Hanging Baskets Nicked

You sweetie Dim Lets hope they stay there this time & that you don't come back & find the baskets still there but the house gone.

 

what a fab gesture!!!! nice 1!!

 

where i worked a few years back, i decided that the front of the building needed some baskets to brighten it up. went to the garden centre, bought the baskets, brackets, plants, compost and the liners, spent over £100 on them.

put them up and when i opened up the next morning they had been lifted!! they were 10 or so feet up as well!! i don't think it is kids tbh, just some thieving low life thinking they can take what they want!!!
got some more to replace them and tied them up and locked them to the brackets in the end. shame you have to do these things just you can have something nice

 

a good woman (good looking aswell) .... she tells all her American teacher mates that I'm the bestest gardener around, so I get loads of referals .... been working for her for 3 yrs now

 

oooooh, watch yourself Dim, could easily end up as a modern day lady chatterley

 

Hmmm .... I'm reckless and weak and always open to 'suggestion' , but somehow know I have no chance here .... she's way too young

 

I'm glad this thread has come back to life because it gives me a chance to whinge without starting a new thread.

On about mindless freaks who steal and destroy for the sake of it, got back in tonight and one of my tulips was just laid on the floor, bulb and all, plucked out of the ground for the sake of it.

The fact is the tulips are about finished anyway, but that's not the point. The very same people who whine that the live in a deprived and depressing neighbourhood, eg the lazy worthless chavs, are the very same people that destroy every attempt to make a place better for everybody including them. Surely nobody actually wants to live some grim and depressing? So why do these people do these things to their own neighbourhoods.

Anyway, seeing as it was one tulip, I'm going to climb down off my soap box now.

 

I've started planting and landscaping in a pub in our village ... pub opens on friday ....

I'm dreading this one as competion for the job was stiff (all the landscaping guys in our area tendered for the job) .... I was not the cheapest, and managed to land the contract .... I've been working there a few weeks now, sorting the lawn and clearing the bed and weeds

all the other gardeners have stopped to have a look ... and have a 'chat', but the looks in their eyes have looked mean and upset and chats were not friendly ....

although I live in the village, most of my work is in other villages in my area

so, will see how this one goes .... one of the guys is known to be a stirrer and does not like people encroaching on his turf and lives in a travellers camp, and the other gardeners live there aswell

just hope that my plants dont get glyphosated in the dead of night ...

 

Good morning Dim,
hope all goes well on Friday. A day's decent weather would be a bonus. You may well get a cheap pint or two there after a hard Summer day's work. Reckon youv'e earnt it. Did you plant Gertrude Jekyll?

 

I've seen her Gardening Boots They are in the Museum down the road from JWK.

 

omg whats the world coming to when you have to chain a hanging basket to a wall????

 

A couple of years ago I had my summer hanging baskets stolen and someone - I think it was Marley - recommened using jubilee clips to secure the baskets. It has worked so far!!!

 

yup ... gertrude jekyll in the sunny position and planted Moineux roses on the shorter border that has slightly less sun (red and yellow are the main theme colours of this layout and there are loads of georgia peach huechera, solar power huecherella, ferns, hakonechloa macra aureola grass etc, plus loads of large shrubs that smell good ... hoping to finish the planting early next week

got a call today, more plants arrived, but will plant them tommorow morning (I think the rest should arrive tommorow as they were ordered on monday)

the pints are cheap there .... on the billboard, they are advertising pints for £2.50 each

bit a a pub war going to happen in our village .... village is small, and there are 4 pubs .... one of the pubs is advertising a beer festival on the weekend with a hog roast, and rumour has it that the owner of one of the other pubs wants to retire now, and has his pub on the market

sad .... pubs are really suffering now and have seen a few pubs in other villages that are now deserted with windows boarded up