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Post by Auricula on Mar 21, 2014 17:48:14 GMT
Thanks for the mags Jilly and Jasmine, they were here when I got home. Jilly, I'll send April's EG on Monday, all being well  |
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 7, 2014 1:53:36 GMT
Jilly did you get Aprils GA last week from me, I posted it before I went to Jenny.?
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 7, 2014 7:11:21 GMT
GAs will be on its way to you today Auricula and GI will be on its way to you Jilly! |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 7, 2014 7:28:40 GMT
Yes thanks Ladygardener, sorry I didn't let you know, I knew that you were away & wasn't sure if you would be about |
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 7, 2014 10:50:11 GMT
No problem Jilly, I'm just glad you got it ok. You never know with the post do you. |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 10, 2014 19:04:49 GMT
Have you got your magazines Jilly and Auricula? I sent them a few days ago  |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 10, 2014 20:28:20 GMT
Sorry Jasmine, I'm getting very lax in letting people know  . Yes I did aren't some of those Auriculas gorgeous. |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 11, 2014 7:03:24 GMT
I wasn't really worried only that I thought I'd heard that postage was going/had gone up and I would be so embarrassed if I sent someone something and they had to pay to get it off the postie. Talking about posting things - I will do your dahlia and delphiniums on Monday Jilly.... and Ladygardener - I have dug up a clump of Viola The Czar but will just make sure I haven't upset it before I post it off to you. Then that will just leave some Bath's Flame bulbs Jilly but I'll let them die back properly so hopefully they won't sulk next year! |
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Post by Auricula on Apr 11, 2014 8:28:55 GMT
Yes thanks Jasmine, although I haven't opened it yet .... been tooooooo busy   |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 11, 2014 9:43:37 GMT
As far as I know Jasmine the change in postage is actually a good thing, I only found out when I sent your Winter Aconties and the postage came out a lot cheaper than usual. Apparently they've changed the size of a small packet to about the size of a shoe box (instead of the ridiculously small size it was before) so a lot more things fall into that category. |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 11, 2014 10:49:04 GMT
I like the sound of that!
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 11, 2014 12:02:24 GMT
That sounds good to me as well. I sent a package to Ruth the other day and it weighed 1.67kg and I only had to pay £3.80 for it. I did send it 2nd class as it was'nt something she was waiting on although she got it in 2 days or so anyhow. Jasmine, I've paid excess postage before now and it's not just the couple of pence it would have originally cost the person (Ruth) sending the card. They charge you so much more than that for some reason. To deterr people I think. Anyhow I'm sure most people would'nt mind if it happened, they'd know it was'nt intentional. |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 15, 2014 10:58:37 GMT
Jasmine, just put GA and Gardening Which in the post
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 15, 2014 11:44:51 GMT
Thanks Jilly - will watch out for the postie! |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 19, 2014 7:01:45 GMT
Forgot to say thank you for the magazines Jilly! Which is really good this month - there's lots of interesting articles! |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 23, 2014 10:21:49 GMT
Thanks for GA & the little extras  Ladygardener, they arrived today. I've just put April's GI in the post Auricula |
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Post by Jilly on Apr 28, 2014 18:02:48 GMT
Thanks for English Garden Auricula, it was waiting for me when I came home |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 28, 2014 18:18:50 GMT
Auricula - I've posted GA to you today and I posted Gardening Which to you Ladygardener. I enjoyed this month's Gardening Which and had such a panic after reading Bob Brown's article on muscari that I rushed out in my nightie to dig up the muscari I'd planted a few weeks earlier! I think I'll stick with Valerie Finnis - it doesn't seed all over the place!
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 28, 2014 19:47:19 GMT
I'll let you know when I get it Jasmine, thanks. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 29, 2014 12:59:12 GMT
Auricula - I've posted GA to you today and I posted Gardening Which to you Ladygardener. I enjoyed this month's Gardening Which and had such a panic after reading Bob Brown's article on muscari that I rushed out in my nightie to dig up the muscari I'd planted a few weeks earlier! I think I'll stick with Valerie Finnis - it doesn't seed all over the place! Many thanks Jasmine, I know what I'll be reading this evening.(big hug smilie) |
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Post by Jasmine on Apr 29, 2014 17:25:00 GMT
I'm glad I took the magazines to the PO yesterday Ladygardener as the postage on them has gone up a little bit! Enjoy - that was a good Which! |
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Post by Auricula on Apr 30, 2014 15:55:28 GMT
Thanks Jilly and Jasmine for the magazines which arrived safely |
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Post by Jasmine on May 4, 2014 10:02:44 GMT
It's funny you talking about what to do with tulips Jilly and Ladygardener as the leader article in the Gardening sectioning of The Telegraph this w/e is about Fergus Garrett and how he plants tulips in pots at Great Dixter and then tests them out for how neat the leaves are for future planting in amongst perennials and how they come back each year and so on. He's obviously got loads of room for putting pots for experiments!!! Anyway, this is the link about his top 10 perennial tulips although it only lists the 10 tulips and isn't the rest of the article and it looks like it's got more to do with Val Bourne but she wrote wrote the article although it's all Fergus Garrett's ideas! www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/10803633/10-best-perennial-tulips.htmlThe main picture was of lots of different pots all containing one sort of tulip but massed together with pots of wallflowers etc... dotted in between. I liked that idea as I need to empty some tulip pots that have wallflowers and violas happily growing in them. I'm going to do a Fergus Garrett next year I think! |
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Post by Jasmine on May 4, 2014 10:05:59 GMT
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Post by Jilly on May 4, 2014 10:10:23 GMT
I saw that article too Jasmine, I'm definitely going to pot the tulips separately next year, I only emptied 2 pots yesterday & it took me most of the afternoon what with getting everything out without breaking off the tulip foliage, potting on the tulips & then potting up or finding homes for all the other plants that were in with them. Only another 5 to go  & that's just the ones that are finished, still got another 5 or 6 still in flower. |
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Post by Jasmine on May 4, 2014 11:01:25 GMT
We need Great Dixter space so we can move all our tatty pots into a corner out of the way Jilly! |
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Post by Auricula on May 4, 2014 12:00:33 GMT
I put mine round the back of the greenhouse in a large coldframe so I can monitor how wet the soil gets. This year I'll have a dozen big pots of tulips in their dedicated terracotta pots to squeeze in
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Post by Ladygardener on May 4, 2014 14:56:34 GMT
Thanks for those links Jasmine, definately worth reading. I did'nt know that about the little bulbs. |
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Post by Jilly on May 8, 2014 20:26:39 GMT
Thanks for GI Jasmine, which arrived today, I'll have to have a closer look at that book, it looks just my sort of thing . I've finished Gardening Which & GA but am just trying to sort out a way of packing them up along with the Rudbeckia babies. |
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Post by Jasmine on May 9, 2014 17:49:59 GMT
I'm looking forward to receiving it Jilly. I love GI's pot ideas! |
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& that's just the ones that are finished, still got another 5 or 6 still in flower.