To loathe Britain in Bloom and all the hideous hanging baskets everywhere?

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I think they look vile and are a waste of money.

Everywhere seems to have the same look - I drove through Taunton and Barnstaple at the weekend, they both had hideous displays of hanging baskets and topiary thingies, all with the same flowers (bright pink and red busy lizzes, geraniums, lobelia). It makes everywhere look the same.

It's just such a waste of time. These things will be dead by the end of the summer. I know councils have a budget for gardens, but why can't they spend it on year round plants and trees, not the creation of these crappy hanging baskets. The cost of their erection (oo-err missus) and watering must be high as well.

Or am I a miserable old caaa?

Never saw the 3 piece suite Silverten, but I always see the topiary 'St. George on a horse killing a Dragon' when back in Doncaster visiting family.

Now live in Milton Keynes where we ahve no hanging baskets but a lot of manicured roundabouts. I think baskets are nice though - MK could do with some more colour

pmsl at toilet of the year. What an accolade

Odd tail on that Gilbert

Oh, I love lobelia. Unkillable. You must hate France then if you hate geraniums. Thye'll plant them in anything - old Evian bottles.

My mum surreptitiously scatters seeds around the village she lives in.

lol, does she drop them out of her pockets like in the "Great escape"

Ozziegirly Love your Mum's approach!

I think that's exactly how she does it SetSquare.

My parents have a really lovely garden and mum always has seeds left over. I think it started as seeds had migrated from their front garden to the verge outside, and people would stop and comment on how nice it was.

But she is an unassuming sort so wouldn't dream of doing it openly so resorts to these secret plantings.

The fair town of Forres can trump the lot of you. It has a frankly terrifying series of large floral and topiary animals, including a squirrel with a zimmer frame. They look likethe work of an insane parkie on a trip.

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The Squirrel

happywomble "When I was young we used to go to Wales on hols and my mother always complained that there were no hanging baskets there!! "

My aforementioned Uncle lived in Wales, definitely plenty of hanging baskets in Monmouth.

He seems to have lost his zimmer. Perhaps that's a different one.

But the eyes worry me.

I actually love flowers of any and every description.However I do know what you mean about gaudy pink and red baskets.They always seem to go overboard on the busy lizzies and geraniums and petunias IMO (like Lobelia though)
Actually I think hanging baskets look most effective with just one type of plant in them either in an understated colour or so that you can at least see a fair bit of greenery.I have got a basket with some silvery petunias in and that looks very effective

the eye are odd.
fark me he has a facebook page

who is responsible for deciding on squirrels and dragons and things like that then?

what would you choose ZZenny?

dalek for me

oh very good.
id be boring nad have a cat.

That squirrel is terrifying! Look at the murderous gleam in his eye.

lol

I'll have nightmares about that sodding squirrel!

do you think it's maybe just not photogenic?

snort, its not its best side

midnightexpress - I forgot about Forres and how they win each year. The colours are like acid on acid.

ZZZen, they used to put their toilet certificates on the wall, next to the hand dryers.

That squirrel is disturbing!