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Very unique looking bloom.! Love the veining, and semi-double, center petals.

Looking forward to seeing later pics. Be sure not to delete them! (ha)

looking good Ken

I imagine your baskets will look very colourful when they have had time to settle in and bloom. Post another pic in a few weeks.

good work ken, cant wait to see them in full bloom.

looking good..................

they are so cute,whats in them............

I like Marjorie! - a great bargain, Ken. I have quite a few montanas but not that one! I shall look foward to seeing your photos of the baskets full out later in the year!

That's very pretty, quite different

look at all that blossom mmmm just think cherries yum yum grab them before the birds do im gonna keep an eye on mine i love cherries and will not be sharing with the birds!! i sound sooo mean maybe if they look hungry i'll share nicely!! :)

wow you have done well

Healthy looking Fuchsias.

You have good looking Fuchsias. They look strong and healthy. I grow lots of them. I wonder if you've taken them from cuttings?

This cant be right Ken we had the wettest summer on record and this the longest period without rain since last spring.We ve almost had 9 months of rain so why the ban? Think that as foreign companies now own most of our water companies the channel tunnel isnt for trains its a B***** great drain and the French are syphoning it off.
They then bottle it and sell back to us! Sorry one beer too many me thinks.As for T and M should be renamed S and M as only those customers that enjoy repeated abuse should use them.Must stop watching Paxman on Newsnight really gets me going.

my god jacque you must be super fit, what wit all the gardening you do and running up and down stairs

I use my Bath water 2 & the kids laugh @ me going up&down the stairs with my Buckets :)

Wow every things doing really Well Ken what will u do if they ban Hose Pipes then?Iv Water Butts so im ok !

aye, be worth a try. good to have friends like Tony tho, nice of him to pass those on.

you gona cover the strawberries with netting when they fruit?

wow ken all those new plants are gona keep you busy. the strawberries are flying along now arnt they? hope the good weather keeps up, its so nice.
As for T & M , they seem like a really badly run company, they will soon have no customers left.

are they all from cuttings ?

As a child I visited what was called an 'experimental' farm, researching the ultimate space limitations on raising penned animals for egg production and meat - all that was required was that they remained alive, basically...pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens...it was the saddest place in the world; a slaughterhouse is more humane as there is at least an end to the suffering. It made a huge impression on me then and I am willing to pay a little more for my meat and animal byproducts to this day.

If you get any magazines, a catalogue drops out! As Andrew said, I would only buy bulbs from them - and have done - not plants.

When I was about 10, a lorry of live chickens on its way to the local rendering plant turned over near my school. I didn't see it, but my mum happened to be passing on her bike. She looked in her handbag and found two Tescos carrier bags. She picked up and put a chicken in each and carried them home on the handle bars of her bike! When she came to collect me from school she said there was a surprise waiting for me at home, but she wouldn't tell me what! They were, of course, not many weeks old (I think they're killed at about the 12 week stage?) Their 'combs and wattles' and legs were pure white like their feathers and at first they could not walk at all. Not sure if this was the shock of the accident or due to the conditions they were kept in Anyway, we had those chickens for many years and they were great layers! They were called Pinky and Perky!! I have fond memories of them - we had an old outdoor loo and you would go in sometimes to find the two hens sitting side by side on the rim! You would just say 'sorry ladies' and back out!!

I had a bad experience with plants from J.Parkers - I would use them for bulbs but nothing else

he he! So funny!!

well ickle i guess you could say the ants were free range lol

our free range eggs direct from our farm are cheaper than the cheap tesco eggs let alone the M&S eggs and people can see all our chickens are free range! I can't bear to see chickens mistreated or any animal for that matter! well apart from the ants I found marching across the kitchen and heading straight to the honey extractor!

lol aye ken im sureeeeee. yuk i can only imagine the horrible smell from pig farms

oops sent that twice,,,, ah well lets just say im irish and i sent it twice to be sure to be sure lol