Balcony - Bad News Advice Needed

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  1. Victoria

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    Sweetie, what a nightmare for you! :eek:

    Now, somehow I don't recognise something here ... I thought your balcony overlooked the street but it looks from these photos that it's on the back? It's probably that I'm used to seeing your balcony covered wall-to-wall with climbers and never really saw what was in the outside world. :D

    What a horror for you to have to move everything ... Pal should certainly appreciate all this clutter and disruption and he should at least come up there and help you, don't you think?
     
  2. rosa

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    LoL a complete nightmare, my balcony is at the back, now that everything is more or less cleared you can see everything on the outside world, hubby will be pleased as he hated all the climbers, he said he couldnt sit out there in the summer :D :eek:
    Believe me iff pal had lived closer to me i,m sure he would of been round to have a look and give me great advice.and perhaps give me a hand also [​IMG]
     
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    A before and after photo Rosa ,your plants will grow again.
     
  4. rosa

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    hi skotkat,I am pretty lucky really as a lot of my climbers were just starting to grow and i was able to cut a lot back and change them into different pots and get rid of a lot.I will take pics again after the new windows have been put in and more towards the summer
     
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    Rosa have the chaps been to measure your windows yet? they will give you an idea how they can get to your window rather than take it all to bits,i am sure they will find a way around your plants,they are pretty good,good luck
     
  7. rosa

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    hi kathy, no they havnt been yet closer to the time they will contact me, I have left a lot of my plants and basically cut them down they will probably grow better for the summer. lets hope
     
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    Rosa I'm sure you are right a clipping back might do your climbers a world of good for this coming summer but saying that it still can't be an easy job for you to do after all the wonderful growth you have had with your plants.Hel.xxx.
     
  9. rosa

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    helen,I think they will grow better, I had one of my jasmine stuck in the corner and i could just get to it to water now that i have moved a table out of that corner i can get to it and moved it out of the big plastic pot it was in and into another pot, lets hope they come back, all my clematis are starting to grow, and i have just noticed a climber growing in that same corner and its arrived from my neighbours downstairs, seems to be a hole in my balcony were it has come through :D so i have acquired one of theirs. ha! ha!
     
  10. Kathy3

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    hope you get all the flowers Rosa :eek:
     
  11. rosa

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    thanks kathy, when they grow later on and flower will take pics to show you, how they are coming along
     
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