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Post by Amo on Feb 19, 2008 20:30:33 GMT
;D You're both fine at the last check. Tucked up in your conifir covers.  Can't wait for some proper warmth now to see some growth!! |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 20, 2008 7:17:28 GMT
Ooo conifir covers.....elegance pure....
I have just realised that we have Dutchy and Rosefriend and St Buddleia of the Netherlands but I haven't got a name for the ones that OM sent me.
Well as OM believe that they should be treated like dirt....hows about the Norfolk Yobs.........in which case the ones he has from me will have to be the German Elite!!!
Any other suggestions....or maybe a sofa to hide behind!!
RF
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 20, 2008 8:53:27 GMT
;D
No hiding now, you are in for it RF
How many life ones have you got?
Knobby Knobs might be one name ( see Terry Prattchet discworld series )
And the ones OM has hm... one could be Sigmund ( as in Freud )
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 20, 2008 8:54:52 GMT
p.s. Amo in case those conifers are all of a sudden without green and nicely woven into a fence around me you will understand won't you?
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Post by Amo on Feb 20, 2008 8:56:48 GMT
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Post by Amo on Feb 20, 2008 8:58:20 GMT
They are only a few snipped of branches for blankets Dutchy. I do love your woven trunks though |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 20, 2008 9:03:02 GMT
To a minute Budd wearing my name  they will be whopping big things that you can make into a fence.... so what those big pinkish walking around creatures say they are but little off cut branches........ CMOT Dibbler ;D.... He is a survivor really isn't he. Don't want to burden RF with dead rats on a stick near her pots let alone in her garden. |
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Post by Amo on Feb 20, 2008 9:07:04 GMT
;D ;D ;D Nothing wrong with the odd rat. Good target practise, keeps the eye keen. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 20, 2008 9:08:34 GMT
CMOT Dibbler - well I have got 2 .... have another look - cement them in your minds ...it could be the last sight you ever get of the CMOT Dibblers!!  RF |
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Post by Amo on Feb 20, 2008 9:10:16 GMT
But is that good Norfolk soil they are in or some foreign muck?   ;D |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 20, 2008 9:12:44 GMT
If one does disappear that will have been Rincewind.
He does that but stays alive somewhere.
Nice to think there could be an afterlife for little Budds....
Mind you not a dead rat in sight yet ;D Nor a dead Bud???
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Post by Amo on Feb 20, 2008 9:13:55 GMT
Also if one is Black Knight it could be up in Albert's garden. |
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 20, 2008 9:14:38 GMT
It can't be foreign muck in Germany Amo as that is home ground for these Budds...
Now being in Norfolk soil that would be foreign muck...
RF if you want to keep them alive order a bag of Norfolk muck.
The mailman might hate you for it but your Buds might then survive.
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 20, 2008 9:15:36 GMT
Also if one is Black Knight it could be up in Albert's garden.  Black leafs and all you mean? |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 20, 2008 9:50:05 GMT
Well now - for the CMOT Dibblers it is foreign muck of course....mmmh well I doubt the postman will want to be carrying builders rubble about so that I can plant them in that.......nay they will have to do with the best worst muck that I can throw at them...
Rf
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 20, 2008 17:44:42 GMT
;D
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Post by oldmoleskins on Feb 23, 2008 17:30:04 GMT
Bit of an update - I'm afraid my beloved pheasants have joined in the scorn with gusto:  A bit of a poor pic (phone) but left hand semicircle of twigs are the failed red ones, the right hand semicircle are the (until now) thriving blue ones, now nibbled to shreds. However, such is the tenacity of budds I'm sure they'll all recover in time... OM. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 23, 2008 17:40:11 GMT
Oooooooo hell OM.......you can't let your poxy beloved pheasants do that to my Budd's.....I am cut to the quick now......oh dear.....is there no justice in this world......
RF
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Post by Amo on Feb 23, 2008 17:59:45 GMT
 They'll bounce back!! RM & D are doing fine, liking the milder weather. ;D
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Post by Dutchy on Feb 24, 2008 10:19:07 GMT
WHAT. OM how could you le.....
Lulufish where are you?
Oops
Amo I have always liked the milder weather as long as it does not get too hot. Can't stand temps over 25*C ;D
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 1, 2008 4:13:04 GMT
In Gardeners World Newsletter which I have just been e-mailed it says.
- Cut back last year's buddleja stems to ground level
Well I would certainly never do that here but I wouldn't cut them back to the ground in the UK either. Is this a new trend - all new growth on the plant each year?
RF
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Post by Amo on Mar 1, 2008 7:43:00 GMT
I don't think ground level is right either. Tightly back leaving about two to three strong pairs of buds on each branch is better. I tend to do mine selectivley and hard cut a third and re shape the rest but I'm lucky I have the space and I'm also trying to create new shrubs from butchered ones here!!
Dutchy and Rosefriend will not be pruned for a couple of years yet. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2008 16:04:55 GMT
Well, OH has vetoed further extermination measures against my wall monster - crack in brickwork or not. The reason is that Solanum Triffidus has decided to start climbing up the Buddleia, which - so says OH - will look lovely come summer. Hrrmph.
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 4, 2008 8:23:57 GMT
I'm sure that it will look lovely CC .......the weight of something growing up mine would give them the rest I think.......would love to see a pic in the summer though.....will be wildly jealous of course!!
RF
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2008 12:36:00 GMT
RF, it's the weight that's worrying me .... the Solanum (absolutely beautiful, all time favourite plant) has already pulled down a trellis, so heaven knows what it+Buddleia will do do my wall!!! Anyway, we've reached a compromise: cut down - and keep cut down, this is OH's job - all Buddleia branches except the one that the Solanum is growing up (that sounds a bit confused, hope it makes sense!), and see if we can get the wall reinforced/repaired ... cheers ...
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 5, 2008 12:46:05 GMT
I must admit CC that it is the weight that is causing me to wonder if it is such a good idea. However I can see it working and looking good - is it possible to put in a large stake as well - the Solanum will soon cover it up and at least you will know that it should hold up in a storm.
RF
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2008 12:57:24 GMT
Rf, we've been thinking about that, or rather about devising an angled brace to both reinforce the wall and act as a 'Solanum stake'. But neither OH nor I are technically minded, so we're waiting for a carpenter friend to have a look at it ... cheers ...
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Post by oldmoleskins on Mar 9, 2008 21:05:35 GMT
collective Eurovision finger-crossing, and it looks like I've got away with it:  all but one 'blue' distinctly on the mend, and I think there's a speck of life in one of the reds too, but didn't show in the most macro of macro photograpy. OM. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 10, 2008 12:32:15 GMT
I honestly don't believe it.......pleased to see them feeling a little better though!!
RF
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 13, 2008 11:45:17 GMT
excellent O M ;D
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Can't wait for some proper warmth now to see some growth!! 
they will be whopping big things that you can make into a fence.... so what those big pinkish walking around creatures say they are but little off cut branches........
;D
