I know some places in the north have been getting some but is there any chance of sending some down to SW england at all?
Cant remember when we last had some significant rain, must be at least 6 weeks (how long before a dry spell is classed as a drought i wonder?). The garden and the veggie plot are in desperate need of rain water. i have been watering daily of course, but it is not the same is it? (and what a chore is watering! >:().
I even found a couple of established border plants wilting last night :'((i dont water established plantings in th garden). OK after a can or 2 of water, but a bit unnnesesary and unexpected i have to say.
I seem to remember a long range forecast back in the spring was fo a wet early summer. I guess they got THAT one wrong. :(
And some in the South East too please. It is forecase for saturday, but it'll probably be like last saturday - just enough to make it uncomfortable to be in the garden, but not enough to do the garden any good.
It's now five weeks since I sprained my ankle and there hasn't been any significant rain for all that time. Mr Aqui is getting sick of carrying buckets of water downstairs from the kitchen tap (I really must get an outside tap installed). And I'm getting fed up with having to ration the water.
Ah - I see what the problem is. Usually at this time of the year I paint my toe nails when I wear my sandals. Whenever I painted my nails, it always rained the next day, so I couldn't wear sandals. But this summer I've been unable to wear sandals as they have high-ish heals and I have to wear flat shoes due to the ankle, so I haven't painted my nails. I'll do them tonight...
we could do with some up north as well! the concrete got damp earlier but its dry now....
Wales has got some cloud - can I email it to you?
Oh we have cloud here too. And Wind. But no rain! :(
we've had thick grey clouds all day, but still dry. I understand it's a lot cooler outside, but I haven't been out since I arrived at work!
Aqui I shall paint mine too, that way we are bound to get rain in the south east! I could also try washing the car! The ground on my lottie is cracking in places! :o
I put my shallotts out to dry today, so I expect a localised rainstorm over Katie's trampoline.
Jeremy
Took the dogs for a run in the fields today and there are cracks everywhere - about 2" wide in places.
I have been able to show off my painted toenails for quite a few days now - so it obviously doesn't work here in Herts :D ;)
Its Pouring in Edinburgh (10.00 p.m.)!!!
I went out on the lottie at 7:30am and it was overcast and windy. I thought yes some rain. Then the sun came out, then it was cloudy again, then there was this light drizzle. Pah! Call that rain! >:(
light drizzle while down the allotment last night - from the blackest clouds ever, i expected much more! but it seems to have rained steadily all night which is good news indeed as its way too dry up here!
i'll leave it here for another couple of hours then send it down richard...
A useful shower this am. = Tim
and it rained and rained - hoorah - drizzled through the night and is raining nicely now - just in time for the school run! But more importantly, my pototoes are just flowering so perfect for them, and all my lovely salady things that I was beginning to worry about. I'll keep it until about lunchtime, then send it down to the rest of you guys for the afternoon - so get your washing out now, and it will be dry just in time!
If you could Ceri, that would be most welcome! Nothing here :'( I know, it it waiting for Wimbledon to start! 8) )
It looked and felt like it was going to rain last night, so I didn't bother watering. I then also didn't have time to do my toenails, so it's still dry here.
Tonight I shall water the garden, put some washing out and paint my toenails, so it WILL rain.
My colleagues think I'm weird because I want it to rain!
*aqui can currently be seen doing a rain dance round the office*
Painted toes and hung the washing out, and it rained, for all of 2 minutes! >:( The sky is still moody over Chelmsford so hopefully later it will persistently piddle down, but not until I have pegged the washing in please. ;)
Sending it down all you folks without.Had enough fed up .Went to town in green sandals came back with green feet.
It's persisting down has done since i got up.Thought i'll go in Chat and hey-ho another Virus detected.So you want some i'm sending you some !!!!!!!buckets full of the stuff.WE had it yesterday too.
The weather radar doesn't look very encouraging on the met office site :(
http://www.meto.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html (http://www.meto.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/radar/index.html)
Derbex - it's too high up. I hope it's moving south.
It's sunny here (london). dark, thick clouds, but sun, not rain is coming from them. (I don't think I've ever moaned before because it's sunny!)
Too right Aqui. Love the sun as much as the next man (or woman :)). But that said am bored with it now, and sooooo bored with watering.
But lets not have that in between 'will it wont it' kind of weather lets have some good old fashioned english summer rain!
Still they are about to do the famous rain dance in SW1 (Wimbledon) so at least London will be getting some rain next week. ;D
Like EJ we had a 2 minute shower earlier this morning, then the sun came out, the wind is blowing and drying everything out again :( Never mind, at least the washing is drying :-\ :)
Got to South Wigston on the train and it started to rain, by time we reached Leicester it was absolutely chucking it down.I couldn't walk in that, had to wait for the bus. It bitterly cold rain as well. :'( Very nice bus driver dropped me off at the end of my street. :D This is great for the lottie.
Think we in the North from Budgiebreeder up must have had it all - absolutely poured all last night and bucketing "showers" (5 mins in between each) up until teatime then sun came out. Had to go to lottie to top up tomato troughs and outside crops were standing tall and lookign good - not battered at all. thanks, thanks thanks but give us a wee break now - just gentle nighttime showers please.
Now 10 p.m. and it's chucking it again - maybe enough is enough for some things but the tatties will love it
For those in the South-East (I'm in Essex) Your plants/gardens/lotties will be drinking well tomorrow - apparently we are forecast heavy rain showers!
Sammy
Yippee for the south east ::)
Well in West Sussex today, despite a forecast of lots of rain (a black cloud with 3 raindrops on the map), we have blue skies, sunshine and not a cloud in sight. Although I can't complain, we did have a whole day of rain last week Thursday. But it's much cooler, feels almost autumn like.
Yes Wicker !everything fine and dandy today.Just been round the estate .All the rain was worth it.Beans are beaning Courgettes are corgetting and i wont tell you what the peas were doing.
Hehehe BB, still no rain here,(in the South East) had to go up the plot and water! :o maybe i should plan a barbeque for tomorrow! ;D
Please Southeasterners(?) do a little rain dance, we have had our quota, all 4 grandchildren housebound today because of rain/wet grass/didn't bring jackets and me thinking of my strawberries maybe turning to mush.
To be honest, the ground did desparately need it especially the peas BB (whatever were you meaning? ::)) Dry but damp at the mo with dark clouds still
How far south did the rain go? I was coming out of the Royal Albert Hall at 5:30pm when i got caught in a downpour which caused all taxi's to be taken and us to miss our train. Tell me the rain extended far enough to make all this suffering worth it. ;)
Sarahr, we didn't get any rain in West Sussex today, sunny all morning, then very dark clouds in pm, thought it would rain but nothing. Perhaps the clouds were all rained out by the time they reached me.
The weather has really changed here in Whitley Bay. I think it has reverted back to April, as we have had quite heavy showers all day, and it is quite chilly. We even had to put our gas fire on at home tonight.
We did need rain, but I have had enought now, thank you. "Can I have the sunshine back now please"? ;D busy_lizzie
In East Sussex, we had 2 mins of rain mixed with hail, then sunshine AGAIN! but the clouds look promising ;D
Dorset has been cloudy and quite cold (for the time of year), though did have SOME sun yesterday. (Frustrating first cloud and cloudy next minute blazing sun - didnt know what to wear!).
No rain as yet (apart form a few small drops), though has threatened on numerous occasions.
We will be getting our comeuppance during the next wek though. Wind (gales?) and rain on tuesday and wednesday! GREAT ::)
Yo Peeps
ive been doing the rain dance i has.... okay it was to Motorhead's the "Ace of Spades" but it still counts?...... but i iz not taking any chances oh no no no no no.... there be no risk taking from this jose cover every angle iz what i always sez........... and spesh those corners that hang out in circles.... cus they is dead crafty they is ..... in fact they is not unlike chamealeons in that respect,,,, cus they is to all degrees and thingymajigs right angles....... but how they cleverly disguise themselves to look like arcs is very very incredible.... maybe Dave Attenborough could do a right angles survival special????? be well educational :-*............ anyways heres some of me special rainy dust stuff..... cus lets be fair.... the season is well odd this year or maybe i iz well odd this season... or maybe i iz in season and need to have sum puppies? or maybes i iz just mad as a hatter an needs a well good lie downs... or maybe i iz just babbling anywaze ears the dusty....
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and just in case that dont work... heres a bit of me personal..... winkity wink wink wink... say no more... what the fish doesnt see cant gather any moss as the rolling stones cant be forced to drink the water in a town called Alice...... is very old maxim/adage that goes back a long long long long long long long long ways in me family istory.... its nice to know what your ancestors used to think...... :-*
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Quote from: Yellow Petals on June 18, 2004, 21:53:55
For those in the South-East (I'm in Essex) Your plants/gardens/lotties will be drinking well tomorrow - apparently we are forecast heavy rain showers!
Sammy
Hmmm! So much for that weather forecast, LOL. We've had about a four minute downpour today (Sunday) and that's it! ::)
Sammy
still nowt here. A few spots again mid afternoon then nothing!
Ha ha left the sprinkler on all yesterday and surprise surprise .. it rained all night.. Hey maybe thats the answer. The rain needs water to attract it :D
Rain? don't mention rain to me, i've just been down the allotment this morning (Sunday) and i had to do the backstroke to get the last of my leeks in and it's hard to do that with waders and a full wet suit on ;D .
Peter
Quote from: Mimi on June 20, 2004, 18:23:38
Ha ha left the sprinkler on all yesterday and surprise surprise .. it rained all night.. Hey maybe thats the answer. The rain needs water to attract it :D
Nah Mimi that wont work. Have tried it twice in the last 24 hours - no go.
Gave everything a good soak last night in the hope of getting rain - nothing. Again today it was trying to rain whilst I was watering some new plants in and THAT didnt work either. Seemed to scare the rain of if any thing ::)
Well Oz, your rain dust has certainly reached us today - it has bucketed down :o Hope to see a vast improvement in my poor little parched plants now :-\
and i thought i had all teh rain yesterday in a valley in lancashire where i was trying to photograph a wedding!
Hooray, hooray it rained properly yesterday!
I did the rain dance - known as laying out some soil to dry so it can be sieved and less than an hour later it started spitting. I carried on (sieving compost - lots of sieving yesterday!) and then it started tipping down. Later (on the way home from riding) it CHUCKED it down. No plant watering; the pond was refilled! ;D
Quote from: aquilegia on June 21, 2004, 09:22:31
Hooray, hooray it rained properly yesterday!
I did the rain dance - known as laying out some soil to dry so it can be sieved and less than an hour later it started spitting. I carried on (sieving compost - lots of sieving yesterday!) and then it started tipping down. Later (on the way home from riding) it CHUCKED it down. No plant watering; the pond was refilled! ;D
Lucky you Aqui.
Tell me why were you having to DRY soil on purpose. Surely it was dry enough already. Mine certainly is!
Richard - it was the leftovers from digging the pond. It'd been stored in a compost bag so the bottom half was still very wet - wet clay soil - so impossible to sieve.
Was this to make your famous ( ;)?) compost mix then Aqui?
Hence the need to seive i suppose :)
Indeedy it was Richard (and for earthing up the spuds). It's so stoney, it has to be done! (and then we get more pebbles to go in the pond!)
Maybe we'll be getting more than we want :
QuoteTransmitted by the Met Office at 08:55 on Monday 21 June
The Met Office is still expecting a deepening depression to sweep northeastwards across England on Wednesday, bringing a period of wet and windy weather. There will be a spell of prolonged rain, leading to 20-40mm in places, locally 60mm, however, at this stage, rainfall accumulations are not expected to lead to widespread disruption.
Jeremy
Thunder and Lightening and chucking it down in Oxford at the moment :-\
Had better get up the plot and get my seeds in! :o
i think we can safely close this particular thread.
I now have rain. LOTS AND LOTS OF IT. wind too, (i dread to think what its doing to the garden, still the rain will do good).
True to form it now wont know when to stop!. I will then be asking (sotto voce)
er can I have the sun back please? :o
Quote from: Ozzy aka Pothead on June 20, 2004, 16:40:53
Yo Peeps
ive been doing the rain dance i has.... okay it was to Motorhead's the "Ace of Spades" but it still counts?...... but i iz not taking any chances oh no no no no no.... there be no risk taking from this jose cover every angle iz what i always sez........... and spesh those corners that hang out in circles.... cus they is dead crafty they is ..... in fact they is not unlike chamealeons in that respect,,,, cus they is to all degrees and thingymajigs right angles....... but how they cleverly disguise themselves to look like arcs is very very incredible.... maybe Dave Attenborough could do a right angles survival special????? be well educational :-*............ anyways heres some of me special rainy dust stuff..... cus lets be fair.... the season is well odd this year or maybe i iz well odd this season... or maybe i iz in season and need to have sum puppies? or maybes i iz just mad as a hatter an needs a well good lie downs... or maybe i iz just babbling anywaze ears the dusty....
(http://www.hemperium.com/images/free/swrds/wizard2.gif) ......
and just in case that dont work... heres a bit of me personal..... winkity wink wink wink... say no more... what the fish doesnt see cant gather any moss as the rolling stones cant be forced to drink the water in a town called Alice...... is very old maxim/adage that goes back a long long long long long long long long ways in me family istory.... its nice to know what your ancestors used to think...... :-*
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Cheers
Ozzy
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is magic I swear
Ozzy
ooooooooiiiiiiiiiiii OOOOOzZZZZ cut it out mahn we're flooding up 'er
Gales, lashing rain, flood warnings!! Flaming June is it? Yes it flaming well is!
Oz, STOP WITH THE RAIN DANCE >:( >:(
Oz, do you have a sun dance that you can rather do, I'VE HAD ENOUGH RAIN!!!!!! Even had to bring my little seedlings into the conservatory to save them from lashing rain. SUN SUN SUN SUN PLEEEEEEZZZZZEEEEE!!!
The weeds have had far too much rain. Wimbledon is already 45 matches behind. :o I think the blame lies with Wimbledon. Three weeks and hardly any rain. The minute it starts it chucks it down like it's never going to end. >:( So if the sun could come in time for tomorrow so I can finally get down the allotment this week, I would be very greatful. Ta. :D
OK. That's it. I've had enough of it now. Couldn't do anything in the garden yesterday and then nearly got blown off the horse.
Still at least it'll be a while before we need to water the garden again. And the pond has been topped up (by the looks of it we've had about 6inches of rain since sunday!) It's now almost overflowing!
Horse?
My, how the other half live! ;)
Sarah - nonono. Don't think of me as one of the other half. I'm just fortunate to have a good friend who lets me ride her horse every wednesday. I could not afford my own. I'm just thoroughly addicted to the creatures!
Thankfully the rain has stopped here now.
Just need a special OZ-DANCE to get rid of the wind. Its blowing all my pots over (and takes my breath away when i go out in it)
So please can you do something about the wind Oz mahn?
Stopped Richard! you lucky s*d, i have now traded in the car for a yacht to get to work, took up fish farming instead of trying to grow veggies, and traded in my rotovator for an aqualung ;D ;D ;D .
Oz if you dont stop the rain dance then i won't give you some of my home grown ;D ;D ;D .
Peter
it hasn't rained so far today. It bucketed down yesterday.
I hereby choose to ignore the weathermen - the beeb says sunny today and 14mph winds. yeah, right.
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me braodies have asked me the exact same thing so they have.... so here a bit of me person magic dusty to make the wind calm down just a lil bit like....
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life can be a nice lil rainbow is just frame of mind... I like the wind its like sweeping away loads of neg energy and better still i loves these,,,,,
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so when the winds all diedy down..... we all up for some upside dancing? i know I iz....
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I likes dancing I does
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Cheers OZ mahn. Wind now dropped here.
Your magicy dusty mustve worked ;)
Hi Oz do you not get a headache dancing upside down !!!!!!!!! 8)
Not good for yer blood pressure. ::)
Two of me best tomatoe plants got blown over in this flipping wind.
Now no more dances for rain so i can cut me grass tomorrow. ;D ;D
Rossiebuddddie. :-*
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I likes upside dancing but can also boogie wiv the best of em.... as you can see!
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buts best of all i prefer dancing on me head cus it gives me the chance to see things from the reality that me eyes sees it in the firsty place..cus did you know that when u look at something... its upside downy and our brains turns the thingy right way uppy?????.... well all I can say about that is... would have been nice to have been asked???? how does me brain know that I dont like seeing thing the right way down?????? blinking blonking brain always making desisions wivout a second thought to how i may wanna see things?...... anyways its a babble alert and gosh nearly time for footie tooo.....
COME On ENGLAND
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see I just cant stop...
Oz
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I forgot sum get well dusty for your poorly toms... what iz I like? ::) ::) ::) ::)
anyways by the powers given to me by the dude with the right cards but in the wrong game .... I now declares ur toms to be either spiritually on the mend (just in case u enthunased them) or geting dead well dead quick like on account of me dust!!!?
so here sum dust for ur toms
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is mad when plants get blown down.. other day in B n Q saw tree thingy lying on the deck... mah I was like Hawaii five O on the scene.... for me number one priorty was to get other life form into the recovery possition ASAP ... and u know what?... i was amazed at the number of peeps who just walked on by leaving the poor thing lying there in the courtyard..... that was before i got there.... must be a growing thang? hate seeing plants neglected.......... is like no one hears their voice.. and lets be fair... this government they aint gonna listen to the concerns of couch grass and sunflowers... oh no no no no no... is only us who can do it.... I listens to me veg i does and try and work it out.... aint doing too bad as me marrow is well huge (http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/electric-shock.gif) .... babble alert ........ the gardens looking busy now....... is nice and also when the winds died down to hear the first bird to sing..... i is lucky cus we has blackbirds around heres..... and to hear that through the stillness.... roll over motorhead.....
deffo babble
anyways rosebud..... here a songy for ur toms.....
Two little Toms had two little supports.............Each had a wooden/bamboo cane .................Gaily they played on a summer's day....................Warriors......... both of course...........................One little chap a mishap...........Broke off his bamboo canes head.........................Wept for his tom support........ but cried joe................When he heard his brother say.............................................................................................Do you think I could leave you crying..............................When there's room on me bamboo cane for two................................Climb up here Jack and stop your crying...........................We'll mend your bamboo cane with glue..........................When we grow up we'll both be beesteaks.......................And our bamboo canes will not be from B & Q..........................And maybe you will remember................................................When we were two little tom plants ....................................... ahhhhhhhh ...
defo bablble
Oz
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Is great tomato songy Oz! :D :D :D
Oz what can i say my toms have rallied round to the song you sung them.they look better than yesterday. ;D ;D ;D.
Oz i really did laugh at your 2 posts have to say cheered me up after England loosing :'( :'( :'( :'(.
Cheers Rosebud. :-* :-* :-*
So !So glad that you're back on form Ozz! Like me Mushrooms? Magic ya know
Oz I went to B Q last week and i could have wept .there were so many dying plants and flowers,i asked the assistant if somebody could water them and his reply was NAA nobody wants to work out ere! its boring, what do you reply to that answer.
So i went to customer service and said nearly all your plants are dying out there could someone water them her reply was no somebody will be putting them all in a skip tomorrow!!!!!!.we have got so many and not enough staff to send anyone out there.
Needless to say i shall never buy another plant at B Q.
I still feel i should write to there head office ,shall i ??????.
What a place eh!! why do they sell them if they cannot look after them. I had better get off my soapbox now.
see ya Rooooooooosiebuuuuuuuuudie :-* :-*
Rosebud - it's exactly the same at my local B&Q. They had a masive sale with 25% off all plants. So I excitedly went along. Only to find out why they are having to sell them off quick... I rescued a couple of things that didn't look bad. I felt like I should report them to the RSPCP (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants). :'(
I've stopped buying plants from there because of this and they are too expensive and they use peat.
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Is good news about Rosebuds tomatoe plants on the road back to recovery and tommery... big it up for the magic dust 8) 8) 8) 8)
Id love to work in that section in B & Q... better still my aim is to work in Nursery... okay prob big dif to being an employee rather than a visitor.... but its all thos plants around ya... mahn must be like treasure island.... and if the bosss pistes you off.... go tell it to the fucias..cus they is well understanding of the importance of employee/employer relationships and I am sure there are many other plants hold similar views as to those expressed by the fuscia... allegedly.... and what the friar is I on about?????....
yea ... goood news about your toms rosebud... keep us posted and maybe you should spend a few evening in your garden singing the song to them.... loudly so neighbours can hear you... ;D ;D ;D...
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anyways i iz babling but it is Fridgeday and if ya cant bable on a Fridgeday then just what day can one?????.... am glad weather has changed and the peeps can enjoy glasters this weekend.... snow patrol are there.... brill....
babble alert
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Quote from: rosebud on June 25, 2004, 16:29:49
Oz I went to B Q last week and i could have wept .there were so many dying plants and flowers,i asked the assistant if somebody could water them and his reply was NAA nobody wants to work out ere! its boring, what do you reply to that answer.
So i went to customer service and said nearly all your plants are dying out there could someone water them her reply was no somebody will be putting them all in a skip tomorrow!!!!!!.we have got so many and not enough staff to send anyone out there.
Needless to say i shall never buy another plant at B Q.
I still feel i should write to there head office ,shall i ??????.
What a place eh!! why do they sell them if they cannot look after them. I had better get off my soapbox now.
see ya Rooooooooosiebuuuuuuuuudie :-* :-*
You shouldve said 'well if they are going in a skip any way let me have some' (cheap/free). Then you could've used your green fingers and revived them and sold them on for charity (those you didnt want yourself). Boo sucks to B&Q!
All the plants probably want is a good soaking and be fine. What dreadfull waste!
Oz, I've tried to explain you to people - "outsiders" you know - but words can not suffice!! You do me a power of good anyway as well as the plants, guess that's not people dust gathering around my p.c. it must me Oz Dust filtering out and spreading good feelings and smiles. ;):D
Lottie like a bog yesterday, felt such an idiot running back and fore from the tap to the g'hosue carrying cans of water and trying to hold up a brolly with the rain pounding - just to top up those greedy toms. Dried up today and everything (especially those weeds) putting on massive growth. Rain forecast for tomorrow I think - please nooooo .....
OZ man, can we pleeese have a 'sunshine and showers dance rather than just a rain or sun dance?
Nice bit od sun for gardening, showers to keep the garden watered.
Thanks ;)
Richard it was pitiful to see the plants just left to die,because of a want of a drink...............I did ask last time for reduced plants that were just left to die and i got a resounding no so i dident ask this time. I will not shop there for plants again...........
What i have decided to do is take my camera down there and send some photos to the head office and see what they think ,i am still so cross about it............Rosebud. >:(
I know this is a bit off-topic, but I personaly have a love/hate relationship with B&Q over plants.
Generaly i have avoided shopping there for plants (i have nearer garden centres which are better if a bit pricey). What I have grown from there I have had mixed results with. Firstly when planting up a new shrub border i wanted a Viburnum tinus, and found one at B&Q which i bought and planted over a year ago. The plant at first seemed healthy and vigourous. Then we had theat long dry summer last year and whils the plant was watered, it has noe trived and is now the same size as when i bought it and not looking as happy. V. tinus i thought were supposed to be bomb proof shrubs and of course i cannot prove any thing, but the fact that it camer from B&Q does not help. On a different note we were given a rose a few months ago, bought from B&Q. This has thrived and has begun to flower already. My only criticism is that the checkout staff removed the label so i dont know what variety it is! Pink and highly double is all i know about it.
The point is you CAN get good plants from there but you can also get duff ones as well. Overall though i prefer to go elsewhere for plants. For other garden products though they are pretty good value it think.
At least in this weather the B&Q plants will be getting a drink of sorts!