Ness plant hunters fair and meeting whistonlass(jacquie)

How nic eto see you all... gla dyou had a good time together..... nice plants sandra.....

How lovely San. Looks like you had a great time, and lovely photos of you all. Its so nice to make new friends isnt it. Also you made some lovely purchases, you will have a lot of enjoyment from planting those.

Just had a thought could that Heuchera be Midnight Rose ?

Glad you had a good time San, some lovely plants too, I have that daylily, 'Big Bird', its a beauty huge flowers you'll love it.

thanx holly and cinders, it was a lovely day and jacquie is so lovely, it could be that cinders sounds familiar, isnt it annoying they took the tag off lol :o))its leaves are mottled or speckled on the older leaves

thanx simbad i didnt use to like daylilies think because i hadnt seen any nice colours but the more i see the more i like them now, glad you have it and nice to kknow it has big flowers to :o))

Hi Sandra,what a nice day you had,lovely to meet members in person & pleased to see you all got along..isnt that our OHs job ? ..to carry the bags,lol.
you bought a fair few plants & i like the log too..bet that wasnt cheap either..:o)

Lovely pics..
Good to see you all had a happy day :o)

hi joan and thanx, it was lovely and yes it is our OH`s job lol, the log was £12.50 which i dint think was to bad as iv seen plain drft wood this size and exspensive , this is varnished and also the sedum in it :o)
thankyou so much Terra i wish i could meet everyone haha, i so enjoy meeting different people, makes a nice change :o))

Aww San....you are tooooooo nice :) We really had a nice visit and roam around with you and Baz too. There was no strain (except to our bodies...backs, legs, etc.)...it was like we'd known each other for ages :)

When we got home I parked my plants in the garage until morning (as you saw when we left you I wasn't too comfy). I will go down and list all my buys and then see if I can work my camera and get a blog/photos on here!

I think your heuchera could be 'Midnight Rose'...it does have a ring of familiarity! Don't quote me on that though...lol I will look at my heucheras (I was greedy and bought 3!!!) as I'm not sure I bought the same one.

Glad you liked the tea light....just a little remembrance and I've got some lovely plants from your garden to remember our day together.

Great to be able to meet up and to see that our hubbies got on good as well :)

lovely plant sale and great plants.
well done for finding each other and clearly having a good time.

i two thort it midnight rose san ............... very pretty , glad you had a lovely day all of you ............ bet you spent loads of mony lol , i wud have

thanx jacquie yes im sure it was midnight rose to as you and cinders have named, its lovely anyway, the log i love and want it somewhere i can see it often without walking down the garden. i agree baz and alec seem to get on well to which im glad. all went great and like you i didnt feel uncomfy infact i felt we had known eachother longer :o))
thanx sticki glad you like the plants and yes it was a great day ;o))
thanx cristina shame you couldnt get there i did leave msg on a conversation but didnt hear so thought you must be busy or hubby was, spent lots but worth it lol :o))

forgot to say jacquie the tea light going on my bistro table in summer, will look lovely :o))

lovely Sandra - nice to see some sempers in there :):)

How lovely for you to have met up at a Plant Fair, San! The guy in the first pic looks really confused, like the customer has asked for something new and rare .. lol! The selection of plants on sale look good, I bet you were like a child in a sweetshop, so much choice! I love the colour of the Heuchera, really deep and rich. So, will the plants be in the garden tomorrow, or have you got theim in already? : o ))

Wow, I luuuuurve the log! lovely photos of everyone looking happy and relaxed. Hope you manage to i.d. that heuchera!

San...the glass garden table is just where I pictured the tea light would suit :)

There were a few more stands than appear in the photos so plenty to choose from. I agree with Karen...the log is luuuuuverly :)

thanx paul thought you would like them, not sure on their names though, no tags but nice ;o))
lol shirley didnt noticed that in first pic he does look confused.com haha, not planted yet as i felt tired when we got hom and my hip was killing me so hopefully tomorrow at some point, busy as usual ;o))
karen i thought you would like the log its lovely i think, and im sure midnight rose was the name so thats what i will call it lol ;o))
jacquie i may put it there actually as we sit at the glass one more and i can see it when i look out of the kitchen window, certainly was plenty of plants and all healthy looking to , would have loved more but im fast running out of space here , jacquie i can see you getting a log next plant sale ;o))

lovely blog & photos,glad you all had a great time...lovely plants too!

Pleased you all had a great day, lovely photo`s of happy smiling faces and you got some nice plants as well....

I'm glad you all enjoyed. It's nice to meet up with fellow members. And nice you bought some plants aswell :)
I've been through the Mersey tunnel lol - when I was 12, - and I've been on the Ferry too :o)

I hope you both took big cars with you as I think you needed them with all the plants you have bought ! Isn't it lovely though to come back from somewhere you've been with lots of lovely things to put into your garden.

I'm so glad you and Jacquie had such a good time - although you hadn't met before you both probably felt quite familiar with each other though being on GOY.

Good luck with the plants - I hope they all take off well.

Lovely day out for you all,and so glad you had a good time..you all look very happy,and your plants are great.
Another GoY friendship formed..isn't it nice ?

I think your red sempervivum is Amanda - other two green dragons Sandra - :):)

So pleased you had a good day, together with Whistonlass and OH's. Sounds like a good day out, plants, food and good company. I like your log and your chosen plants :)

I'm glad you had such a lovely day San with Whistonlass and Hubbies .. and all those plants as well lucky you ! I like the log it's going to look great ...be careful of your back when you do your planting .. ;o)

Glad you all had a nice day out,

thankyou elsiemay and sue, had a lovely day ;o))
lol hywel nah nah nah! hahaha havent planted anything yet been busy today but hopefully tomorrow :o))
thanx marie i think your right, with chatting on here it does help when you meet, and plenty of room in thecarthanx hhaa :o)
cheers sandra yes another friendship formed, just love meeting members and its nice coming home with plants to :o))
thanx for the names paul will write them down :o))
thankyou Gee glad you like the log andplants :o))
thankyou amy planting tomorrow morning andtaking my time, back a little easier today so dont want to have a set back with it, must get some gravel to, also got a mini standard rose today at lidl £2.50 just under, not big but should look good when it fills out and at that price i had to have it lol ;o))
thanx yorkshire :o))

A good buy on the standard rose, San. Did you have to bring it into the garden covertly after spending up yesterday at the plant fair?? lol

I've blogged about our big adventure too...and there is a photo of the plant I can't identify that you very kindly gave me....can you take a peek please?

lol jacquie yes sneeked in and potted before baz got home ;o)) will go check your blog out now :o))

Sounds and looks like you all had a great time! Glad the weather stayed dry. The Heucheras look very colourful, what a great selection of plants! I'll have to do a little detour into Lidl! LOL!

lol helen i was lucky they only had two left in the one near me, planted it in a pot and will add something around it till it grows, i love heachera they add colour all the year round :o)

I better get over there soon! LOL I think it's a Thursday they get all the new ones in? They have the same in Aldi's which is almost next door to Lidl!

let me know if you manage to get anything, i will look again after thursday for anything new to ;o)

Will do! I'm sure they'll have something to tempt me, which I must say isn't difficult! My latest bargain, Foxgloves, 4 for 80p B&Q! I only had to remove a couple of leaves from from each, give them a drink and they were as good as the others at £1.48 each! Don't know what colours as their mixed, but that doesn't matter, I like Foxgloves, really pretty!

i love them to helen, have them myself and seed so easy, i love cottage garden anyway, all those soft colours, wonderfull.

Yep, me too Sanbaz. Another type of gardening I also like is, the jungle look!

love it, was going to try for that myself but already lost 2 palms and 2 bannanas over winter, not sure about my gunnera as yet but im not trying that look again to hard for me having no greenhouse to over winter, i did fleece but still no good,

I've got a freebie foxglove that has seeded itself in one of the tubs of box that my friend Daisyco brought to me today....so that will be put into the back of the border :)

They are great for the bumble bees :)

may or may not flower this year jacquie , normally dont first year. yes the bees love them

Interesting read, thanks Sandra. It is good to meet up with other members, isn't it.

yes it is Tog and thanx for taking a look ;o))

The foxgloves grew wild and plentiful (a bit of a thug really) on the Island I spent my childhood on in B.C. The plant is pretty small and I will need to replant it in a bit, no worries if it is too immature to flower this year, San.

Sanbaz, I'm going to write a blog tomorrow about the plants I have and intend to get for my Jungle border!

yes jacquie can be a thug but a pretty one at that, i bet they looked lovely growing wild in BC :o))
helen will check your blog out when you have done it :o))

Yes, they did look lovely, San.....hundreds of them.

:o)) i better get something done now, raining here so wont be my garden which i was hoping to do, maybe tomorrow, have a nice day jacquie, hope its not raining there :o)

No rain here...I'm in recovery mode after 2 days of being busier than I am usually. I need to vacuum and have left it for almost 2 weeks (shocking I know!!) because I'm afraid of upsetting Lucy....well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! lol I have swept a bit where I could and picked up the odd bit of fluff but of course that is just the craziest way to do it!

I hope she doesn't get rattled when I bring it out...she is settling down so nicely, don't want to rock her boat.

I'm sure you'll find something to keep you occupied, San and if it's not housework there is always that canvas, paint and paintbrush waiting! :) Enjoy what's left of your day.

h jacquie had dinner and done some more painting, sat down now and here i am lol
dont worry about the hoover, lucy will be fine, what i did was turn it on away from casper and he came sniffing about himself, use to sit on the stairs watching me but he doesnt bother now, so its like when we had babies just carry on as normal, best way then they get use to it.
im going to see what tomorrow is like weather wise, try get my hair done if they arent busy at work, then do some planting fingers crossed, :o)

Hope you get out in the garden tomorrow...and a hairdo too, San.

Never got to the vacuuming...tomorrow is another day and I will do as you suggest...start a distance away from Lucy and see if she accepts the noise as I get closer to her.

You are right....carry on as normal :)

raining today grrr, so no gardening jacquie, plants still in pots lol, but at least getting water. hait at 1.30 cant wait, will brighten me up haha, then more painting i think as baz working till about 7pm today, hope its a bit brighter for you :o)

Rain, rain....go away....got it here too, San! Lucy is resting behind the sofa but I expect not for long....the hoover is about to come out.

As I write this it's just coming up to 1pm so you'll soon be off out for your hair appt. (took me awhile to work out what you meant by "hait"...lol...thought it was a cryptic message, San).

Happy painting as your reward for being "home alone" til Baz is in at 7.

lol jacquie just getting ready to go, type to fast at times and miss my keys lol
good luck with the hoover, im sure lucy will be fine though, more or less finished painting, just highlights to do now so will get some house work done when im back i thinks, work tomorrow so better get cracking haha, cya late ;o))

Lovely warm blog Sandra, so glad you all enjoyed it. Not only do you get lovely new plants, but also meet up with friends...what could be nicer;-)

thanx bornagain your so right was a lovely change and day :o))

You were spot on, San....Lucy wasn't perturbed by the hoover much at all. I began at the lower entrance level and worked my way up the stairs, down the hall and finally into the lounge (where she was resting). She did move herself to just outside the lounge door (in the hallway) but didn't scarper away in fear. So...good result!

Hope you enjoyed getting your hairdo today and your free time to indulge some painting. We got a curry tonight from our local chippy so no cooking :)

Will speak soon. x

so glad lucy was ok when hoover was on jacquie, better doing it that way than switching it on right by her.
just had dinner as baz worked late, had chicken dinner, lovely but so full lol, just chilling out and a few comments on here, cant keep up so much going on at the moment with blogs and photos, enjoy your evening:o)

Lovely blog San, glad you and Jacquie got on so well. Nice pics of you both too :o))

thankyou anne, so kind ;o)) plants to plant at weekend if weather improves ;o)

Sanbaz, I hope you don't mind me doing a bit of hijacking, on this blog, but you see I can't find the blog where I was telling you about my Darmera peltata not flowering! Well.. I'm glad to say that the flowers are on their way up! I planted it two years ago and this is the first time I will get to see its flowers. Yipeee! But "boy oh boy" has it wandered far and wide! I might have to move it when the huge leaves start to grow! Is there any sign of yours yet?

great news helen, so glad you have flowers this year, mine has flowers peeking through now im glad to say and like yours its spreading some what, i will leave mine where it is and move surrounding plants as its a nice damp area where it is :o)

Good idea to move the other plants, as like yours mine is in a shady spot too! Why didn't I think of that? OH you are a clever girl!

lol helen, thanx :o))