howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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quite a lot out on display in town the other day, seems a bit early to me.
not had my daffodils or tulips through yet, could be a few frosts to come too.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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How pretty is that, beautiful
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Tulips and daffs up and at it in Edinburgh, so I am told.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 699- Registered: 3 Jun 2010
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if daffodills not out by mothers day you are out of luck , wil be still hirbatnating
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
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My daffs and crocuses (or is it croci) are out in Whitfield.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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alright for you alec in your remote rustic retreat, different here.
hardly any sun on my front pocket handkerchief but i was expecting more colour than this.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Poundland have lots of bags of various bulbs for sale and of course they're only £1.00
Gladioli, Iris and Alium and many others.
They'll bright up your pocket handkerchief Howard.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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got all those roger, i get them from "pennies" as they are locally owned and run, very pleasant people too.
my back garden gets a tremendous amount of sun, whilst my neighbours are not as strategically placed.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I pass Pennies most days, didn't know they sold bulbs - do you know a good locally owned opticians ? (Yes, I know, there's Nick Bailey and the other one nearby).
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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What better way to spend ten minutes for a gardener on a Sunday morning than planning ahead...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/mar/11/deluge-drought-gardening-dan-pearsonIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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All gardeners have been asked to plant flowers which will help the bee population, and fruit production:
(from the Telegraph):
Bee keepers are now calling on the public to grow flowers that can provide food for bees during the year such as clover, sunflowers, heather, lavender and cornflowers.
They are also urging people not to mow their lawns as frequently to allow red and white clover, which is a rich source of food for bees, to blossom through the winter.
Regular mowing of laws to keep the grass short usually lops off the ball shaped heads of these plants.
Professor Francis Ratnieks, head of the laboratory of apiculture and social insects at University of Sussex, said: "In the spring, flowers are highly abundant, so bees don't have to travel more than a few hundred metres from their hives to find food.
"Although the weather is better for foraging in the summer, the flowers that the bees feed on are no longer as common. The British landscape has become impoverished.
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