Is there a way of growing flowers to face a particular direction?

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Paterson - you will have to grow Physostegia. Its called the obedience plant. The reason is that you can move the flowers to point towards you, and they will remain pointing in that direction.

 

I think that the replies in this post are brilliant and have not scared me off in the slightest, it has only confirmed what i had hoped for the forum, that is, that it is full of good people rather than pompus Hyacinth Bucket type people who dont like outsiders. I feel very welcome here. The reason for so many questions is that i have been looking for a place to get them answered for a good while now so they have all come at once. There are sure to be more but perhaps not so fast and furious as time goes by, and the Earth.... hopefully keeps on turning!!!

Many thanks to all of you

 

Paterson, thanks for this reply.
I personally am quite sensitive when I'm a newbie, let it be in a forum, job or a field of knowledge. I just hate even any hint that I'm asking "silly questions".

Your attitude, intelligence, grand sense of humour and willingness to learn are great, thank you for being here. There are plenty of unregistered people out there reading this forum, wanting to ask precisely the same "simple" questions you are asking. And thanks to the great people on the forum those questions are answered. This is a wonderful forum.

And about the Earth, I can assure you I'm personnally digging my high heels into the lawn to undermine any clandestine axis-tilting attempts. Then again, I wouldn't mind a 2 degree tilt to ensure my baby Clematis gets a bit more morning sun. :wink:

 

You fellers! very funny.

 

Nope, Monday morning first thing ... your beans will all be climbing their canes the other way around :thumb:

I think you may have started your personal axis changing experiment early though, by the sounds of it

 

I must object... I had two onions jump out the ground this morning !

 

Which way round did you plant them in the Spring, Robert?

 

If I knew this was going to happen I would have planted them the other way!
What is the other way???

 

"What is the other way?"

You need to have the front of the Onion set facing Southwards Robert. Or North if you expect unexpected earth rotation during the season :hehe:

 

All this talk of shifting the earth's rotation has just reminded me of a running joke they had on radio 1 for a while years ago. They would take well know, but silly sayings, and change them to be more factual. My favourite was this one:

"If everyone on the planet jumped up at the same time, then the force of them landing would shift the earth's axis"

...got changed to this:

"If everyone on the planet jumped up at the same time, they would all land shortly after".

 

I'm glad your not put off. After I posted the earth axis comment I thought to myself 'I hope this person takes it in the good humoured way I intended'.

I don't think there's such a thing as a daft question. We are all learning, me more so than most (I chosen a username to reflect that ).

I know what you mean about this forum compared to some. I was once a regular user of a particular car forum but I stopped using it because everyone there except me it seems were seasoned mechanics and couldn't appreciate that some people are still learning basic stuff. For example, I once found a fault on my car and managed to fix it myself. Then some weeks later a newbie had come on to describe exactly the same symptoms on his car as I'd had, on the same make and model. I told them mine was a leaky radiator causing the coolant to drop and the engine to overheat, and told him how I'd gone about finding the leak, and how I'd replaced the radiator, along with where I got the part from etc. Everyone else piled on after me with the usual comments along the lines of "all you need to do is lift your engine out and strip it down, while you're at it you might as well replace such and such a component and send such and such off for somesuch specialist process and I'm not going to tell you where all these bits are, what they look like or what they do because you should already know that".

We have a good bunch of folks here, and I for one don't fear the responses I'll get when I ask a question that more experienced folks might think is trivial, or look for opinions on some unorthodox idea I've had, because even if I'm way off the mark, the answers are always helpful, and sometimes we have a bit of a laugh along the way, which is always good

 

Clueless you need to take all the soil out of your beds, and whilst you are at it you might as well replace the subsoil - you'll be able to get some really good stuff from the same place I get mine. Don't forget to separate all the sand from the loam and then recombine in the standard manner. Personally I would only ever use the two-spits method ...

... I'll get my coat ... :hehe: