Seeds and plants
May. 5th, 2009 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blackberry444I went to the garden centre today, in the drizzle, to get my BOGOF patio roses. I got four, although only one is scented and that only slightly, which I'm a bit cross about, but obviously I could only buy what they had on offer. I got a cream, a scarlet, a floppy pink floribunda a bit like an old-fashioned rose and another pink one.
I bought a beautiful heavenly blue clematis to try once again growing something up the wall trellis opposite the back door and the very last pot of three runner bean plants to pot on and keep indoors for another couple of weeks. Apparently they will be selling more later in the month, ready to go straight outside. I thought I'd buy these anyway, because I missed them completely last year.
I also bought another 20 little peat plug-pots to start off more seeds and I bought catnip seed and Sweet Cicely seed. I'm a bit disappointed to see that the Sweet Cicely seed is meant to be planted outdoors in December or January because it needs the cold to germinate. I'm tempted to try sowing some anyway to see what would happen. Would it help to put them in the freezer for a week? Or to plant them and then keep them in the fridge for a fortnight? What would other people do?
Next week's BOGOF offer is for Hostas which I'm not particularly keen on, but they will be quite big ones in 2 litre pots, so maybe they'd be a good buy. But how would I keep the slugs'n'snails off them? Because I've noticed that whenever I see displays of hostas in horticultural gardens, they've nearly always been attacked by something.
The following week's offer is for half-price Japanese acers, which I assume includes the dwarf ones. If they're not way out of my price league, I might try one in a barrel tub, because I love the way they look. After that is the Biggie! Half-price bedding plants. Heigh! ho! for perfumed purple petunias and other annual goodies. I see the small print only allows for 4 packs per voucher. I wonder if I can get them to give me another voucher next week?
All I've been able to do with today's purchases is dump everything on the table in the yard and wait till tomorrow when I hope it may have stopped raining. Naughty Morgan has already started to eat the roses! Who needs slugs and snails when they have a barmy cat?
Charles has had his yearly psychiatric evaluation this afternoon. I was very pleased because he's always asked me to go with him before, but this time he went on his own, although John drove him there and waited outside for him. They think he's so much better that they've decided he no longer needs regular visits from the higher grade Mental Elf (I can't remember what his post is actually called) and can make do with Amy and Christian most of the time although Dave will come occasionally. I'm so pleased. He's also going on a STEPS programme soon, which I hope will build up his confidence.
All in all, I'm feeling very cheerful! And my arthritic knee which has been agonising for days is a bit better today, so all in all, I think it's a Hurrah! day today!
Edited to add
On examining the patio roses again, I find that three of the four are described as scented. How odd that I didn't see that before, especially as I was looking for it!
I bought a beautiful heavenly blue clematis to try once again growing something up the wall trellis opposite the back door and the very last pot of three runner bean plants to pot on and keep indoors for another couple of weeks. Apparently they will be selling more later in the month, ready to go straight outside. I thought I'd buy these anyway, because I missed them completely last year.
I also bought another 20 little peat plug-pots to start off more seeds and I bought catnip seed and Sweet Cicely seed. I'm a bit disappointed to see that the Sweet Cicely seed is meant to be planted outdoors in December or January because it needs the cold to germinate. I'm tempted to try sowing some anyway to see what would happen. Would it help to put them in the freezer for a week? Or to plant them and then keep them in the fridge for a fortnight? What would other people do?
Next week's BOGOF offer is for Hostas which I'm not particularly keen on, but they will be quite big ones in 2 litre pots, so maybe they'd be a good buy. But how would I keep the slugs'n'snails off them? Because I've noticed that whenever I see displays of hostas in horticultural gardens, they've nearly always been attacked by something.
The following week's offer is for half-price Japanese acers, which I assume includes the dwarf ones. If they're not way out of my price league, I might try one in a barrel tub, because I love the way they look. After that is the Biggie! Half-price bedding plants. Heigh! ho! for perfumed purple petunias and other annual goodies. I see the small print only allows for 4 packs per voucher. I wonder if I can get them to give me another voucher next week?
All I've been able to do with today's purchases is dump everything on the table in the yard and wait till tomorrow when I hope it may have stopped raining. Naughty Morgan has already started to eat the roses! Who needs slugs and snails when they have a barmy cat?
Charles has had his yearly psychiatric evaluation this afternoon. I was very pleased because he's always asked me to go with him before, but this time he went on his own, although John drove him there and waited outside for him. They think he's so much better that they've decided he no longer needs regular visits from the higher grade Mental Elf (I can't remember what his post is actually called) and can make do with Amy and Christian most of the time although Dave will come occasionally. I'm so pleased. He's also going on a STEPS programme soon, which I hope will build up his confidence.
All in all, I'm feeling very cheerful! And my arthritic knee which has been agonising for days is a bit better today, so all in all, I think it's a Hurrah! day today!
Edited to add
On examining the patio roses again, I find that three of the four are described as scented. How odd that I didn't see that before, especially as I was looking for it!
