Hi Everybody

Hi EVERYBODY !!!!! :-)
I just found this great site tonight and registered straight away.

It's nice to see so many people from all over the world chatting about gardening.

I'm Scottish and live in Hamburg in Germany, which is a wonderful city. I don't have a garden as such, but I have 6 flower-beds where I can really go daft, and plant all sorts of plants and flowers, which I'm sure don't mix, but I love to play around and experiment with who looks good next to whom.

Anyway, I just wanted to come on to the general chat and wish you all a nice day, evening, night or wherever you are for whatever time of day it is. Its 03:40 here at the mo., so I wont be on long. I just got so carried away reading through the dg site, that I didn't realise the time.

p.s.: For SIS.... I have a hydrangea 'Annabel' growing in a half-whisky (Scottish of course) barrel, and it has thrived better than a friend's in his garden, and it looks much better.

All the best

Wintermoor

Welcome to DG Wintermoor. What a beautiful picture! Good to have you with us!

Hello and welcome to Dave's you will love it and I know we will love you. Jump right in.... Have fun and enjoy!

Welcome to the garden Wintermoor! Soo glad you decided to join us, we always have room for more so squeeze on in here and make yourself at home.
Mollybee*Ü*

Hi Wintermoor, You will really have fun here. There is alot of help too. I have learned so much about gardening in the past few months. Your picture is really beautiful.
Meems

Welcome, Wintermoor....That is a lovely picture...my Mom called them "Snowball" bush...and another of her favorites...Hollyhock!! Jo

Welcome to Daves Garden Wintermoor. You will love it here. Everyone is so friendly and helpful. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better.
Joan

Welcome to the garden! Nice picture!

Welcome to DG Wintermoor. This really is a friendly place - people from all around the world, including a few of us from the UK (Dave's even made a forum specially for us, which is lovely). Which part of Scotland are you from?
See you around on the forums
philomel

What a lovely way to introduce youself! The hydrangea is awesome and if SIS had any doubts left about growing them in a barrel before I bet she doesn't after seeing this!

Thank you Wintermoor and now I know for sure' So glad you found us and looking forward to your posts,really appreciate the pic for me''' Sis'

Welcome, Welcome Glad you have joined this one big happy gardening family.
Looking forward to seeing many of your wonderful pictures and your imput on things.
Got any good recipes to share with us? Always looking for different and 'unusual' recipes.

=D Welcome to DG ~

You are so lucky to have found this "not so secret" garden.happy to meet you!

THANK YOU ALL !!!
for the lovely welcome.I'm still dabbling about this site trying to find things. It's great!! Whenever I think I've seen it all, BOING! , another page pops up.

I'm looking forward to chatting and discussing with you all, but please be gentle with me, I'm only a wee gardener who hasn't been doing it so long.

Thank you all again, and all the best

Wintermoor

Wintermoor; A warning; once you get here in the garden,it's hard to get anything else done. You are truely among good company here......and alittle crazyness as well. We all just have a good time at what we do.

Hi Wintermoor and welcome to the land of gardners. You will become a plant-a-holic in no time at all, and just as greedy as the rest of us that has to have evey plant we see lol.
I have 4 half whiskey barrels and two of them are full of Stella d Oro's and the one in front of the house I plant something different in it every year. This year I don't have a clue what I want to put in yet. Since I have a small yard I use a lot of containers. I love your Hydrangea, they are beautiful. You have given me an idea, I've always want one but didn't have the room for it,and after seeing yours I might just try it.

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Thanx Folks,

Coco, I'm a nut as well, and although I have only 6 flower-beds, I can't walk past even a flower shop in case their selling something I've not grown yet. Nutcase me!!!!

windsurffer, The plant in the picture was only in the barrel for 18 months before I took the pic.. I bought it at an excellent nursery here close to Hamburg, and got the old barrel from my mother in law. The plant was 35 cm when I planted it, and bloomed the first year with 17 heads. I didn't do anything special with it. The earth was from a building site, where the men had dug a hole in the road. A lot of s**t really. No fertilizers, no clipping, just lots of water, and boy can that guy drink. I didn't grow the plant, it wanted to grow, last year I counted 55 heads. A real beauty.

All the best

Wintermoor

Welcome wintermoor! Come on in! Get dirty! "Make mistakes and have fun!" (as my dd would say!) Great pic by the way! If you call yourself a beginner then you certainly must be an advanced beginner!
(And by the way windsurfer, how come none of those whiskey barrels don't have any whiskey in them? ô¿ô

Welcome to DG, Wintermoor!! You're doing a wonderful job with your container gardening!! Just about anything and everything you want to know, you wil find here. What you will find that we cultivate best is Love and Friendship! It is with this that I extend my hand and say "Welcome, my friend to this marvelous garden!!"

"eyes"

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Thanx Horseshoe, Thanx eyes,

I've never been made so welcome on any forum on the net as I have been here. This is truly an excellent site.

Good point horseshoe, about the barrels being empty, I (being Scottish) prefer whisky to whiskey though ;-D

Thank you again eyes, I've noticed that the entire site is full of feeling and mutual respect. I was a bit apprehensive last night to post anything, but then I thought "Why not?", since I've still not met the greatest gardener in the world. We're all just human...... I think ;-)

All the best

Wintermoor

Howdy Wintermoor from the West Coast. That is a beautiful plant. My parents have one in the front of their house that is the most prolific hydrangea I've ever seen, we also called them "snowballs".
Watch out for some of these people on this forum, they can make you laugh so much, that you might wet your pants!! This is the best garden site that I know of and I am so happy that you introduced yourself right off.

Welcome and have fun,
Donna

Thanx Donna,
I just replied to your Hydrangea thread.

I've noticed how this place is already, in Glasgow we would just call it "The Mad-Hoose", there's been a lot of good banter going on over at the 'Parking Lot'.

All the best

Wintermoor

Hello Wintermoor and welcome to the home of the best people on the planet!! If you need anything, just ask and you won't go home empty handed!! By the way, you mustn't mind Shoe too much he can't even spell my name!! You'll find a lot of that here - the difference in spelling between the US and the UK!! But I'm doing OK (I think) and they don't really mind that I stick to my English spelling although I do have my leg pulled from time to time!! I've been over here for 5 years now and loving it!! I loved the window boxes and gardens in Germany and hope to visit again!! Your hydrangea and garden are lovely!! A few of us here are nuts about roses and hydrangeas, but we are nuts anyway!! I think you must be the first full-blooded Scottish member here and that's lovely!! Do you still say things like 'Awa and fry yer fish??? A dear friend of mine used to say that to me all the time :-)

LOL Thanx Louisa,

I've been here in Hamburg for near on 30 years now, and haven't lost a bit of my accent, (so my family tell me), and of course I still come away with a lot of the good old Glasgow expressions like, "Away an' bile yer heid", "Yer heid's nippin", which gets a few folk a wee bit flummoxed.

I was in the music business for 25 years, as a tour manager, and I had to sit down and just talk to some of the guys and gals from the U.S.ofA. since they couldn't understand that someone could actually speak like that. It was my passport to a successful career.

I've left that now and gone into a bit of retirement, and only act as advisor for some artists, since life on the road was getting too tiresome, and I wanted to be at home to be with my wee boy, who is now 12, and SHE-WHO-MUST-BE-OBEYED.

Your right, this site is probably the craziest I've ever seen, and that in GARDENING!!!!, it's pure mental bu' so i' is. The accent isn't that hard anymore, and the dialect has almost left the general repertoire, but I have a wee meeting with some Scottish mates once a month, and we just have a good and daft night on the town. Homesicknes isn't such a problem then.

All the best

Wintermoor

Welcome Wintermoor from western Kentucky! It's great to have you here. I'm a veggie person myself,but I dabble in the other forums here and there. Glad you jumped in and are feeling at home.Read the back posts and get to know us.We're a diverse lot,but that's what makes us so interesting.Never boring here at DG!

Welcome, Wintermoor! Don't even worry about not being a very experienced gardener ~ we all had to start somewhere and judging from that gorgeous picture, I'll bet you're farther along than you think.

Yeah, I know about the "gotta' stop at all the nurseries and pick up something new" thing. DH and I do it ourselves all the time! Just the other day, Kenny came out of the local grocery store with two big, gorgeous Easter lilies and a big grin ~ "Well, they were only $2.50 each," he said. I love trying new things, too. Even if someone says it won't grow here, I gotta' try it. My fave sayings are "I consider everything hardy until I've killed it myself" and "You're not stretching yourself as a gardener if you're not killing a few plants." *grin!*

Welcome to Dave's! Glad you're here!

Welcome Wintermoor, I'm fairly new here too but am loving it more and more. The biggest problem with this site that I have found is, you sometimes get on here and start reading and thats where you stay, for a long long time. I can think of worse things to do though, like housework --- YUCK! Nice to have you here.

Thanx Melody, Thanx Wingnut,

This is truly an incredible mixture of people here, and I felt at home immediately I joined. Everyone is really helpful, friendly and as I said earlier, this is the craziest site I have ever visited on the net. If I tell my friends here that I sit and talk to gardeners on the net all day, they'd send for the men with the white coats, and my new jacket with the long sleeves.

I've already picked up some hints from some of the posts, but the only problem is that the longer I sit here during the day, the less time I have to go out and see what I can find to grow!!!! lol

So now I'm going to bed as it's 03:40 here in Hamburg, and SHE-WHO-MUST-BE-OBEYED might get a wee bit peeved if I'm up all night chatting on the 'net.
Thank God for the flat rate ;-)

Hope to talk to you soon

All the best

Wintermoor

Nite Wintermoor. G'nite dguimo. Nite Wingy. sweet dreams Mel! Oh yeh, and Good nite "Weezy"!! ô¿ô (*tee-hee-hee*)

'Nite, Wintermoor ~ 'Nite, 'Shoe ~ 'Nite, John Boy...

Thanks for the info, it sound lovley. I love big plants that bloom all summer.

Welcome Wintermoor, from Monika in Germany. I love to be at DG and enjoy every minute I am online: The DG - gardeners are something special, you will feel home at almost every Forum.
My favorites are Brugmansias, all kinds of flowers, gardening and my two cats. But in the climate, where I live, plants must be xxl hardy to survive outside.
Hope, you like and enjoy DG and its members as much as I do.

All the best
Monika

Welcome from Southcentral Alaska, Wintermoor! I can see that you are a person with an eye for a good thing, since you took a look around the Garden and subscribed straight away, as I did! I, too, am relatively new, having joined in February, and I can only confirm what has already been said. I've always been welcomed in the Garden, and Dave keeps it all running smooth as pie!

My mother used to grow "snow balls" when I was a child in Indiana, and it has never registered that they were hydrangias! That's rather funny!

I grow potatoes in my five whiskey barrel halves. When we first bought them, my husband drilled extra holes in the bottom, and I was amused by the definite whiskey scent of the wood shavings. Maybe I should be drinking the potato water when I boil a few spuds off for dinner!

Or you could let it sit with a few potato chunks in it, Weez, and make a rather vadka-ey whiskey. *grin*

hello! I am pleased to meet you. pretty nice picture there for your intro! Love your holly hocks

Thank you for the welcome,

The hollyhocks are in a wee bit of stress at the mo., I've just posted on "Pests & Diseases" with a pic. of the leaves. I hope someone can give me a tip to help me get rid of what it is.

BTW, nice pic of yourself and your wee dog :-), and the garden behind you looks so clean and well-kept.

all the best

Wintermoor

Welcome to the global community of DG Wintermoor :D! sorry for jumping in too late. as they say... better late than never. i'll also take the opportunity of welcoming u to the unpredictable weather of the Upper Desert of Southern California. btw... love ur hydrangea and hollyhocks.

i am originally from the Philippines, transplanted to the US of A.... some 30++ yrs ago.

we are indeed an global community with the family atmosphere here on DG. to name a few... Jianhua from China, Dinu from India, Cristina - originally from Australia, now living in Chile, Evert from Finland, and so many others... we are all one BIG Family here.

i totally agree, there are one too many threads and forums here. it's so difficult to spread one's self around. i try to move around a lot, but could hardly cover all the threads. i try my best though ;). see yah around ..... ma vie

Thank you MA VIE,

there's no stopping this board now that Dave has hit 10.000 members. It's good fun on here isn't it?

All the best

Wintermoor

one thing for sure Wintermoor, there is no dull moments in DG Forum :D!!!

one never knows what surprises we're in for!

take care... ma vie