When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces…...

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I realise it's later in the UK, but couldn't wait to start a new thread. If another title had been agreed, just tell me and I'll have this removed.

Other than that, seek out those deckchairs from the shed, check them for spiders and get nattering about the spring's promise.

Yup, settled on the sofa now, waiting for Monty and Carol.

Currawongs are very elegant, crow-like birds, but with reprehensible habits such as eating other birds' nestlings.

Here are two pics I've just taken of the brugmansia I bought after Christmas that has sprung into flower. Oddly the flowers are yellow until they fully unfurl.

I too love trivia but didn't know about the badger poo. The brugmansia looks lovely but is too toxic for me to risk around DD

No word from nightshade yet on the next potting shed seedling. I did suggest we try to come up with some names so have been trying to think of some unusual floral ones but struggling! Obviously lily, iris, fern dibbs ,daphne, Veronica (?) daisy, blossom, petal, ivy, Rose (DD) willow, then today I heard a boy called rowen and that's all I could do for boys!

My DD is Poppy Jasmine.

My mother was convinced I was going to call DD Flora. (I didn't).

Holly, Bryony also pretty names.

For boys:
Florian
Ash
Linden
Heath

Celyn - means holly in Welsh

A friend called her children Fennel and Basil

Wonderful words like werderobe and currawong from you echt and pictures of a really nice brugmansia and another corner of your lovely garden make my day!
That lady on gardeners world was fun too with Ligusticum lucidum supspecies lucidum

I loved GW tonight. I don't think I'd realised before that Derry Watkins was a woman; having read her articles in magazines I'd wrongly assumed Derry was a man's name. Her enthusiasm was infectious.

Just toddling back with a great quote from Margaret Atwood:

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Oh dear I forgot to watch GW... :-(
Is it on BBC and at what time? I don't suppose it is repeated? :-(

Castelough - it is repeated next fri am I think. Plus on I player.

Gardeners World is repeated at 6.15 pm on Saturday and 7.40 am on Sunday!

Oh I love that quote Maud. As well as smelling of dirt, I am going round with bits of hedge in my hair at the moment.

Lovely Brugmansia.

I wanted Fern, Flora, Violet or Anemone for dd but they didn't work for various reasons. Fennel and Basil are inspired.

Yesterday I took my client to the wholesalers and we selected 19 rhododendrons for her driveway, so that was fun. There wasn't space left in the car for any of my own personal shopping list though.

Oh, regarding ivy in trees - it takes months to die off. Don't expect immediate browning.

What channel is it repeated on Funny? Is it BBC?
I don't think I can watch it on Player. I think I tried before, and because I'm in Ireland I don't think I could access it.
Tired of missing out on Monty .

I understand from a chum on another thread that there is some crafty way of accessing iPlayer from outside the UK, but I don't know what it is. I'm sure we all agree that Monty is worth the effort!

Anemone would make a lovely name, although it's taken me many years to learn where the ms and ns go.

I suggested Anemone on the Baby Names board on here and it was roundly slated. The most convincing point was that it sounds like 'any money'. I still love it though, and if ds had been a girl he would probably have been Ingrid Anemone.

Beautiful! I thought last night that Pulmonaria would make a lovely name; perhaps I should start a thread to test the waters? I rather wish we'd called DD Berengaria.

Pulmonaria and Berengaria are great. I rather like Brugmansia too - it has a degree of grandeur to it.

I think a risk with Anemone is it's pronounced "Anny Mone" by ignorant people (me for quite a time...)

We have a niece with an unusually-spelled name (Gaelic), which was mispronounced at her degree ceremony, and that is largely what she remembers from it, not the fact she got a first.

I struggle pronouncing Anemone and have to really think about it. Lovely name and a lovely flower. I was going to plant some so soaked them as per instructions. Then forget them and someone put them in the fridge where they have been for two weeks .

Poor little flower named babies esp. anemone (it sounds like a disease as does pulmanaria ) Yes pretty flowers though!

If ToddlerCobbler had been a girl I desperately wanted to call her Rosamund. DH vetoed it.

Gardeners world is on BBC2 castleough I hope you can get it on!