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Post by Doug T. on Apr 15, 2011 15:31:17 GMT -5
Spent the last couple of days outside, getting our garden ready for spring. It's great to see flowers again   Purple Crocus  and the same in yellow. I'm looking forward to what pops up next! Doug |
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Post by nikonbob on Apr 15, 2011 22:24:50 GMT -5
We aren't that near to having flowers yet and expecting some last minute snow tonight. Nice to see someone is having some luck with the coming of spring. Enjoy them.
Bob
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 16, 2011 9:22:47 GMT -5
Doug,
They are welcome and the mauve ones are beautiful.
My day lilies have about 3" of green leaves poking tentatively out of the ground but everything else is an uninspiring drab, pale brown.
Mickey
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Post by Doug T. on Apr 16, 2011 11:14:59 GMT -5
Hi Guys! Our neighbor has decided, for some obscure reason, to get rid of all her flowers and flowering shrubs. She asked Barb if she would like them! Of course she accepted It's going to be a very busy season for me, but at least they are all labeled. I'm not very good at the names of all the different plants, so this will make it easier for me to sort them out. Some great photo ops are coming my way ;D Doug |
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 16, 2011 13:25:23 GMT -5
Doug,
I guess you are what is called "A blooming optimist".
Mickey (Brown thumbed pessimist)
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Post by PeterW on Apr 16, 2011 19:12:24 GMT -5
I'm quite sure you're not, Mickey. At least, not in the old RAF slang meaning of brown thumbed. It didn't mean the opposite of green-thumbed. It derived from the description of someone who was habitually lazy and always the last to get out of his chair by the stove on a cold night when there was work to be done. For example, when aircraft were returning from a winter night navigation exercise Chiefy (the Flight Sergeant, or He who Must be Obeyed) would stick his head round the door of the groundcrew room and call "Aircraft returning. Two-six." Two-six meant "get a move on". If anyone was a bit tardy getting up Chiefy would say "Come on, stop sitting there with your thumb in your bum and your mind in neutral. Get out there and help marshall them in." Sorry, everyone! No offence intended. Obviously different slang and different meanings of words on different sides of the pond.  PeterW |
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 17, 2011 1:55:49 GMT -5
PeterW, No. Definitely NOT the RAF version. It just means I have a unique talent for murdering any plant in my care.  "Chiefy (the Flight Sergeant, or He who Must be Obeyed)" Was Rumpole's wife a Flight Sergeant?  Mickey |
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Post by PeterW on Apr 17, 2011 8:25:36 GMT -5
Mickey:
Quite likely. She had all the qualifications, but I don't think she was old enough to be the original inspiration for Rider Haggard's She.
PeterW
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 17, 2011 14:33:19 GMT -5
Spring Time In Toronto. It isn't fair. You get crocuses and we get rain sleet and snow all in the same day.  But it waited until I just had my car washed.   Mickey |
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Post by SidW on Apr 19, 2011 11:42:47 GMT -5
Well done Doug. However much you despair they always return punctually. My birthday last week was graced by our earliest
Rhododendron coming into bloom. But the crocuses were a couple of weeks late, due to the ice and snow refusing to budge.
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