Anyone get anything garden related for Xmas?

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Yorkshire Kris
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Anyone get anything garden related for Xmas?

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No plants for me but got some twine, gardening gloves and a Gardeners World "Head Gardener" Mug.

Oh and Red Spider Mite on my Queen palm.
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a tining fork and some gizmos and gadgets for different soil measurements icon_thumleft
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Darlo Mark

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2 gardening books and a gardener's mug!
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Gardening gloves, a metal heron from African creations, a bird feeder and my partner is treating me to £100 to spend on palms or plants! Bless her!! icon_cheers
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I got a radio controlled weather station and a licence to buy whatever plants I want icon_thumleft
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flounder wrote:I got a radio controlled weather station and a licence to buy whatever plants I want icon_thumleft

That's the best present ever!!!! icon_thumleft
flounder

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and she was sober when she said it bless her :lol:
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SHE??!!! :shock: :lol:

Oh yes! I just re-read what you put, i thought it read as something else! Best I go to specsavers in the new year!!

Yes she was sober! :lol:
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yeah she, did you think I was keeping wicket then? icon_scratch
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3 palm tree books & a massive Budha statue. karl.
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as well as the 'norm', i got a years subscription to Gardeners' World mag starting 1st January, a fancy 2012 Garden Diary with how-to's and what-to-do's every season divided into handy sections like "early spring, mid spring, late spring" and so on icon_thumleft

oh and £300 quid in total from relatives, which wil no doubt be spent on plants come spring :lol:
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flounder wrote:yeah she, did you think I was keeping wicket then? icon_scratch

Might have been the Brighton connection :lol:
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I got a couple of Will Gilles`books, Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates and the new Exotic garden.

And an Alan Titchmarsh calendar....
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The exotic plants for temperate climates is brill. I got that last christmas.

This year a got a 12 month RHS membership.
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pdid wrote:I got a couple of Will Gilles`books, Encyclopedia of Exotic Plants for Temperate Climates and the new Exotic garden.

And an Alan Titchmarsh calendar....
STEP AWAY FROM THE BOOKS! If you know what's good for you!!
Start looking through them and you might as well throw your money down the drain!
SO MANY NICE PLANTS!!!
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