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Title: Gardening
Post by: loulou on February 19, 2006, 02:44:38 pm
Who has a garden and do you do it yourself or have a gardener? does anyone grow flowers or vegetables?
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Post by: smurfboy on February 19, 2006, 02:46:13 pm

I only have a balcony, so a gardener for a pot plant and a hanging basket would be a bit extravagant! My parents have a gardener - lazy sods

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Post by: loulou on February 19, 2006, 02:47:36 pm
I admire a well kept garden and i love to see lots of bright flowers. I don't have a garden where i am at the minute.
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Post by: babygirl on February 19, 2006, 04:39:32 pm
I have a garden don't do it often as it's rented accomodation and we are not staying but the few times it has been done my cousin has done it for me as his a green keeper. 
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Post by: goldencup on February 19, 2006, 04:59:22 pm
I have a garden but I am very lazy with it.  Nothing grows very well because the land used to be sand dunes and you only have to dig a little way to find the beach!
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Post by: loulou on February 19, 2006, 05:00:51 pm
I don't think I'd be a good gardener but I would give it a go and plant some flowers if I had a garden
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Post by: nutsaboutchoc on February 19, 2006, 06:08:36 pm

Those people with hills at the back of their house are obviously uphill gardeners.


Mine is flat.

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Post by: EASTEREGG on February 19, 2006, 06:14:58 pm
SINCE I MOVE TO ENGLAND I TRY TO GROW TEA. IT NOW WORK. ANY TIPS ?
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Post by: goldencup on February 19, 2006, 06:15:39 pm
PG?
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Post by: oldspice on February 19, 2006, 08:08:56 pm
I have quite a large back garden and in the summer I like to make it look nice with flower beds and tubs and the grass cut at least weekly.
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Post by: loulou on February 19, 2006, 08:10:50 pm

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SINCE I MOVE TO ENGLAND I TRY TO GROW TEA. IT NOW WORK. ANY TIPS ?


You need to employ some chimps

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Post by: loulou on February 19, 2006, 08:12:37 pm
Oldspice do you have trees in your garden and do you have roses? My mam has roses and a lovely honeysuckle bush that I can smell as soon as I enter her garden in the summer. She had an apple tree but had it cut down cos she got sick of kids trying to climb it.
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Post by: oldspice on February 19, 2006, 08:20:51 pm
We have a plum tree and an apple tree but they are a bit weedy. I love rose bushes but my husband does not want us to have them! We have a beautiful clematis and shrubs. I like bedding plants and plants in tubs because you can change them every year and get a different look.
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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 02:52:50 pm
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Post by: loulou on February 20, 2006, 08:19:50 pm

Oldspice have you ever eaten the plums and apples from your trees?


Minty your garden sounds beautiful and you must be green fingered. If I had a garden I'm afraid I would need a gardener because I'm unsure of what plants can go next to one another.Do you have any unusual colour roses?

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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 09:47:18 pm
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Post by: loulou on February 20, 2006, 10:19:17 pm
Well when I get a garden I think I will invest in some gardening books. I love garden centres and when I go with my mam she gets allsorts. She has green fingers and knows what she is doing. She grows cucumbers , tomatoes, radishes and spring onions in her greenhouse. I am going to get some terracota pots for my back yard and some hanging baskets this year.
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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 10:23:05 pm
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Post by: loulou on February 20, 2006, 10:24:41 pm
That's a pretty flower.
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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 10:31:07 pm
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Post by: loulou on February 20, 2006, 10:45:42 pm
That is gorgeous. Hope you can find some.
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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 10:49:16 pm
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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 11:02:19 pm
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Post by: loulou on February 20, 2006, 11:08:15 pm
I don't really know the names of flowers minty but I like bright colours. I've never had a garden with flowers before. I like roses a lot.
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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 11:25:04 pm
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Post by: loulou on February 20, 2006, 11:31:52 pm
They are a pretty colour. I'd like some of those.
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Post by: minty on February 20, 2006, 11:45:43 pm
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Post by: loulou on February 21, 2006, 12:20:45 am
 Beautiful 





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Post by: chocolate chick on February 21, 2006, 10:49:08 am
My parents do the garden at out house. There is lots of green and when the summer comes a lot of it flowers. Its fairly low maintenace though, but looks very nice all the same.
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 10:54:23 am
God's Painting

my back garden. hold the applause.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 11:35:04 am
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 11:40:41 am
FYI - thats actually a genuine, non-digitally-enhanced picture taken in California.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 11:45:35 am
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 11:47:37 am
i'm afraid i may have lied a little when i said it was my back garden. nope, and i didnt take the picture either. its from a place called Tehachapi, California. (and its been the 'wallpaper' on my pc for a while now!)
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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on February 21, 2006, 11:49:31 am

I have a lovely back garden and enjoy gardening. I have a big magnolia tree over the pond which is not only gorgeous in flower but also smells divine.


I also have a patch totally devoted to growing sunflowers!

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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 11:52:49 am
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 11:53:38 am
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 11:54:43 am
yes, it is nice. v.luvverly!
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 11:56:32 am
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 12:04:02 pm

not sure. check out this link...


http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/flowers.asp


its the original source where i found it.

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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:04:32 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:06:09 pm
 
Quote from: wjp666

not sure. check out this link...


[url]http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/flowers.asp[/url]


its the original source where i found it.


   
   I have bookmarked it , thanks..
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 12:08:49 pm
of course, you may wanna check out the rest of the pics on that site. damn weird n wonderful stuff.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:10:32 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 12:11:43 pm
dont think so.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:12:58 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:16:07 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 12:16:22 pm
always wanted me own triffid...
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:16:58 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:18:25 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:19:41 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 12:20:59 pm
 cool. but can they spit acid?
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:25:17 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 12:27:23 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 12:30:28 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 01:52:28 pm
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Post by: Forth Bridges on February 21, 2006, 01:56:23 pm

well the woman down the road


he Bushs r so over Grown!


then need to be trimed !


you have to go thourgh a small hoel to ge tot the entrence

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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 01:57:55 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 02:16:34 pm
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 02:28:28 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 04:10:14 pm
im afraid i dont have a garden these days. i live in a flat. (sob) not even a windowbox!
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 04:12:00 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 04:13:05 pm
i used to grow some lovely radishes! (sob) but that twas in me younger years... (sigh)
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 04:14:51 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:14:56 pm
me be 28 years of age... but feeling double that. (used to gorw lots of gardeny stuff for my cub badges!)
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:21:52 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:23:25 pm
hehe. like i said - feeling much older!
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:24:28 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:29:29 pm
thats the way it should be.  young at heart n all that.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:30:40 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:33:22 pm
oh, i dont really know. seems like only yesterday i was still at school.... then BANG - im suddenly in 2006. its wearing down at me. whaaaagh! (etc.) its only an early midlife crisis. nevermind.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:34:52 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:36:11 pm
hehe. i like to do things fast. i hope to have my pension by the time i hit 40.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:37:54 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:42:28 pm
well, i say pension. more likely income support.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:43:45 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:46:09 pm
hehe. i do, i do. im just a depressive maniac at heart.
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:48:33 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 05:49:16 pm

its worrying about getting old that worries me! (sic)


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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 05:55:02 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 06:10:15 pm

my designated area is bar/pub-management, but at the mo i not working. (loooong story.) im a writer as well... freelance. few things published here n there but nothing serious. so im taking time to get back into full-time writing now. love to do that full time.

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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 06:11:35 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 06:17:03 pm
i used to specialise in screenplays (and one of mine so nearly ended up on channel 4 in '96! so close!), then i switched to psycho-horror-thriller novels. i have 2 so very nearly finished (got bvored with em and dshelved em). i'm a 3rd of the way through my latest one at the moment - but im temporarily blocked there. so right now im writing my 1st kids novel. lotsa fun!
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Post by: minty on February 21, 2006, 06:22:10 pm
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Post by: wjp666 on February 21, 2006, 07:22:44 pm
i'll impress myself if i actually FINISH anything proper!
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Post by: cody on February 21, 2006, 07:40:24 pm

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What is your garden like Cody?


at the back it paved!


there no grass anmore but at the front there HUGH bit with lot of flowers now adn a drive way/ gardge