Oh I've been a naughty girl!!! After the Marshalls discussion I looked at the T&M site - very clear and easy to use. Stunning range of clematis (I'm a bit of a fan with 8 different ones already in my small garden) and yet I ordered more!!!!! A collection for the patio pots, and some for hanging baskets. Now I can't wait for them to come!!!
AAAHHHHAAAAAA!! I see we have a new member for our AA club!! (Allotments annonymous) Everyone who cannot resist buying more plants when their gardens, allotments, whatever are bursting at the seams has to join.
We then make sure that said member is never left to their own devices or allowed near any catalogues, garden centres, nurseries or neighbours with plants and seeds.
No use sobbing in the back of the car from now on things like - "I want just one teeny, weeny little plant" and throwing a tantrum when you can't get -it!!!! Oh No!!
Only thing is I don't seem to be able to control the number of plants they acquire. They keep telling me that plants are jumping off shelves (even in supermarkets, would you believe) into their baskets or simply following them home. It shouldn't be allowed!!
Now I'm not a cruel person and I know just how they feel when they see a poor, abandoned wee plant begging to go home with them and I know it's dreadful that publishers of these gardening catalogues allow the plants to be so brazen and show themselves off in such a luscious way. However, we must resist all this temptation.
Now say after me:
I CANNOT buy any more plants or seeds.
I MUST not buy any more plants or seeds.
I WILL not buy any more plants or seeds.
Now don't you feel just sooooooo much better!!!
Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you all - I'm off to Holland in a fortnight and their plants are just sooooooo cheap. I hope I have the willpower to stay away from them all - well at least until the day before I leave!! What else is a 4x4 for, for goodness sake, if not for stuffing with plants!! Any orders!!!!!
Cheers Eileen.
Plocket I did a similar thing the other week, went to the nursery to buy some garden twine, that's all I needed, nothing else. But what did I come home with? A handful of various packets of seeds, two clematis, potting soil, numerous pots (I had to buy them, they were having a buy one get one free), a beautiful pot of foxgloves, a lupin and a poppy plant, oh and also a primrose. I did keep asking myself "where am I going to put all this" but that naughtly little voice kept telling me I'd find somewhere and sure enough I did find a place for each plant.
Eileen I think I will also have to join you AA club as if I buy anything else I seriously don't think I will find a place to plant it, my garden is now officially full! Next time I go to the nursery I am not taking my credit card, it's just too tempting.
Oh I am so glad I am not the only one. If you could see my garden you would think I was CRAZY to buy more. It is TINY and there is no soil space left. I just can't resist though. Talk about kid in a sweetshop - if I go to the Nursery/Garden Centre/Stately home that sells plants/mum's garden (where I take cuttings and dig things up!!!). My husband is beginning to dispair of me. I started hanging baskets this year to try to extend the garden a bit!!!!! I can't help it - I can't do the mantra thing Eileen - I just love buying little plants and seeing them grow into such beautiful plants. Is there a Gardening Anonymous or anything like that? :D
Last time my parents were over, I was telling mum about some plants I had my eye on (notice the restraint!) when dad says 'but you've got enough plants already.' I'm sorry dad, I do not understand. Enough plants? No more room? I have loads of room left. There's that bit between those other plants and then there's the space that's not been dug yet (I don't have a lawn to shrink, but I do have slate chippings which are getting deeper in some areas as I dig up other areas!) And then there's the space where that plant that I'm not too keen on is. Finally, there's the roof of the shed! Loads more room!
My name is Aqui and I am a plantaholic.
(I have another plant shopping spree planned for this weekend - to celebrate my new job and to get lots of plants for my pea soup, I mean pond!)
Hi Aquilegia! That is so me with my parents - they think you should be able to see earth/soil between plants.
Now there's a thought - a roof garden..... In France a couple of years ago we passed a village where all the thatched roofs had irised growing on them. Looked weird but beautiful.
Congratulations on the job by the way! Can I come shopping with you? I never go to the garden centre enough.....
I confess, I confess!
"My name is CL and I am a plantaholic"
There, so much better!
Went to get compost earlier this week and came back with two trays of plants.
When in Cornwall visited two gardens and came back with a fernery!
My OH has given up and now just makes room in the car!
Clematis? I have three youngsters in pots and three to arrive (Plocket knows all about this!)
It is a condition I can do nothing about! Glad I am not alone!
Love CLxxx
Hey CL! How are you? Note my confession!!! I would be interested to know where you got your clematis from though. And were they decent specimens?
Am just going to go and check on clematis No.8 - it's pretty new and hasn't reached the trellis yet..... Oh and my new agapanthus... Oh and the new astilebe... Oh and..... Nevermind. You know what it is like!!!
Hey Plocket...guesss I had to 'own up'! Clems were from T&M, tiny when they arrived but now in 5ltr pots. Advice on when to plant them out? (They live outside right now).
My Astilbe (bought from garden in Surrey where OH and I went for 'business' lunch) is fab, I love it. It is on a pot next to the bench at the end of the orchard.
Talk soon Love CLxxx
PS Eileen I tried the mantra and is working REALLY well!!!! (But then I am confined to base today ha, ha! Village fete Saturday though....and flowering plant stall....mmmm)
Oh dear I've just been out for a coffee (on my own)to our local garden centre!!! BIG MISTAKE!!!
I did say the I cannot, must not, will not thingy but did it work.......well...........erm............Cough, cough.............eh...............................NO.
I had to buy two large tray of bedding plants (32 plants in each) and these three beautiful fuchsias just wouldn't let me go home without them!!! I only spent £13, they had a sale on, so really I was very good at resisting temptation, at least I did my best - honest!! Now where to put them? More grass going to disappear me thinks. ;) ;)
Plocket, even if your garden is tiny - don't despair - buy some plant stands then you can have a two or even three tier garden!!! Oops, sorry - Plocket don't buy any more plants now will you dear? ;D ;D
I AM A PLANTAHOLIC AND PROUD OF IT!!!!!!!
Eileen.
P.S. Never did buy that cup of coffee!! ::)
Eileen...girl after my own heart! CLxx
Hi CL! So we think alike again (re T&M) !!! How big are the clematis now? My last one is only about four inches tall but it still has been planted. Still hasn't reached the trellis either but is working it's way there via a few sticks!
Re your astilebe - I had one in a pot last year, but this year it looked a bit naff. Have put it in the garden now, but have you any suggestions for what I should do if I want to keep one in a pot?
Hi Eileen! Plant sales? Oh no! They are worse than just garden centres!!!!! You were restrained at only spending £13!
And stop putting ideas into my head!!! Plant stands..... Oh my poor credit card.....!
I'm off to change my "profile" now!!!
Quote from: eileen on July 01, 2004, 15:44:03
P.S. Never did buy that cup of coffee!! ::)
ROFL ;D
danger alert - my weekend shopping trip will include the nursery which has a massive sale on - everything reduced. A few years ago mum-in-law and i bought between us a tray of osteos (big plants) for £1. It's cheap on money, but not on garden space! (I wonder if my neighbour will let me annex his garden. Oh that reminds me - I dreamt recently that one of my neighbours was moving and sold me their garden, which I used as an allotment! dream on aqui!)
He he! Dreams can come true you know!
Aqui I day-dream of the same thing. Our neighbour doesn't use her garden at all, until last year it was about 6 foot with weeds, then someone complained and now she contracts a garden service company to cut the lawn (weeds more likely) every fortnight. It seems such a waste, wish I could take our boundary fence down and extend my garden to include hers. I have another friend who has 2.5 acres and does nothing with the land at all, I would have an orchard (not allowed to use it as garden as it's agricultural zoned) with chickens or even pigs (there's a breed of pigs that don't dig up roots). What a waste, it seems often the people who have the land don't want it or don't have time for it and the ones without the land can't get enough!
A whole orchard? Sounds like my dream come true - at least at the moment while I am obsessed with fruit trees!
My block of flats has loads of green space out the front and back that is just wasted, makes me really annoyed some times, I could do so much with it..... :-\
Jesse my garden was a wilderness when I moved in 8 yrs ago. Had been very finely kept, but gone to pot and builder's waste everywhere. It wasn't until I gave up the corporate scene and decided to work from home that I could get to grips with it ( 4 yrs ago?) and I had to start by cutting through the wilderness...can understand your frustration at seeing it!
Plocket my baby clems measure 11 inches (Markam's Pink and kermisina with the kinks!). Maybe put them in situ? What you think? Freckles still tiny, but thriving.
Clxx
Ps..off the wall idea I know, but could you offer to rent garden/acres?
Hey you been pinching my dreams Aqui? :o SNAP, only it Palustris that sold me His garden and I lived there happily ever after - until I woke up!!! :'( :'(
Eileen.
Hi CL! I'd bung them in now! Just keep an eye out for slugs etc.
Good luck - off to do mummy duty now.....
Clxx, the acres is out of the question as it's far away but I have been very tempted to approach my neighbour, just need to find the right way of asking and the right time, don't want her to take my suggestion as an insult that she doesn't care for her garden enough.
Hi! Is your neighbour a little old infirm lady? You could offer to "help" with the garden.
Suggest that you have too many plants and offer to put them in her garden for her?
It's a tough one J but I wish you luck!
Can see your problem Jesse, but Plocket's approach sounds a great idea. If neighbour's having the contract gardener in to mow, perhaps the offer of a bit of help isn't so far out? Let us know, and good luck.
Plocket will get those Clem places ready!!
See you all, CLx
Hope the rain holds off for you CL! Looks nice and bright here but with the wind it could change very quickly!!! I'm not leaving any washing out today!!!
We've had some rain (bound to really - I watered last night!). Quite windy, so think the Clems will be happier out then in pots waving around - more support. Got netting for them...Love CLx
Morning CL! Haven't had rain yet, but shortly have to walk Little Plocket to play school so it is bound to rain then! Let me know how the clematis progress, and I will report when mine arrive - I have high hopes now!!!