Gardening Grandma

Talkback: Growing auriculas

Great info, Berghill. Thanks. Specialist nurseries are great, too, though you are not supposed to advertise in this forum!

MOB rants

Resurrecting an old rant, why do cheap shops stock plants and then not water them!???

I saw whole boxes of little perennial plants in Aldi on Monday that were going to be unsaleable unless they were watered right then! In another shop (it was yet another spohisticated tour of the cheap shops) there were lots of hyacinths on a shelf with not enough clearance so that the hyacinths were bent over and they had probably never been watered. I bought the four best and am nursing them. The others were already unsaleable. What's the point? In both shops, i wanted to rescue the lot, but knew that I'd have to pay full price for dying plants. Perhaps I should check their bins next week!

MORNING FORKERS

Nice, brum.

All you experts I need help - germination techniques

Hi, Stephanie. I have seen your message on a couple of other threads, where the link did not seem to work. This one works and I have taken your survey, which seemed to take about three minutes. Just one comment - why are 'plants' in a separate category from 'flowers' or 'vegetables'? They are all plants!

Got any 'ose?

Will they also grow frm cuttings? I'm dyng to start taking cuttings, but it is too early in the year for most things.

Got any 'ose?

Still on the subject of pets, we have a rescue centre not too far from here called Many Tears. It has lots of dogs with tragic stories, as well as ex-breeding dogs. I read their website regularly and wish I could take one of them (my older dog is a rehomed one, but I got her from another family). If anything happened to one of my dogs, I'd get one.

I am getting obsessed with hellebores, Verdun. Have just bought the Wisley guide to them (second hand on Amazon) and am researching how to collect seed. I already have about sixteen, including some lovely doubles (not bee friendly, I know) and have lots of ideas for more planting places.

MORNING FORKERS

I feel eactly the same - it is a relaxed, friendly place now. Sad that it had to happen as it did, but I like the new GW forum.

Have a lovely day, everyone!

Got any 'ose?

My sympathies, too, Rain.   So sad when a beloved pet comes to the end of its days. Will you get another one? If it is possible, I always think it is the best way to acknowledge the value of having a  pet. Not always possible, I know.

Non Support of Poor Companies

Thanks, Tall Paul. I believe very much in writing a letter and keeping a copy. Emails are easier to ignore, because they are probably opened by a junior clerk. A letter to the boss is needed. We ordered a fast-erect gazebo from a garden centre which had already been broken when it arrived. Phone calls and emails brought promises but no action. We wrote to the Managing Director and had our money back within the week.

Good Evening FORKERS

This one is not any particular organisation - just a group of friends supporting one another. I'm related to most of them! So there's no pressure. I have lost a bit of weight, but I cheat like mad, and so do the others!

Jeyes fluid uses

Little Treasures

GW gardening clubs

The first Gardeners' World

MOB rants

MOB rants

Non-flowering dianthus

B******* Magpies

Can I train a rambling rose over an arch?

Early flowering white rose

getting on with the neighbours

Pruning pussy willow

What is your kind of garden?

mystery tree