an early Christmas present

Great present enjoy

That's good the plants arrived intact and undamaged...
... and nice pics of your garden...
lovely colour petals in the lowest photo..:o)

it reminds me of the colour of an egg yolk. This flowers through till march too.

Now I'm hungry for boiled egg and "soldiers" bread slices. Lol.

I love deliveries of plants, so exciting, especially if I'm in. I know the feeling of seeing the dreaded 'missed delivery' note. Our sorting office is about 5 miles away and only open between 7am and 11am. The plants and your garden look great.

yes ours too Dawnsaunt. It is a pain to get to, too. Boiled egg for supper then. Shall i cook them tt while you make the soilders?

OK, OK, I confess! It was me! Sbg - I am so sorry you didn't get all the Cerinthe seeds I 'garnered' for you - I found some on the table after I'd packed the parcel. If you want any more, just let me know. :-)))

Our postman normally leaves parcels in our porch, unless there's a surplus charge on them, when we get the dreaded postcard. I usually put the requested stamps on it and post it - our sorting office is 9 miles away - and as Dawn said, limited opening hours, too, and no parking there.

9 miles away Spritz, oh my, not so bad for us then. I've run up the road to catch the postman in the past with my card, lol.

LOL, Dawn! We have two 'regulars', and one of them has been known to take a letter for me to save me walking to the post box in the village! There's only one collection a day, so that was very helpful. He offered!

They both carry biscuits in their pockets for Henry (and other dogs, I expect). He barks to get out as soon as the van gets to our gate!

Sounds like you have friendly/helpful postmen/women Spritz. We have a very nice relief one who has chews in his pocket for Bonnie :-) There was another relief one that came one day and he appeared behind me in the garden quite a distance from the house, which was a bit of a shock. He had a parcel for me and said it was his duty not to fail to deliver - I was quite impressed.

Very good service. :-))) Yes, Dave and Matt call me 'Barbara' and they are great!

our local regular postie leaves most parcels in the waste paper bin and pops the card through with 'usual place' scrawled over it. except on waste paper day when he leaves it under the tarpaulin of the trailer. he is really helpful too. sadly he just delivers and wont/cant pick up.

There were 10 seeds so i will see how they do thanks spritz. they are big seeds arent they. I was expecting it to be much smaller.

Ooh a lovely package......nice one........Anemone September Charm.....I thought that was a pink one?

Lovely blog, SBG!!

it is usually a pinker pink than this though the back of the petals are correct. i expect it is the time of year and the cold has taken its toll.
thanks for the lovely commets.

how lovely getting plants sea, will be nice next year, your september charm doing well , mine has finished now :o)) its very pretty

is that the one i sent you sanbaz? would you like some of the queen charlotte, she is more double but also more vigourous?

Heeheee - I know about vigorous Jap. Anemones! BEWARE, Sandra!!! LOL.

but they havent gone mad in my shady site. i think you are too good to your plants, nice soil, lots of nutrients etc. be mean to them. mind you plants have a habit of dying when we do that.

Told you - I inherited these, and that soil has had the least amount of anything - just a little compost last spring, that's all! I shall have to add more next year though - all that new planting from Beth Chatto's Nursery! Oooohhhh!!! Exciting! Lots of lovely plants instead of the floppy horrors!

no i bourght that one sea, but queen charlotte sounds lovely if you dont mind ;o)) thankyou
lol barbara, i will take my chances

I posted so much out last year I thought you had got some. Will be able to send you some early in 2010 sanbaz.
stop rubbing it in that you have been to beth chatto's you lucky thing spritz :o)

thats ok sea.. next year good as i will hopefully have my new project ready for planting, :o))

Lucky you SBG....I love getting plants and seeds in the mail. Looking forward to seeing everything growing and blooming in the spring. :o)

You had some nice plants. I like the variegated Fragaria.

Mmmm, i love plant parcels too :-))))
Infact, who on here doesn't ;-)))))))

I'm waiting for a parcel at the moment - so is Sbg - with TRILLIUMS in it! I havent grown them before, and it's so exciting! YAAAYY!!

yaaayyy from me too.

Oh my...very nice SBG...it is so nice to be able to still garden at this time of year..a greenhouse would be heaven right now.

I'm sure you will enjoy your cerinthe plants SBG.I had some given 3 years ago,and they self seed well.In fact I find them everywhere,and as I have been tidying the borders this week,there are still some that have just
germinated.Your pictures are nice too,how lovely to get something nice in the post,instead of bills and junk mail.....

I am looking forward to getting outside to garden but weather still not good.