Before I go to a garden centre, I do everything the right way. I go outside and plan what I'm going to plant. This here, some of that over there, make a list, colour code it, etc. Then when I get there, I buy my old standbys, and then I might as well just put the list in my mouth and eat it. Because I get excited by all the beautiful varieties of plants and flowers, and start to unravel. I buy this little beauty here, that there, 3 of these, 8 of those on and on. Then I get home and find that most of what I bought won't do for the spots around my house. Some grow only in Alaska under a rock between Sept. 13-18, some in Finland in a fjord. Egypt in 104 temp. between Aug23- 30. Tennessee in the springtime, and in Windsor when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter is in Mars. Back to the garden centre to try and resort this out. Back home with more impatiens, geraniums, and petunias.
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Thanks for the compliment. I love the banter. It keeps me thinking.....are you still here??
I have been away - had to work for a living and I was spending too much time wandering aimlessly amongst the posts. Well I have come to my senses and I am back.LOL
.....Athan for a boy. That's what we would have named our if we would have had one. I remember having morning sickness so bad I would puke everytime I entered my house. There was some kind of smell that only my sensitive nose picked up. Horrible time!!!
Yes, there is definitely a feeling of "hanging by a thread" - but I told you I wouldn't leave unless expelled!
I laughed at your reference to the SAH boards -I tried those, and CityLine - boring!!! Very straight decorating tips - can I not get those on tv or in a magazine? Then I found H&H! :) I like my decor with a slice of humor everyday, not just on occasion.
Did you read AAN's Ikea news? She will be beside herself!
BTW AAN -I like Jonathan but have friends with a little boy with the same name. Hey, are you getting some psychic feeling that I'm gonna have a boy? Is that some Scandinavian thing?
My friends and I are still here, sort of, some of us hanging on by a thread, so to speak. This thread, for example.
Luv2, puking is not so bad. I used to bring a magazine into the bathroom every morning to have something to read while I awaited my daily vomit. You could use House and Home for this purpose!
Elise, the botox thing gave me hysteria flashbacks for hours. You had me in stitches... and here I thought the idea of botox was to avoid stitches.
BJ,just like Luv2, you tell it like it is. You have the gift of gab too, I can tell - that glib tongue travels well from the keyboard.
You may have noticed the mysterious thread deletions. I think it a shame, because some of my best work was in those threads. All that time thinking up four syllable words wasted! Elise, I checked and your spider threads are still here. I hope they don't ever fall prey to the deleting...
In case we decide to return full force, please
keep the humour up. I would hate to return to find this forum looking like the Style at Home one.
Jonathan is my suggestion, please! DH won't let me have it! :(
"one of us" is one of the best compliments on this forum.
I'm so honored! Just like the first baby of the New Year! Hmm, good luck fighting with DH about names - maybe I can get you guys to help me outvote him when the time comes. Good deals at the dollar stores on magic wands!
I guess your gardening centres thread was hijacked, but you are "one of us", so you don't seem to mind!
It just hit me, Decor 8 is right!! This is our first forum baby. That means we're all like Forum Fairy godmothers!!! Do we get a chance to help name it? I think we should!! Now I'll have to go out and buy a wand and matching earings, how exciting!!!
LOL!!! And I totally understand the way that was meant, and I thank you! Sick is good, not so pukey yet, but sore and tired. DH said good, just like DD's pregnancy. Now how come when you said it, I'm touched, but when he said it, I said "Oh, you think it's good I'm sick do you?" Hehe
to say I'm glad you feel crappy??? hehe yes things are good then. Your right that will be a good experience to share with DD...hope all goes exactly the way you hope...I wish you a perfectly pukey pregnancy & I mean that in a very nice way;) Seriously, best wishes...very exciting to share in our first forum baby...most of us have joined on during mat leaves I think...this is the first forum birth LOL:D
Yes, I got your post - I was so happy to hear from you! I did post to you, but I can't remember where! This running around between forums is too confusing! We haven't really told anyone yet, due to the miscarriage last year. That's why I was so happy to share on the forum. You guys are letting me get it out of my system!
I do want to do some flower planting with DD - one of those "teaching" moments - life, growth, etc. We have been talking to her about babies though - just to get her prepared. Mom & Dad were here to visit, and can you believe I didn't tell them?! I'm shocked myself, but they've been through a lot with me and my SIL miscarrying last year, so I'll wait a bit. But I feel so crappy, that's a good sign.
let them all do it for you;) did you get my post congratulating you? I am sooooo thrilled for you! How exciting, does DD understand what's happening?
Botox...clamps...too much! My parents were just visiting, explaining various plants we have growing in our yard. I'm a fairly intelligent person, but it's just too much for me. I'm getting SIL the gardener to make a house call in a couple of weeks, write me a note, and off I'll go to the garden center. DD wants some flowers, and Mommy does not want to disappoint!
I mumble to myself everywhere I go too!! especially winners. I'm surprised management doesn't follow me around the store with a net. LOL.
he wasn't a Count, but remember the lesson learned.
Were there any Counts in that one?
The clamp will help alleviate future wrinkles, no Botox.
I am feeling very Othello at the moment :D
Finland doesnt have plants due to nothing but plains! Much like Alberta I hear, perhaps why no rats with respect for themselves want to live there? :D
They've moved them!!!! I swear they were there, really. Are the canals still in Venice? And stop picking apart my story, you're like a grocer, you weigh everything I say.
to whatever they do, DO NOT remove the clamp from your head. Please put Dh on, he has not complied.
could alleviate this headache I have today ....botox hahahahaaaa thanks for that! The vice clamping my head has loosened from the laughing:D
my new perennials are too.
are in Norway dear :D
Suggest you send DH to gardening centre, he would be too scared not to follow your step by step instructions.
sounds soooo familiar!! I do the same thing exactly!! once or twice I have tried WITHOUT the list, but that is worse. I have tried the list with each pot listed, and thought-out combinations for each one, but then if I can't find what I had thought of, as you say, it all unravels. I am sure the people in the garden centre think I am a crazy lady, because all through this I am talking away to myself, to the plants, to the list! I pick up something and then talke it back, then go pick it up again. I usually come home with some exotica to try and that IS fun to see what they are like. Even if they are only meant ot grow in Egypt at 104 degrees! Then I can dream of being there instead of where I am...
Every year, I'd trot off to the garden centre and try to pick up all sorts of 'exotic' or different plants for the containers. Half the time, it cost me a fortune and they wouldn't grow. We have a fairly shady garden. This year I just went to a few garden centres over a few days and picked up the basics - impatience, fibrous begonias, that kind of thing. Some geraniums for the pots that are in the sunnier areas. I then figured out what pots still needed to be done, and shopped for them. More impatience and begonias!
Our garden is amazing - we have no grass, just plants, so the pots are just filler anyway. At least this way, I'm *fairly* confident that I'll have some colour!
I'll check it out. But I think I'm too young for Botox treatments.
if you have a Botonix nursery near you they have a book with all kinds of plans for sun and shade areas. Beautiful perennial grasses etc. to mix in with other flowering plants.