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PLANT BUYING EXCUSE EXCHANGE!
Posted on 15 Jan, 2008 16 comments
Recently a few of us have all been having a giggle about the excuses we use to accomidate our plant buying fettish – to avoid as David has so rightly put the ‘manure’ or ‘marrage guidance councelling’ so i thought as we are all ‘green’ people it would be a good idea to recycle a few excusses for future use – a bit like a seed exchange really. you never know we might get enough to keep us going for quite some time! so here are a few of mine;
the most recent one! my boyfriend Jay knows absolutely nothing about plants, he would not be able to tell a daffodil from a geranium if his life depended on it – so this is obviously a good thing! he does however like a nice neat fence and spends ages watering his various paved areas – if i dare get mud on them etc… anyway, we get foxes in the garden which can be both messy and distructive, and they have dug a hole under one particular area of the fence and they regually pooh all over his patio. so this i have used against him when i saw this lovely must have rose on the David Austin web site the other day i said to him.
‘them foxes have been poohing all over the patio again’
he replies ‘what! i have just fixed the fence’
so i said ‘yes, but they have dug underneath it, i don’t think it will matter what we do if they want to get in they will, but we could always try planting something prickly infront of the fence! – that might put them off’
so he replies, ‘mmmm that might sort the little b-—-s out, what would you saggest?” – Teheheheh! licence to buy plants! and he thought it was all his idea!
others i use include:
1) Carmel (my friend AKA pollynpercy) gave me some seed and i grew it!
2) when he notices something new that i have sneaked in without his knowledge, i often say ‘wow! where did that come from? what an attractive weed/wild flower – i think i will leave it there – is’nt nature wonderful!’
3) the good old favorite that all us girls use for any type of spending spree, ‘it was on special – buy one get one free/1/2 price etc… – and as we will need to put something there i thought it would SAVE us some money!
4) another good one for the larger items needed for the garden would be ‘when i was sunbathing with Brooke the other day, the man from next door was looking over the fence/through his window at us – i think we need a tree there!’
5) as a florist i can also use that as well, as i can bring home plants from work and say ‘chris gave them to me as they have’nt sold’ – or ‘i did buy them with my staff discount’ – wholesale price! it costs double that in B & Q.
6) i have been trying to get my 2 1/2 year old into gardening as she is such a ‘daddy’s girl’ this opens up a whole new world of possible excusses, such as ‘Brooke picked it out just for you! – i gues we will have to find a space for it would’nt want to hurt her feelings!’ (all you men out there with kids, – this is an excellent one! for vallentines/mothers day etc – providing you can bribe the kids not to tell her after the event! lol)
7) ‘Brooke needs this one for her little garden!’ – oh dear there no room, i thought that would fit in nicely there – oh well i’ll have to plant it over here instead.’
8) and last but not least if he is here when something arrives that i have bought of the internet, i usally say that i have been selling Brookes old clothes on ebay, and could’nt transfer the money over to the bank account because i had less than £25 and paypal charge you for that, so i spent it on ebay instead!
Tehehehe! arnt i naughty! – so come on you lot what excuses do you use, lets all have a good laugh! and don’t worry – anything said on this page goes no further – guess i might have to change my password so he can’t log in! lol
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15 Jan, 2008
lol - very crafty! i'll have to remember that one! - and yes it does look lovely does'nt it, can't wait to see what it will look like in the summer, cos often you get things that look and claim to be a 'true blue' - that naturally arn't and they are really mauve or lilac in reality. but David Austin are usually pretty good, so watch this space - i will ofcourse include pic's in the summer!
15 Jan, 2008
Yeh , Ive gotta admit I use the " it was on special offer " one a lot !!
15 Jan, 2008
Well, my usual one comes from the Gardening mags too - I just happen to order some of the other offers alongside the free one - 'Yes dear, they came with the free one/s, I only had to pay postage!' Or, I see a plant in a catalogue from a nursery and off I go just to get the 'whatever' - but of course, back I come with a couple of cardboard boxes full, so I say (if I'm caught red-handed) "Look what I found - I've been searching for these for ages!"
15 Jan, 2008
Methinks the boyfriends/husbands will come home on day with two cars or motorcycles - "it was on special – buy one get one free" :-)
15 Jan, 2008
Spritz that is one of mine too, if i find something i just cant resist i often say that we need it and have been trying to find one for ages - and i often add that they are double the price else where - he likes anything that sounds like it's saving money. and Andrew LOL - i don't think i have to worry about that one as he does'nt currently have a driving licence! - i won't go into anymore detail than that! but when he does get it back i would like to see him trying to hide them in the greenhouse lol - but he does often sneek new dvd's, cd's or computer games in the cuboard and then makes up excuses about his friend at work had loads of them cheap/lent them to him. when i do notice - but he is not as good at it as i am because he forgets to remove the full price HMV lable! so i am not the only one guilty of it!
15 Jan, 2008
Andrew - just do not start me off on the subject of CARS -I will not tell you about my husband and his....suffice it to say that it is a very much more expensive hobby than a few plants!!! And what did I get him for Christmas? A subscription to Top Gear Magazine....am I kind, helpful, patient or what?
16 Jan, 2008
Another one I've had to use once after buying plants secretly is to remove them from their pots back at the car and put into carrier bags, leaving them in the boot until the next day and then claim to have been given some lovely unwanted plants from someone at work. I hope I have received some measure of divine forgiveness today,tho, as I made 3 walking trips to the recycling centre with 42 diet coke tins and 2 boxes of bottles and jars (not past the garden centre).
16 Jan, 2008
I think you are all very devious souls! Tsk Tsk and shame on you!!
I will be trying all of these out at the soonest opportunity :o)
16 Jan, 2008
lol - david i like your thinking! - that is the sort of premeditated cunning plan that i come up with! - i can see that you have had much practice at this!
16 Jan, 2008
Patientce of a saint Spritz - i often shoot myself in the foot like that too. i bought Jay a Stephen Gerrard signed photo mounted in a frame, thinking he would take it into work and hang it on his office wall! - but nooooo! he has picked out a lovely place in the hall way instead - it goes with none of our decore! and i can't really say no can i?
16 Jan, 2008
How about - it was on the reduced trolley, so cheap I would have been stupid not to buy it !
Sometimes we can actually find plants and gardening equipment for nothing on Freecycle and I also Freecycle my excess plants..
16 Jan, 2008
Tussie - you've hit it spot on! I can 'get' some plants as if via freecycle!!! Well done!!!! Top idea.
16 Jan, 2008
Hi, Tussie, have been thinking of you. Was going through my seedbox and writing an action plan in a diary. Your mallow seeds are there with the growing instructions. It won't be long now!
16 Jan, 2008
'Freecycle!' i like!
16 Jan, 2008
My excess plants get sold, either at our Garden Club 'Bring & Buy' sales (we have two a year, raising money for club funds) or when my garden is open (proceeds to the British Red Cross)
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15 Jan, 2008
Well, here is one of mine, for now. I usually have a gardening mag or 2 lying in the car. If I have been to the
garden centre as well as the supermarket, and bought yet
more seeds, I unload the shopping along with the old mags and seeds, and say something like, "Look what came free with this month's copy of......" My wife has never noticed that the mags are over 6 months old - at least I don't think so - and at least I am re-using the mags for a gardening purpose. Does this count as a little "green" fib? p.s. Majeeka, I had a look at your slate blue rose - it looks lovely, a great conversation piece.