Encoraging quotes for Gardening Failures, add yours !!

[Zigs]

"The Gardener holds a unique and enviable position in this land of work and taxation. Where is the man who, like he, can raise his own celery every year, let alone be master of the mint?

....though he dresses plain and his only decoration is bachelor's buttons, he is always recognised, and meets with more boughs than a minister of state."

From a Victorian head gardener's album

 

[olly-buckle]

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is now - Old Welsh Proverb

Fruit trees maybe.
I get acorns germinating in my beds from the oak at the bottom of the garden and drop them into waste land, corners and hedgerows, most probably won't make it, any that do should mature in my children's children's children's lifetime, if humans are still around.

 

[Zigs]

Fruit trees maybe.
I get acorns germinating in my beds from the oak at the bottom of the garden and drop them into waste land, corners and hedgerows, most probably won't make it, any that do should mature in my children's children's children's lifetime, if humans are still around.

I've got a few Oak saplings and 3 Scot's pine's in pots Not got the time at the moment but later I'll do a screen shot from Google Street view of the Horse Chestnut I planted with my Son when he was little

 

[Jersey Devil]

so even older than Tetters

OH man....are you gonna catch hell...

 

[Tetters]

You've got it Annie

I vaguely remember a song with "or on a crowded avenue" but that was a song I heard in my teens. I wanna say "I only have eyes for you". (logically rhymes with avenue). Probably not it and I don't remember who sung it.

Art Garfunkel did a version of it in 1976 but there was a swing version that was around in the 1950s that I can't find and the original was from the 1930's so even older than Tetters

Yeah, but only just!

OMG Don't take me so literally It was a joke

I hoped so, you old sod!

 

[Tetters]

You've got it Annie

Art Garfunkel did a version of it in 1976 but there was a swing version that was around in the 1950s that I can't find and the original was from the 1930's so even older than Tetters

....and his extremely old secretary does it again

 

[Tetters]

Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow...... Anyone remember this song?

 

[Anniekay]

Yeah, but only just!

Hhey, I'm old. My brain is already over-full with useless trivia. It took me hours to jog that loose from the file !!

 

[Zigs]

I know this is off topic, but here's a screenshot of the Horse Chestnut tree I planted out when my son was a boy (he's 30 this year ) It was rescued as a seedling from the football pitch in the next village when his sister was little and kept in a pot for years @olly-buckle



Screenshot from Google street view

 

[Tetters]

Oh do stick to the topic Zigs We'll let you off this time, but if you don't toe the line I'm afraid we'll just have to have a word with the administrator.

 

[Anniekay]

"If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.” —J.C. Raulston.

Then I must be silly pitty !!

 

[Anniekay]

Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow...... Anyone remember this song?

Never heard of it. Can you sing it for us? I think Zigs will let you use his microphone.

 

[Tetters]

No way - I'll get John to -

 

[Anniekay]

Singing delphiniums !!!
I'll never get that image outta my brain !!