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Post by Moonlight on Jun 12, 2013 23:00:56 GMT
When did Sammy last have a feed?
Got more news on the dahlia front exciting stuff including presents from my Dad.  |
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Post by Geranium on Jun 13, 2013 3:25:59 GMT
That's good, we're all fond of Sammy!  |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 13, 2013 8:49:49 GMT
That's good, we're all fond of Sammy!
Well everyone loves a fighter (Except in a school playground  )
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 13, 2013 11:58:14 GMT
M y Dahlia bed along the greenhouse....
Weston Pirate from (Station House) at the front with 3 tubers of Downham Royal (from my 2nd delivery from Sarah Raven).
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 13, 2013 12:02:31 GMT
.... leading to my Dahlia Garden.
Well it might be small but it is perfectly formed (with a few dying weed-killered weeds and a flower pot in the background.)
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 13, 2013 12:40:45 GMT
View from the greenhouse
Now if you move the big pot in the way you could say...
"I spy with my little eye..... 4 spaces."
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 13, 2013 12:56:32 GMT
All looking good ML. At this rate you will be looking for an allotment next. |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 13, 2013 13:45:26 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 13, 2013 14:21:15 GMT
Moonlight by day...
and Eastwood Moonlight last night.
Pressie from Dad, so that I could fill my last 4 holes. (Well it would be a shame to do all that digging and Rotavatoring to have those 4 spaces.)
He also gave me Peach Delight, Ruskin Bride and Red Balloon.
What a responsibility, I so, so, so hope that I don't kill it. (or the other 3)
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Post by sweetpea on Jun 13, 2013 16:52:26 GMT
Hopefully he will come round when the dahlias are in bloom. My wife isn't exactly keen on dahlias because, 'They attract earwigs' but she didn't mind when they were winning first prizes at the autumn flower show I don't have any dahlias in the garden currently and not as many sweetpeas as I used to grow, likewise daffodils but am now thinking of growing more fuchsias and possibly coleus. Have to wind down a little as you get older unfortunately. Unlike Sammy, my sparkle has diminished a bit  |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 13, 2013 20:32:28 GMT
Planted all my Dahlias from my Dad. |
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Post by Geranium on Jun 14, 2013 5:44:28 GMT
Looking very healthy, Moonlight! |
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 14, 2013 8:26:11 GMT
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 14, 2013 9:11:00 GMT
I don't have any dahlias in the garden currently and not as many sweetpeas as I used to grow, likewise daffodils but am now thinking of growing more fuchsias and possibly coleus. Have to wind down a little as you get older unfortunately. Unlike Sammy, my sparkle has diminished a bit  I understand what you are saying but other than when you mention your age in your posts, you never come across as 'old' more a case of knows from a lot of experience what you are talking about. Every time I walk down to my dahlias I see the upside down water bottles that you suggested using as cane toppers and it makes me smile because I think of you and all of my other garden friends. You have so much to offer. Even Olympic athletes get slower as they grow older. I like to think of age as a sliding scale. Just when you reach the top end of the scale, realise well actually I'm not old yet... old is when I reach.... Besides I think that you are about the same age as my Dad and he's not old yet either. 
PS I've got a question ask about my fuchsia cuttings and I think I won't like your advice. 
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Post by Moonlight on Jun 14, 2013 10:12:51 GMT
I'll ask the question on the flower forum. |
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(maybe with bedding dahlias) rather than just dahlias. What he doesn't understand yet that to me, bedding dahlias aren't dahlias (I am talking from my own personal logic) real dahlias look like what I have. Pirates little dahlia in her flower bed is a very pretty flower and I like it. It is variegated (and as I have mentioned here once of twice 
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No way, when Pirate needed an emergency visit to the toilet HH had to drive back home and then drive back again. Ladies in my family do not nip to the bushes. (HH reads 
here particularity on my non work days. It is a short cut to finding out what I'm thinking rather than listen to me talking in detail about dahlias for 2 hours)
