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My SIL donated money to me for Christmas, plus a fantastic bloke(me) added to that fund!
I finally ordered some caladiums...and some more seeds, palm, banana, hedychium, various tropical gingers and some more eucomis bulbs and finally identified a plant from kew as Amaranthus 'illumination'.
Let the games begin!!!
By games, I mean the game of trying to find space on greenhouse staging, window sills and any other flat surface that hasn't already got stuff growing on or overwintering

 

Euphorbia x martinii

 

This was actually a Christmas present.



It was advertised as a log store or storage cupboard. I wanted a place for mail order deliveries to be left. The old plastic box we were using was rather cumbersome and had seen better days. This new unit came with a fixed roof which wasn't what I wanted so I adapted it myself. It took me all day as it wasn't as straightforward as I was hoping but I got there in the end.



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Nice job @Jack Sparrow ! I had one of those boxes that can open enough to drop things, but not allow things out. But they aren't big enough. Yours looks big enough for most deliveries!

 

Went to B & Q today and bought ten bags of Tomorite compost
To be used in 30 litre tubs for potatoes
'Bargain' at £3.50 a bag
The 8 kg Chicken pellets and fish, blood and bone 10 kg bought on the internet
Just need to find a potato seed supplier

 

One of my local nurseries was advertising 4 bags of Miracle gro compost for £12.
Wasn't till I looked closer that it said 40 ltr bags.
Are we going down that road then, same price but smaller bags.

 

That seems to be the way that manufacturers are indeed heading!

 

@pete
Aye, these are 43 litres per bag

 

A lot of the compost at the moment is being sold as clearance, B&Q, Homebase etc etc, old stock.
I have had a few G/C's placed orders last week, none of them want delivery yet. If the compost you have recently purchased was under cover, then it will be fine to use.

As a manufacturer, we recommend to all sectors that compost should be stored in a cool dry environment. The packaging is made from coextruded plastic, with the inner layer always being black to protect the compost.

How to Store Compost in the Winter | All You Need to Know - The Backyard Pros

 

@gks
No, our compost was out in the open at B & Q Wigan
However, I will be lacing it with fertiliser --- Chicken Pellets, Blood fish and bone plus a special white pellet potato fertiliser

 

I bought a Clematis cirrhosa last Friday. I haven't got a photo of it, it's only got some leaves at the moment. I'm going to plant it in a tub so that it can go by the door where I'll be able to see it.
I also bought an Eucomis bulb ...

 

I bought a couple of bags of compost this morning, it was outside under a rain shelter but the bags were pretty wet.
Not many places I know of around here store it completely under cover.

 

My Christmas present from ME to ME arrived the other day . Its a Stewartia Monadelpha supposed to be 30-40cm tall but is more like 120cm/4ft can't complain . It a four season tree a must in my little garden . A lot need to happen before it goes in the garden so it be living in a pot for the time being .

Wanted a Stewartia for years I haven't seen any bar one in person , was going to go for Stewartia Sinensis but couldn't get hold of one . They is a Stewartia Pseudocamellia at RHS bridge water its a bout 6ft tall , they are part of the camellia / tea family .

 

@Perki Very nice looking tree.