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Does anyone else feel this. I never seem to finish spending on my back garden.
Whilst musing in the hairdressers this morning, I thought I would make up my fuschia hanging baskets, to hang in the green house for about 5/6 weeks, to make root, ready for hanging out about the end of May, beg. June.
Ah, then I thought, but me baskets are hanging out with Primulas and Heathers, to take me through until the Fuschias are ready.
So, I have just had to buy another 6 hanging baskets. Since the weekend I must have spent around £200, and that is not all on plants. Each year, I say I am not going to spend as much, But I always do.
Still, I can look forward to the luxuriant show of flowers later, hopefully
Julia in Derbyshire
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OMGH HOW MUCH
I CAN JUST HEAR OH
HOW MUCH!!!!!!"
I HAVE TOMTOES & STRAWBERRYS IN MINE
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Hi Julia,I am just the same,it is even worse since I found ebay.
Also spend a fortune on fabric for my patchwork quilts.
Me,..me......I look like a bag lady,don't care about clothes,as long as I am clean,warm,and my naughty bits are covered up.
Not having a greenhouse,every windowsill is nurturing,Impatiens.Lobelia,standy up and pointy down,Petunia,Lobelia cosmos californian poppy, Japanese aenenome,..........................and so on infinitum.
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No room on my windowsills, full of orchids and streptocarpus! Mini greenhouse with an orchid, an aspidistra I have no room for in the house, Begonias growing on and more streptocarpus. Have Canna and calla in the even smaller greenhouse! OH will happily say lets buy that plant but not go clothes shopping, which is why we both look so scruffy! Our garden is about ten strides up and across!!
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Good Morning Ladies.
I have not forgotten to reply to you, I would not be so rude. At this time of the year, as I am sure you know, everything is garden orientated, and I have not alot of time to be on the boards.
DIZZI, I spend a small fortune on my garden, but it is my only 'real' hobby, and OH has an allotment, so the initial outlay is more than compensated for by the 'crops' we yield.
ANNINA. Tell me about it. Aswell as the two greenhouses, I too grow things in window sills, particularly the kitchen window sill. I have little mini trays of babies I am trying to rear. These are usually the things where you only get 3-5 seeds in a packet, and so, are rather precious. So, being on the kitchen window sill I can keep me eye on them.
My only other passion, is knitting wool, which I like the pleasure of going to buy, in a shop in a nearby town. No Hobbycraft here, I am afraid.
JEAN (Monmouth)
Wow, how I envy you with the Orchids. I have tried growing them, but alas, I have had little success. But I do admire their exquisite beauty, and am always drawn to them, when I visit the garden centre. I am not a bad hand with Cacti though LOL
As for Streptacarpus, I have had these over the years, and you have reminded me of them. I may try them again.
Now as to Calla and Canna's. I do love these, but do struggle with them. I am better buying them fully grown, and tending them through the summer. I do not think I have been able to bring them on for a second season. I would love some advice on all that you grow Jean.
I too, look rather dressed like a bag lady at times. Last week, I only got out of my 'work' clothes on Friday, to go and do the Morrisons, then it was back into the 'work' clothes again, and have been in them ever since.
Hopefully today, after OH has had a morning on the allotment, the weather looks as if it may pick up, we are going to a garden centre this afternoon.
I am after a red or pink, Passion Flower. Having said that, the garden centre we are going to, is very good for Clematis, and I have got one/two that have not put out any growth this year. As I always plant Clematis in two's, a light and a dark, that means aswell as the Passion Flower, I need two Clematis. Where does it end.??? I will change out of the work clothes, as this garden centre is abit upper class. Well, their prices are.LOLOL
Happy Gardening All
Julia in Drbyshire
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