Second opinions DO help!

PLeased you both enjoyed your day out at the garden centre, love the plants you bought as for pansies well i think the speak for themself as they are lovely.

love the chimney pot Sprotz looks so much better.

Heucheras look lovely with the pansies Spritz...really nice contrast. A good mooch round a garden centre with a friend...sounds good to me!

Well, it's thanks to GOY - that's how we got to know each other, Fluff!

Thank you all for the kind comments.

glad you both had a good time and got what you needed apart from a couple of things louise needed, all the plants look lovely and what a differance spritz,a good day in all :o)

well you both look like you benefit from eatch others help :) and all the plant choices look great together :)

Well .....what can i say? (blush) :))

Anyone else need the Louise Heuchera expertise? :- >

Wish I lived nearer - is all I can say!!!!!

You'd be very welcome to join us Alzheimer :)

Thank you, Kind Lady...but I fear this old Aberdonian is stuck in the mud...literally!!!

Sound like a great day out! Who'da thunk it? Me actually envying someone going round a GC!!! LOL!
I know what you mean about the mud, Alzheimer!!

Oh dear, poor you Alzheimer and Madperth :(
No mud here. Have you had lots of rain up there ?

It was lovely yesterdat till teatime, then it got cold & cloudy, but the rain started during the night (woke me up, & I was checking the taps!!) & its still going!!

Ditto here - and there haven't been many days without rain at some point recently. Actually - in fairness - the sky is beginning to lift a bit and as we say up here "there's not enough blue to patch a Highlander's breeks yet" !!
It's blowing a gale too...so definitely a day for the crosswords/ emails and blogs of course!

Isn't it pity we can't all have the nicer weather :(

It is indeed Louise!
It's just pouring here, & almost dark enough to need lights!!
Not too windy, but I'm decorating the living room, so not a wasted day!! Back to work tomorrow,(after 3 months off sick) but just a 5 hour shift & my boss is only letting me do 2 days, she's a good friend as well as my boss!

What a wonderful day you "girls" had at the GC. Yes it must be lovely to have a like minded friend to choose plants with instead of hubby trailing round and moaning ..and often blaming poor Fractal for the plants I buy (he works at our local GC and sometimes tips me off if there are some new choice plants in)...I am going to devote a corner of my new border to heucheras. Have a few already and there are some in tubs and baskets to transfer over in a few weeks time.

My boiler fitters broke my baby heuchera on friday, but I'm trying to save it!! :~((

ONLY three hours? lol. Gosh, what fun!

Thanks for sharing your shopping trip - you did very well. I love pansies too.

Well, Alice! You are lucky to have 'inside' knowledge of what's coming into the GC - and to have Fractal's expertise, too!

Heucheras are so useful, aren't they! It WAS fun...and the time went soooo fast. As for pansies - I'm a sucker for their pretty little faces - pity the birds tend to peck them. :-(

That's strange, i don't get pecked pansies.

They wouldn't dare Louise......lol...:))))

LOL

I'm a fan of hucheras too. There are so many (too many?) to choose from and the coloured leaves last much longer than any flower. Good blog Spritz

Thanks, Andrew! I shall be after a couple more when I cut back my Lysimachia ciliata, as I've just dicovered that two have been 'smothered' by this plant which, needless to say, has 'walked' again - all over the poor Heucheras!

gosh is it time to start winter planters already?
love the plant combos :o)

Time flies past doesn't it ?
They were selling Aquilegia there too Seaburngirl, that made me think of the spring !!!!!!!
Talk about wishing your life away !

At least they didn't have any Christmas stuff! :-)))))

LOL

spritz - do a Google search on a product called Hammeredge. It comes in small pieces of plastic you hammer into the ground to make an edge to your lawn. But I use it to form a barrier round plants that 'run' and so far, lysimachia 'Firecracker' hasn't found a way out and is kept in check

Thanks, Andrew - that sounds like a good idea! :-)

Isn't it nice to have helpful friends :o)
You chose some lovely plants.

PLEASE don't talk about C*******s...lets have a lovely Autumn first...:))))))))))))

Oh yes !! It's much too soon. ! Dec 24 th is early enough for me.

I absolutely agree! That's why I was delighted that they hadn't started on the 'forbidden subject' ...yet...

I'd like some summer before autumn, Alice! I haven't seen much sun yet. I live in hope!

What a lovely way to spend a day, can think of nothing better (well buying cakes in a little patisserie, comes almost close!!!) loved your choices, already a great fan of Heucheras........

Garden Centre and coffee...now thats what i call an outing.....lovely blog...great plants...:>)

Thanks. We enjoyed it! It's really good to go round looking at plants with someone who loves them as much as I do...no wonder it took three hours! :-))

glad you both enjoyed your morning, but, you know Spritz, it's very dangerous taking Louise shopping with you............. and Heuchera's well, I don't think there is an ugly one among them :D

Dangerous for Louise...or me, Grindle?? Neither of us bite...I think... ;-)

We were very restrained in our purchases, actually, and we didn't get thrown out for bad behaviour! LOL.

LOL
Grindle's probably right .... dangerous as in - i'll make you spend all your money lol.
I have a friend whose husband dreads us two going there together, he knows she'll come back broke !!!!!

I had to drive past another GC today so just nipped in ....... yup ....iI did and they were ..... Heucheras, Dianthus, Helianthemums, some new Lavenders called the 'Little Bee' range, I bought pink ones !
Also got some bulbs !

That's the ones I told you about, Louise! (the lavenders, I mean!)

Oh dear :(
A senior moment, i don't remember :((((

No probs! It was just one comment amongst lots...and lots....of chat! LOL.

By Heuchera or Crookera, I got here, finally!!!

Colours (and Heucheras) among my faves, ladies!!! Well Done"!. Have added a few more of those foodie-named heucheras to my wishlist, lol!

So glad you had a good day out - with a result! :-)

Thanks David :)

Yes, thanks David! :-) (duet!)

Hi Spritz, I've just found your blog. Did you slip it in while I wasn't looking? Lol. Sounds like you had a great morning out together and to have a good friend who also knows what she is talking about sounds like heaven. I think I might have come home skint, as they say, as the plants sound fantastic as well. Add good coffee on top of all that and there definitely wouldn't be a lot left in the coffers.
Enjoyed your blog and the photos are second to none, as usual. :~))