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Re: Identify a thistle?
In message <7b7h21F228ce...@mid.individua l.net>, Christina Websell
writes
If it's normal purple flowers then I'd guess it's the normal spear
thistle (Cirsium vulgare). But other big, purple-flowered thistle-like
plants include cardoon, globe artichoke and cotton thistle.
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Re: Identify a thistle?
If we are talking thistles, what is mine? It's 8 feet high, multistemmed,
normal purple flowers just coming out. It's so big and wide I might have to
cut it back so I can get down the garden.
My friend thinks it should be in the Guinness Book of Records.
Tina
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Re: Flower ID
On 2009-07-03 22:29:00 +0100, Judith in France
said:
David Hill is our resident Dahlia expert on urg and runs a Nursery
specialising in them, so with luck he'll be along to give an ID.
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Re: Vegetable foliage allergies
"David in Normandy" wrote
My wife has an allergic reaction to cucurbits and she also suffers picking
runner beans just like you.
A neighbour cannot go near tomato plants although he usually has a
greenhouse full which his wife has to tend.
I have some sort of allergy to some conifer foliage but by no means all.
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Next Winter
Any 'forecasts' yet as to what sort of Winter we are in for?
Mike
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Re: Flower ID
I have a number of different varieties here. Unlike all my
neighbours, I planted them very deeply, on a bed of sand, tuber and
then soil. I never lift them and they survive!!!!! Mind you, not a
shoot is showing yet but we had a vicious winter.
Judith
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Re: Flower ID
Clever clogs, correct; but I have not seen colouring like that before,
I like it.
Judith
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Re: Wasp nest under floor
You need to move to the Auvergne, Kate. Our Pompiers are lovely; not
only that, they could do a Full Monty film I am sure. They call about
2 weeks before Christmas with a calendar, obviously we show our
appreciation for their services throughout the year. Today, a hornet
fell out of a beam in the sitting room; watch this space, it is dead,
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Re: Trashed allotment
The young man who damaged my daughters allotment is being dealt with within
the community, it is a very small community, the sort where everyone knows
everyone else, there are only 6 allotments on the piece of ground in full
view of the High St so there has never been any need for supervision of any
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Re: Wasp nest under floor
Gosh, Judith, you're very privileged! The pompiers won't come out for
wasps or even for hornets in the Dordogne. They used to come out for
bees, but no longer for anything, you have to get and pay for
specialists. We had hornets in the chimney two years ago - we lit the
wood stove when we came here for an early autumn holiday in October, and
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Re: Lovely, lovely rain
Agreed - the spectrum is all wrong, and they lie in their
greenish-yellow teeth who say it's a tungsten-equivalent colour
temperature. We put good GE ones, 100W type, in our kitchen and after
about three days were deeply depressed because everything looked so
grey. Back to halogen for the time being, and just remembering to
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Re: pub quiz questions
Kate Morgan;851979 Wrote:
If my answer is not too late, may I dare to suggest he has a look at
[link] This could provide plenty of unusual garden
questions for his pub quiz.
JemimaP
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Re: Destroying Angel
echinosum;854330 Wrote:
Quite agree with you places like the New Forest are littered with
poisonous fungi so don't worry about them in your garden. A good site
for identification of fungi is: [link]
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Re: Floating away...
You will have to get in the queue cos her needs come
first.......................
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Re: Wasp nest under floor
Thanks for the replies. Council pest control it will be. But I guess
they'll be closed for the weekend now, so we'll keep applying the foam
and powder and see what the situation is Sunday PM, with a view to
contacting them 1st thing Monday.
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Re: Wasp nest under floor
I've had success with "Raid" wasp killer,
You can squirt this up to at least 6' and it can penetrate a long way
into spaces between floors, joists etc.
Give it a long hard sustained burst and runaway indoors. They
don't like it up 'em. Repeat the following day.
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Re: Flower ID
Suggest you start with tubers - always a good selection at garden
centres or B&Q and such like. They even thrive in poor soil.
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Re: Flower ID
Thanks for the replies, just done a Google
on Dahlias, there are lots of different kinds
arnt there.
So next year, guess what my garden will be
full of :o)
Wally
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Re: Lovely, lovely rain
Much the same can be said of the Clovis People and Kennewick Man in N.
America.
Such are the whims of thunderstorms. It happens here every summer where
there can be devastating hail damage a few km up the road and I don't get a
drop of rain!
Graham
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Re: Flower ID
Well I am much more inexperienced and untrained and I have lost my
specs somewhere but I agree, however I must say I am not familiar with
the variety.You will be pleased to know you could hardly find anything
easier to grow from seed or tubers.
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Re: Strange animals near garden pond
I met John Inman once when we were having lunch at a friend's house.
He was doing a show in Jersey that summer and he'd contributed the most
delicious pudding to the buffet. He was a lovely man, funny, kind and
amusing but not 'starry' and very camp. ;-)
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Re: Flower ID
To my inexperienced and untrained eye, they look like Dahlias?
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Flower ID
My wife has a bunch of flowers that I like and would like
to grow some but do not know what they are.
Can someone please identify them .
Also any other info, easy or hard to grow, seeds available ?? etc
I know very little about flowers.
[link]
Wally
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Re: Vegetable foliage allergies
In message <4a4dff8a$0$17742$ba4ac...@new s.orange.fr>, David in Normandy
writes
One of the women on the allotment site is allergic to tomato foliage.
But not all irritation is due to allergies (e.g. nettle stings). I
suspect that some rashes are due to mechanical irritation
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Re: Strange animals near garden pond
In message <4l5s459j14snv67mgg7gf59mjesct cu...@4ax.com>, Gary Woods
writes
Yes, indeed. We stayed in a wonderful up-market B&B in Brighton at
the beginning of June and I mentioned to one of the two lovely gay men
who ran it that it was a pity there was no John Lewis in Brighton.
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Re: Floating away...
Gee, how big is NY? I am near Ripon:)) Having said that, there were just a
couple of distant peels and thankfully, they seem to have died down.
Cos Mike is not only a muddy boy but also a damp boy?
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Re: Floating away...
A mere 12mm of rain over the last 24 hours here, but some parts of
Normandy have been washed away.
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Re: Strange animals near garden pond
I recall a TV interview during a U.S. public TV fundraiser with John Inman:
"How do you view your role as Mr. Humphries?"
"I played the poof!"
Still funny stuff after all these years.
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G
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Re: Lovely, lovely rain
n...@cam.ac.uk;854231 Wrote:
I think it is now increasingly believed, on the basis of genetic
evidence, that Celts didn't eliminate the native Britons of the time,
but rather that Celtic culture was largely assimilated, perhaps on the
basis of a rather small number of individuals arriving in relation to
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Re: Floating away...
In my part of North Yorkshire the heavy rain lasted about half an
hour and has now settled down to light drizzle. No thunder heard
as yet.
My lightweight rain coat leaks, guess how I know this :-(
Mike
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Re: Floating away...
"Sacha" wrote ...
We had a light shower during the night whilst someone else was getting a
thunder storm, could see lightening far off, by this morning pavements were
mostly dry again and having just planted some plants on the allotment the
ground is still as dry as a bone even on the surface.
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Vegetable foliage allergies
Anyone else have allergies to vegetable foliage?
I've just picked some courgettes and both arms are itching all over. I
get the same reaction picking runner beans. Spouse gets a similar
response with conifer foliage.
I must remember to wear a long sleeve shirt to pick runner beans. I've
planted a different variety of courgette seeds this year by accident,
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Re: Wasp nest under floor
In article <2qfr45lecddb22pgcpchclpev2oh0 25...@4ax.com>, m...@privacy.net
says...
If you use the powder each evening around the hole they get enough on
them when returning to the nest that the grooming sessions eventually
kill them but its a shame you can not get the powder actually into the
nest. I am doubtfull the proffessionals will have a lot more luck without
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Re: Lovely, lovely rain
On 2009-07-03 12:49:42 +0100, Charlie Pridham
said:
Our nice gentle stuff hasn't done much good to the garden, though it
has freshened things up and laid some dust! However, it was useful on
the potted stuff in the Nursery.
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Re: Lovely, lovely rain
In article <55cr45d1rabtnd46ah7mo8u2bp08n lr...@4ax.com>, m...@privacy.net
says...
Same here, sounded torrential overnight but the soil's still dry this
morning
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Re: Clematis cuttings - what happens next?
In article ,
Jane42.4c31...@gardenbanter.co .uk says...
Poly tunnel
and Dave, most climbers I use internodal cuttings simply because you can!
and it cuts down the amount of material used and shorter cuttings are
less inclined to wobble and therefore quicker to root
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Re: Broad Bean Problem
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 23:09:34 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:
That sounds like it'd be worth setting up night vision camera to film!
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Re: Floating away...
Poor thing - I imagine the only thing to do is to stay close to him and
try to be soothing!
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Re: Floating away...
It just began to rain in North Yorkshire, bringing blessed relief. Only
problem now is, my dog is terrified of thunder. Guess what is on the way
now?
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