2 The Fleece Comes Off

Agree about the italics and spell checker cant do it either.

nice to see a busy greenhouse. mine is also getting full of pots. lots of lilies, F. imperialis waiting to go in the garden as they were given to me as bulbs back in october. not sure where i am going to put them though. also got iris reticulata, dandifolium?. really do need spell checker.

see my blog for my activities today.
cheers

All your plants are looking good Bulbaholic notice you dress them with grit..it really does make a difference for drainage,and looks well too.

If you spell a word wrongly it will appear with red dotted line below. Try keying in BULB and BULLB. You'll see that the second one : BULLB has a red dotted line below.

I'll check on how to do italics and come back. :o)

You can only write in italics in a blog, not in a comment.

You do this by putting _ before and after. So if you want the word BULB to be in italics, you write it as _bulb_.

Please let me know if this advice on spell check and italics helps. :o)

It's all technical stuff, italics etc! Think I'll stick to the gardening. Nice blog. I'm down in the south east and have pretty mild weather on the whole so must be very difficult in your colder area and with less daylight, but you're doing a good job and spring's on it's way........ I won't mention the final score in the rugby as long as you don't mention the score of the later match in Cardiff! Both quite good, competitive games though.

I'm not much into the techy stuff :o)
Just trying to answer the questions above.
Amazing in this blog the difference in the greenhouse photo between the cold snow outside, and the warm plants inside ! :o)

Yes, TT. I know which side of the glass I'd prefer to be.

Bulbaholic, do you lose any bulbs to sub zero temperatures? How cold does it get up where you are? The plunge bed is a great idea. I'll have to kkep that in mind for my greenhouse too.

I wake up on Sunday morning to so many nice comments and questions. Thank you all :-)
Terratoonie - I can now manage the italics, thank you, but can't get the speeling bit to work.
Gilli - the short answere is yes, I do lose bulbs to the cold. These are primarily the small hooped petticoat narcissus species that have soft bulbs and don't like the pots being frozen. I have one or two South Africans which are on a cool windowsill in the house. Normal winter temperatures drop to -5C for a couple of days before picking up again. This winter we have had two episodes of -10C and below, on and off, for over a week.

Well done, Bulbaholic ~
I'll look forward to lots of italics in your future blogs.Lol. :o)
Last year there was a running joke about members not making enough paragraphs in their blogs. In other words, writing the text in one huge block, and difficult to read.

But you have interspersed your text very well with photos, and broken it into paragraphs, making your blog very interesting and user-friendly. Really good :o)

Paul, in Scotland being only 3 points behind at half time is considered a result. We don't watch the second half! Anyway, there's only one match that really matters LOL.

That's the very first time in my life that I have been complimented on my grammer and composition. Thanks Teach. :-); :-); :-)

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I enjoyed your blog and the photographs, your greenhouse looks very professional, I have a friend in Spey Bay is that far from you?

Well Bulbaholic, we might not be so kind with the yellow cards in THAT match. But hopefully a close one, even if it does decide who gets the wooden spoon!!!!!!

Paul, grin; grin; grin then LOL.

Daisy, sorry for answering Paul first but, well that WAS rugby - the 'auld enemy and all that stuff!
Spey Bay is about 20 miles to the east of me and I know it quite well.

Bulbaholic dont mention the Rugby.......state of mourning in our house, 20 miles thats not far as the crow flies....its just the other few hundred thats the problem.