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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Well done getting that appointment!

Montbretia is an absolute beast, I've banned it from my garden although my mum loved it. I love the flowers but it spreads so vigorously.

I still have loads of jobs I haven't done, and probably will leave until spring now - sometimes things just have to fend for themselves over winter!
 
At last, an appointment, but how frustrating to have to rely on the kindness, or good sense, of others to get what you need.
Maybe the GP knows some good person who’s able trim back, to plant out and pot up in the garden. Worth asking.
 
I’ve not eaten breakfast yet, I’m being lazy, but it’ll be porridge when I do, the good stuff that’s not been denatured to mush.
Had a lovely morning with a Botany group yesterday which is led by a couple in their 90s. He used to work in a teaching and research centre nearby which has sadly been closed, and before that spent time teaching and researching in a range of places round the world. He’s wonderfully knowledgable. And they’re both so warm and friendly. We meet once a month and I love it!
Thinking of your monbretia, Annb, yesterday he showed us pictures of a beautifully bright red hybrid he’d created from an orange monbretia and a red crocosmia. He offered each of us a plant of it but I feared it’d become just one of the multitude that are regularly thinned here in our garden and I’d lose it.
 
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