Hydey's Garden Corner - Your Problems Solved With A Smile

[ravagon]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Are there many plants that can stand being uprooted and replanted about 15 minutes later? Only there's all these plants in the Domain, they've far too many than they need...

You do have to be careful about getting them through customs though - if you're planning to take them home with you - to which a certain rather careful Kiwi horticulturalist can attest (wrt a certain fireblight-infected Australian apple tree cutting... ).

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Careful finbar - I saw what you did to that camelia bush.

Bush? You mean tree! And I'll kill the bastard if it kills me in the process. I aim, ever so gradually, to reduce it to a stump without Mrs finbar realising it. At which point, after I've convinced her that it's a common trait of camelias over a certain age to reduce themselves to a stump, she will agree to me removing the stump and using the area for vegetables.

Victory. At last.

[Alexander's Horse]

I suppose it never occurred to you to clear some ground lower down your block and leave that beautiful camelia alone?

Oh and you seem to have forgotten spouses know what we type here.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Wilderess
I confess I got the idea of plant improvement from the old Finnish custom of putting Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) in the potato field between the rows. I think it is an ingenious way of making ready-made potato-herring-casserole, which is an old Finnish dish.

Old Finnish custom? Hydey was planting packets of Smiths Crisps underneath his 2-Stroke Fuel bush - so he could sniff and eat the crop - before Finland was even thought of.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I suppose it never occurred to you to clear some ground lower down your block and leave that beautiful camelia alone?

The land drops away almost vertically behind that fence around the lawn. There's one flat spot and I've baggsed it for the lemon tree.

Oh and you seem to have forgotten spouses know what we type here.

I'm well aware of the risk. I'm a thrillseeker.

[finbar]

Originally posted by ravagon
(wrt a certain fireblight-infected Australian apple tree cutting... ).

It was being imported by the NZRFU. Poor buggers can't take a trick, can they.

[Alexander's Horse]

Of course in less snooty parts of Australia you could put a vegie patch in your front garden but in Cammeray the shame would probably be too much to bear, not to mention the letters from the Council and the coverage on the crime page of the local rag.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Of course in less snooty parts of Australia you could put a vegie patch in your front garden but in Cammeray the shame would probably be too much to bear, not to mention the letters from the Council and the coverage on the crime page of the local rag.

You haven't seen the front garden in daylight. It's basically rock with a couple of trees battling each other for the two or three teaspoonsful of soil. In actual fact, if the frigging school-age vandals don't stop scratching the cars and otherwise making pests of themselves we'll have to sacrifice what passes for a front yard in the cause of off-street parking.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'll bet if you put vegies in there though the neighbours would never speak to you again and start writing to the Council.

This is why its better to rest in the bosom of the working class suburbs.

[finbar]

I supply a lot of the neighbours with vegies as it is. I suspect they'd help me dig out the rock and cart in the chook poo.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by finbar
I supply a lot of the neighbours with vegies as it is. I suspect they'd help me dig out the rock and cart in the chook poo.

HA! Fell right into my trap. Now Mrs finbar will see this and there's goes a month of Sundays for you.

The camelia bush is avenged. Huzzah!

[finbar]

I'm not sure of the point of your "Huzzah!". If you mean the front yard is an alternative to the camelia tree - wrong. If you mean digging up the rock in the front yard will be some sort of punishment for murdering the camelia tree - no, because it won't happen.

Hmmmm?

BTW, I thought a Huzzah was a guy wearing a tea cosy on his head with a sword in his hand galloping around the countryside like a goose.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by finbar

BTW, I thought a Huzzah was a guy wearing a tea cosy on his head with a sword in his hand galloping around the countryside like a goose.

Er no, that's a Hussah.

Huzzah!

But please leave the camelia bush, they are very pretty.

[ravagon]

[Edit: Oh all right. Bah Humbug. Happy now? ]

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse

Er no, that's a Hussah.

Huzzah!

Mmm. Okay, so it's the American spelling then?

But please leave the camelia bush, they are very pretty.

Listen, when vegies come in the window, aesthetics walk out the door.