9cm Square Plastic Pots

[David Nicholson]

As this year I'm drastically reducing the number of bulbs I grow I have available around 500 new TEKU rigid 9cm square plastic pots. Price is £15 per 100 (or proportion thereof) plus postage and package at cost. Anyone interested send me a PM please, and to avoid any currency problems UK only please.

[Lesley Cox]

What are you going to do instead David?

[ranunculus]

What are you going to do instead David?

Don't ask, Lesley ... but there may be a name change, wigs and rouge involved!!!

[David Nicholson]

Our local theatre is auditioning for ugly sisters for the Christmas panto, maybe I could be in with a chance!

It's partly an age thing Lesley and finding the annual chore of repotting in excess of 300 pots less attractive than I used to. It's also partly an opportunity to review what I grow reasonably well and what I patently don't. I've found new homes for all of my Crocus collection (such as it was!), which I have done quite badly with over the last couple of years and in future will only grow those I have grown from seed. I've also got rid of a large quantity of pots (probably containing a mass of bulbils) of small Irises and again will only grow what I have grown from seed. Also gone are a mass of sundry other species which took up a lot of space and produced little in return (whether from poor cultivation or other reasons).

I have retained, and "pruned" a little my Narcissus collection and hope that I will benefit from more time to grow them better, and my Cyclamen collection has been similarly treated. Suffice it to say that my re-potting is now completed!

Now, as to use of the additional space now available I'm thinking back to my first love, Primulas, and particularly the small hybrids and species, and, perhaps, even a few Auriculas. No doubt I shall find myself running out of glass space at some time in the near future

[Lesley Cox]

I wish you well David, with whatever bulbs you decide to keep. I know it's almost impossible to choose just a few but on the other hand, taking Narcissus as an example, there are so many that seem virtually identical with so many others. I have a lot starting to flower now with names that I remember from the dark past but with precious little to distinguish them from many others I still have. I might divide and pot many and sell them off, fund-raising for 2015 Iris Soc Convention here in Dunedin. (I say "here" but 40 mins out of town of course, Otago Group of NZIS though.)

I'm surprised you're not auditioning for the part of Prince Charming though. This Cinderella would be thrilled to have you fiddling with her feet.

[David Nicholson]

I'm surprised you're not auditioning for the part of Prince Charming though. This Cinderella would be thrilled to have you fiddling with her feet.

She certainly wouldn't want to get too near to mine

[Lesley Cox]

She is duly warned.