YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009

[Lesley Cox]

I'm so happy today because the post has just arrived with Iris reticulata seed from the lovely and most generous David N. Many, many thanks David. Seven different crosses from that man in Canada. I'll sow them this afternoon.

[gote]

The last few winters have been mild so I have been planting things that really are too tender.
There is still snow but now the first traces of disasters are showing. Some stalks of Helleborus orientalis from Cocaeli, Turkey that are black
BUT!!
The first pink buds of Helleborus Thibetanus are showing through the snow.
They look unharmed. before the snow they were 5cm cones now the petals show.
They have been growing under the snow in spite of our long spell of frost
Göte

[Anthony Darby]

Love the dog pics!
Reasons to be happy x2
Iris sindpers flowering in bulb frame
Found Spiranthes spiralis in the wild

Spiranthes spiralis flowering now?

[Anthony Darby]

Well, seeing it is now spring, and I have put a poem onto the moant thread, here's some to balance it.

"March brings breezes loud and shrill;
stirs the dancing daffodil...."

and my favourite from the Song of Solomon and made into a sublime verse anthem called 'My Beloved Spake' by Purcell:

"For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land."

[Carol Shaw]

Well, I'm happy not to walk up to snow and a howling gale this morning! Yesterday was bitterly cold due to the wind and thanks to the last lot of snow we now have tea bags and flat crocuses 

[Lesley Cox]

Tea bags?

[Maggi Young]

Tea bags?

     ......these are what your rhodo flowers turn into when they've been frosted.

[Carol Shaw]

Tea bags?

     ......these are what your rhodo flowers turn into when they've been frosted.

Yup look exactly like tea bags - weep, weep - ah well there is always another year!

[SueG]

Tea bags?

     ......these are what your rhodo flowers turn into when they've been frosted.

Yup look exactly like tea bags - weep, weep - ah well there is always another year!

So glad you cleared that up - I had visions of some strange ritual where you all went out and put your used tea bags over the flowers!

[ranunculus]

We do in Lancashire, Sue ...

Practical Gardening Tips!    In short .... PG Tips!   

[SueG]

On a different note - waiting for me last night when I got in was a box full of plants from a fellow forumist - what a good thing to come home to - made my evening, many thanks are due.
Sue

[Carol Shaw]

Tea bags?

     ......these are what your rhodo flowers turn into when they've been frosted.

Yup look exactly like tea bags - weep, weep - ah well there is always another year!

So glad you cleared that up - I had visions of some strange ritual where you all went out and put your used tea bags over the flowers!

Actually old, emptied, tea bags are useful for putting over the likes of Trillium seed heads to keep the ants off them 

[David Shaw]

You'd be surprised at what we can do up here with used tea bags on long winter nights, Sue.

[SueG]

Please don't say any more - I've often had my suspicions about what people do during the long nights of the northern winter - now I know, they find new uses for old tea bags. 

[Diane Clement]

Actually old, emptied, tea bags are useful for putting over the likes of Trillium seed heads to keep the ants off them 

I also use them on hepatica seed heads to catch the seeds and stop them dropping into the next pot