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Title: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: angie on July 13, 2013, 12:03:36 AM

Don't often see this in Aberdeen, Scorched grass :o  Need to get the sprinkler out.

And a very unusual pot plant  ;D

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: Maggi Young on July 13, 2013, 12:08:52 AM

Crikey, I think the perlite you're using in that pot is very big and ugly, Angela -a seedling will never manage to push through that..... ;) ;D

As you know, we haven't got any grass to scorch - but David A.  was here to get a few  plants out of the front garden for us yesterday and you should see how dry it is where the  bushes came out.
Powder dry - terrible - I wonder how they're growing at all in such conditions. 

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: David Shaw on July 13, 2013, 08:52:03 AM

To my sorrow and shame I have just put the sprinkler on over some of the primulas; they are starting to look stressed. We were promised some welcome rain last night but 'they' were wrong again, surprise, surprise.

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: Alan_b on July 13, 2013, 11:14:23 AM

Reminds me of a wet summer in Cambridgeshire.

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: mark smyth on July 13, 2013, 01:16:16 PM

I have three Primula vulgaris Irish Cream that I forgot to water but I think they are OK. Only three in existance

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: angie on July 13, 2013, 06:05:39 PM

Put the sprinkler on last night, do these things ever last.

Maggi I liked that, Big perlite. I have chopped up so many of his golf balls, he never picks them up. I think I should have had this on the moan thread  ;D

Angie  :)

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: tonyg on July 13, 2013, 10:15:30 PM

Quote from: angie on July 13, 2013, 06:05:39 PM

Put the sprinkler on last night, do these things ever last.

Usually when I water the garden it rains for a fortnight after   .... but that hasn't worked this week!

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: angie on July 14, 2013, 12:26:07 AM

Quote from: tonyg on July 13, 2013, 10:15:30 PM

Usually when I water the garden it rains for a fortnight after   .... but that hasn't worked this week!

Yep we seem to be getting a summer this year and after many miserable summers it's a good feeling. Glad our water isn't metered as I have had to use the hose pipe a lot so far.

Angie  :)

Title: Re: Don't see this often in Aberdeen
Post by: Anthony Darby on July 14, 2013, 11:07:41 PM

Seems like a lot of people like looking at golf balls, judging by the number of views!  ::)