Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud!

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 15, 2014 8:14:25 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 15, 2014 8:14:25 GMT

Apr 14, 2014 20:39:22 GMT Moonlight said:

Poms Moor Place (Station House

) Tisa (Halls

)
Miniature decorative Hillcrest Hannah* (Halls

)
Small decorative Amber Festival* (Halls

)

Small semi/cactus Ryecroft Zoe (Station House

)
Waterlily Edwin's Sunset (Halls

)

Does it look like I'm getting impatient

? Not as much as my girls -

Come on Station House

I want my Moor Place & Ryecroft Zoe

Come on Halls

I want my Tisa & Edwin's Sunset but more importantly the girls want their Hillcrest Hannah & Amber Festival

Maybe today will be the day. I picked early April because I could be in so that the poor things didn't stay in their boxes wilting.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 15, 2014 8:36:14 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 15, 2014 8:36:14 GMT

Apr 14, 2014 23:31:55 GMT Moonlight said:

Odd day all round today but I came home with a present.

Yes a baby Sir Alf Ramsey pot tuber and if you look really carefully you can see the eye.

I've potted it up rather than put it on a tray as the roots need a chance to develop before it can throw off anything suitable for cutting but as I only wanted 1 Sir Alf, I can just let it grow away to make a nice little plant ready for planting...

I'll spill the beans on the bee door saga another time, I'm taking an early night.

Ok back to the saga of the bees. You can see from my photos that we have a cabin next to where I grow my dahlias. Last year I noticed bees flying into the key hole. HH blocked off the inside so that they couldn't get inside the cabin but they are doing it now. Even though they can't get inside, they seem to like that hole.

So HH covered the front with duck tape. Dad told me to plant my Sir ALf in a 5 inch pot. My purple pots and colourful labels are part of my Birthday / Christmas presents, so I put them in the cabin. Went down to the cabin, peeled back the duck tape to discover a bee looking back at me.

Needless to say, Sir Alf was potted into the 3 inch pot in the photo. HH (& I trying to keep very well out of the way) took the tape off and unlocked the cabin. Needless to say, I grabbed a few 5 inch pots and Sir Alf was potted up again in the bigger pot.

I'm a total woss but I don't want the bees to get hurt, I don't want a bees nest inside the cabin but most of I don't want to get stung.

Total woss.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 15, 2014 9:16:39 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 15, 2014 9:16:39 GMT

Then there are my confessions with my Paula Jayne fuchsia. I love it and bless it was so beautiful, even won a 1st at the show.
It flowered throughout the whole winter and I just didn't have the heart to prune it, I just didn't want to cut off those lovely flowers.

When I went to our town show, I went and confessed to members of our local fuchisa society who come and sell fuschias (Of course I've never bought any there

). Received a kind but wry look and they asked if there were any new shoots. Yes.

See exhbit A below:

So they said that I could cut it back to about half it's size.

Thing is when cutting it back to half it's size I didn't know when to stop and so now, it looks like a child whose Mum was drunk when she tried to cut his hair with a bowl on his head.

It looked a bit drastic, so I ended it up stopping, in case I cut off all signs of life and kill it for ever. I feel so guilty. I had a book on fuchsias for Christmas but did I know where it was, when I started doing it. I felt I'd delayed it for too long and so just went in and did it.

Embarrised to add a photo and felt like a murderer cutting it in the 1st place.

I went through the branches I had taken off, took the ends down to the greenhouse with me. Dipped them in rooting powder and put them in compost in a pot, wishing I read up on Sweetpea's advice about how to grow cuttings.

The cuttings actually look still ok, very different to the poor cuttings I took off of the Star Wars fuchsia that I bought at the show. When we were there P-)was given a fuchsia as a Birthday present from the man that I'd asked for advice from (said he was kind - not at all patronising like some experts). So I let Fairy choose one for herself and came out with a few myself, well the other 2 needed some extra friends to keep them company after all.

Still guilty about my poor Paula Jayne. Hope it recovers, so that I can trim back the longer bits that I left, so that it is all the same size.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 15, 2014 21:09:21 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 15, 2014 21:09:21 GMT

Apr 13, 2014 14:57:44 GMT Moonlight said:

My big Downham Royal was sitting quite happily on a deep bed of vermiculite, with all it's lobes protected as it was still encased in all it's soil but I wanted it to have the chance to grow like it's brothers and sisters.

I let it soak in the (cat litter tray) and have managed to wash some of the excess soil and compost off but it is still to huge to fit in a seed tray.
The drill would have been used to drill some holes in a large cat litter tray that we have (n.b. Never previously used by a cat - we don't have a cat)

No drill, no holes, so no litter tray. I don't want to keep picking it up as the soil that had previously protected the lobes is now off. So for now it is back sitting in it's tub of vermiculite but with some fresh compost around it. I didn't want to put it in a big pot or big tub because I don't want the tuber to get any bigger.

Don't really know what to do about it.

Ok so that was Sunday, this morning I noticed:

So let's just say that it was ready to go. Very impressed.

From Sunday to Tuesday not bad growing 'eh?

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 15, 2014 22:43:01 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 15, 2014 22:43:01 GMT

Apr 15, 2014 8:14:25 GMT Moonlight said:

Apr 14, 2014 20:39:22 GMT Moonlight said:

Does it look like I'm getting impatient

? Not as much as my girls -

Come on Station House

I want my Moor Place & Ryecroft Zoe

Come on Halls

I want my Tisa & Edwin's Sunset but more importantly the girls want their Hillcrest Hannah & Amber Festival

HH made the mistake of asking, if I was waiting on any dahlia deliveries... didn't get a word in edgeways Fairy Pink Wellies

I know that I've typed it out quite lightheartedly but actually, it really is a big deal to them. Was surprised at Fairy but not as taken back as her Daddy. (n.b. She was not rude or stroppy just frustrated).

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 16, 2014 11:43:46 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 16, 2014 11:43:46 GMT

There I was happily watering my tubers on the last tray when I heard a

MUMMY!!! MUMMY!!! MUMMY!!! MUMMY!!!

I stopped and dashed up to the house to be greeted by:
"I'm sorry Mummy but he was about to go..." and a daughter clutching a box preciously.

"Is it our dahlias...?"

I checked the label, no, yes they are dahlias but no it's not yours. Do you want to see what they are like inside?

No - they both flounced off, not happy. Not happy at all. They'll be getting tickets to Scotland(ish) to collect them themselves, if they have to wait much longer...

Some are mine (in the purple pots) and the other 3 are Dad's.

He'll be round later (I hope he'll be happy with the way that I have potted them up).

Got to stop now, girls want to do some sewing.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 16, 2014 23:32:15 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 16, 2014 23:32:15 GMT

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Apr 14, 2014 20:39:22 GMT Moonlight said:

Poms Willo's Violet

~~Gurtla Twilight~~

(but Dad's got cuttings) Lismore Moonlight (

cutting from Dad) Moor Place

Tisa (Halls

)
Large poms Nulands Josephine (

cutting from Dad)
Miniature ball Downham Royal

Jomanda

~~Mary's Jomanda~~

Small ball Red Balloon

Miniature decorative Hillcrest Hannah* (Halls

) Marston George

Small decorative Amber Festival* (Halls

) Ryecroft Brenda T

Giant decorative Sir Alf Ramsey

Pot tuber from Dad
Miniature semi/cactus Weston Pirate

Spanish Dancer

Flamingo

~~Miss~~

Weston Stardust

(

at plant sale)
Small semi/cactus Ryecroft Zoe

Ruskin Myra

Medium semi/cactus Eastwood Moonlight

Peach Delight

~~Candy Jayne~~

~~Clearview Jenny~~

Large semi/cactus Trooper Dan (

cutting from Dad)
Waterlily Edwin's Sunset (Halls

)
Does it look like I'm getting impatient

? Not as much as my girls -

Oh and somewhere along the line I've said 'yes please' to a Weston Corsair from Dad, pity I can't get a Weston Sunset... my fingers are still crossed that I can get a Weston Stardust at the plant sale.

Wish I could have a big enough garden so that I could grow an area just of Westons or maybe a red patch... I do look like dark red dahlias but then I like the purples... Going to stop now. Another early night.

Oh I really do hope that my Halls order comes tomorrow. Fairy pink Wellies is off to camp on Friday, actually the penny has just dropped, she is worried because she thinks that it is going to arrive while she is away. If it comes on Friday, I wonder if I could gate crash the camp with a parcel for her to unwrap...? Think that would go down like a lead balloon.

One of the plants that my Dad ordered from Station House was Marston George. I mentioned that I'm getting one myself...

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 16, 2014 23:35:25 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Apr 16, 2014 23:35:25 GMT Having spent at least 30 minutes re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re editing the above post. So much for my early night.

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 17, 2014 5:20:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Apr 17, 2014 5:20:07 GMT Can't sleep don't know if I've managed 4 hours hip hurting, taken some ibuprofen, made a coffee had a biscuit or 2 and come here. Hay Hoe.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 17, 2014 6:27:22 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 17, 2014 6:27:22 GMT

Tired now HH has got up and I can hear him getting ready for work. I started searching for images for my Rogues Gallery and ended up trall through my photos. Took a lot of photos last year. Might go to bed after HH goes to work. Hip still hurting. Maybe I should have taken full dose. Try to avoid taking additional medicines, I'm a walking pill box already, if I shook myself I'd rattle.

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 17, 2014 6:30:11 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Apr 17, 2014 6:30:11 GMT Daughter no.2 is up and chatting. I think I've lost my window for sleep. Hay Hoe. n.b. Not moaning.

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Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 17, 2014 9:33:28 GMT

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Post by Moonlight on Apr 17, 2014 9:33:28 GMT

I was very happy having a lovely dream in the land of nod when two shouting children: "MUMMY MUMMY MUMMY MUMMY It's the post!!!!!!"

Well it isn't the dahlias which they recognised straight away by the shape of the parcels and they disappeared off to back to the game that they were playing upstairs.

I've undone them, made a coffee whilst having a biscuit and come here with the update.

Oh

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 17, 2014 11:16:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Apr 17, 2014 11:16:21 GMT I've emailed Halls.

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 18, 2014 15:51:42 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Apr 18, 2014 15:51:42 GMT Had a reply they are due to send out next week. So the earliest it will be here will be Wednesday.

Moonlight Top Member Posts: 4,922	Purple wellies tiny steps - clear as mud! Apr 18, 2014 19:16:32 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Moonlight on Apr 18, 2014 19:16:32 GMT It might be tricky to tell from the photo but I have 3 Red Balloon seedlings waking up and at least 1 Downham Royal seedlings on the way to.
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