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16-06-2019, 11:17 AM
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Thanks Mups!
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16-06-2019, 12:31 PM
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David Austin for roses, his son runs the business now and it has a great reputation.

https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/r-banksiae-lutea
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16-06-2019, 12:32 PM
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Does anyone buy plants on the Internet?
I had a bad experience with some that arrived rotting and useless, so loathe to try again but...
I have only done it once but it was quite successful. On a whim I decided I wanted some tea plants (Camellia sinensis) so I ordered two on line, they arrived safely and I grew them for years until they finally succumbed to drought (I have a very Darwinian garden)
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16-06-2019, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Bruce ->
I have only done it once but it was quite successful. On a whim I decided I wanted some tea plants (Camellia sinensis) so I ordered two on line, they arrived safely and I grew them for years until they finally succumbed to drought (I have a very Darwinian garden)
I wondered what an evolutionary garden might be like, until I realised you meant Darwin the city!
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16-06-2019, 06:10 PM
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Thanks Meg, I think I will order one from them, they are good quality, my daughter usually buys David Austin roses and has never been disappointed.
I didn't know they did those!
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16-06-2019, 06:11 PM
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I had a lovely arbour seat for my birthday so looking forwards to growing my favourite over it.
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16-06-2019, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg ->
David Austin for roses, his son runs the business now and it has a great reputation.

https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/r-banksiae-lutea
They do a nice fish & chips too but they won't deliver it, you have to go there.
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16-06-2019, 06:27 PM
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They do a nice fish & chips too but they won't deliver it, you have to go there.
I once went to a small, off the beaten track nursery, and in the tiny café shack I had what was the nicest sticky toffee pudding I had ever, ever had. It was to die for, and I told them so.

I went there especially, a couple of weeks later, and had it again. It's quite a way to go as a special journey, but that just proved how nice it was.

Three months later, I took a friend, having waxed lyrical about this pudding, and wailing and gnashing of teeth, they had changed the caterers and no longer did it!
You could have heard my screams a mile off.
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16-06-2019, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Pyxell ->
I once went to a small, off the beaten track nursery, and in the tiny café shack I had what was the nicest sticky toffee pudding I had ever, ever had. It was to die for, and I told them so.

I went there especially, a couple of weeks later, and had it again. It's quite a way to go as a special journey, but that just proved how nice it was.

Three months later, I took a friend, having waxed lyrical about this pudding, and wailing and gnashing of teeth, they had changed the caterers and no longer did it!
You could have heard my screams a mile off.
How annoying.
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How annoying.
It is.

That pudding was like the ambrosia of the gods. sigh
 
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