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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4109 Posts |
 Posted - 12/05/2010 : 22:04:35
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Jeannie, Nicola says she'd love as many hollies and field maples as you can spare.
The other trees are either too large for their garden or not native.
I'll trade you some soap |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
http://lornastorey.blogspot.com |
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 13/05/2010 : 08:30:17
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| excellent Lorna :) just email me her address and I'll send them on, prob next week so i can get sarah to dig them - i leave them growing where they are mostly til i have to pull them up ( except the sycamores - they come up much as i can cos blink and they are 6ft tall with roots to match!)so they're roots are pretty well in even though most are 6 - 18 ins high thats all. when i try to dig them with a trowel the roots break, but if i mark them and give them good watering on mon they should come up easy on tues. |
www.jeanniezelos.com
http://www.affordablebritishart.co.uk/
all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 23/05/2010 : 08:53:41
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forgot the trees last week lorna - i'll try to remember this tues. 
was chatting to beth on the phone last night - she wanted update on her farmville progress - its on my acc as she's to young and when she's here I make sure al the crops etc are ready to harvest. she needs a lesson in economics though cos i bought a tractor for 5000 coins last time because she wanted one then she decided we need money so sold it same day for 250 coins...its been good for Daz - he has his own farm and the earning money and deciding what to buy next is quite a good maths/values lesson.
anyway she asked what i had been doing ( they do that - both of them " so what have you been up to today Nanny?" talk about role reversal we were talking about holidays
" we have to go to banham zoo Nanny, apparently they have an old house there about a thousand years old or something" Apparently - at eight. they both make me laugh because of their advanced vocab - their school has remarked on it - tan uses very basic language because her dyslexia probs means she simply can't pronounce anything of more than a couple of syllabuls long and has trouble actually breaking down longer words to understand them - she's starting to think the kids will be telling her what words mean...
then i was talking about the pond and the ducks
" we've a black duck wandered into there today. its got a white breast"..
" did you adopt it nanny?"
...what??? think for a min " its a real duck on the garden pond not a farmville one"
"oooohhh..." she says... |
www.jeanniezelos.com
http://www.affordablebritishart.co.uk/
all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
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Posted - 23/05/2010 : 09:17:18
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ha ha , reality and virtual life a bit fuzzy around the edges sometimes with children
No prob re the trees, she's got plenty in that garden to be getting on with.
My garden is going to be full of building rubble soon as they pull down the sunroom to build the extension and a lot of the garden will disappear. I tried re-positioning one of the ceanthus bushes but it looks as though it has died. No blue flowers opened up whilst the other one is fine.
I need to move the camellia too, it's already flowered this year so do you think it will be ok to move it? |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 23/05/2010 : 10:50:45
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i think so long as you can get a good rootball and give it plenty of water it should be fine. if i'm moving things in summer ( not ideal time ) then i try to cut back as much as i can so the plant can concentrate on settling roots and not have to worry about keeping leaves - they loose lots of water through leaves. If its got to be moved then you have to risk it dying  but maybe not. If it were me I'd cut the camellia right down - depending on how big it is - maybe to 2-3ft high - same with the ceanothus - if you think its died what have you to lose? chop it right back to about a foot high - if its dead anyway you've lost nothing but if there is life in it that should stimulate new growth from the centre. use the bits you've cut off for some cuttings - you might end up with more plants I get bit about pencil thickness, trim to about 5-6 inches chop off al but the top leaf and poke it in the ground pref out of direct sunlight. you can put them in a pot with a plastic bag over toptokee moisture levels up -if you've got any the you can use hormone rooting powder, but I've grwon cuttings from all sorts of plants and bushes with and without it - in the polytunnel and straight in the garden. I have a mania for free plants so anything coming here gets as many cutting taken off them as i think it can stand. currently in polytunnel i've lavender and rosemary, sage, pemstemmon, osteospermum, geraniums, verbena, that creeping silver leaf plant i call snow in summer, chrysanths, fuscia, and othes i've forgetten. 1 99p (sometimes a bit more) plant from morrisons usually makes half a dozen and is cheapest way to fill a big garden - that and seeds - can resist the promise of a pack of seeds and loads of sellers n ebay do 99p ones... |
www.jeanniezelos.com
http://www.affordablebritishart.co.uk/
all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4109 Posts |
Posted - 23/05/2010 : 11:40:26
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I'll try that today, as you say, nothing to lose with that plant. I'll cut the camellia down and see what happens before digging it up later and re-positioning. Hope that survives, it's gorgeous.
The giant sunflowers I bought for a growing competition with my neighbour are amazing! 7 days after planting the seeds I have little plants ready to pot!
Going to her garden later to sneak a look at hers while she's away at her grandsons birthday party LoL |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4109 Posts |
Posted - 24/05/2010 : 07:48:24
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Another warm sunny day predicted here although less warm than the weekend I prefer this kind of temperature. Looks like it's going down to around 14 by Thursday though.
I've begun a new oil painting and hope to get close to finishing it today. It's bigger than the last few and the dogs hate the smell of the paint so although I try to work quickly and so much prefer oils, it's always difficult here because of Chester's breathing problems which are worse in summer unfortunately.
I'm quite pleased with the painting so far though |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
http://lornastorey.blogspot.com |
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 24/05/2010 : 09:07:36
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poor Chester its why i am so anti this breeding of dogs with exaggerated features. Milo had terrible problems with ear and chin infections all his life - cockers are bred for those long long ears and droopy top lips and we were constantly at the vets for one or the other. in the end he had permanent ear drops even though its not advisable because he couldn't keep infection free, despite several operations to clean them out. the vet said they often have to operate on them to remove flesh from the lips when it gets badly infected all in the name of "perfect" - i don't think so..
hope the painting goes well lorna - i use the quick drying oils ( mostly) with sansodour and i don't find there's much smell, and the bob ross orange scented stuff for brush cleaning - would that help chester do you think?
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all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4109 Posts |
Posted - 24/05/2010 : 12:44:57
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I could try that, I'm using the alkyd ones which dry quickly but dogs have such an amazingly keen nose, something like ten times better than ours I'm told so poor Cheter has the pollen AND me to contend with.
Know what you mean about the ears too, these two have foldover ears and they get mites all the time. Ongoing battle.
I wouldn't have another pug, Boston terrier, French bulldog or even bull terrier perhaps because the flatter faces just appeal to me so much but two is well and truly enough just now in this weather
Taking them away in the caravan in a couple of weeks, hope the weather cools a little bit for that week. |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
http://lornastorey.blogspot.com |
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Ros C
Da Vinci
United Kingdom
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jeannie
Da Vinci
7825 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2010 : 08:10:23
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Nurse Ros - treats people AND pets but its surprising that things that help us can also help them. I learn things about human treatments through looking up horse ailments from when we had Sylvester - he always had something wrong with him. when he was having "hay fever" type symptoms vet put a scope down into his lungs and let me look down it - fascinating to see inside the body.... Sylv ended up with two inhalers that i had to use on him twice a day. clicker trained him so that he would stand while i leaned against a fence for balance, put inhaler over one nostril and my hand over the other, puff twice, wait for breath (his not mine...)then change inhalers and repeat. he would stand without being tied up just for the polo mint reward. he was a nutty suspicious horse, always spooking at things ( and dumping me on the ground if i was riding) and thinking i was trying to poison him if anything new was in his food ( horses too have a keen sense of smell)and yet through reward training he would do things i never expected. i taught him to stand while i gave him a course of injections - just for polosfortunately that was only a 5 day course cos i'm not keen on needles. I never realised skin was so tough you have to push a bit to get needle in...
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http://www.affordablebritishart.co.uk/
all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4109 Posts |
Posted - 25/05/2010 : 08:17:10
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Thanks Ros, I didn't know you could get anti hisimines for dogs, I'll look into that.
Our vet is right next door, he's a bit....'strange' and appears to have stepped out of the 1950's which is great for normal doggie probs, he doesn't jump straight to surgery like a lot of past vets we have had, but on the other hand he's only just bought his first computer last week!
He did once give Chester a steroid shot when we had an emergency (kind of asthma type attack)once though so perhaps I'll try him first. |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 26/05/2010 : 08:16:43
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i've been a bit too enthusiastic in the garden over the weekend - finished the last of the new veg beds in the orchard, means trundling several tubs of manure (well rotted - it just looks like the compost you buy in bags) on my scooter down the garden, spreading it over grass, adn covering it with weed proof membrane - this years bright idea to cut down on weeding now sarah is pregnant and won't be here much longer. I then planted out some sweetcorn and peas, and did some weeding round top pond which means dragging the manual wheelchair up some steps.. and there's the usual polytunnel seeds to sow and watering to be done and the old veg area which is home to asparagus, potatoes, carrots, beetroot, salad leaves, radishes, spring onions and some herbs.. its just been so gorgeous out i've wanted to crack on with things but mon and tues have paid viciously for it neck and shoulders very painful and wake me up so last two mights have been sleeping in 15-20 mins bursts only and that gives me nightmares - no idea why but it does? last night i dreamt all my teeth were falling out - i was spitting them out into my hand - and it was a late side effect of the chemo i had ( there are late side effects, but its mostly tumours not teeth falling out) then next batch of snooze i was with a load of other wheelchair users ( i hate the idea of being in a care home- will never do that) being pushed to church, when one said "did anyone bring any champagne?" but they only had empty bottles...next snooze my friend diane whose a med receptionist had given some lady my phone number and she kept ringing to say did my mum ( who was there) want any ribbons for her hat??? mum's been dead 20 years, Di doesn't do things like that and ribbons?? where did they come from. it was a relief to actually get up today - yesterday was similar with me holding daz and beths hand in the road where i lived as a kid when a speeding motorbike came and ploughed into another group crossing the road...it was horrible and why are nightmares soo believable even when they are totally surreal?
watching out the window as i'm typing the heron has just landed ( not the Eagle ) and is stalking round the pond. we've no fish but loads of frogs, newts, tadpoles and other pond creatures. He's ( or she) an incredible creature - when he puts his head up in suspicion his neck is really long, and i'm always trying to catch him in flight because the wings must span 6ft..but he circles away and whichever way i go is always the wrong way. one day...not today cos i'm too tired to be bothered.
Lorna, Nicola's plants went off yesterday so should be with her today. lots of hollies but couldn't find many field maples - i was sure there were more wandering round garden before but could not find them - managed two only, a couple were just too big to get up and i broke three () trying to get them up..no worries about postage, it won't have been much ( sarah was posting them for me on her way home) and i feel i've helped the environment by rehoming trees/bushes and giving them a chance to mature. i hate having to keep pulling them up - this year we seem to have lots of oak trees and it seems a shame to kill them but we simply can't have any more big trees. I have the same problem thinning seedlings - have to replant them to give them a chance...i just feel cruel throwing them away when they've managed to germinate. need to get a grip methinks |
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http://www.affordablebritishart.co.uk/
all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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