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A GOOD BUY AND WORK IN THE GREENHOUSE..AGAIN

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Well I had all my seed trays ready and my packets of seeds but horrors, forgot the seed compost. So off we went to B & Q. Got into the garden section and it was like a ghost town…totally empty! So we wandered around looking at the plants..but nothing took my fancy and the cheapies were awful, guess the best ones had gone. (One of you lot had been here I suspect and bagged them all!)


Seeds

I had this voucher burning a hole in my pocket, so we moseyed around to the pots to see if there was anything going and lo! and behold! look what I found.
Voucher

Wall Pots

They were £5 each..only couple of pounds off, but that was a saving of £4, not to be sneezed at! I can see these on my garden wall in summer with trailing fuchsias or petunias, or even friolinas..those trailing violas..

My OH gently, but firmly steered the trolley back to the compost and we picked up a bag of JI No.1 Seeding and he purposefully marched towards the checkout. I did a quick detour to the paints (the hall wants painting) but I only had time to grab a few paint colour cards before being hauled out thro the exit (VERY undignified, as I told him..loudly).

It was too dark, wet and windy to do anything by then so I started this morning early because Im going out later.

Oh, and here’s my posh new potting tray for under £10!

So see you folks tonight hey?

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I love those wall pots, roll on pay day (I know it's only the 4th but I had to pay out on my car :o((((( )

4 Feb, 2011

 

Oh how depressing Annella, still you do NEED that car to get you to the garden centre and back lol!

4 Feb, 2011

 

And work unfortunately! Food parcels would be gratefully accepted....

4 Feb, 2011

 

Oooh new glam pic Annie!! Love the wall pots, great colour and very well priced!

4 Feb, 2011

 

We may soon have matching pots then Karen! Pic was taken on last hol, Zante. It seems like a long time ago now...

4 Feb, 2011

 

Ah yes, I've never been there, but I would like to because it always looks lovely in the photos. My OH had an emergency Appendectomy in Corfu before we met....it rather put him off Greece for life!!

4 Feb, 2011

 

Poor man :o))

4 Feb, 2011

 

Good time to start as any Tetra, What you got on the go there ? Love the pots,
Annella... Fantastic place Zante, the new avatar is very nice .

4 Feb, 2011

 

Thanks LL

4 Feb, 2011

 

loved the wall pots too, lovely colours. nice blog

4 Feb, 2011

 

You did snag a bargain with your wall pots, M. More seedlings to provide some TLC and get results :) Hope your time out today was enjoyable....we've lots of wind here today...trees really swaying! It will blow away all the cobwebs :)

4 Feb, 2011

 

Now the real work begins, have fun, love the wall pots.

4 Feb, 2011

 

i love those pots. should look very good empty or with the flowers ~ dont put them out today ~ it will be like 2 green bottles hanging on the wall......and if one green container should accidentally blow away there'll be...................... all the GoYers underneath waiting to catch it!

4 Feb, 2011

 

Sticki, found myself singing heartily there, 1 green bottle........... !

4 Feb, 2011

 

Just like you 'orrible lot to change my posh green pots into mundane green bottles LOL!...
Them's aquilegia Firecracker and Liatris, Littlelegs..opened the Liatris by mistake, trying to hold down packets in the wind whistling into greenhouse! Still whats done is done..we will see...also did some Rudbeckia Cherokee Sunset and the Lychnis Barbara sent me.
That wind nearly blew me down the steps J, grabbed the railings in time...(put those side railings in for me mum..I need them now!)
You dont need a car for work Annella, looking glam like that..just stand by the pavement looking forlorn..you will get more lifts than you can count!

4 Feb, 2011

 

Lovely pots, no matter what the colour, mind you nothing is staying put around here either, one good thing to come out of the windy conditions is the chinese lantern that wrapped itself in the top of my apple tree on new years eve, its now in shreds so I might be able to get rid of it at last.......

4 Feb, 2011

 

Now is that a real chinese lantern Lincslass or the plant?? And if its the plant, how come it grew to that height??

4 Feb, 2011

 

great wall pots Tetra, cant wait to see them potted up in summer, lovely

4 Feb, 2011

 

I might even try painting it San..just bought myself a watercolour book for flowers..teach yourself sort of thing. Look to your laurels my girl..if its a mess I will pretend its an abstract!

4 Feb, 2011

 

if its a good book will you tell us what its called please?

4 Feb, 2011

 

Was that a compliment tet!!?? Nice one with the green bottles Sticki, I'm good with bottles..never spill a drop

4 Feb, 2011

 

Annella, it surely was a compliment (but I can see why you asked LOL!), but be careful or you will turn into an old soak like Yorkie (but without the ear trumpet, you not that old!).
I know, I know, she's poorly in bed with her OH drinking cheap whisky (so she says), but I gotta make hay while she's not here to ban me from meetings!

5 Feb, 2011

 

No worries Tet I'm looking forward to being old if I can stay in bed with OH all day and drink.....shameless yes, but whatever ..

5 Feb, 2011

 

Oooh I couldnt do that..my OH is constantly making me cups of tea..I'd spend more time in the loo than in bed!

5 Feb, 2011

 

cant say its my idea of heaven!

5 Feb, 2011

 

Think its the "idol with clay feet" syndrome Sticki..Ive had two and neither have given me the life to which I would love to have been accustomed! Improved no end with No.2..but there's still a lot to be desired lol!

5 Feb, 2011

 

perhaps i should be a hermit!!!

5 Feb, 2011

 

Your OH did well to get out with so little, like the pots, very in to wall pots.

24 Feb, 2011

 

OH rarely says no DD, and I rarely ask for anything too outrageous. But I always know when he thinks Ive spent too much...his "Yes" becomes "mm Okay" and has a sort of strangled sound..Im sure you know it..sort of high pitched..

24 Feb, 2011

 

As they say been there......

1 Mar, 2011

 

He has that wild, hunted look...takes me all my time trying not to laugh...

1 Mar, 2011

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