fatsia japonica

[shaneystar]

i have a huge fatsia in my garden which I would like to propogate.I have tried several times to grow a cutting from it with no success.It is now in bloom.Well bloom is not quite the right word.It has these large cream clusters growing up from the central stem.Can I take seed from these and try that or has anyone a better suggestion.Come in andyjevs your advice would be much appreciated !!

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[Jude123]

Cooooeeeee is there anybody there. I hope you are all ok and busy and that's why you've not been on since Sunday.

It's been another lovely day here today and I've been tai Chi~ing and then to lunch with one of my friends and her young grandson. Our other friend has gone to Spain today for a week.

I really enjloyed Saturday at the Good Food and Gardeners World Show. Walked my legs off and didn't buy anything but a pair of gardening gloves. My sister bought some plants - don't ask me what they were I can never remember the names but they were very pretty.

Well I hope to see you all again soon bye for now x

[shaneystar2]

Oh Yoohooo Jude ..I don't where they've gone .
Got lost in the Bud Glob I expect .Probably downed tools because they are the minimum wage of one and tuppence a day .I can't afford more :)
All I've had is Travels with my Aunt to the hospital to get her hearing aid sorted out .She reckons my aches and pains are caused by wearing no stockings .
.She's priceless. They ought to bottle her and sell her.
She comes out with the most hilarious things at times .She said to me .. "I can hear what you're thinking now "...if only she could :)
The weather here is up and down like Tower Bridge .
No wonder I feel like I've been pulled through a hedge backwards .
Hope everyone is OK otherwise .See you all soon I hope..the borders need weeding xx

[Jude123]

Hi Shaney Where is everybody? It's been raining all day over here. I've been sitting reading my Mum's diaries dating back to 1950. She has entries about me doing things I can't even remember doing ha ha !!

I hope all the rest of you are ok and we will be hearing from you soon.
See yer later 'gater(s)!

[jno]

evening all, went on a genealogy hunt in the south yesterday, to the valley where my ancestors came from (well, not all of them, obviously, we're from all over, from Ireland to India) and managed to encounter a sixth cousin I'd never known of. Small world eh wot? Not only that, she and her sister and I and my cousin (who was with me) discovered we all have something else in common: we can choke very easily when something gets stuck in our throats. I take pills for this but two of them risk choking on pills as well so they just have to eat incredibly carefully. What a weird bunch we are. Darwin would have wondered how we survived this long considering that we can't eat.

[netibiza]

Morning all - hope you are all ok. Very hot here. Hav e seen marm and she's always very elegant whilst I look like a sweati peasant!! Daughter here so we are off on a family jolly to a beach somewhere (ugh hate the thought!). and daughter also takes over computer so can't get on, and as I still have to sign in all the time it takes too long. Be back as soon as I can. Think of poor old me getting pink in the sun!

[VINNY100_2]

Mornin folks.
heres some local pics from a few years ago..
yo ..
yo
robis mum(:O)

[VINNY100_2]

some more lovely ole piccys local people have
sent to the local paper..yo
yo
yo ..
just married..apple pie..
(:O)

[VINNY100_2]

Watching the cup final yo
farmer giles
getting ready for xmas

[shaneystar2]

Ah ....Some stragglers have arrived :)
Lovely pics Vinny .We get a local magazine and they have a section called " memory lane " and you get all sorts of old pictures .
They had a bit about the great floods of '53 a while back and lo and behold there was a picture of my eldest brother (as a young man of course ) in a rowing boat on a street somewhere in Cobham ( part of yarmouth ) which is well below sea level rescuing old girls from their houses.
http://www.letstalk24.co.uk/memorylane/The_Way _we_were/default.aspx

There should be some lovely video clips but I can't get them to work .I did watch a lot of the series on TV though .It was called The Way we Were .


Talking of old girls .......? Where's Dimmock of Derby got to ? I'd better put out a Bong Bing alert .

[netibiza]

It has taken me 10 mins to get here, first sign-in and then I have to go thro Home and Garden to find us, getting very annoying.

Had lovely time yesterday and I even went into the sea twice, it has to be noted that the lifeguard went for his coffee break whenever I launched myself amid the waves, but as the water was only halfway up my shins I guess there wasn't much danger!!

Very hot here but it's the humidity that's the problem. Loads of cockroaches scuttling around the back garden at night, yuk -out come the wellies afgain.

Ah well will get on again when I can, even if I save to desktop I still have to sign in.

[VINNY100_2]

Good morning.
Shaney,that was fascinating watching them video clips.
tipping a penny in solder to make it look like a tanner..hehe.brilliant.(:O)These are of american soldiers on woolacombe beach etc,getting ready for D.Day.here.

[jno]

great photos, Vinny. I don't require a Character Reader just at the moment, though. In fact having one of them following me round pointing out my characteristics would probably never be a good idea.

neti tries her new water wings

[woofgang]

good morning all, its so nice to be back. No time to read the thread I am afraid, but things are getting back to normal here so i should be back lounging around under the b. globosa very soon. Someone save me a deckchair and a glass of cider....

[shaneystar2]

Evening Folks
Nice to see you woofy and glad to hear all's well at Woofington Towers.
Dull dismal day here .Rain on and off .Yesterday it was blowing a gale .Is there any hope of the long hot summer I ask myself .
Nothing much to report really .The Bud Glob is full of Globs .
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Hope you are all well and happy .Enjoy the weekend .
I hope you weren't wearing that knitted cossie when you launched yourself into the Med Neti
Toodlepip for now .

[woofgang]

Good morning all, its a fine and dandy start to the day here at chteau woofgang. I was out with the dogs at 0445 this morning (because I am mad of course) have just given Dh brekkie in bed (because i am wonderful of course) and am sat at the computer with toast and honey and my second cup of coffeee of the day. It may all go downhill from here but at least I am in a great place to go downhill from!
laters dudes

[VINNY100_2]

Good morning..
bootifull ere to..!
have a nice day..(:O)

[jno]

gor blimey, someone else wanting information about Ibiza

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Travel/Question 773407.html

[netibiza]

Finally here I is again. Any news of <B<Robi lately. Hope she hasn't suffocated herself stuffing vaseline up her nose (my advice). Met marm again today for coffee, very pleasant.

Getting very hot here now, who on earth in their right minds would want to come over here. I'm coming to England in August! Yay!! Oh by the way there is a new Primark in Barcelona now, so soon won't have to bother with England at all!!

[Robinia]

Morning sunbeams...here I is for a flying visit - yep I know it's early for a broomstick but I like to keep it ticking over. :o)

Thanks for the concern, I'm ok, just been under the weather & disgusted at the way some of this site's being allowed to plumb the depths so I felt it was best to stay away....I've been close to borrowing neti's machete & doing some serious damage.
Anyhoo, 'tis midsummer tomorrow so if there's to be a pole & much nuddy frollicking I'll be back to erm.........watch.....and snigger ;o)

[jno]

well, jolly nice as it is to sit in one's garden in the sun listening to the grass grow (and the workmen struggling to underpin the house next door), how distressing to look at the weather forecast and discover that it's supposed to rain everywhere my ship goes next week. This is not what I pay my taxes for. Dedigitate, you Europeans.