You are browsing our members' comments

Definitely worth waiting for.

Karen, last night I placed three small containers filled with the beer ... this morning two are empty but one had six slugs in it. Easy to empty them into a plastic flowerpot over a bucket ... then they went into the brown bin. Job done!

I have one of these but the unrepentant sun this last few weeks has crisped it up nicely. Leaves on my acers are going the same way. Hottest day this year yesterday here at Heathrow. I'm hoping they'll all come back as they did last year after the forty degrees we had in September 23. In the last ten years I've lost more plants from the heat than in winter from the cold.

Thank you Shirley tulip.

It took three years to flower but I have one that flowered a couple of weeks ago after being sown eighteen months ago. Still in a five inch pot. I wasn't expecting that! Like everything, the luck of the draw. Right place right time? Who knows.

The rose is Warm Welcome...a bright orange colour with small flowers...a really good doer each year.

Thanks for the updates, a nice bit of colour to what could be just drab boxes

Will you leave the pot marigolds to self seed?

They grow surprisingly fast!

You’re about to discover the ‘joys’ for yourself! I gave up and bought pellets. Then I removed all my Hostas.

That is a special one.

I've had a rather pleasant surprise with GoY today! :) after a good deal of trouble & time to log in when I finally got in I thought I would make up a quick blog. I found a site that talked about the uses of Baking Soda in the garden. I thought it would be something that might be of interest for others so I posted a link to the page in the blog.

Then I saw that in my anterior blogs I had written a blog (or various!) about the planters around the cash machine that I have been tending to these last couple of years. I thought I could do a new blog today & include some photos but at the same time I dreaded the waiting times for uploading the photos - here comes the surprise: they uploaded very quickly! :) It was most surprising!!! :)

Quite...sad isn't?

Gifted by Ange...do miss her humour on here.

Oh yes, this is gorgeous. May I ask how long this took from seed to flowering?

:o)))

Love these colours.

Pesky snails ... there are loads in the Kniphofia foliage.

This is lovely, with the dark centre against the pale petals.

Well done on growing this from seed ... it's lovely.

Very pretty.

Beautiful flowers.

A neighbour has one ... it is massive now!

It certainly is!

Karen, I have only ever tried growing one Fern, with no success.

Today I bought one bottle of beer, considering we are tee-total it was odd, but I'm hoping the slugs will love it. Your comment saying they are messy and unpleasant has somewhat put me off though!

Well, you can't blame them as they look delicious!

I like this very much.

It's a lovely one.

That is a lovely memory of Ange ... I fear she won't be the last to leave this site!

The American Robin is so different to the British one.

They are lovely. I had 3 pots of Astilbes for a few years, then they just stopped blooming!

Very dramatic.

One week later ... no response from Dave. :o(

That’s a very pretty one.

I second that.

:o))

:o))

Thanks David ... shall have a look soon.

Josie, a frozen shoulder sounds quite painful so I hope it gets better for you sooner rather than later.

I agree about the Salvia, it may have to go later.

Thanks Jane ... btw did you see that 'jazzy' Daylily I found growing at the back of my garden? No idea where it came from!

Rose, could you maybe enlist the help of family to help with that task? Bribe them with food!!

Thank you Meadowland and Owdboggy. Will cut down in Feb. and plant another one to leave. Sounds like a good idea!
What rose are you growing ML? I'm very disappointed in mine.

I agree, it looks very pretty Shirley. I am in two minds whether to empty and clean out ( horrible job) my viewing pond.
While away my two fish have disappeared and it is so full of algae all round the sides.
It is a full days job.
I am like Feverfew, finding it so frustrating to do blogs now.

A trick Christopher Lloyd used was to plant 2 of the same Clematis together. One he cut down in February and the other he left. That way he got flowers both low down and higher up. Never tried it myself though.

Looks lovely :-)

Good gosh what a glorious display!

So sorry to hear that FF...I think we all feel frustrated with the non workings of GoY.

PM received & replied to, Shirley! :)

I remember you redoing this area & deciding what to do with it. It’s looking very pretty. I think the Salvia will eventually fill up all the space. I have been trying to put on a few photos but with no luck, have tried twice. Just thought I’d say, in case anyone thinks I’m not bothering to do anything, though with my garden as dry as dust, I feel like giving up, ( plus I have a frozen shoulder)☹️

Thank you, Sheila! It's not "work" if you enjoy what you are doing, is it?

Pretty soon there won't be any members left to post blogs & make comments as lots of us are migrating to other gardening forums where we don't have the troubles that we have on GoY!

I'd love to make up & post blogs like I used to (I must have done 100s in all the years I've been on GoY). But when you have dozens of themes to talk about & your photos upload in a few seconds, (you can post as many as you like & there is no size limit as well as multiple photos all at the same time!), you are bound to want the same for GoY but won't get it. I wish we could do that on here. This is a prehistoric site now compared to others that are more modern!

There are GoY members on other sites as well though we don't tend to mention GoY very often.

Then you are much better than me! :D

LOL! Shirley! D) D) D)