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Post by Tig on Jul 3, 2013 10:35:25 GMT
I've just had a response to my 2 emails I fired off to T & M this morning after not having had a reply to another 'missing order' query, nor receiving the promised replacement magnolias .... Evidently I was sent a letter on 20th June advising me that the clems I ordered on 26/12/2012 which should have arrived by the end of May 2013 are now going to be despatched in November! The magnolias were supposedly despatched on 21/6/2013 - and the courier must have lost them .... but they'll get one to me by February 2014 - er excuse me I was promised two!!!  I've emailed back and said I want a refund for the clems, and I won't hold my breath on ever seeing a replacement magnolia. I hope I don't get vouchers, because the way I feel today I'm inclined never to order anything from them again, and I still have goods outstanding from previous orders due to be delivered later this year. |
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Post by Jilly on Jul 3, 2013 15:38:44 GMT
Of course you'll get vouchers Tig, that's T&M's answer to everything  and how convenient that the letter they sent you got lost (when they always e-mail) and the courier that just happened to be bringing you replacement Magnolia just happened to lose it  |
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Post by Tig on Jul 3, 2013 16:01:10 GMT
I've had another email and they say they've repaid the cost of the clems to my bank account as per my payment! Will see when I next get a statement later this month.
Those were my thoughts with regard to the 'letter' Jilly. It even says on their 'sorry for the delay we are experiencing high volumes of enquiries' standard email reply, that they will email customers if plants won't be ready for despatch by the quoted date!
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Post by Ladygardener on Jul 4, 2013 6:54:01 GMT
Tig I've had similar problems with T&M and only order from them as a last resort, mostly seeds now. They've told me that the postie has lost plants and letters as well. Standard response I think. The last time I emailed them I did'nt even get a reply, we're finished now. 
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Post by Auricula on Jul 4, 2013 8:04:29 GMT
What a shame for you both  I've never had any trouble from T and M but know they can be very unreliable  I mostly buy from Ebay now, small nurseries with 100% positive feedback. I shan't be buying any more plants anyway once my garden is finished being reorganised I'll miss it, but I do love propagation and I'll have to try hard to find spaces for all the things I have already. |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 8, 2013 5:33:35 GMT
I got back from church yesterday to be met by 'her' next door. She was on about our hose again...so I turned it off. We're going to have to buy a silent pump, if one exists. My real whinge is about people who 'just bring my friends' round to see my garden, but don't bother to offer a donation. Yes, I had yet more visitors....why am I so polite?  (or stupid!  ) |
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Post by Auricula on Jul 17, 2013 16:35:10 GMT
My brown ( very expensive) council greenwaste bin is full...as are 7 trugs....and........the recycling men don't come until Friday week Hope it doesn't rain in the meantime ( they won't take wet stuff ) I wish they'd let me empty the trugs into the cart but they won't, which means the bin will be full as soon as they drive away I'd go to the tip but OH doesn't want green waste in the new car It's too "green" to burn and our neighbour might notice if I throw it over the fence  And..............................I still have 2 more beds to weed and cut back  |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 17, 2013 18:14:05 GMT
It's a problem, Auricula. I have piles of poppies which I hope will dry out enough to burn. We haven't got a wheelie bin...and the compost bin is full! My whinge is about OH - he clambered up to the back of the raised border, to lay a hose along the fence. He didn't see/notice >:(the Clematis scrambling on the fence, so they've gone..trampled underfoot.  |
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Post by Auricula on Jul 17, 2013 20:16:06 GMT
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Post by Geranium on Jul 19, 2013 5:54:20 GMT
Thanks - I'd been nurturing the three Clems, Auricula. |
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Post by Auricula on Jul 19, 2013 8:31:59 GMT
Our neighbour is going on a charity car journey to the edge of the Arctic Circle ( I wish he'd stay there ) Throughout all this lovely weather he has been "working on " the old car he's going in. I don't know why he's bothering, he must have spent a fortune on it and he's only hoping to raise £2k It has been like living next to a factory with all the banging, hammering, vans coming and going etc He goes on Sunday so I hope the good weather continues after he's gone. |
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Post by Jilly on Jul 19, 2013 9:14:34 GMT
Ah the pleasure of neighbours , most of mine are fine, apart from Mrs Moan a lot in the bungalow behind . I've probably bored you all with the story before, but before she bought her place it was an absolute wreck, let to loads of disreputable tenants. The only boundary when we moved here was a line of enormous Leylandii. When we could finally afford to have them taken down (which cost an arm & a leg) we found about 10 years worth of building rubble & general rubbish piled against the boundary. All we could do was sacrifice about 2' of our garden & build a fence inside our own boundary. The people behind then through up a load of old fence panels their side of the rubbish, so there's sort of a no man's land in the middle. Ever since she moved in, she's been trying to get us to pay for the removal of the rubbish & the old fence panels that are on her side of our fence, despite being told repeatedly that it's nothing to do with us, everything came from her property, as she must have know when she bought the place. Came home last night to find her throwing weeds & bits of bramble from her side of the fence into our garden as she insisted it was coming from under our fence, which it isn't it's coming from the rubbish pile on her side (I get problems with it too). I'm usually quite polite (ish) with her, but I had, had a very stressful day (think I spent the whole day speaking to idiots) so she got told in no uncertain terms that anything being thrown over my fence would come straight back again, with considerable force |
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Post by Jasmine on Jul 19, 2013 9:32:14 GMT
What a cheek Jilly and good for you! I am so glad we only have the one lot of neighbours. |
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Post by Jilly on Jul 19, 2013 9:35:45 GMT
Thanks Jasmine, mind you you'd never volunteer to go out with me again if you'd heard what I actually said to her, OH found it very amusing  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jul 19, 2013 9:51:36 GMT
Think we ought to start a NA society - Neighbours Anonymous !!
If the bloody hammering, drilling, flexing etc etc doesn't stop next door soon OH and I will strangle someone... It's nearly 5 flaming months now.. The new neighbour is moving in on the 1st August. They came the other day - 2 youngsters in football gear as well....methinks we will end up with a collection of footballs!! One thing I do know is that for every broken flower they will pay!!
On the other side there is going to be a massacre I reckon. In his small garden he has planted a massive weeping birch that is now just about the width of the garden and 2 massive cherry trees and some conifers that are reaching for the moon I reckon. Here in Germany there is a law forbidding (what isn't verboten then) any bushes/trees that are in a line and basically making a hedge to be more than 1m80 high. Well his are at least 4 metres and up to now he has refused to lower them. Then the neighbour on the other side of him that has planted a conker tree right next to his terrace - 3 feet from the house, (I jest not) and has now lopped off branches off the cherry that were on the boundary fence and lopped bit off the conifers.
OK - no problem really - he is allowed to do that BUT he has thrown everything over the fence and left it there...normally you chat to the neighbour and he says OK, fine and helps cut it down etc but he waitied until he went off to Morocco to work again and then did it..
Oooo there is going to be hell going on....I hope I am a fly on the wall when it starts!!!!! They both need to be pulled down a peg or two!!
RF
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Post by Ladygardener on Jul 19, 2013 11:02:49 GMT
Oh dear, problem neighbours indeed. Sounds like there's going to be war with yours Rosefriend and Jilly yours too. |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 20, 2013 5:24:03 GMT
I've GOT to try to keep on good-ish terms with our neighbours, as we need them to build flood defences. They haven't done anything about it yet - we're still waiting for Mark to be free, so maybe once he starts work, they'll do something as well. I am hopping mad with 'her', though. Their garden is a complete shambles, but she had the nerve to say how distressed she was at seeing the garden dying through lack of water. (That remark was because I told her I had to have the hose on...) In their back courtyard are two potted bay trees, and they're going browner every day. Why the thump they can't water them I have no idea! In their front garden, there are a lot more weeds than flowers. I couldn't sit there and not deal with them, I just couldn't. They do, though. Maybe they actually like Bindweed flowers?? They'll be home this w/end, because one of the daughters arrived plus baby yesterday, so I won't be able to use the hose for two whole days. Roll on the new watering system! OH is still working on it. I wish he'd get a move on...or do something as a temporary measure. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jul 20, 2013 5:36:39 GMT
I've GOT to try to keep on good-ish terms with our neighbours, as we need them to build flood defences. They haven't done anything about it yet - we're still waiting for Mark to be free, so maybe once he starts work, they'll do something as well. I am hopping mad with 'her', though. Their garden is a complete shambles, but she had the nerve to say how distressed she was at seeing the garden dying through lack of water. (That remark was because I told her I had to have the hose on...) In their back courtyard are two potted bay trees, and they're going browner every day. Why the thump they can't water them I have no idea! In their front garden, there are a lot more weeds than flowers. I couldn't sit there and not deal with them, I just couldn't. They do, though. Maybe they actually like Bindweed flowers?? They'll be home this w/end, because one of the daughters arrived plus baby yesterday, so I won't be able to use the hose for two whole days. Roll on the new watering system! OH is still working on it. I wish he'd get a move on...or do something as a temporary measure. Explain to me again Geranium why you can't use your hose?? RF |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 20, 2013 5:44:27 GMT
Rosefriend, At the moment, it works from a small pump which got drowned in the floods, so the bearings make a very small noise. Nobody else who's been in the garden can even hear it, and we don't notice it, but she says it makes an 'incessant noise' and complains. I try to keep her happy by turning it off as soon as she gets home from work, or is at home, as she says she can hear it from indoors, too! She's going to be at home all the time as from next Tuesday, so it's a real race to get the new (silent) system up and running.
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Post by Rosefriend on Jul 20, 2013 5:55:10 GMT
Rosefriend, At the moment, it works from a small pump which got drowned in the floods, so the bearings make a very small noise. Nobody else who's been in the garden can even hear it, and we don't notice it, but she says it makes an 'incessant noise' and complains. I try to keep her happy by turning it off as soon as she gets home from work, or is at home, as she says she can hear it from indoors, too! She's going to be at home all the time as from next Tuesday, so it's a real race to get the new (silent) system up and running. Mmmh - well if it wasn't for the flood defences I reckon you could happily tell her to take a running jump...cheeky mare!! Having said that I do know from first hand experience that trouble with the neighbours isn't nice. Fingers crossed that all works out well. RF |
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Post by Jasmine on Jul 20, 2013 6:06:10 GMT
What a pain Geranium. It's a pity you can't just do a time and then she'd know you'd be watering but it would finish. Our next door neighbour loves his power tools but we couldn't stop him using them. |
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Post by Auricula on Jul 20, 2013 8:37:23 GMT
Our neighbour is a power tool fanatic and drives us mad. I suppose if it's you who are making the noise you don't notice it Still, he's away from tomorrow horray!! |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 21, 2013 5:47:23 GMT
She was a happy bunny yesterday, because OH spent all morning setting up hoses from the new silent pump, and she noticed the water was on but no noise! She spent all her time under a parasol playing with her granddaughter. I can understand why she prefers that to gardening in a way, but I can't bear to see the two bay trees in pots outside our kitchen windows which are brown and have been left to die. Why don't they walk 5 steps to the tap and water them?  |
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Post by Auricula on Jul 21, 2013 8:53:26 GMT
I'm dreadful at not watering pots Geranium. I mean to do it but somehow don't get round to it  I emptied out 3 pots yesterday because the plants in them had shrivelled away |
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Post by Dutchy on Jul 21, 2013 10:13:15 GMT
Oh dear Auticula.
Geranium, sometimes a small noise gets stuck in some ones mind and becomes larger than an elephant.
At least you now have a new silent pump that is going to do good for years and maybe next doors gets the idea and will get help for the flood defences to be build.
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Post by Geranium on Jul 22, 2013 5:35:02 GMT
Maybe pigs will fly, too, Dutchy. They are all talk and no action,  but at least we're trying to be helpful. I'm hoping that once Mark eventually starts on our defences, they'll realise that they must do something as well. Auricula, but you look after the rest of your garden, so you have flowers there, don't you. All I can see next door is bindweed flowers and the sorry remains of one red rose. |
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Post by Dutchy on Jul 22, 2013 7:16:36 GMT
Geranium. I have been lucky in that my all talk no action neighbour at the allotment was finally thrown out. The mess she left...... Having some one like that as a true neighbour.... ouch. |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 23, 2013 5:51:58 GMT
When my garden is open, people look across to theirs and I have been asked if I should 'help' or 'advise' them! Oooh, I'd love to get stuck in - or add their plot to ours and have lovely extra planting space. |
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Post by Dutchy on Jul 23, 2013 8:02:59 GMT
Ah that old master called Greed again... Or was it Tickling Green Fingers... |
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Post by Geranium on Jul 24, 2013 6:11:38 GMT
Definitely tickling fingers, Dutchy. Also as I can't bear to look at the weeds and mess. |
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and how convenient that the letter they sent you got lost (when they always e-mail) and the courier that just happened to be bringing you replacement Magnolia just happened to lose it 
(or stupid! 
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And..............................I still have 2 more beds to weed and cut back 
but at least we're trying to be helpful. I'm hoping that once Mark eventually starts on our defences, they'll realise that they must do something as well.