"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"JennyC" wrote in message
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Yes. You've captured it well. For the same reason I hate 'blue'
roses.

I have a love of all 'weird' plants, so I have to admit to owning a
'blue'
rose :~)

But it's in your garden not mine, so I can live with that. :-))

It's actually a sort of washed out purple .....
http://www.ljconline.nl/garden/fotos...20Blue%203.JPG
Jenny

I'm a traditionalist with roses so I won't have any that don't have
scent and I've now also decided that I won't have any more that don't
repeat. Fantin Latour can stay but I'll get no more non repeaters.
The only odd coloured rose I'd like to be able to grow and which I
think has "Blue Moon" as a parent is "Julia's Rose" but she is just
too weak and non hardy to survive in my garden. I've tried twice and
I may as well have just have thrown my money on the street.

"JennyC" wrote in message
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"JennyC" wrote in message

I have a love of all 'weird' plants, so I have to admit to owning
a
'blue'
rose :~)

But it's in your garden not mine, so I can live with that. :-))

It's actually a sort of washed out purple .....
http://www.ljconline.nl/garden/fotos...20Blue%203.JPG

Thanks for that link. It's an interesting colour and doesn't look at
all blue (and I would consider it if it was that colour here). The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger more
glaring light.

"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"JennyC" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
"JennyC" wrote in message

I have a love of all 'weird' plants, so I have to admit to owning
a
'blue'
rose :~)

But it's in your garden not mine, so I can live with that. :-))

It's actually a sort of washed out purple .....
http://www.ljconline.nl/garden/fotos...20Blue%203.JPG

Thanks for that link. It's an interesting colour and doesn't look at
all blue (and I would consider it if it was that colour here). The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea

Charlie Pridham writes

"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
...

Thanks for that link. It's an interesting colour and doesn't look at
all blue (and I would consider it if it was that colour here). The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

We're in the best time of year! Apples dripping from the trees, berries
everywhere, beautiful fungi in the woods, all those gorgeous red and
orange colours. And yet already you can see the bulbs emerging and buds
appearing ready for spring
--
Kay

In message , K
writes
Charlie Pridham writes

"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
...

Thanks for that link. It's an interesting colour and doesn't look at
all blue (and I would consider it if it was that colour here). The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

We're in the best time of year! Apples dripping from the trees, berries
everywhere, beautiful fungi in the woods, all those gorgeous red and
orange colours. And yet already you can see the bulbs emerging and buds
appearing ready for spring
I shall be glad when the apples are all done. Gave my dog
pancreatitis
--
June Hughes

"K" wrote in message
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Charlie Pridham writes

"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
...

Thanks for that link. It's an interesting colour and doesn't look at
all blue (and I would consider it if it was that colour here). The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

We're in the best time of year! Apples dripping from the trees, berries
everywhere, beautiful fungi in the woods, all those gorgeous red and
orange colours. And yet already you can see the bulbs emerging and buds
appearing ready for spring
--
Kay
I am with you on the garden, mine is looking pretty good at present if a
little dank! I just thought there was a smidgeon of crowing going on about
the light levels (which you must admit get steadily worse till Christmas)

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea

"K" wrote in message
Charlie Pridham writes
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message

The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and
plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger
more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

We're in the best time of year! Apples dripping from the trees,
berries
everywhere, beautiful fungi in the woods, all those gorgeous red and
orange colours. And yet already you can see the bulbs emerging and
buds
appearing ready for spring

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...."

Autumn is my favourite time of the year.

"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message

The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and
plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger
more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

:-)) Well to cheer you up later in your hibernation, I promise I'll
post sometime in late Jan, early Feb, about gardening in 40+ C heat
under an unrelenting and intensely dehydrating sun and being eaten
alive by bush flies with the hot dry wind making my tomatoes shrivel
to a crisp and the grasshoppers yet again ravaging the land :-))

"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
...
"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message

The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and
plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger
more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

:-)) Well to cheer you up later in your hibernation, I promise I'll
post sometime in late Jan, early Feb, about gardening in 40+ C heat
under an unrelenting and intensely dehydrating sun and being eaten
alive by bush flies with the hot dry wind making my tomatoes shrivel
to a crisp and the grasshoppers yet again ravaging the land :-))


Fair enough! I have down in Cornwall a very flat climate temperature wise,
never very hot and never very cold, but I like the rest of the country
cannot escape the Latitude which means less light than I would like in
winter :~)
PS I generally cheer up after Christmas when the days start to lengthen
again!

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea

In message , Charlie Pridham
writes

"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
...
"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message

The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and
plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger
more
glaring light.

Don't rub it in, we are all about to go into hibernation!

:-)) Well to cheer you up later in your hibernation, I promise I'll
post sometime in late Jan, early Feb, about gardening in 40+ C heat
under an unrelenting and intensely dehydrating sun and being eaten
alive by bush flies with the hot dry wind making my tomatoes shrivel
to a crisp and the grasshoppers yet again ravaging the land :-))


Fair enough! I have down in Cornwall a very flat climate temperature wise,
never very hot and never very cold, but I like the rest of the country
cannot escape the Latitude which means less light than I would like in
winter :~)
PS I generally cheer up after Christmas when the days start to lengthen
again!


I get really depressed from lack of daylight in November (particularly
when I've missed the whole summer being stuck at the computer) and cheer
up after Christmas too. I think I would cheer up even more if I lived in
Cornwall ... it's such a magic place! I compromise by saving happy sunny
photos to use as screensavers...

--
Klara, Gatwick basin

"Klara" wrote

I get really depressed from lack of daylight in November (particularly
when I've missed the whole summer being stuck at the computer) and cheer
up after Christmas too. I think I would cheer up even more if I lived in
Cornwall ... it's such a magic place! I compromise by saving happy sunny
photos to use as screensavers...
Klara, Gatwick basin


Here are 4864 to cheer you (and everybody else) up a bit :~))
http://www.fotolia.com/tag/sunny

And for the 'tropical' lovers:
http://www.graphicsforums.com/spotli...ge.asp?id=1803

Jenny

"Klara" wrote
I get really depressed from lack of daylight in November (particularly
when I've missed the whole summer being stuck at the computer) and
cheer up after Christmas too. I think I would cheer up even more if I
lived in Cornwall ... it's such a magic place! I compromise by saving
happy sunny photos to use as screensavers...

I always dread winter too, and hate it when the clocks change. Early
sunsets just make it feel worse.

It's been really pleasantly warm here today, though - if only it would
last a bit longer. Hope you all saw some sunshine as well.

--
Sue

"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message
"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message

:-)) Well to cheer you up later in your hibernation, I promise
I'll
post sometime in late Jan, early Feb, about gardening in 40+ C

Fair enough! I have down in Cornwall a very flat climate temperature
wise,
never very hot and never very cold, but I like the rest of the
country
cannot escape the Latitude which means less light than I would like
in
winter :~)

Lovely part of the world. And the compensation for such light levels
is that glorious British green. Here the natural colour of the trees
and just about everything else is olive green (and even the British
trees aren't that same shade of green as they are in the UK - strong
light washes out the colour). I long for real British green and have
recently threatened my husband with wanting to move to a climate where
I can have real green.

PS I generally cheer up after Christmas when the days start to
lengthen
again!

I think that happens to everyone. I even cheer up after mid June and
we generally get cloudless blue skies all winter.

dFarm1 writes
"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message

PS I generally cheer up after Christmas when the days start to
lengthen
again!

I think that happens to everyone. I even cheer up after mid June and
we generally get cloudless blue skies all winter.

My bad time of the year is usually March - June. Usually start feeling a
bit better in summer, with autumn when i start feeling really OK. I'm
wondering whether it links in with whether you're an 'owl' or a 'lark'.
Most people, whatever they say, are morning people; I'm an evening
person.


--
Kay

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"JennyC" wrote in message
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"JennyC" wrote in message

I have a love of all 'weird' plants, so I have to admit to owning
a
'blue'
rose :~)

But it's in your garden not mine, so I can live with that. :-))

It's actually a sort of washed out purple .....
http://www.ljconline.nl/garden/fotos...20Blue%203.JPG

Thanks for that link. It's an interesting colour and doesn't look at
all blue (and I would consider it if it was that colour here). The
quality of light is very differnet in the UK to my garden and plants
that can look good in the UK can look ghastly under our stronger more
glaring light.

Its the Dutch light........I'm in Holland :~)
jenny