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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 15:17:06 GMT
Another GH? Just because your OH buys rusting heaps 13 at a time doesn't mean you have to do the same with GH's!! Here! While they're pulling the front of your house about why don't you attach all your GH's in a line down your front garden? A walk through indoor gardening experience from the deserts of Mexico (Mick's succulents - ooer Mrs), to the herbaceous border seedling stage to a wonderland of vegetables.....you could charge! (Just remember to label everything). ;D If someone offers me a free greenhouse what am I supposed to say .........no? Cant be doing that! I told OH I was having it no choice was offered  I have dealt with the space issue thusly. Im nicking a bit of my garden back ;D I shall put the two GH`s side by side and the roof off the third will be a cold frame ! Clever innit? |
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 15:19:38 GMT
Good heavens Sweetie, are you going into commercial production???
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 23, 2007 15:21:23 GMT
Have you noted how I am subtly converting SL to cactus and succulentism?
Bit like the Jehovas Witnesses...
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 15:22:47 GMT
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 15:26:11 GMT
I might be No one will be for toms and seedlings other is for cacti and succulents both will be used to raise stuff for the two allotments..... my gh was stuffed to the gills last year...couldnt get inside  |
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 23, 2007 15:29:45 GMT
See. I have a home for all my surplus seedlings and cuttings now.
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 15:30:16 GMT
'tis a tad on the full side I agree!
Go forrit gal, you can't have too many greenhouses!
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 15:34:35 GMT
ATM I have somewhat less than one and a giant headache sized lego project in my future, its not going to be plain sailing I can tell! At least I still have the instructions for the one I bought. Someone has to remind me to get glazing clips ....a few got lost when the box containing them leapt out of the van and upturned on the road  |
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 15:37:54 GMT
SWEETLEAF!!
Don't forget to get some glazing clips............
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 15:40:40 GMT
shoulda guessed it PG! ;D ;D I meant to say next time Im going to the GC  |
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 15:41:32 GMT
SWEETLEAF!!
Don't forget to get some glazing clips next time you go to the GC!
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 15:47:04 GMT
Thanks for the reminder Piggin I almost forgot I needed....erm...thingie Oh b***er  |
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 15:56:15 GMT
Presumably, you'll be constructing the one you have the instructions for first? Then at least you'll have some idea of how the other goes together. I'll bet you run out of space though! I think the bigger the space you have the more you fill it. I had my loft boarded a couple of years ago so we had somewhere to store things properly. It's so full now I can't find anything!
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 16:00:24 GMT
Interesting....... I was just talking to OH about that, telling him he could keep some of the lighter, cleaner stuff up there shall I think again then? I was thinking of having another bedroom put up there but the man said the roof isnt adequate for headroom  |
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 16:02:42 GMT
Ours isn't either. There is quite a lot of space for storage though, or at least there would be if it wasn't full of rubbish valuable possessions....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2007 16:02:43 GMT
My daughter didn't go to Birmingham Uni she went to the University of Central England in Birmingham  |
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 16:06:48 GMT
I studied there too but it is nowhere near the Botanical Gardens. UCE is in Perry Barr, on the North side of the city, Edgbaston is on the South.
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 16:08:18 GMT
They had a stalker there a year or so back Rita, and a man stabbed his wife in the grounds,
None of the female students felt safe, thankfully the men were caught and the campus have their own police now.
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 16:11:35 GMT
One of my fellow students was mugged in Perry Park too. By a bunch of women. It was during our finals. She was on her way home to do some revision, and was so badly beaten up, her father had to come and take her home. Thankfully, she recovered and the Polytechnic, as it was then, awarded her with the degree she would have got anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2007 16:13:28 GMT
I studied there too but it is nowhere near the Botanical Gardens. UCE is in Perry Barr, on the North side of the city, Edgbaston is on the South. She went to UCE PG (studying nursing) but her halls were in Edgbaston. The only time she stepped into Perry Barr was to register. www.uce.ac.uk/web2/aboutus/site_west.html |
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 16:15:41 GMT
Aha, all becomes clear now! The Conservatoire is on another site too.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2007 16:17:30 GMT
They had a stalker there a year or so back Rita, and a man stabbed his wife in the grounds, None of the female students felt safe, thankfully the men were caught and the campus have their own police now. We bought her a car ASAP because of such problems Sweetleaf, especially for the times when she was on shift and various hospitals around Birmingham |
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Post by sleepysunday on Jan 23, 2007 16:26:16 GMT
Blimey! That'd be a pain. Though I guess there will be public facilities more locally should they get caught short - a pub or a McDonalds say.
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 16:31:00 GMT
Perry Barr is 10 mins from me by car, I got stranded at the bus station there once, at midnight......... very scarey!
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Post by piggingardener on Jan 23, 2007 16:41:17 GMT
It's not a very pleasant area it has to be said. The area has become very run down over the last few years. It's not that far from other dodgy areas too. I left UCE in 1990 (I was a mature student) but went back in 1997 to do some research there. The difference was quite marked. I certainly didn't wander far from the campus whilst there!
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Post by sweetleaf on Jan 23, 2007 20:57:24 GMT
I hate Perry Barr but there is a very good nursery just beyond it called Hirons... officially it is in Handsworth. I love the place but wont go there without OH in tow . We park on the premises and dont tarry.  On the other hand, they supply our allotment shop so its possible to order, without ever going to the shop, ...its such a shame about the location. |
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Post by Alicat on Jan 26, 2007 21:55:57 GMT
Hello sleepy, nice to see you back. I've been trying to keep them happy but my humours not up to your standard. Right - cacti and succulents in the greenhouses:- first pic shows Agave americana v. variegata in the background and another in the foreground. Next has Aloe ferox in foreground, Cereus and Espostoa behind (tall ones), money plant on right foreground. Next has Aloe Ferox again with Yucca in front Next is Spanish moss - Tillandsia something or the other. Further down, the pink flowers a bit like bluebells are Lachenalia I think. Hibiscus at the bottom. Hi Mick Thanks for the ID's. And the one you said looked like bluebells.? - It reminded me of miniature red hot pokers. ( only pink ) ;D Cheers Alicat. |
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I have dealt with the space issue thusly. Im nicking a bit of my garden back ;D 
