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Plevey's Garden World were as good as their word and sent me out another batch of onion sets!
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Couldn't help it,honest. I was at a market today and even though I already have 100 autumn sets to sow there was a guy selling brown paper bags with 50 Senshyu onion sets for three squid! Just had to have some
Also my five packets of Mooli seeds arrived today.
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I bought a YS terracotta pot of cyclamens for 40p (was £4). Looks like 3 cyclamen plants in the pot and, after a bit of dead leaf removal, they look good. I'll plant them in the garden once they've finished flowering.
The Morries checkout lady put plastic bags on her hands to pass the pot over the pricing thingy. She said that she can't stand the feel of terracotta. Never heard of that phobia before!!
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(22-10-2024, 09:19 PM)Veggie Wrote: I bought a YS terracotta pot of cyclamens for 40p (was £4). Looks like 3 cyclamen plants in the pot and, after a bit of dead leaf removal, they look good. I'll plant them in the garden once they've finished flowering.
The Morries checkout lady put plastic bags on her hands to pass the pot over the pricing thingy. She said that she can't stand the feel of terracotta. Never heard of that phobia before!!
The last few pots of YS cyclamen I bought and planted out got caught by frost, much to my disappointment. I found out afterwards that not all cyclamen are hardy. I have a couple of clumps of wild cyclamen which are dainty, very pretty and definitely hardy.
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The next door but one garden is full of the small pink cyclamen. They've spread onto the roadside verge, up into next door's garden and a few have made it up to my front garden. They're very welcome. I always mean to collect the seed heads, but forget!
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Bob came home yesterday, with a bucket of river lilies and 2 ground cover plants that I still need to identify.
Builder that would like to go play in the garden.
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(24-10-2024, 07:50 PM)Veggie Wrote: The next door but one garden is full of the small pink cyclamen. They've spread onto the roadside verge, up into next door's garden and a few have made it up to my front garden. They're very welcome. I always mean to collect the seed heads, but forget!
I've looked for seed heads but mine have none
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(07-11-2024, 10:44 AM)JJB Wrote: (24-10-2024, 07:50 PM)Veggie Wrote: The next door but one garden is full of the small pink cyclamen. They've spread onto the roadside verge, up into next door's garden and a few have made it up to my front garden. They're very welcome. I always mean to collect the seed heads, but forget!
I've looked for seed heads but mine have none its early days yet - they form after the flowers die off, leaving a little lump on the end of the stem IIRC.
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(07-11-2024, 10:48 AM)Veggie Wrote: (07-11-2024, 10:44 AM)JJB Wrote: (24-10-2024, 07:50 PM)Veggie Wrote: The next door but one garden is full of the small pink cyclamen. They've spread onto the roadside verge, up into next door's garden and a few have made it up to my front garden. They're very welcome. I always mean to collect the seed heads, but forget!
I've looked for seed heads but mine have none its early days yet - they form after the flowers die off, leaving a little lump on the end of the stem IIRC.
I think you're right, my flowers have gone having been replaced by some fine looking leaves, but no bobbles. The two clumps have huge corms though. I've no idea whether they're wild or cultivated, as I nicked them from the empty house/garden next door
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I've ordered a thornless blackberry Columbia Star from Roots . It was a toss up between that or Black Beaute from Chris Bowers. Settled on CS because I couldn't find a brix rating for BB, or for that matter any other supplier or info. Fearing that Black Beaute was a form of Black Butte and not very sweet.
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