Garden whinge

[Tig]

How sad, it is so frustrating when you do your best to protect your plants and they still get damaged by the wind, not much any of us can do to moderate the weathers impact, fingers crossed and hope for the best

Good luck trying to salvage some of them

Tig

[Amo]

I think everything is now staked, trussed, cut back or ruined.

And my ears hurt.

I hate wind.

[Plocket]

Aw Amo love - you'll have to wear a hat in the garden. I get terrible ear-ache when it's windy so I know how you feel

[Tig]

Here ya go Amo, borrow mine ;D



x Tig

[Amo]

Thank you muchly. ;D I go a bit more for the felt or leather look rather than the pixie but it wil dooooo!!!

[Chuckles]

Oooh Amo I sympathise with the ears and the wind, I suffer too. Get yourself one of these they are brill they keep the ears covered but you dont get hot on top and they keep your hair out of your face too, if you've got longer hair that is ;D

Fleece Headband

[Weeterrier]

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I always garden with the waistband cut from a pair of tights round my head. ( And my wee one has started to copy me but he wears his like a Ninja) I cannot bear hair falling over my face, it drives me mad.

[Barbara]

the mind boggles ;D ;D ;D

[Weeterrier]

It's terribly attractive, in a bag lady kind of way

[Tig]

I'm trying to imagine that WT

x Tig

[Amo]

Sorry WeeT

[Shrubrose]

;D ;D ;D

[Weeterrier]

That's twice in the one week that I have found myself in the huff on here.
;D
Funnily enough, I was wearing my 'headband' when I met my second husband, so it can't be THAT bad

[Amo]

[Tig]

Perhaps he thought you were 'canny wi the pennies' WT, or that you had an aversion to tights and cut all the pants off to make stockings ;D

[Weeterrier]

I wish Tig
After I met him, I thought I'd buy a sexy wee set of undies. When I told him, he said "Oh, don't bother with all that for me, pet" And this was the toyboy ;D So into the drawer the stuff went, and it's still there. Think he fancied himself as a stud too.
Anyone looking for a basque and fishnets ?
Aye, I could write a book

[andy]

Time for another big whinge.

For the past week, a group of youths have been going up the back of the garden i look after and hitting the beer. As a result, every morning i come to work to be greeted by 20-30 broken beer bottles all over the grass, rocks, paths and plant beds. I can just about tolerate the litter...cans, crisp packets, pieces of newspaper torn up into a thousand pieces and used as ticker-tape etc but briken bottles are below the belt.

This morning, not only did i come in to a load of broken bottles again, but one of the new Rhus trees had been snapped off at the ground, branches from an Elwoodii snapped off, laurels shredded to pieces, Paulownias snapped off and god knows what else.

I've told my manager who's trying to get hold of the local PC but nothing will ever come of it.

The words "soul destroying" is a bit of an understatement at the moment.

[Tig]

How awful, how old do you reckon these 'youths' are? Old enough to drink legally? Maybe you could get the local press interested in finding out where they are getting their booze from, I assume the garden is a public space, paid for by local tax-payers, sure they would be interested.

Could you put some prickly berberis plants in the area they are using, I'd like to see them pull some of them to bits with their bare hands!!!

[andy]

I rekon between 16-18. You can usually tell the age group by the kind of litter they leave behind. Unfortunately, i have no proof.

As for the berberis, well i've spent the last 5 years getting rid of the "old fashioned parks department type plants used for keeping kids out" and tried to get more ornamentals in. They sit on the grass on the bank so nasty plants would do much good.

What i'd like to do is to sit and wait in the shrubbery until they start their smashing antics and then beat the living daylights out of them.

***Gets that out of my system***

;D

[Tig]

Yep, 'cos guess who would be the one that got nicked?? I read somewhere recently that if you liberally spread chicken manure pellets around an area where kids congregate they will b@gger off, they reckon their noses are quite sensitive to it - that might be worth a try ;D

[andy]

Hmmmmm....i've got a tub of them at home. Will they scorch the grass though ?

[Tig]

I dunno , but which is worse - a bit of scorched grass or the damage and broken glass the idiots leave behind?

[Jardack]

oh Andy, that is bad isn't it

I would be fuming too with all the clearing up everyday let alone the damage to the plants.

I wonder if they've been moved on from elsewhere hence suddenly appearing where you work? Hopefully the police will get back to you and/or do a drive past and stop them...

Jardack

[Weeterrier]

Andy, that would drive me absolutely ballistic. Swines.

[Amo]

That's really bad Andy! My berberis has nasty thorns, you don't have to plant it, just put it where they may sit. Euphorbias for the odd rash. Moley's bees on the rampage.

Or we could always send WeeT down in her abandoned underwear! (She probably make a fortune )

Why don't the police do more for these 'lesser' incidents? They always end up in the greater ones.

[nightowl]

Jun 5, 2008 19:31:36 GMT Amo said:

Im afraid This Post just about says all I need to about T&M.

RHS or not, they about the cr*pest supplier out there!

I have decided to come clean and own up to being completely taken for a ride by T & M

Last September I placed an order with them which included 2 Clematis. When I got the order confirmation I was surprised to see Delivery Date was Spring 2008 but shrugged and thought "Oh well, no chance of losing them overwinter then"

Spring 2008 came and no clematis did . I emailed them in May. They said delivery would be in June. I wasn't at all happy and emailed again re poor service and 9 month waiting times. This was ignored, as have all my emails since, all the way through June.

Now we are in JULY and of course I STILL have NOT received my 2 Clems (paid for 10 months ago!) . I have emailed again asking for a refund. So far that has been ignored too

I am reluctant to phone them cos a) It costs me money, and b) you usually take out your anger on some poor hapless person who doesn't deserve it, and then feel guilty afterwards

[Ladygardener]

Poor Andy that's really frustrating, especially when there seems little you can do.
Amo that's the poorest service I've heard. I'd email them and tell them you belong to the most popular online gardening forum and will be letting everyone know how poor their service is. It might just spur them on to do something nice for you.

[nightowl]

Jun 29, 2008 21:58:03 GMT Weeterrier said:

I wish Tig
After I met him, I thought I'd buy a sexy wee set of undies. When I told him, he said "Oh, don't bother with all that for me, pet" And this was the toyboy ;D So into the drawer the stuff went, and it's still there. Think he fancied himself as a stud too.
Anyone looking for a basque and fishnets ?
Aye, I could write a book

I only ever went down the "Stockings-and-suspenders" route once. Never again!

For a start I felt most uncomfortable and not at all sexy . To top it all, when I stood up to go to the loo, everything had sort of slithered down I couldn't straighten up and had to shuffle off bent over!!!! ;D ;D ;D

[Weeterrier]

Bet that rather ruined the moment!

[Biggles]

Jul 4, 2008 7:32:22 GMT Ladygardener said:

Poor Andy that's really frustrating, especially when there seems little you can do.
Amo that's the poorest service I've heard. I'd email them and tell them you belong to the most popular online gardening forum and will be letting everyone know how poor their service is. It might just spur them on to do something nice for you.

N.O.
I had a very similar problem with Spaldings re-Standard Rose Tree--(Long story) but I did as Amo suggested awhile back and also as LVG has suggested now. I received my money back with no apology within 3 days.I didn't even get my postage returned either. I certainly wont order from them again-