"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-11-17 14:34:58 +0000, "Spider" said:
Spider
(snip snip)

Lovely photos though a few of them should have come with a health
warning
for me. ;-))

Oops, sorry about that, Sacha! :~) They are *everywhere* this year!

They certainly are - I glance round nervously before going to bed every
night, just to check the room is spider-less!


I very much like the hot border and the bird
bath, too but it all looks so beautifully laid out and cared for.


Thank you. The hot border is one of my favourite bits. You could toast
bread there in summer! I've made about three bird baths. They're so
easy
to do and so much more individual than shop bought. The 'moon bowl'
also
acts as a bird bath. That was a gift from my local gc after I got locked
in
their premises and needed rescuing by the fire brigade! :~} Do you
remember
that?

No! Senility, or what - me, I mean! Please tell the story because it
sounds like one of those very funny if not at the time, things!


It happened about 5 yrs ago. I had been given loads of Nat garden vouchers
for Christmas so, on 29th Dec I went to my local gc to spend them. I spent
so long looking round that, by the time I went indoors to pay, I realised I
couldn't get into the shop .. or pay .. or get out because the very high,
barbed wire reinforced gates were locked :~(! I rang RG on my mobile (one
time I blessed that invention) and asked him to ring the GC in case there
was a key holder mentioned on their message recording. He did .. there
wasn't. He rang the police. (I didn't dare. You know my surname, Sacha.
Add that to a rescue call from a gc over the Christmas hols ... they'd have
thought it was a wind up! :~)) ). Anyway, the police called the fire
brigade (while a lady pc talked to me on the phone to see if I was all
right) .. the fire brigade arrived and eventually got me out over a very
high wall (had it been easy, I'd have climbed out myself!) and RG drove me
home. I called back at the GC the next day and the proprietor, Roger,
offered me the moon bowl free of charge (I had selected it the previous day)
to make up for my ordeal. He also made his staff apologise. I confess I've
always felt bad for having to bother the fire brigade, especially since my
father was a fireman.


Do you have Alstroemeria pulchella? If not, give me a nudge in spring if
you'd like some.


No, I don't have A. pulchella. I just googled for a pic and it's lovely,
esp. those greeny bits! Yes, I'd love a bit, please Sacha. That's really
sweet of you, and Ray, of course. I've always had a thing about
Alstromeria; it's one of the things I hunt for at the RHS Hampton Court
Flower Show every year. Thank you :~))

Yes, the A. pulchella is lovely, IMO. Ray has it here in the small double
but we've seen it growing outdoors in Totnes without any trouble and it
had obviously come through last winter. I love its rather classy colours
so will certainly send you on a bit. Just don't forget that nudge!

--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

I won't forget, Sacha. Thanks ever so.
Spider