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YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009
« Reply #480 on: May 25, 2009, 07:14:29 PM »
I'm happy because...

... I didn't hear the voice on the telephone say last night "Thankyou for voting for Darth Jackson and Nick Nell".
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YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009
« Reply #481 on: May 25, 2009, 07:19:24 PM »
Quote from: FrazerHenderson on May 25, 2009, 07:14:29 PM
I'm happy because...

... I didn't hear the voice on the telephone say last night "Thankyou for voting for Darth Jackson and Nick Nell".
Perhaps you need new batteries in your hearing aid, Frazer?  ;D
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YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009
« Reply #482 on: June 10, 2009, 06:17:21 PM »
Carol Shaw posted a note about Mary McMurtrie some time ago and her happiness at having some of her pictures. I received this press release today about a book about to be published which might interest some members of the forum.

Unfortunately, the illustrations did not copy and paste.



Paddy



Press Release
 
 

 Mary McMurtrie’s

Country Garden Flowers

Timothy Clark

Garden Art Press ۰ 9781870673600
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ۰ The life and gardening of one of Scotland’s most original artists and gardeners

۰ Explores the life and work of esteemed flower enthusiast Mary McMurtrie

۰ Provides the reader with illustrations and descriptions of historic plants, as well as advice on how to grow them

۰ McMurtrie preserved many plants at risk of being destroyed during World War II

۰ Contains paintings that Mary McMrutrie intended to use to illustrate an unpublished book on cottage garden flowers

۰ Records how she created the garden at Balbithan, Aberdeen.

۰ Her flower paintings have been widely exhibited in Scotland, England and Europe

۰ Includes chapters on ….
 
 
 
 

 
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« Reply #483 on: June 12, 2009, 07:07:34 PM »
Horray! I'm RICH!! I'm a Millionaire!!  
Well, not YET, but it seems I soon COULD be rich.....look at this......
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YES, Look! If I sell all my dratted Trop. speciosum seedlings at this price, I can retire to the Bahamas forthwith!  ::) ;D
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« Reply #484 on: June 12, 2009, 07:10:18 PM »
....... but the Bulb Log would suffer! ;D
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« Reply #485 on: June 12, 2009, 07:14:22 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on June 12, 2009, 07:07:34 PM
Horray! I'm RICH!! I'm a Millionaire!!  
Well, not YET, but it seems I soon COULD be rich.....look at this......
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YES, Look! If I sell all my dratted Trop. speciosum seedlings at this price, I can retire to the Bahamas forthwith!  ::) ;D
And grow cacao trees to make your own chocolate?  ;D ;D ;D     8)
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« Reply #486 on: June 12, 2009, 07:29:14 PM »
Yes, Luit!! A cacao plantation!
David, the Bulb Log wouldn't suffer, Ian wouldn't leave the UK and I'd get exhausted by the heat before my  plantation had begun to fruit, so I'd be back in Scotland pretty quickly, to resume the care of the Bulb Despot!  :-\
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« Reply #487 on: June 12, 2009, 07:31:36 PM »
Well that's OK then, I shall sleep easy tonight ;D
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« Reply #488 on: June 12, 2009, 07:36:56 PM »
Maybe I'll just stay here and use some of the money to pay someone else to  dig and pot the wretched things and then undercut Thompson and Morgan by a pound or so and just be rich enough to have  the best hand made chocs delivered here every day!!  ::) ;D  £9.99 seems and awful lot of money for a Trop. speciosum to me!
 Really, if it were not such a pain to extract the roots from our overplanted garden, I would be tempted by this!
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« Reply #489 on: June 12, 2009, 07:38:22 PM »
Nice holiday destination for tired forum members, Maggi ... will you do short lets?  :D
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« Reply #490 on: June 12, 2009, 07:50:37 PM »
That could be another nice little business, Cliff..... "hols for puggled growers"...... ;)
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« Reply #491 on: June 12, 2009, 08:19:28 PM »
Another expensive deal from T & M  >:( Don"t know how they get away with it. :o

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« Reply #492 on: June 12, 2009, 08:25:27 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on June 12, 2009, 07:07:34 PM
Horray! I'm RICH!! I'm a Millionaire!!  
Well, not YET, but it seems I soon COULD be rich.....look at this......
(Attachment Link)
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YES, Look! If I sell all my dratted Trop. speciosum seedlings at this price, I can retire to the Bahamas forthwith!  ::) ;D


Maggi,

Woodies have been offering Libertia perigrans at €16.50 per pot over the past month. I have a patch in the garden which measures about 4metres X 3 metres. I reckon I could make a good profit by potting it up and selling it on.

Paddy
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« Reply #493 on: June 12, 2009, 09:59:17 PM »
Paddy, this is great, we can both become the idle rich!
Why is it that none of the nurserymen I now are headed for the Bahamas anytime soon   ???  ???
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« Reply #494 on: June 12, 2009, 10:26:19 PM »

Quote from: Maggi Young on June 12, 2009, 09:59:17 PM
Paddy, this is great, we can both become the idle rich!
Why is it that none of the nurserymen I now are headed for the Bahamas anytime soon   ???  ???

Because they have been already. ;D ;D ;D

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