The message
from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:

too early to say for the cyclamen and also for the
second lot of Chionadoxa, the first lot got dug up and disappeared!

Squirrels, most likely. Grave robbers tend to be fairly rare, mercifully.

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Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03)

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:33:52 -0000, "David Hill"
wrote:

"........... Problem is I always promised my late wife that I would always
have flowers at her grave, ........"

I would have a vase of fresh flowers in the house next to a picture of her
when the weather makes it impossible to have flowers on the grave..........I
am sure she would understand
Thanks thats a lovely thought, what a brilliant compromise, what with
the ideas ive had for the grave and your idea I cant go wroing. many
thanks Dave

Dave12/12/03 10:27

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:33:52 -0000, "David Hill"
wrote:

"........... Problem is I always promised my late wife that I would always
have flowers at her grave, ........"

I would have a vase of fresh flowers in the house next to a picture of her
when the weather makes it impossible to have flowers on the grave..........I
am sure she would understand
Thanks thats a lovely thought, what a brilliant compromise, what with
the ideas ive had for the grave and your idea I cant go wroing. many
thanks Dave

You can't go wrong anyway - you're doing your very best.
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"Jaques wrote in message after me

too early to say for the cyclamen and also for the
second lot of Chionadoxa, the first lot got dug up and disappeared!

Squirrels, most likely. Grave robbers tend to be fairly rare, mercifully.


Not so sure, I planted the bulbs in pots and then transplanted the lot in
the green. On our next visit you could see the holes where they had been dug
out in the clumps as planted. No sign of bulbs or compost scattered about.

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Dave12/12/03 10:27

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:33:52 -0000, "David Hill"
wrote:

"........... Problem is I always promised my late wife that I would always
have flowers at her grave, ........"

I would have a vase of fresh flowers in the house next to a picture of her
when the weather makes it impossible to have flowers on the grave..........I
am sure she would understand
Thanks thats a lovely thought, what a brilliant compromise, what with
the ideas ive had for the grave and your idea I cant go wroing. many
thanks Dave

You can't go wrong anyway - you're doing your very best.
--

Sacha
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"Jaques wrote in message after me

too early to say for the cyclamen and also for the
second lot of Chionadoxa, the first lot got dug up and disappeared!

Squirrels, most likely. Grave robbers tend to be fairly rare, mercifully.


Not so sure, I planted the bulbs in pots and then transplanted the lot in
the green. On our next visit you could see the holes where they had been dug
out in the clumps as planted. No sign of bulbs or compost scattered about.

--
Regards
Bob

Use a useful Screen Saver...
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
and find intelligent life amongst the stars
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Bob Hobden13/12/03 12:06


"Jaques wrote in message after me

too early to say for the cyclamen and also for the
second lot of Chionadoxa, the first lot got dug up and disappeared!

Squirrels, most likely. Grave robbers tend to be fairly rare, mercifully.


Not so sure, I planted the bulbs in pots and then transplanted the lot in
the green. On our next visit you could see the holes where they had been dug
out in the clumps as planted. No sign of bulbs or compost scattered about.

Not quite the same thing but - we have/had a lot of Nerines growing beside
our drive. Our house is next to the church and was the vicarage at one
time. Last year, I went shopping - blaze of Nerines in the drive beds -
returned home and several children were walking down the lane with a handful
of Nerines. Guess what - not one of ours remained. Later, I went to the
churchyard and several graves had Nerines on them.......I don't know if they
were ours, of course but it tamed my indignation at least a little!
Raymond's first wife's grave has snowdrops from our garden planted in the
turf and then I put flowers from the garden into the vase from time to time.
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from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

There's a thought then - dessicated by osmosis and freeze-dried flowers.

Not quite. When the flowers actually freeze, the osmotic motion of the
water will cease.

But the freeze-dry process will continue.

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Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03)

is there any thing i can use to stop the water in the flower vases
from freezing at a grave. All the solutions Ive thoiught of would
kill the flowers. Thanks in advance Dave

Why would you want to? Even if you could prevent it, the freezing temps
will
kill the flowers anyway.

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My mother had the same problem and instead put small pots of winter pansies
and cyclamen on the family graves... in spring she replaces them with pots
of mini spring bulbs.

Lisa