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Post by Tig on Mar 10, 2014 20:09:27 GMT
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Post by Missredhead on Mar 10, 2014 20:15:52 GMT
oooh it could have been that...it still got squished though. maybe I should leave anymore I find then...mind you I found out earlier that her next door has got lillies..not sure I want to get close enough to discover the variety that are in my garden...
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Post by Tig on Mar 10, 2014 20:25:10 GMT
They do wander and if there are lilies in the neighbourhood they will seek them out, it amazes me how they home in on their favourite food sources. Best dispatched them just in case  |
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Post by maggy on Mar 10, 2014 21:16:24 GMT
Queen White copied from e.bay  - I don't know, but I have googled and can find nothing about a Queen White and the look of that suggests possibly Iceberg for me...again, - it could be anything... Is there a possibility of changing it or getting your money back?? If not then try and save it with what I suggested...bit expensive wasn't it!! RF Good News  the £8.99 has been paid back into our PayPal account so that is good service as I only complained to them yesterday  thanks for your advise girls, now I have to cosset this one, at least I wont worry about ordering online again. |
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Post by maggy on Mar 10, 2014 21:20:03 GMT
oooh it could have been that...it still got squished though. maybe I should leave anymore I find then...mind you I found out earlier that her next door has got lillies..not sure I want to get close enough to discover the variety that are in my garden... The little blighters move so quickly you dont have time to study them do you  I have a few pots of lilies and one or two crown imperials so I consider myself lucky to have never seen one !!!! I hope Im not tempting providence  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Mar 11, 2014 5:27:51 GMT
Missredhead the first time I ever saw a Lilly Beetle was in Jenny's garden years ago and she did'nt at that time have Lillies nor did her neighbours. Tig that's a good article, It must be nearly time to get the Provado out again. I'm just waiting until the lillies start growing properly again. maggy, that's great news about your refund and good service.
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Post by Rosefriend on Mar 11, 2014 6:56:21 GMT
maggy - I don't know, but I have googled and can find nothing about a Queen White and the look of that suggests possibly Iceberg for me...again, - it could be anything... Is there a possibility of changing it or getting your money back?? If not then try and save it with what I suggested...bit expensive wasn't it!! RF Good News the £8.99 has been paid back into our PayPal account so that is good service as I only complained to them yesterday thanks for your advise girls, now I have to cosset this one, at least I wont worry about ordering online again. Marvellous news maggy, well done... RF |
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Post by Geranium on May 2, 2014 5:42:24 GMT
I am very annoyed. I hope it's not a deliberate mistake on their part, but I ordered three packs of 'Easy Fence' plant supports from a seller on Amazon, and there were only two in the package which came yesterday.  The emails and order confirmation all say '3'. I've sent an email via Amazon and have my fingers crossed. |
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Post by Rosefriend on May 2, 2014 5:50:34 GMT
I am very annoyed. I hope it's not a deliberate mistake on their part, but I ordered three packs of 'Easy Fence' plant supports from a seller on Amazon, and there were only two in the package which came yesterday. The emails and order confirmation all say '3'. I've sent an email via Amazon and have my fingers crossed. I have to say that things like that annoy me to hell because you cannot prove it and I always feel that they might think that I am trying to diddle them !! Good Luck !! RF |
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Post by Geranium on May 3, 2014 5:23:29 GMT
Yes, my thoughts exactly, Rosefriend. The seller is supposed to respond to my message within 3 working days - we'll see what he says. If he lies about it, I'll be furious and his review will be a nasty one!  |
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Post by maggy on May 3, 2014 18:27:20 GMT
Good luck geranium If they dont respond complain to Amazon but I cant see them risking their good name can you  |
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Post by Geranium on May 4, 2014 5:41:29 GMT
Does anyone know how to phone Amazon please? I can't find a phone number, and I suspect I shall need one after the B.H. w/end.  |
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Post by Jasmine on May 4, 2014 6:50:16 GMT
I don't think you can call Amazon Geranium ( a keep the cost down function like Easyjet!!) However, I ordered 3 of something from a seller on Amazon and they only sent 2 - just a packing error they said and were very apologetic and quickly sent the third. No one wants bad feedback on these on-line sites so I reckon if you give them 3 working days they'll be quick to sort it out. |
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Post by Geranium on May 5, 2014 5:37:04 GMT
I've been given a number on another forum, Jasmine, so I'll wait the three working days and then ring them. I'm glad your problem was resolved, and hope my seller sorts it out, too - pronto! I'll let you know. |
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Post by Geranium on May 31, 2014 4:57:39 GMT
Amazon did sort it out, and the cost of one pack has been credited to my card. I still gave the seller a really bad review, though! |
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Post by Ladygardener on Dec 9, 2014 7:45:38 GMT
I have a whinge this morning about Dobbies Garden Club. I'm a member and got a letter through the post yesterday saying that my membership has been renewed. I'm pretty sure I ticked the box saying not to automatically renew the subscription last year when I joined................. In any case it only started March last lear and therefore should'nt even have been due. I've sent them off an email to customer service so we'll see what happens.  cangry |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 13, 2015 6:31:27 GMT
I have a right old gripe this morning. After much thought I've placed one of the oblisk from the garden into a large container with Princess Diana Clematis and some Cupani Sweetpea. They would'nt grow properly in the only other space in the garden where I'd had the oblisk before. Problem is that it's on the path by the wall as you walk up to my house. My neighbour objected to where I'd put it, near the bottom, and told me yesterday in no uncertain terms that her daughter's dog would jump up on it with a big grumpy face. I decided that rather than listen to her moaning I'd move it. So I did, further up the path beside where I sit when I'm outside. The dog is unlikely to jump up there as she has a flower bed on the other side. I'll get the full scent of the sweetpea and they're quite a tame Sweetpea to grow. I know she's absolutely raging and wanted me to move it altogether as she won't want anything higher than the wall.  Well you know what, it's my footpath and I'll be making sure nothing hangs over her side so she'll just have to accept it. I'm really cross 'tho that she can dictate to me what I grow along my own footpath. I have other containers along the wall that have been there for a while but anything that grows in them so far has been just about the size of the wall or lower apart from one Dahlia last year. This year I will have canes in a container further down as well for some clems to grow up. There is no chance any of it would block the sun or anything like that as the sun comes from her side, if anything it'll cast a bit of shade on my garden. Rosefriend Geranium I know you've had a little bother with neighbours in the past so you know what I'm going through. I noticed yesterday that she has dug out the lovely Lavender I gave her last year. I'd had to go round and prune it as she "did'nt know how!" Well it'll be one less job for me to do this year and I won't be giving her any of the plants or flowers I grow this year. Everything I give her she kills, apart perhaps from one Dahlia I gave her last year. I've yet to see if it survives................ I'm so cross with her. theinsidegardener will be up next week and I'm going to get her to say (in a loud voice) how well the oblisk looks on the footpath.    |
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Post by Geranium on Feb 13, 2015 6:43:32 GMT
Oh dear, Ladygardener, yes, I do know all about awkward neighbours! I totally sympathise, but my advice has to be - try to keep the peace if you possibly can before an all-out war develops.  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 13, 2015 6:48:09 GMT
Absolutely Geranium, thanks for the hugs. I will try my very best. She does take offence very easily and is always right don'tyaknow.  |
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Post by Tig on Feb 13, 2015 10:54:37 GMT
I wonder what her problem is LG? As you say, it's your property, your path, and if it isn't blocking her light I can't see that it is any of her business. Could it perhaps block her view from her front window? If she is a bit nosey perhaps that would bother her? It will be lovely when the sweet peas come out, and with luck it will block your from seeing her a bit more |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 13, 2015 11:33:57 GMT
Tig, No it won't block the view from her window in the least. If she sits at a certain angle on her bench it might block a bit of the view she can see over to the right of the street. Not much to complain about there but I know for a fact she also complained to other neighbours about me putting my grow house up even 'tho it's on another wall and makes not the slightest difference to her unless she wants to stand at her wall and shout across my garden to my other neighbour on the right. Even at that, she can move down a bit and it will make no difference at all. She's one of these people who likes things in order, no tall plants etc.... and she objects to me feeding the birds as well but I carry on regardless.
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 13, 2015 11:41:34 GMT
It's all very difficult isn't it Ladygardener, and like Geranium, I tend to feel that it is better not to have a war on your hands and also like Tig, when the sweetpeas flower there is less of her to see and see can nosey less as well...haha!! However, having said all of that, when we got the new football mad neighbours it took me a while, being the thick so and so that I am, to realise that the owner had actually said to her that we were hobby gardeners, but easy going and the odd football wouldn't matter. What we had actually said what that as long as footballs didn't come into the garden then no problem.. It soon came to the nitty gritty when a ball landed in the garden smashing the first daffs - it wasn't me that blew it was OH. He said that this was our hobby and nobody had the right to stop us having this hobby or ruining the joy that we had with it, as we do not disturb anyone with it and we did not want to be disturbed with their hobby. A threat like the dog would have raised a laugh from me and a comment on the insurance prices these days..at the end of the day all that matters to most folk these days is money. We have stopped most of the football situation by saying that anything and everything that gets smashed in any way must be paid for and we will go to court if necessary. I am quite sure that it was the brat that threw the egg on the kitchen window as when I mentioned that we had rung the Police she went bright red and ran inside..."Mum" knew it as well and said that she didn't think it would happen again!! I don't know how long I have on this earth and as we never go anywhere, the only hobby that we have is the garden - that will not be destroyed by anyone and if so they will pay for it.... It's a sad old world that we live in...enjoy your plants and flowers LG and don't take it to heart...smile happily at the silly old fool...nothing annoys somebody more than a happy smiling face, especially they are trying to annoy them or get their own way..!!! Then you can come on here and have a whinge - lol !! |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 13, 2015 11:46:30 GMT
I know your neighbours have been a bother Rosefriend and it was the thought of a ball coming over that upset you and OH. Hopefully as the children get older they'll also grow some manners. I most certainly would'nt want to fall out with my neighbour and that's why I moved the oblisk when she said about it yesterday. After chatting to Jenny about it, we agreed that my neighbour would be happier if I moved it completly and put it at the allotment or something but I'm not going to do that. Hopefully it'll not be mentioned again and will just be the big white elephant in the room. As you say, I can always come on here and complain if I need to. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 13, 2015 11:54:04 GMT
I know your neighbours have been a bother Rosefriend and it was the thought of a ball coming over that upset you and OH. Hopefully as the children get older they'll also grow some manners. I most certainly would'nt want to fall out with my neighbour and that's why I moved the oblisk when she said about it yesterday. After chatting to Jenny about it, we agreed that my neighbour would be happier if I moved it completly and put it at the allotment or something but I'm not going to do that. Hopefully it'll not be mentioned again and will just be the big white elephant in the room. As you say, I can always come on here and complain if I need to. I certainly wouldn't move it out of the garden area Ladygardener, - she will wants something else moved then and again and again - you also have a right to live there.... I really do think it is how something is done as to how much umbridge is taken. I have taken to saying hallo with a big smile and to giving my neighbour the odd plant, allowing anything (partes,more noise etc), ripe tomatoes (heaven knows I have enough) and even the brat thanked me last year and said that they were wonderful...yep - more than one way to skin a cat!! |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 13, 2015 16:53:54 GMT
I really do think it is how something is done as to how much umbridge is taken. I have taken to saying hallo with a big smile and to giving my neighbour the odd plant, allowing anything (partes,more noise etc), ripe tomatoes (heaven knows I have enough) and even the brat thanked me last year and said that they were wonderful...yep - more than one way to skin a cat!! No way, I've had it up to here with her killing the plants I give her. Every year she gets at least 2 and maybe 3, last year she got a Dahlia several Marigolds and a good sized Lavender. The Marigold were dead within a few weeks and she got rid of the Lavender last week even 'tho I'd explained to her after I'd gone round and pruned it in the late summer and explained it would sprout new shoots this springtime! I've yet to see if the Dahlia survives. Yes and for her birthday the other week, I'd given her a lovely blue Hyacinth. She complained to me afterwards that it had gone all floppy and I told her how to support it with some twigs. I'm sure it's in the bin now. No I've had enough with her. I'll speak to her of course but she's getting no more plants. |
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 13, 2015 17:05:35 GMT
I really do think it is how something is done as to how much umbridge is taken. I have taken to saying hallo with a big smile and to giving my neighbour the odd plant, allowing anything (partes,more noise etc), ripe tomatoes (heaven knows I have enough) and even the brat thanked me last year and said that they were wonderful...yep - more than one way to skin a cat!! No way, I've had it up to here with her killing the plants I give her. Every year she gets at least 2 and maybe 3, last year she got a Dahlia several Marigolds and a good sized Lavender. The Marigold were dead within a few weeks and she got rid of the Lavender last week even 'tho I'd explained to her after I'd gone round and pruned it in the late summer and explained it would sprout new shoots this springtime! I've yet to see if the Dahlia survives. Yes and for her birthday the other week, I'd given her a lovely blue Hyacinth. She complained to me afterwards that it had gone all floppy and I told her how to support it with some twigs. I'm sure it's in the bin now. No I've had enough with her. I'll speak to her of course but she's getting no more plants. She sounds like our other neighbour - you know the one with the GH?....I did her half a dozen peppers etc and all she did was throw them away - she then asked for some tomato plants. I said - no way - her OH has now sorted the GH out - well he thinks so - I still expect it fly away in the next big storm...nowt that they don't know better... We are going to get our seed potatoes next Wednesday - I said to OH not to say a word about it... |
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Post by Geranium on Feb 14, 2015 6:49:43 GMT
Oooh - NEIGHBOURS!!!!!  I could well do without them....so could you, Rosefriend,Ladygardener, couldn't you?
It really hurts me when 'them next door' hack beautiful trees and shrubs down...I think they must have a scorched earth policy. They both do it. I hate, hate, hate seeing the ugly stumps, and she has perched an empty flower pot on top of one!!!!!!! I feel like creeping in at night and pushing it off into the stream. 
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 14, 2015 6:52:45 GMT
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Post by Rosefriend on Feb 14, 2015 6:58:35 GMT
Oooh - NEIGHBOURS!!!!! " style="max-width:100%;"]I could well do without them....so could you, Rosefriend,Ladygardener, couldn't you?
It really hurts me when 'them next door' hack beautiful trees and shrubs down...I think they must have a scorched earth policy. They both do it. I hate, hate, hate seeing the ugly stumps, and she has perched an empty flower pot on top of one!!!!!!! I feel like creeping in at night and pushing it off into the stream.
I could happily live without them, especially the one that comes to me for garden advice on this, that and the other and then goes elsewhere with my info telling everyone that it is her wisdom!! I had to laugh at the end of last year though when we were there and a friend of hers popped around and asked her something about the roses, as she was sooo knowledgeable about them - she had problems answering....went a little red in the face as Hans said - yes, she knows a lot about roses - she learnt it from my OH!! Revenge can be sweet at times - hahaha!! |
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Post by Jilly on Feb 14, 2015 11:47:34 GMT
Ah the pleasure of neighbours Ladygardener, Rosefriend, Geranium, when we first moved here we had retired people both sides & they were all lovely & really helped me get the garden sorted out. Unfortunately they moved on & I then got a building site one side & neighbours from hell the other . I think that I'm getting my reward now for putting up with that for so many years, as the building work has now finished & there's no longer a garden at all that side, just a huge extension, which on the bright side means I never see anyone & the extension (although it's a bit of an eye sore) shelters my back garden very nicely from the wind ) The other side's vile behaviour eventually caught up with them, the wife ran off with another bloke, the children were taken into care & the husband (the best of a bad bunch) left the whole thing & the house got repossessed. I've now got my lovely Jo, who's mad as a box of frogs (which suits me just fine) & we have some real fun together. They wouldn't be ideal neighbours for everyone as she's a single mum & 2 of the 3 teenagers have mental health issues, one's absolutely lovely (I get a hug everytime I see him  ) but the other one, although always polite when I see him, has got addiction problems & can be very violent to the rest of the family, so when he's there (he's luckily for everyone living with his dad atm) things can get quite interesting, & we get used to police cars turning up in the driveway in the middle of the night. That would normally be something I'd be having a whinge about, but as the rest of the family are so lovely, I just feel so sorry for them & usually end up going out to check everyone is alright. So hang on in there ladies, things can only get better, I wouldn't take any instructions from your neighbour about what to grow in your own garden Ladygardener, the problem with people like her (& I've known a few in my time) is that the more you try to placate them, the more demanding they get. Just smile & nod, then do exactly what you like |
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the £8.99 has been paid back into our PayPal account so that is good service as I only complained to them yesterday 
I have a few pots of lilies and one or two crown imperials so I consider myself lucky to have never seen one !!!! I hope Im not tempting providence 
The emails and order confirmation all say '3'. I've sent an email via Amazon and have my fingers crossed. 
