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23-02-2008, 17:12
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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Last autumn I planned out my back garden and today I have started to see the fruits of my labours. Well my grandson’s actually.
Right in the centre there are some 40 daffodils in a tight circle surrounded by bunches of 5 different coloured crocuses and these are surrounded by a ring of some 200 snow drops. Sadly only about 50 snowdrops poked their heads up so that sort of ruined the display a bit. Over in the back right hand corner my personal bluebell wood is showing signs of life with a bunch of foreign bluebells at the apex of a triangle and over 100 bluebells filling up the remainder. Alongside the back fence my grandson transplanted some orange flowers from the front and these too are showing signs of life. The idea is that in about a month or so I will sow some red poppy seeds to form a “V” around the central display to make my own Remembrance Garden. Alongside the fence on the left the Foxgloves have survived but I don’t think that the Hollyhocks and Lupins have managed to. But you never know there may be something underground just waiting for the warmer weather. I’ll have to re-sow them in April if not. The rest of the garden will be sown with meadow flowers come April and the perimeter will sport things like the yellow poppy and antirrhinums. Hopefully it will become birds and bees paradise. Now if only I could get “Stumpy” to sit still for a second. Who’s “Stumpy”? He or she is a squirrel with the left front leg either missing or not fully grown. It doesn’t stop it from scrambling up and down the face of the fences and trees though.
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23-02-2008, 17:53
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Remembrance? What you remembering? Nagasaki? They look terrible.
Wonderful garden? Ive seen better dandelion's by the side of the tip pal. Its pathetic lol
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23-02-2008, 17:59
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23-02-2008, 18:05
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23-02-2008, 18:10
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Ours does`nt grow very much at the moment ......its got a 12ft trampoline shoved in the middle of my beautiful lawn!!!!
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23-02-2008, 19:07
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Our's is like a jungle!
There are 3 big conifer trees,lot's of weeds and even more rubbish! We try and keep it tidy but the next day it's a tip again! I'm not much of a gardener though,could never see the point personally!
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23-02-2008, 19:24
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23-02-2008, 19:25
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Aleks challenges Katex to honestly say she didn't laugh at it............
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Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, i have so many children i can't fit the tickers in my signature..... I finally found someone daft enough to marry me, my wonderboy is 11, my monkeygirl is 3 and my bananaman is 2, my beautiful little flower was born in feb 2012 
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23-02-2008, 19:32
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
cant wait to see what jambutty say about it
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23-02-2008, 19:37
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23-02-2008, 19:39
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
hmm...... theres an idea
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23-02-2008, 19:40
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Mines full of weeds - you want to send your grandson round here jambutty?
sidenote I agree with katex about aleks
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23-02-2008, 19:45
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Re: How Does Your Garden Grow?
lol hasnt stopped his karma going up though
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