Anyone want some seeds?

foxgloves please Fran.

Oh how nice of you campanulas ,stock and tagetes please,
Would you like anything for them?
Jane

Thank you!!!! Just going to have a proper look at you pix and will pm you x will start these in mr 2 doors ups greenhouse x

Could I please have the pansy, viola, forget me not and American legion poppy, If you private mail me yogurt address I will send you stamps,

Ahh auto correct ..... Your not yoghurt x

Oh and stocks if we can choose more than one,

Hi Fran, could I give the holly hocks and golden gems a good home please, I would be really grateful.
It's amazing what you can come across, in ones home .

Sorry Fran, if they are very old, they may not germinate.

No harm in trying though Diane if people are willing to give it a go. I keep most in the cheese and butter boxes in the fridge.

Good Luck with those Everyone. :)))

I'm with Pimpernel on this....better to try than them going in the bin!!!
Pleased Magnadoodle managed to see this....I was going to add a request on her behalf :))))))

I didn't expect such response! if you'll please pm me your addresses I'll work down the "wants", first come etc.

I get free postage, so no probs there - lol I might not have been so generous if I'd had to buy stamps!

There's a chance that the older seeds won't still be viable, but all the packs are still sealed, so they might still be a chance - some of the ones I've opened were vacuum-sealed. But if you've got a bit of space to spare, what's to lose?

Others I bought last year and early this year, the bee and butterfly ones for eg so they should still be very viable - I just loved the idea of encouraging bees and butterflies, but i can't give the plants enough room to do any good.

I'd not have binned any: If I'd not put them on here, they'd have gone to the charity shop; and those not wanted will still end up there.

Magnadoodlw, which of the two poppies is the American Legion one? if you could tell me the seeds it's next to I'll know which you mean!

Thank you for thinking of me Scottish xxxx Fran I have inboxed you, thanks again and got everything crossed I can persuade them to sprout when they get here :) x

American Legion is the red and white one Fran. First packet 7th row down.

thanks Pim dear. Gives a fairly good indication of my visual levels! I've put 'em on Maggie's list

Your Welcome Fran...I know your eyes are bad.

Sorry, Jenny, just seen your post. The golden gems have already been asked for, but the Hollyhocks are put aside for you; soon as I get addresses I'll start sending packs out.

lol Pim, true, but amazingly blue!

Lol..Just like mine....I'm falling to bits, it's something else almost on a weekly basis.

sigh, pity they can't come up with a Bionic Gardner kit ...

They have, she's called Michaela. lol

awk!

Best way is to sow a pinch to test them, in a small pot, and watch results. Then sow the rest, if ok.
If you get free postage, I would like the Campanula as they do well in the Northamptonshire Cornbrake soil.
Address via p.m.

Sorry, Diana, campanula's already been claimed.

All that's left now is:
Ageratum
Alyssum
Bee mix
Butterfly mix
Calendula
Californian poppy
Cornflower
Eschscholzia
Godetia 1
Godetia 2
Laurentia
Lobelia
Lobelia 3-pk
mixed annuals
Papaver
Salvia
Simplicity

Lol, Fran. So big stock! Now tricky question - what size does have Epping forest? I am curious what seeds does contain Bee mix? And wish to have Californian poppy, I am just curious why it is orange and not red, as all rich American communists live in California :)))

Fran - and your blog was one of the nicest after several days :)))

thanks, Katarina

Epping Forest is about 400 acres, I think - wrong! just checked, it's 6,000 acres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epping_Forest

I'll put the Californian Poppies aside for you, if you pm me your address I'll send 'em right away

I don't know what's in the Bee or Butterfly flowers; it probably says on the back, but I can't read that small. Just that both have flowers known to attract each type of insect.

Thank you very much, Fran :)))
I will be happy, if Californian Poppies will grow in my garden, as this year I do not have any poppy and do not know why.
Regarding Bee flowers, no, thank you. As you maybe read, I have mason bees in my garden and would like to get rid of them, not to attract others, lol.

I assume that thse plants are sweet nectar to attract honey bees, I don't know what mason bees eat.

Mason bees polinate flowers to, as I noticed, but they like to eat my bricks!!! :)

lol no wonder you don't want them. maybe if you got your neighbour to plant the right flowers they'd leave you alone

Conspiracy, you know? :)) All depends on Rotchilds´Mother Bee.

just thought of this - to reassure people who've pm'd me their addresses, as soon as I've posted the seeds I'll delete those messages

Is there any Poppy american legion left, can I share them??? They are beautiful! Thanks Fran

Sorry, GM, they've already gone.

lol, of course, I don't know how many seeds are in each pack, but maybe the people who are getting the packs from me might find taht they have a few seeds to spare?

Fran, lol. I think, old rule of all spies since computer era has been "anything left in electronic form". That means, only written on paper. And that means - it´s too late. They have already zoomed you. Lol.

Fran, now I noticed Grandmage message...I hope I am first in queue...

Grandmage, I will send you half of the American legion seeds, please let me know you address x

good on yer, Magnodoodle!!!!

Thank you Magnadooc for your kind assistance in this matter.:)))))

This is really a BATTLE FIELD for Fran´s seeds.

lol maybe i should have opened the packs and dished them out two at a time ...

but others might have odd and old packs of seeds at the back of the drawers that they don't want to or can't plant themselves.

Mind you, it's fairly straightforward for me: as I'm registered severely sight-impaired, I don't pay postage, so all it costs is the envelope, and I've got stacks of them.

Maybe people could get together in local groups and do "swop shops" or something?

Brilliant idea, but I even do not know what is "swop"?

exhange, one person gives something and gets something back from the other person.

Or a delayed exchange, as I'm doing - people have offered to send me something back, but I really don't have room at the moment. but one day, who knows? *s*

Or even a circular exchange: I give something to A, who might give something to B, who might give something to C, and somehwere down the line it comes back to me!

Sounds like karma, Fran.:)))

Definitely, it will be swop shop between us :) I do not know, now, do you have place for a guine-pig at home?
:)))))))))

a real guinea pig?? no, I don't think so. I don't have any pets, even goldfish tie you down with their needs - I'm planning to get out of London for the Olympics and I've got to plan how to keep my plants watered while I'm away!

I was joking :))) Some irrigation device then.

nods, I thought you were, it'd be a problem putting a guinea pig into a box and wrapping it up!

I might do gravel trays: put a layer of gravel in trays, stand the plants on the gravel and fill the trays wth water up to the top of the gravel. I've recently started putting small plastic bottles (the kind yoiu get yoghurt drinks in) into the smaller pots, and small plastic milk bottles in teh large pots, a hole in them so that the water leaks out slowly. so far, I think I've made the hole too small, because the water levels haven't changed in a week - I need to experiement to find out how large a hole i should make, but I don't want the water to gush out the moment it's put in.

or, of course, I could hope for rain in London while I'm in Norfolk!

Magna you are an angel, are you sure? Will send you my address! Cheers Fran for this!
Katarina....can i say Mason bees do not eat bricks!! Lol, they just pollinate trees and flowers and brilliant little pollinaters and harmless if left alone without them we would have no fruit or flowers at all, I keep mason bees and they live in purpose built tubes, it is other bees which drill holes in to cement.(cannot remember their name) we should all be planting to encourage bees.

Dear Grandmage, please have a look on my photos what they did with one of my bricks, it is detailed photo. Also have a look on google, my English is nit so good. But they can really erode old buildings.

I will look Katarina, but I know it is another bee and not the sweet mason bee, they get muddled up with the bees that erode masonry. Its a shame they are called mason bees really. I wrote a blog about my bees, take a look.

would it work if you left a few bricks around in the garden for them to mine into, so that they left the house alone?

Jenny, Katarina, Kildermorie, Madaboutgardening, Magnadoodle and Yorkshire [in alphanetical order!] - just got back from posting your seeds - furtehr ones will take longer to arrive, but at least will be on their way now.

Still got:
Ageratum
Alyssum
Bee mix
Butterfly mix
Calendula
Cornflower
Eschscholzia
Godetia 1
Godetia 2
Laurentia
Lobelia
Lobelia 3-pk
mixed annuals
Papaver
Salvia
Simplicity

Fran thanks very much , appreciated

seeds just arrived Fran, thank you so much,, xxx

wow, that was fast, Yorkshire! I posted them about 8am Monday.

:-) just goes to show what the Post Office *can* do when it has a mind to!

your right there Fran, Lol

No...You posted at the best time Fran...first collection is about 8:30 so you had a full 24hrs to have the mail processed and delivered. The service is great , shame because it will get worse over the next few years as they cut even more corners to make false profits before privatisation. rant over

good luck with them yorkshire :))

cheers Pimpernel

Many thanks again Fran - Seeds recieved yesterday and am sowing some this weekend :) x

good to hear, hope they repay the investment

Fran, I just want to say I dont need any seeds but Ive loved reading this blog and all the lovely replies youve had from it. That for me is one of the best things about Goy and you are one of the very nicest people on it. So nice to know you!! If all the stuff about Karma is true you have some very nice stuff coming your way soon. :-))))

aw, shucks! I'm only recycling stuff that I'll never be able to use this side of winning the lottery - lol, now if karma could stretch *that* far ....

No sign of life from mines yet....... One fennel seed has sprouted so far x

don't they usually take a few weeks? even if they're still viable and it's the right season?

Yes some of them can take up to 20 days to germinate - so I am keeping the faith :) keep checking on them every evening .....

fingers crossed, then!

More have sprouted :) few forget me nots, and viola and I think a pansy...... The rain has washed the writing off some of my labels :) woohooo :) happy Magna :) thank you again Fran xxxxxx better get some more pots in :) Too tiny to show in pic with my camera .... Will post in a few days x

good news, well, the rain isn't! fingers crossed they go on as they started, and that you'll soon have pelnty to take pics of.

how's everyone's seeds doing? showing signs of life yet?

I'm sure that someone said that they'd take all the seeds that were left over, but I can't find that post to tell them that there are some packs left and to ask for their address. If the person who wrote it can pm me with their address ... of course, that message might have been in a pm - if it included their address that would explain why I can't find it now!

just remembered - how did the seed-swopping go??? :-0)