Comparatively speaking, I had a busy day yesterday and so I apologise for my gross dereliction of duty in failing to print my 'Monday Funnies'. Perhaps I will be able to rustle up a few later today. Anyway, yesterday the Gods smiled on me! I am, as I may have told y'all, not much of a gardener which is just as well given the micro-dot of a garden that I possess. Even so, I can't help looking at it fairly constantly, there not being anything much else to look at, and so my mind begins to turn over. Anyway, last week I decided that this year I would drown the garden in pansies! Well, they're 'cheap as chips as chips', they're exceedingly colourful and they do seem to go on and on.
So, in a very rare burst of energy I shuffled off to the local garden centre and cleared their shelves of pansies! Needless to say, that, er, 'burst of energy' disappeared overnight but now I am faced with the task of planting several thousand hundred - oh alright, a few dozen pansies. Of course, being an Englishman, I assumed that yesterday's balmy weather would disappear today and revert to the usual rain and cold wind which would give me a chance to recharge my energy batteries. Need I say it? Today is sunny, bright and singularly warm! Sod it, no excuses! Never mind, at least my (very!) frequent tea-breaks will give me chances to pop up here and add some items to this distinguished blog - and I heard that!
Even though I'm part and my wife is completely English, we've been able to defeat all kinds of supposedly indestructible plants, both indoor and out. Our greatest successes are a potted peace lily and some hostas.
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 11:49
We have had amazing luck this season with peace lilys as well as Amaryllis. Nothing like plants that show off.
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 12:27
I love pansies. How pretty it is all going to look.
Posted by: missred | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 12:53
What could be worse than a pansy hoarder? Call the coppers!
Posted by: Diplomad | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 14:43
A hoarder of pansies or a pansy hoarder?
There could be a difference.
Posted by: Timbo | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 15:47
A certain "somebody" from my past suggested, after I'd ruminated some on trying my hand at flowers, Anyway what that person suggested would be a perfect fit for me would be
Impatiens. I can't think why.
Might try mixing some of those in with your pansies David. They'll ... the impatiens I'm meaning David will take a lot of crap but stay smiling.
Posted by: JK | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 18:10
JK, we used to grow a lot of impatiens but then the deer found them and would eat them down to the dirt.
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 19:25
Y'ain't forgot about good ol' slingshots (ah modern technology - nowadays there's what they call 'wrist-rockets') has ye now Whitewall?
For ammo - cats I recommend 3/8" but deer usually 5/16" works pretty good.
Posted by: JK | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 19:32
Nope, not forgotten JK. The blasted buggers wait until overnight and use our garden as a buffet.
Posted by: Whitewall | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 19:39
You're supposed to be on lock-down, Gaffer!
"He died buying pansies" - hardly the grave stone of a ex-paratrooper, is it?!
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 19:58
Some of my best friends are pansies.
Posted by: Andra | Tuesday, 24 March 2020 at 20:46
Ahoy David, AussieD,
Wasn't it one of y'alls fellows supposedly said, "Something seems to be wrong with our bloody ships today"?
I wonder if the fellow had modern (for his time) innovation to mind ...
https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2020/03/transformed-our-way-out-of-functional.html
(I think the damned thing - the Gerald Ford - has cost $24 Billion so far and, so far as I know, the catapult system hasn't had the kinks worked out there either. Ordered 2008 set to deploy in 2024.)
Posted by: JK | Wednesday, 25 March 2020 at 05:23