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Martin Baxendale

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Re: I'm looking for .... I'm offering ....
« Reply #45 on: January 30, 2009, 02:00:38 PM »
I'm going to interpret the title of this thread as 'I want' and say I want a huge glasshouse where I can  grow my snowdrops in raised beds under glass, where I can provide just enough warmth at flowering time to make them all open up to be seen at their best every day, not just once a fortnight when the sun shines and we get a mildish day outside, where they can be seen at eye-level and studied closely, where they'll fill the air with their perfume, where they won't be flattened and muddied by wind and rain, where the slugs and narcissus fly can't reach them (mesh on windows), and where I can do my pollinating easily and warmly without having to kneel in mud with my brush and jeweler's eyeglass.

Of course, it would have to be like Dr Who's Tardis, tiny on the outside to fit in my small garden, but colossal on the inside.

This is all brought on by bringing new seedlings into the house after lifting them as they flower in their beds and potting them up for closer examination inside. You can get so much enjoyment (especially in the evening, after dark) from a snowdrop in a pot, seeing it day after day or evening after evening with its flower open, and smelling its scent, instead of seeing ti day after day closed up in the cold of the garden.

So, anyone who has a huge glass Tardis they'd like to swap for, well money basically (not much, though, these days) can pm me.
Martin Baxendale, Gloucestershire, UK.

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« Reply #46 on: January 30, 2009, 02:01:57 PM »
Sorry to those who get email notifications. For some reason my entire last post was underlined have edited it on the forum.
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« Reply #47 on: January 30, 2009, 08:51:42 PM »
I have a few Arnotts to spare  ;D
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« Reply #48 on: January 30, 2009, 09:10:35 PM »
I have a few Arnotts to spare  ;D


They look like Carolyn and Henry's Arnotts to me!   ;D
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« Reply #49 on: January 30, 2009, 09:18:18 PM »
While looking for images for next weeks lecture I found some from Colesbourne. Sorry head gardener I'm only joking :D
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« Reply #50 on: January 30, 2009, 11:08:27 PM »
I have a few Arnotts to spare  ;D


Now that's a show, I have never seen so many sammies.

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« Reply #51 on: January 30, 2009, 11:19:57 PM »
Definitely need to be a 'Samwise' gardener! ;D
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