Gearge wrote
Nice to see Lyn on the stand. Those plants are almost fully grown
Yes that is the problem here, not enough room to keep them, but stupid to throw them away when we divide our plants in Autumn/Spring making these new ones. And they are reasonably priced George, The dearest on that table were £3.50 if I remember rightly, in 2 or 3 litre pots.
Did Lyn take a photo of you Malcolm?
I am afraid not, the gate was just opening as I remembered you had asked for some pics, took them in a hurry before the peeps invaded the stall, sorry.
I have to ask this once again. How on earth do you do it?
How do you manage to propagate and store so many plants AND overwinter AND grow our own - and for a charitable cause
I did say today, as we were sorting our plants into some sort of order on our own plant stall here, and trying to find somewhere to put them all.
That we would have far more time to enjoy our garden, and other pursuits, if we didn't sell plants. But it is a big draw to visitors on open days. Whenever most people come through the gate, they head straight for the plant stall, buy some plants and leave them in our version of a plant creche, then look round the garden, then have tea/cake.
The charitable cause was us less 20% which we gave to the Hardy plant society, who we were supposed to be representing.
Just an aside.......we have names for the "structures" we put up at different times of the year, for instance in the winter for sheltering tender plants
The "Tardis" which encloses the bananas.
The "Giraffe house" for the very tall plants.
And an extension to our plant sales area on open days, which is just opening our double gates behind the plant stall, which leads onto the grass verge, and we put a temporary barrier across, and call it "The pig pen"
Hope our neighbours don't hear us.
Malcolm
