Viola 'purple picotee'

WOW ~ WEE!......beautiful!!

My nephew grew these...He has opened a small garden centre recently...Doesnt know the first thing about flowers...just kept going and reading...Built himself a gigantic poly-tunnel....He only ever grew veg....He is baby-sitting 4 tomato plants for me...its so cold and windy here...:>)

Good for him Moti, at least he can say he's had a go at it. I wish him good luck in his new garden centre. I expect you'll be giving him lots of tips . I would have loved to have done that but also would have loved to have owned cat kennels, but instead of doing either of these, we went into flower selling on a market along with other goods, and later on decided to have a go at floral wreaths and arrangements, all self taught, and we did this for 15 years and loved every minute of it. we have made some really beautiful ones and all our work was done by recommendation from other customers. I took some lovely photos of some we did. I know what you mean Moti about the wind we still get a lot of wind across our garden, mainly because we're not far from the sea, although we are at least seeing a few sightings of the sun......but still only a couple of showers, we are so dry.

He does ask me the names of the plants, Lins, but my sister lives beside him and helps him out...Your market flower selling job sounds soo interesting...you must hav e had some good crack, working at the market....I am so bad with flowers, i cant even arrange flowers in a vase, im hopeless at it...Hope you get some rain soon Lin...:>)

Thanks Moti, Still haven't had any what you can call rain, keeps threatening but thats it, We had a shower the other night but a few hours later the ground was bone dry . We've got plenty of strong wind though, especially today.

Yesterday (sat) here was just awful...It was like the debth of winter..howling wind and torrential rain...Garden Ireland Flower Festival started yesterday too, dont know how they managed to do plant arrangements etc the weather was sooo bad...and cold. My sister and me went to the show today, one minute lovely sunshine, the next lashing rain...everybody running for cover at the same time....

That sounds like you've had some terrible weather Moti, we can't seem to win can we, its either one way or the other.

I know....The forecast tomorrow is more of the same heavy rain and gale force winds...:<(

We've had two terrible days of strong winds, enough to blow you away!! we have had a couple of trees blown down just up the road from us, its absolutely bitter winds too, yet the sun is warm when the wind drops. Roll on summer.....(I wonder what mixture we'll get then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I wonder...........:>)