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Post by oldmoleskins on Apr 14, 2007 7:36:58 GMT
Two serendipitous things yesterday....
Exhuming some stored box plants to make a little enclosure, I found a mouse (probably) had stored about 50 acorns in the tub, some of which had started to sprout - so I've picked the best 2 dozen and planted them in some old modules found under the staging. I'm sure we can find somewhere for those...
While preparing a bed for some garlic, discovered two fleshy 'weeds' just poking through that the Mantis had failed to chop out - two very plump and viable-looking runners, fallen from last years over-wintered frame. Don't have the heart to dump them, so will put them among the sweet peas, to keep the 'trials' bean frame sacred...
OM.
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Post by Chuckles on Apr 14, 2007 8:08:07 GMT
Don't you just love these unexpected finds  especially those Acorns. I find it difficult to dump growing things, I've had to stop myself potting up young Holly trees though ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2007 12:19:36 GMT
Isn't it amazing what pops up? In our first year, after removing the ashpalt which covered the whole garden, a tomato plant popped up (possibly due to knackered sewage pipes); it even bore fruit although it was too late in the year for them to ripen. And a canna plant appeared - when I first saw it emerge I thought, well it looks like a canna but obviously it can't be (Dublin, inner city, previously covered in asphalt) - but that's what it turned out to be. It has now been joined by several shop-bought siblings ;D. And last year a little un-named evergreen bush with white flowers in autumn came to join the parade . Mind you, have also had loads of unwanted Buddleia, couchgrass, dandelions etc.  ... cheers ... |
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Post by jean on Apr 16, 2007 8:07:08 GMT
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Post by oldmoleskins on Apr 16, 2007 8:20:35 GMT
Bonsai? - d'you know I always feel a bit sorry for bonsai (though not as sorry as I'd be if I bought one and 'lost' it)... marvelous craft, but it seems a bit unfair somehow...
Reminds me of that lovely line in AbFab when Jennifer, exasperated, says to her mum "You don't seem to realise- inside every fat woman is a thin woman trying to get out"
To which Mum says sweetly "Just the one, dear?"
OM
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especially those Acorns.
... cheers ...