinctly soggy.
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Drifting Star
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Daffodils! Proper, ordinary daffodils, in the ground in our garden, fully in flower! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Me and a couple of my uni friends have found a really lovely house to share next year, with a very generous garden for a student house (long and narrow like most terraced houses' gardens in the UK). My family are keen gardeners and I would like to try out my own green fingers! What can you plant (preferably in pots) from September onwards that's difficult to kill?
We would like to attract wildlife too (we will be putting out bird feeders, nesting boxes etc) - I know lavender and various herbs attract bees, but what would attract birds that's not a tree or large shrub? I'm not sure if we'll be allowed to dig up any of the turf so we'll probably stick to pots.
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Firenze
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One thing you can plant in autumn is spring bulbs - snowdrops, crocus, narcissi, daffodils, hyacinths, tulips. As those begin to fade, you can get he cheap summer bedding plants - lobelia, Busy Lizzie, geranium, begonia, French marigold etc. I don't have much flowerbed, so I plant up a lot of pots and tubs.
If you have any really scrotty bits of ground, scatter nasturtiums: I have a narrow strip between a brick wall and some paving - dry, full of bits of mortar, it can barely support weeds - but nasturtiums love it.
Also, if you have a large tub/bin/plasticy-fabric bags, you can grow potatoes (worth it for the taste). And herbs, of course.
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Pomona
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Thanks! You can eat nasturtiums too (leaves and flowers).
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Firenze
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They also serve as a kind of organic pest control, attracting stuff that would otherwise go for the veg. But their own edibility is rather lowered by the black fly coating.
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Roseofsharon
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
Thanks! You can eat nasturtiums too (leaves and flowers).
The seeds can be pickled and used as substitute capers, too.
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
Me and a couple of my uni friends have found a really lovely house to share next year, with a very generous garden for a student house (long and narrow like most terraced houses' gardens in the UK). My family are keen gardeners and I would like to try out my own green fingers! What can you plant (preferably in pots) from September onwards that's difficult to kill?
There is a great deal that can be gown in containers, and Firenze's suggestion of bulbs to provide colour through to early summer is a very good one.
As it is a student house, one question to think about is whether you will be there in high summer when many things are in flower. Even if you are, it would still be a good idea to plant things that will be attractive through the winter months, as this will be be your first experience of the garden, so evergreens are worth looking at.
Skimmia might be a good choice. They needn't grow too large, provide year-round interest and if you get at least one male and one female variety you should get berries on the female that birds might appreciate (there is one variety, Reevesiana, which is self-fertile).
The main winter colour in my garden is a winter-flowering heather (I don't know exactly what variety as it was here when I bought the house). As well as providing a lovely patch of pink right through the winter it also supplies food for insects at a time when there isn't much else around. It's astonishing how a sunny day in winter will produce bees searching out anything in flower.
Both skimmia and heaths will appreciate acidic conditions, but this shouldn't be a problem in a container with some ericaceous compost (easier than in the open ground, anyway).
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Looks as though my gardening for a few days will be limited to getting in a savoy and a swede before they vanish under the snow!
Mind you, if it does freeze like a rock by weekend and I can still find the thing, I might get some digging in - just turn the spits over while the surface is hard enough to walk on, and let the frost break it up.
The slowly thaw out myself, afterwards...
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Roseofsharon
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The garden is now completely snow-free, and I have been for a stroll round to see how it fares. Much has been happening under that frosty blanket!
The snowdrops are up, and teasing me with that little tip of white they show for a couple of weeks before the flowers open, and there are a few winter aconite in bloom. Some cyclamen coum are open, and there are a few red swellings peeping above the ground in the rhubarb patch.
The Kilmarnock Willow that blew over last autumn, and was replanted with more hope than confidence, has buds on it, so maybe we are in luck there.
I thought we'd lost the tree peony, as the flower and leaf clusters all wilted and slowly died just before flowering last year, but there are lots of new buds and young leaves on it, so maybe it was the drought (of last winter and the early spring, and much of the previous year). It's certainly had a good soaking since then.
The clematis I should have pruned at the beginning of the month were already showing green shoots at eye level, so I got out the shears and cut them down to about 9" (should be ground level, but that's just inviting the slugs to eat their fill).
By the time I'd done that, and cut off the really dead bits of the tree peony it had started to rain, so it's back indoors to start planning what will go where in the veg plot (yes, I know I'm late with that, too )
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The snow has gone and the rain has returned, so it doesn't look as though I will get to plant the dogwood I bought yesterday to fill a bit of a gap in the hedge (Cornus alba 'Elegantissima').
The snowdrops have just started to open and, joy of joy, the first few flowers of the Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' have opened. It isn't the easiest of plants to grow, and hasn't looked very happy in the year since I bought it. But I do have flowers and, as they provide possible the finest fragrance of any garden plant, I am very pleased.
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Ariel
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Half my allotment was under water when I went round on Sunday (which was quite useful as a heads-up to what to plant where: rice and water-chestnuts on that side if this keeps up) but I did manage to get some more weeding and digging done. And a very happy browse through seed packets in the supermarket to decide on what to plant in the next few weeks.
If anyone had told me as a child that one day I'd be standing there in a sort of semi-rapturous haze holding a packet of seeds for curly kale, a vegetable I loathed as a child, I think I'd have screamed in horror. But O the joy of the prospect of red onions, a row of beetroot, the first shoots of spinach, the vigour of runner beans and those beautiful scarlet flowers...
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Roseofsharon
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Originally posted by Roseofsharon:
The garden is now completely snow-free, and I have been for a stroll round to see how it fares. Much has been happening under that frosty blanket!
I forgot to mention the hellebores!
Several of my oriental hellebores (Lenten roses) are in flower - and many more in bud. They must know that Lent will be quite early this year
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Sandemaniac
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Half my allotment was under water when I went round on Sunday (which was quite useful as a heads-up to what to plant where: rice and water-chestnuts on that side if this keeps up)
Yep. looks as though mine may be about to flood for the third time since the end of November. Ho hum. Still, won't need to water for a while...
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Firenze
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As wet and windy day succeeds cold and sodden one after icy and snowy one, the mere thought of going out the back door, let alone doing anything in the garden seems a fantastical one.
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jedijudy
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We are having the unusual blessing of rain today. So far I've gotten over half an inch. My little plants enjoy God's water much more than the stuff I give them from the garden hose.
One tomato plant has had lovely little blossoms, but no fruit. One plant had one tomato. The third has had a couple of dozen fruits! That has made me a happy girl!
The dill is lovely, and very tasty in various dishes (ooo! I hear more rain!) but the peppers are still small and the blossom buds never open. I suppose they will want to be in pots, if I get a chance to transplant them.
The mint and lemon balm are potted, and they are very happy! I'd never had mint before that shot out runners with a myriad plants on each. Therefore, mint tea is a regular treat, now!
Oh, and the Phalaenopsis are opening! One will be quite spectacular!
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Firenze
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Mild and sunny, so I ventured out....
The border I got done before winter is showing a surprising amount of bulb action already. But the other borders - and the veg half of the garden - daunting. Very.
I found the only way to tackle it was to plonk down a garden stool and then just pay attention to the couple of square feet I could reach while sitting on it. In the course of 3 hours or so, I managed to work round about a fifth of the area, clearing dead vegetation, weeding and forking over the soil. Encouraging discoveries, like snowdrops and daffodils coming up, and the rhubarb looking pretty with gold leaves.
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Moo
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When I was a child there was a shrub in our yard which my mother called a japonica. I would love to find one like it. Unfortunately, there are many different shrubs called japonica, since it means Japanese.
This was a low shrub which was much bigger horizontally than vertically. It may have had thorns. It had pink flowers in the spring, and in the fall it had tiny fruits that looked like apples. The fruit had a wonderful spicy, citrusy smell.
Can anyone identify this for me?
Moo
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Drifting Star
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Sounds like a Chaenomeles japonica or Japanese quince to me.
There are a lot of different ones though!
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We've just had 3 consecutive dry days ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Even though a cold wind was blowing off the moor we went out and dug over some soil over . Still soggy but a definite whiff of improvement is in the air.
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I've just come in from mowing the lawn. I can't ever remember mowing in February before, but the grass was about 6 inches high and getting wetter every time it rained. After 3 days with no rain it was actually just about dry enough for the mower so I went for it.
My rhubarb is also just starting to sprout with bright pink stalks and little curly yellow leaves poking up out of the soil. Some of the roses are starting to bud. I hope the plants don't get started too soon because we get frosts here right up until the middle of May.
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Chamois
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Apologies for the double post. I messed up.
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Roseofsharon
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I spent a useful couple of hours pulling up some of the couch grass from the border in front of the house. I can never make a very good job of it, as it roots underneath the iris tubers there - and my attempts don't do the new shoots on the iris much good.
It would be better done at the end of the year, but there is so much else that needs doing then, and the gap between summer and winter gets shorter each year. We practically have no autumn nowadays, so I'm always playing catch-up with the seasonal jobs.
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I seem to have lots more croci than last year, giving a lovely splash of colour. And a couple of weekends of good weather to get out means that I've caught up with a lot of preparation work. All the roses are pruned, most of the beds and borders tidied, some slow-germinating seeds sown, some over-wintering plants potted up and I've even got the first of the potatoes planted - in a cold frame.
Now I just want spring to hurry up and get sprung!
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At long last I can feel I've started! It's still pretty swampy - one low spot on my second half-plot is still glistening, it's so close to the water level - but I've cleared out three of my raised beds, and am starting to think about what will be next to clear out. The plan for next weekend is to knock up a temporary cold frame, as our garden is so overshadowed nothing in it ever really gets going. Now I just need to get some seeds in...
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
The dill is lovely, and very tasty in various dishes
What's your secret for growing dill? Every time I've tried it's been a colossal failure. Dunno if it's the soil, too much water, too little, or what. I'm about 800 miles to your north, apparently . . . is that the problem?
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jedijudy
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What's your secret for growing dill?
Wow. I'm surprised that anything can grow in the marl that we laughingly call soil in these parts. Perhaps the dill likes the extra calcium?
When I was little, my mom grew gorgeous dill plants in PA. So, I don't think it's a question of planting zones.
There are two large heads on the plant, now! I may have to use them in a crock of pickles!
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Tree Bee
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Originally posted by Moo:
When I was a child there was a shrub in our yard which my mother called a japonica. I would love to find one like it. Unfortunately, there are many different shrubs called japonica, since it means Japanese.
This was a low shrub which was much bigger horizontally than vertically. It may have had thorns. It had pink flowers in the spring, and in the fall it had tiny fruits that looked like apples. The fruit had a wonderful spicy, citrusy smell.
Can anyone identify this for me?
Moo
Yes, we have one in our front garden that lives up to your description.
We just call it the japonica! The fruits are quinces, I make japonica jelly with them.
Don't know if that helps...
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Yes, quince. My music teacher had a bush exactly as you describe.
Quince jelly is a Spanish tradition with cheese, and is lovely.
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Roseofsharon
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Yes, quince. My music teacher had a bush exactly as you describe.
Quince jelly is a Spanish tradition with cheese, and is lovely.
Quince jelly ('Membrillo' in Spanish), is made from the fruit of the tree cydonia oblonga, and is not the same as Japonica jelly made from fruit of the chaenomoles japonica shrub aka Japanese Quince.
Pleasant as Japonica jelly is, it doesn't have anything like the flavour of 'real' quince jelly
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Originally posted by Porridge:
What's your secret for growing dill?
Wow. I'm surprised that anything can grow in the marl that we laughingly call soil in these parts. Perhaps the dill likes the extra calcium?
When I was little, my mom grew gorgeous dill plants in PA. So, I don't think it's a question of planting zones.
There are two large heads on the plant, now! I may have to use them in a crock of pickles!
So apparently my problem is trying to grow it in rich soil?
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jedijudy
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So apparently my problem is trying to grow it in rich soil?
There was good black dirt in PA, so I don't think that is the problem. Do you plant them in full sun? I know that's one of their requirements.
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So apparently my problem is trying to grow it in rich soil?
I think it should be OK with that as long as its not too damp. Like most of our common kitchen herbs its a Mediterranean or Middle Eastern plant originally. Though in this case I think the natural range extends into Balkans and SE Europe so it isn't entirely sensitive to frost. But it woudl want well-drained soil.
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ken
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Anyone know where I can buy one of those claw-on-a-stick things that street sweepers sometimes use to pick up litter?
Its time I cleared up the mess in my garden. And there is an awful lot of it. And I'e getting far too old and fat and arthritic to bend down and pick all the rubbish up. Besides, some of the bits look pretty foul.
(Now if I can buy some new big wellies as well - those and a machete and all the toys woudl be in place....)
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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jedijudy
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I got one of those at my local hardware store, ken. It is very handy for not only things on the ground, but for short people like me, it's good for plucking things off high shelves, too!
Good idea!
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Firenze
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Originally posted by ken:
Anyone know where I can buy one of those claw-on-a-stick things that street sweepers sometimes use to pick up litter?
This sort of thing?
If you are going to do anything else down there eg plant stuff - I can recommend one of those stout little folding stool/ kneeler things. I've discovered you can do a lot of gardening sitting down.
[ 19. February 2013, 16:14: Message edited by: Firenze ]
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ken
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Yes one of those. There must be a shop that selsl them I gues I just have to ask in one.
(As I live on my own and have a job I'm not really in a position to buy things online that are too big to fit through the letterbox and too cheap to make it worthwhilel taking a day off work)
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Ken
L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Drifting Star
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B&Q stock them.
I agree about the stool/kneelers Firenze - especially because they provide handles to help you get up off your knees.
ETA Generic 'you', meaning 'me'!
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rolyn
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............ and now the ground is frozen solid ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
So just sitting indoors watching the birds desperately feeding .
Next week's weather looks set reasonably fair ,(cool and dry), so gardeners and outdoor lovers rejoice. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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