So What Was Your Latest Gardening Treat?

You trying to plagiarise Only Fools and Horses, Shiney?:D Smilies are good for showing you are not being vindictive, by the way.:hehe::hehe:

 

Awww Andrew hope you get one! It's not massive, just a bit bigger than a normal semi detached houses' garden. Them flamin' conifers took up too much space! :skp:

 

I remember having to study 'The Merry wives of Winsor' at school. It could have done with a few smilies!

Had a nose in another thread...super garden you have there Mr Riley.

 

Richard Curtis' 'Skinhead Hamlet' is an - er - lighthearted take on the famous tragedy. It's definitely NOT for the easily offended, however. No smilies needed.

 

:luv: I Love Smilie's, ME :D :p

I bought a Cushty seat (sorry shiney) Half price from Wilkinsons last week.. Time for the bargains Gardeners :thumb:

 

Thank you for your kind words.

 

I bought a new pair of (expensive) secateurs to replace a pair bought cheaply many years ago. They have a 10 year guarantee so I hope I don't lose them in the undergrowth or drop them in the green bin - the fate of so many of my hand tools. It would be a good idea (thinking Dragon's Den here) to attach tracking alarms to often used hand tools.

Also bought a new shredder recently to reduce the bulk of my prunings. Plantwise I did succumb to some trailing winter pansies which I'm trying out for the first time this year.

I spend most of my money on my garden but I consider it money well spent - the dividends my garden has paid me over the years is priceless.

 

Exactly!

I actually much prefer to spend money on our garden than take expensive holidays.
We limit our holidays now to a week in Cornwall, usually immediately after the kids go back to school, (but not this year as my wife isn't very well, so I bought her a really nice "Stressless" chair instead) and we find that's enough.
We much prefer to spend our money on tangeable things that you can enjoy all-year round. It's not as if we need a "break" being retired.
We've always found holidays though enjoyable, often tiring, particularly my wife.
Of course it's each to their own, but all the neighbouring houses have similar 90ft gardens to ours with very workable soil, (ex-farmland) but several owners, even those who are retired make very little effort, other than mowing the lawn and having a few plants in a narrow perimeter bed.

Maybe they just don't like gardening.

 

I too get much more pleasure out of the garden than expensive holidays. I'm hoping that one day I might be able to move to somewhere with a decent sized plot rather than the postage stamp I have at the moment and then I'll be quite content to spend a lot of my free time out in the garden. My parents in law spend all their time travelling. It all seems a bit exhausting to me. All that packing and carting home suitcases full of washing. I'd rather be growing some nice vege.

 

I do both - nice holidays and gardening. There are benefits to not having children:gnthb:

 

:D:D:D.. Thought i would show you a pic Shiney my Love :luv: :p

 

Hmm..

Nice!

A contender for "Seat of the year?"

 

Well...

The bougainvillea we ordered three weeks ago has finally arrived.....