Gardening with a WW2 theme.

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by Owen, Jun 22, 2008.

  1. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Bought this Sunday.
    Saxifraga Winston Churchill

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  2. Capt.Sensible

    Capt.Sensible Well-Known Member

    Yes, he liked to be kept moist too.....
     
  3. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    Well oiled more like it.....
     
  4. KevinC

    KevinC Slightly wierd

    When I saw the thread title I thought it was about gardening with barbed wire, trenches and land mines
     
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  5. James Daly

    James Daly Senior Member

    I was expecting a 'dig for victory' style allotment with potatoes and carrots and the like :D
     
  6. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Yes, he liked to be kept moist too.....

    Well oiled more like it.....

    If Alanbrooke's accounts of him drinking Brandy & Champagne while dictating the course of the war from his bath are anything to judge by... both.
     
  7. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    A new theme for the gardeners of Swindon, maybe? :D

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  8. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Been out to garden centre today and got myself a new Remembrance Rose as the last one I had was in our old house.
     
  9. Stormbird

    Stormbird Restless

  10. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    I bought 'London Pride' seed (dust!) last year on the strength of this thread

    needless to say, nothing happened.

    Grrrrrrrrr
     
  11. Stormbird

    Stormbird Restless

    At Home Dad: It's not enough to buy them. You have to place them onto face of Mother Earth, cover with soil and keep moist. Right ?
     
  12. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

  13. Oldman

    Oldman Very Senior Member

    Owen
    Don't Forget " El Alamein" wonderful red rose nice deep colour my mum had two for years always flowered well, also Winston Churchill, Daffs the look good in spring.
     
  14. Mike L

    Mike L Very Senior Member

    The 'towed behind minesweepers thingy' was a paravane.
    I have a pic somewhere of my Grandfather man-handling one. It was much slimmer than the object in the pic, more like a torpedo but I suppose it could be a different type of paravane - especially with the loop on the nose for attaching a shackle?

    I too thought this was a thread about Anderson Shelters, trenches and bomb craters but the 'Grumpy Old Moose' is showing a surprising sensitivity here!
     
  15. Stormbird

    Stormbird Restless

    The 'towed behind minesweepers thingy' was a paravane.

    Thank you for your on-line dictionary services !:) Paravane was the term that had temporarily escaped my so-called "brains".
     
  16. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Might have to get this too.

    Clematis on the Web :: clematis detail

    Named after to commemorate the Polish soldiers involved in the Westerplatte battle in 1939.
    Clematis - Container Nursery - welcome!
    'Westerplatte' -named to commemorate the heroes of the 1st armoured brigade of the Westerplatte peninsula at the Gdansk Bay. During the period between the First and the
    Second World War there was a Polish military unit at the border of Gdansk City. On the 1st September 1939 (4 a.m.) an armoured German battleship "Schleswig-Holstein" bombarded Westerplatte and this event marked the beginning of the Second World War. Polish Westerplatte unit, numbering 182 soldiers, defended it against overwhelming Nazi forces for 7 days. Since then Westerplatte has become to symbolize soldiers' heroism.



    Seems alot of clematis named after polish actions in WW2, such as 'Warszawska Nike'
    "Nike" is a Greek winged goddess of victory. In Warsaw, "Warszawska Nike" is a monument to the heroes of Warsaw 1939-1945, the soldiers and civilian population who fought during the Second World War for the freedom of their home city.


    Even a 'Generał Sikorski' -
    named in honour of Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (1881-1943), a Polish general and politician who rendered great service to our country. After the German conquest of Poland in September 1939, he became Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile that was based first in France, and then in England. He was also the commander-in-chief of the Polish air forces that fought alongside the Allies, and of the underground Home Army in occupied Poland. He died on July 4, 1943, in the airplane crash near Gibraltar, in hitherto not established circumstances.




    'Dzieci Warszawy'
    Warsaw Children. Named in commemoration of the young participants of the Warsaw Uprising (August 1st - October 3rd 1944)
     
  17. LesCM19

    LesCM19 "...lets rock!"

    I was expecting a 'dig for victory' style allotment with potatoes and carrots and the like :D

    dig for victory.jpg
    The boss has got a repro enamel sign on the allotment shed door: a prezzie from me when she had just taken it on to keep her pecker up whilst digging it over for the first time.
    And I think you have far too much time on your hands, Owen
    Potting Shed.jpg
    :goodnight:
     
  18. Kieron Hill

    Kieron Hill Senior Member

  19. Stormbird

    Stormbird Restless

    This is not strictly WW II and definitely not gardened by myself, but I love poppies anyway (and no, these are not the ones that give opium !)

    Poppy.jpg

    Because:
    Lest we forget
    Remember the fallen, but do not forget the living.

    Seems to be as relevant as ever in Afghanistan today.
     

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  20. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Been back out to the Walled Garden Nursery at Brinkworth today & bought the Clematis 'Burma Star'.
    When it's in bloom I'll post photos.
    The Clematis 'Monte Cassino' is nearly in flower in my gaden too.
    I bought a Fuschia called 'Winston Churchill' last week for a hanging basket.
     

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