Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Bigbadfrankie on November 06, 2006, 21:21
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I have to have some cut flowers ready in march any one any ideas. Preferably orange in colour and lots of them.
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are you getting married frankie
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To an Orangeman?
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i think he is going to tango someone :)
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I am already married,for just over a year!! But my daughter is getting married in March. So I am trying to jib out off buying flowers!!! 8)
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Is it too obvious to say 'daffodils'?
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I have a load of daffs in but was hoping for somthing a bit less common!
thanks anyhow
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how about magnolias if you can find a tree?
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how about magnolias if you can find a tree?
Orange magnolia??? :?
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well he can spray them.... :wink:
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I've been having a search for March flowers and found this site:
http://www.thegardener.btinternet.co.uk/diarymar06.html
Might give you some ideas frankie :D
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great link ant sally at least someone takes my posts seriously. :wink:
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come on frankie how can we take anyone seriosly with a grin like that after catching a wooly backed lettuce bandit . . i keep thinking ur got a speech bubble missing .... " look ma i got one " :wink: :wink: actually i see a laugh coming on here ,, what is frankie saying in his avater ????
:lol:
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frankies the rabbit isn't he? and he's remaining very tight lipped 'cause he's being held by a human who looks as though he's about to bite his head off with glee!
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big bad frankie with a bunny wabbit some how i dont think frankie is big and bad :D
it is a good pic though did you catch it with your bare hands frankie ?
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I got married with a bunch of anemones I bought on the day.The florist made them up with silver foil and flower ribbon.They looked lovely. I didn't have a big white wedding . More of a small church do..But why orange? You might as well have daffs and tulips . Add a few bought white roses. I'm sure they'd look pretty. Come on fellas , give the guy a break.
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Come on fellas , give the guy a break.
Look, it's bad enough having women on allotments without the men growing flowers! :)
The bunny's saying "Errr, What's up doc?"
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I know of lots of great men who grew flowers on allotments and whats wrong with women on allotments? I shall have to get big bad frankie to come and sort you lot out with his orange marigolds. Specially if you' re all on his plot as well. :lol:
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I know of lots of great men who grew flowers on allotments and whats wrong with women on allotments? I shall have to get big bad frankie to come and sort you lot out with his orange marigolds. Specially if you' re all on his plot as well. :lol:
I'm tempted to say "Well, i suppose women on allotments would be useful for making the tea" but someone might think I was being serious and then I'm in deep compost.
Flowers on allotments - if that's what you like, great! I've seen one allotment set up with a lawn, kids slide etc on it, flower border and veg section. To me that's wonderful, providing a family with a large garden.
My wife is the flower person - she's made a wonderful job out of our small back garden. I help out under instruction and she helps on the lotty at harvest time - except this year when she's had her leg in plaster / straps for 5 months.
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a lot of people mostly men grow flowers on our plots mostly sweet william,wall flowers ,sweet peas,dailias and christnamamns (you know what i mean) :D
also marigolds that nearly everyone has.
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I'm glad you resisted temptation John, please remember how many lottie women you have on here!!!!!!!! lol
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Yeah John, what's the problem with women on allotments? :? :lol: In the olden days men hunted and women grew the food and took care of the home.
I would love to have an allotment but seems like all the men have taken them in my area :shock: :(
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Being serious, Annie, I really like to see more women on allotments. I even like to see a few flowers around as well. Best of all are joint efforts.
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Now I'm really glad I DIDN'T make a joke :)
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:lol:
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My ability to joke has got me into trouble before - although explaining to an organic grower that a new study had shown derris to be cancer causing and it left residues in the soil that lasted a thousand years was taken in good heart when I cracked up into laughter.
I think I'd just finished explaining the allotment rules banned the growing of flowers when the derris jape came to mind :)
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See how my posts deteriorate. :( And Shaun is right I am not all that tall. We often catch the rabbits. My wife is very nervous holding them. They just run a little way and try and hide. Providing you are reasonably quick you can just pick up dinner!!!
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I'm dead curious to know now ,BBF, what are you going to grow for March? I didn't see any thing on that list that grabbed my eye. Gerberas perhaps are a bit orangey but not a wedding sort of flower. What about forcing a few roses?White ones? and mixing them with some orange flower ribbon?
Are you having us on?
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Gerbera are very very trendy flowers now for weddings actually, at least in recent years. At least for cake decoration, I've seen them being quite common.
I don't know anything about forcing stuff so I can't comment. I do like pot marigolds over the french/african varieties and they do have a touch of the gerbera daisy look to them while being quite orange and easy to grow later on in the year anyway.
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Just ordered the Geberas to try but i expect i will have to heat the green house to get them ready in time. (global warming) :shock: .
And i am not suprised men grow flowers as the have benifits. the marigold is supposed to confuse the carrot fly and deter rabbits. But the little ****** eat the marigolds together with the galic. I must teach them to read so they can learn how they should behave :idea: .
I am thinking to release some white rabbits. So when they breed with highly camoflaged brown ones thay will reduce the camoflage effect. This will ade the preditors in catching them, so having an overall affect off reduceing there numbers. :twisted:
Another idea was to cross them with hedgogs so they developed a taste for slugs and snails. But i bet they would still want a side salad :roll: .
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The problem with white rabbits is that they will get picked off more easily by predators like muntjac ;) or other things as they'll be easy to spot so they may not live long enough to breed with the wild rabbits. Plus I suspect bunny genetics are not as easy as darkbunny+lightbunny=palebunny.
I got around the whole problem of flowers in March by having fake flowers so even 3 years on, they're still around.
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sounds like your up against it frankie with the rabbits,dont know how to stop them appart from a fence (chicken wire) ,dont think the white rabbit thing would work as you will just add to the problem .i know near me on the marsh there are loads of black rabbits.
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we have a very good fence that proved to be rabbit prof this year. so we will be growing greens again next year. pigeons are another thing!!
and as if to help John my goggle tool bar has a spell check button ever since I downloaded explorer 7 :lol:
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so frankie why dont you use it :D
hows the howard comming along ?
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can i suggest you draw a hawk on a piece of plastic sheet on one side paint with household gloss in garish colours glue a couple cd chips infor eyes put another small piece on the reverse to trap a rod . cut a small piece of copper pipe and sandwich it with the smaller piece of plastic and rivets to trap it with the other piece inbetween the plastic pieces . put some cd chips glued on the plain side araldite a 1p coin to the top of the copper pipe . then mount it on a bamboo cane about 10 ft from the ground.the bird scarer should rotate in the wind first saw this it fritened the poop outs me in the dark so it should piddys in the day light :wink:
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if you done that around here karl someone would rob the pound coin :D
seen a weather vein today in the shape of a "men at work sign" looked realy good
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re mate . that a 1 p coin . not a £1 coin ya dont fink im that daft do ya lol dont answer that :roll:
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just to add to the bunny colour portion yrs bcak we used to release black rabbits and hen look for them in the day time and when the number shad gone down we knew that poachers had been taking them in the dark ,, i have seen white .brown , sandy/ ginger and black and also a mix of pied colours wild in the fields on my duties of killing them, we also leave them alone . my biggest suprize was seeing a fully black hare in the kings lyn area . the keeper on the shoot gave orders that no one wasto shoot it . he found it for sale in boston dead in a butchers . asking how he came by it the butcher informed him he got it off some guys with a load of rabbits ????
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they would rob the 1p coin aswell :D
i made a scarer last year out of a bit of tin bent in opposite directions a bit like a propeller ,same thing as yours with 15mm copper tube and a cane it worked a treat and vanished one night.i think it took off :D
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nahhhhh it was ur garden pixies flying off to never never land . they loved it so much they stayed :lol:
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the pixies around here have nike hooded tops :wink:
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nah we have a open season on the greater hooded asswipe , i love them when they cry for momma hehehe. did you see the news report about that ex marine 76 yrs old they guys three guys tried to mug him , he popped the first one so fast the rest squared up to him he poped the secondn the third musta thought oh dodo , n legged it . the other 2 did a runner /.the old fella reported it and the cops went round the hospital; but no one turned up , can u imagine em telling the nurse a 76 yr old guy beat us up :lol: .... justice is served . but what would have happened if the guys had cried assault to the cops ?
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Howard has come to stand still. We are doing the house in the winter season.
Pigeon scarer sounds complicated to do.
The scale of it is enough to scare anyone
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its not complicated frankie mate i promise ya . you could always get one those blow up foxes my guvnor bought :roll: i quote " this'll keep * off betterer n you and ur blooming bangers " rabbits sat near them pigeons nipping up seed feet away all i need is for a fox to come up n try mating with it ,and these things cost about £60 each and he has 4 in the one field :lol:
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ive seen blow up sheep would that work :D
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reckon you would get the wellywangingwelshman fly into your plot and be stomping on ya " brocolis " :wink: :lol:
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the funny thing is,theres more sheep in england than wales or so i've been told :shock:
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the funny thing is,theres more sheep in england than wales or so i've been told :shock:
The English ones don't have a frightened look on their faces, so I'm told.
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I hope you're composting that wabbit pooh - as per the thread in Grow your Own - whatever flowers you grow will surely be twice as big !!!!!
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if wabbit poo was any good i put holes in the fence :idea:
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you will have to get a dust pan and brush frankie and get on your hands and knees :wink: