What have you done in the garden today?

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Where are you going to put it?
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Behind the garage and away from any trees!

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They are so healthy looking,Logan, canā€™t wait to fill my tubs with them,:heartpulse:

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Fabulous colour - little patch of sunshine!

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@pauline3 They are a bonny splash of yellow to cheer up a miserable day
I often plant a tub of those in Spring, then transfer them to one of the flowerbeds when theyā€™ve finished flowering and start with newly bought ones the next Spring.
I noticed yesterday that a lot of the old ones I have planted out in the flowerbeds in previous years are flowering already - little patches of bright yellows, purples and pinks among the snowdrops - very cheerful when thereā€™s little else flowering in my garden yet, apart from the tubs full of Winter pansies.

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Thanks Boot, thatā€™s a good idea ,what you doā€¦I think slugs and snails love them as well, mine always seen to disappear when I plant them in the garden.

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Yes, not all of mine survive the slugs when I plant them in the garden.
I plant them out after enjoying their first year in my patio pots, without much hope of them surviving in the garden until the next year but enough survive to give a splash of colour each year and I consider it a bonus!

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Watched the glass being blown out of the greenhouse, lost around seven panes at the last count!

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Ooh no, Barry.
Broken glass is horrible to clear up, splinters seem to get everywhere donā€™t they. :frowning:

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Pauline yes they are so colourful, never had trouble with the slugs and snails eating them, but they donā€™t like getting dry. I lose a lot from that and have to replace them, it happens every year, this year Iā€™ve put a lot of home made compost in the hole when planting.

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Thatā€™s terrible, is it safety glass?

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Have you ever tried to grow Primulas/Primroses from seed Logan?
I have only succeeded once, they are notoriously hard to germinate.

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Yes they do Mups, and they landed on an adjacent gravel area, but even worse itā€™s snowed on them overnight so thereā€™s no chance of cleaning them up yet!

We will just have to keep the dogs on a lead in the garden until Iā€™ve had chance to sort it, but no complaints really as there are many people whoā€™ve had much worse damage than us ā€¦ :dog:

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Have you got a bit of chicken wire or something, you could just fence that bit off till you can sort it, Barry?

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Well, I discovered a rather naff plastic hanging basket with plastic flowers in my garden today :hibiscus::hibiscus::basket:

No idea where it blew in from, itā€™s quite light, could be miles! I wouldnā€™t have liked to be out there and got it round the earā€™ole
:face_with_head_bandage:

Iā€™ve put it on the wall out front with a note on saying ā€œfound in my gardenā€, maybe someone will recognise it :crossed_fingers:

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Or maybe youā€™ve got a secret admirer, Maree. :smiley:

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All sorted now @Mups , the area thawed out so we cleared every piece we could find then I raked all the tiniest bits in, then put a couple more bags of gravel on top so we are quite satisfied now that it is safe again. :blush:

Itā€™s a fact that glass is a wonderful material though, ā€¦until it smashesā€¦ :open_mouth:

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A rotten job all sorted then, Barry. Well done. :+1:

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repotted and tieing the sweetpeas to sticks

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Yes I have, they need to be put in the fridge after sowing for a few weeks. The wild primrose can be sown while still green but I havenā€™t tried that.